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Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in its constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues.

Saturday’s voice to parliament referendum failed, with the defeat clear shortly after polls closed.

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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (3 children)

How grim.

This is a victory for racists, and bad-faith actors, some some of which have received lots of money from China and Russia to help destabilise another Western country.

[–] [email protected] 28 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Honestly don’t know if that latter bit is true. We manage to be absolutely atrocious to the indigenous population without third parties meddling. I don’t think there’s a single native population that hasn’t been mistreated; had their culture and names taken away, sent for reeducation, eugenics, and so on, so forth.

[–] [email protected] 11 points 1 year ago

That's what I as an outside person have read for like a decade. Australia is usually looking good because it's not 'murica, kind of like Canada, but bloody hell don't look too close.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I agree but at the same time in this modern age of ‘social media’ I am certain that the people who said openly that they wanted to take down The West, are doing so.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

~~Sudan~~ Ethiopia and Thailand, IIRC. There's one African nation, and one SEA nation that never got colonized.

Edit: I didn't remember correctly

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Ethiopia and Thailand, and they were arguably colonised at least in part by Italy and France respectively.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago

Yea I wouldn’t go around underestimating Australia’s ability to fuck up its indigenous people without any conspiratorial help like that.

[–] [email protected] -5 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Lol there's no China and Russia. Baby boomers mostly britishers and racist as fuck in australia so by default their kids carry the same sentiment.. Germans and Britishers are the worst people.