Indigenous communities overwhelmingly voted yes to Australia’s voice to parliament
Indigenous communities overwhelmingly voted yes to Australia’s voice to parliament
Polling catchments where Indigenous Australians form more than 50% of the population voted on average 63% in favour of the voice
Australia’s voice to parliament Polling catchments where Indigenous Australians form more than 50% of the population voted on average 63% in favour of the voice
63% is overwhelming? It's less than a 2/3 majority.
That was in booths where the population is at least 50% Indigenous. It's difficult to capture these demographics directly so they have to do it by % Indigenous population in each booth / area.
But that just makes the numbers even more meaningless. While it might be very likely that most of the Yes votes came from indigenous people, it's also possible that 100% of the non-indigenous people in that area voted Yes and a majority of indigenous people voted No.
Stretcing 63% of the overall vote into an overwhelming majority of indigenous people lacks journalistic integrity.
Well the bbc said it was overwhelmingly shot downs with a 60 40 ratio
Well yeah, here in the UK referendums are only allowed to pass or fail in the cursed 52:48 ratio
Must be devastating to be indigenous in Australia. Even a paltry thing like this can’t pass as long as the settler/colonisers are there. I despair for them.
There was literally no downside for ATSI communities to vote yes.
Additional representation with no limitations on existing avenues of representation? Who wouldn't sign up... assuming you're included.
why wouldn't they?
Why wouldn't anyone? The people it would affect really wanted it and the people it didn't affect had no real reason to deny it.
There was a lot of talk that most Aboriginal Australians didn't want the voice.