Talking about falsehoods...At the polling booth that I attended...

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17/10/23

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Originally posted by Lapdog: ↑

@Bronco1; I've never claimed to be an indigenous person and the fallout from the referendum is only just getting underway.

Peter Dutton, Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine have made their beds and chosen who joined them, now they they have to sleep in those beds and will be held to account for having turned their backs on delivering a better future for Australia's First Peoples.

Although he made a mess of presenting the referendum to the Australian People, Anthony Albanese will be seen as having done his best.

Global responses already reported in the international MSM inform us that will NOT be the case for those who spread misinformation, disinformation, lies and slurs to short-sheet Australia's First Peoples:

"... political historian Paul Strangio at Monash University says the failure of the Voice referendum will have international repercussions, perpetuating Australia’s outlier status among former colonial countries in constitutionally acknowledging its native peoples. ..."
"... “I think the no campaign has run a very effective campaign,” says Paula Gerber, a law professor at Monash University. “They have relied on fear and people’s emotions and being scared of change.” ..."
"... But beyond the logistical arguments, a fog of falsehoods spread online, too. Conspiracy theories—such as that the Voice would raise taxes and strip Australians of their homes, that the election was rigged, that the law would only cater to the indigenous elite, or even that the Voice would be the first step toward the U.N. invading Australia—proliferated the internet.
Dani Linder, a Bundjalung, Kungarakany woman and law lecturer at the University of Queensland in Australia, tells TIME that efforts by proponents to educate the masses were dampened by the disinformation. ..."

https://time.com/6323355/australia-indigenous-voice-referendum-results/

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Talking about falsehoods...

At the polling booth that I attended the YES campaign had posters on the fence claiming that 80% of indigenous people are voting YES

The AEC should have had these posters taken down.
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