With a two-letter word, Australians struck down the first attempt at constitutional change in 24 years, a move experts say will inflict lasting damage on First Nations people and suspend any hopes of modernizing the nation’s founding document.
What’s depressing is that they lost to a “If you don’t know, vote No” slogan:
During months of campaigning, the No vote gained momentum with slogans that appealed to voter apathy – “If you don’t know, vote No” – and a host of other statements designed to instil fear, according to experts, including that it would divide Australia by race and be legally risky
I saw literally nothing from the No camp in the media. the first time I saw the slogan was on polling day.
They didn’t lose to a slogan, they lost to a literate public actually reading their shithouse proposal.
Add it to our list of embarrassingly backwards decisions as a country.
What’s depressing is that they lost to a “If you don’t know, vote No” slogan:
months of campaigning? for the Yes vote maybe.
I saw literally nothing from the No camp in the media. the first time I saw the slogan was on polling day.
They didn’t lose to a slogan, they lost to a literate public actually reading their shithouse proposal.
The most highly educated parts of the country voted yes, so your statement that the literate won this referendum hardly holds up.
private schoolboys want to give the government more power? colour me shocked.