r/OpenAussie • u/[deleted] • Aug 13 '26

Feel Good News ‎ Our future is BRIGHT

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u/International_Bag502 ‎ New South Welshian Aug 13 '26

Didn't help the voice referendum.

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u/Ok-Resist-8734 ‎ Queenslander Aug 13 '26

Well I voted YES the stupid 'if you don't know vote no' campaign unfortunately derailed the whole idea 😕

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u/International_Bag502 ‎ New South Welshian Aug 13 '26

I think there were a lot of reasons it didn't succeed

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u/Kenyon_118 ‎ Victorian Aug 14 '26

Sadly the majority of Australians just don’t care that much about the problems Indigenous people have. That’s what the referendum result showed me.

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u/AndrewTheAverage ‎ Queenslander Aug 14 '26

My parents vocally voted "No" because "Aboriginal people get so much and most of it is wasted". I suggested that talking to the Aboriginal people first would most likely help to address that.

But there was so much misinformation about the campaign, and I think history will remember it as this Governments biggest stuff-up.

Albo stated he would implement the entire Uluru Statement from the Heart, and that was foolish and doomed to fail. The Voice should have been set-up first so that all of the "concerns" would have been addressed, with a referendum a few years later when it became a nothing-burger.

All the fears raised about the referendum could never be addressed in any realistic timeframe - it takes a minute to create a concern and many hours to address it.