If you didn't see the news - which would be impossible in Australia as it has been getting 24/7 coverage over the weekend - the Referendum to enshrine Aborigines in the Constitution with an Advisory Board called the Voice has been spectacularly defeated. The Left are now playing the blame game and blaming everyone but themselves. They're campaign made so many mis-steps it was always doomed to failure. Personally I think the big shift came when Western Australia made new Aboriginal Heritage laws which immediately backfired. The very first issue that arose from it was when a group of volunteers wanted to plant 1000 trees on some 'public' land. The aboriginal elder demanded $200,000 to let them do it. The backlash was swift and severe. The big takeaway from the vote though was that the people who live with the most Aborigines were the most against it whilst the inner city latte sipping Green/Left Elites were the only people who supported. But too many people are now aware of the WEF's long term plans and the way they will use indigenous peoples to push it. Everyone I spoke to thought it was a foot in the door for reparations and rent-seeking which the Aborigines disingenuously called "Truth telling". At the end of the day every aborigine is getting over $45,000 spent on them annually. That's way more than the white and no-abo communities who receive around $20,000 for social benefits. The other issue that was raised constantly was that people do not view anyone with less than 75% Abo heritage as being Aborigine. And their movement was hijacked by all these half caste activists looking to cement a seat at the political table and have a say over massive handouts. I saw people whiter than me (i'm virtually albino) claiming to be abos just for the virtue signaling. But credit to the everyday suburbanite who saw through this. This result and the NZ election shows that people are waking up to the international left and we will not go silently into that bug eating, no possessions WEF dystopia.
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I didn't expect that result. There was a sign as well in social media where people that looked like aborigines were distrustful of the voice and urged people to vote no.
The polling had been predicting a 'No' on the referendum for the last few months - I think June was the only month where polling indicated there might be a 'Yes'.
Throughout the campaign, no-one from the 'Yes' side was able to say definitively what it would look like once implemented. The 1 page "Uluru Statement from the Heart" that the proposal was based on, turned out to be 26 pages, with another 100 or so pages of supporting notes - and there was a lot of stuff in there that people didn't like, such as reparations.
Many (rightly) ended up believing this was the first step in acquiescing to a long list of demands from the lefties and activists, and that would end up setting race relations back decades and cost the taxpayers billions.
The WA Heritage fiasco was a huge wake up call for lots of people. I know at my work alone it basically changed almost everyone from yes to no as we work in an industry that would have been affected.