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How a plan to recognize Australia's indigenous people became the country's latest culture war (www.nbcnews.com)

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A landmark referendum backed by the government would give Indigenous people constitutional recognition and greater say on legislation and policy affecting them.

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[–] liv@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That's... a bizarre take. Aboriginal Australians didn't get the vote until the 1960s.

The Voice is only to let Indigenous people have a mechanism for consultation since they are so heavily outnumbered that the Australian electoral system is essentially a "tyranny of the majority".

Aboriginal and Torres straits Australians have measurably worse outcomes in health, wealth, education, crime, life expectancy, etc. That is institutional racism.