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The Voice debate is yet another ugly chapter in Australia's history (www.abc.net.au)
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[–] DogMuffins@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 2 years ago (1 children)

As it stands the emboldened and networked hard and far right off the back of a no vote may be a more urgent reason to vote yes than the institution at the heart of the matter.

This is absolutely, 100%, my position.

The following is my take which is sure to be deeply unpopular but I'm not here to win friends.

I don't care about the voice. It's not part of my day to day. I don't regularly interact with a great number of first nations people. Of course I'll vote yes because it seems like a no brainer but I'm pissed that this has become such a distraction from the real actual problems that I would prefer our government address.

Australia has been on a trajectory towards the right since Keating left office in 1996. Our centre left party has had precious little opportunity to rebalance us in the last 30 years, we finally get a chance and... we squander it on this shit show.

If the outcome of the referendum is a "no" vote, Labor will have a sucking chest wound heading in to the next election.