#Vote YES

[ahe-bby]

as an australian i am disgusted. to see my country so proud to be racist? im genuinely sick.

today, over 50% of australia have voted against giving indiginous people a voice in parliament.

THIS is what we talk about when it comes to australia being racist. its fucking casual, its disgusting. and people try to hide and say "well look indiginous people dont like it" THEY DONT LIKE IT? OR IS IT THEY DONT EXPECT ANYTHING TO HAPPEN BECAUSE WE HAVE LET THEM DOWN SO MANY TIMES?

this country needs to change.

#australia #referendum #australian politics #politics #vote yes #yes #australian referendum #auspol

[tallowandport]

#voice to parliament #yes23 #yes23au #indigenous voice to parliament #the voice to parliament #referendum #auspol #voice referendum #Youtube #vote yes

[claraameliapond]

PSA : THE INDIGENOUS VOICE REFERENDUM 14th October 2023

The Yes Vote is literally just giving indigenous Australians A SEAT AT THE TABLE to give information and advice about issues and governmental decisions that affect them.

Indigenous information and advice for indigenous issues from indigenous Australians.

That's it . It's acknowledging their existence as the first peoples of Australia and recognising that they have valuable information to contribute about their cultures, the ways they live, what their most pressing needs are and the best ways in which to help, to enable governments to effectively help them.

The government already provides "help" each year, in an effort to close the gap on education access, healthcare access, and many other pressing needs - they are already using taxpayer money to do this but crucially, these efforts have not been successful because we are missing out on crucial information.

The Voice to Parliament gives the government access to invaluable information that enables it to create and better implement aid, education, healthcare , equal opportunity.

I have been very actively involved in many Reconciliaton efforts for the vast majority of my life -

At 16 I travelled to some of the indigenous rural communities in Australia, met elders and individuals no tourist has access to meet, learnt from them, and saw what was there.

I saw the attempts, the efforts to provide access to Western education, that the rest of the country has, to provide healthcare, housing etc.

They don't work

They are based on western ways of life, ideas of community and interaction.

It's not the same.

They don't work.

Fundamentally because even if well intentioned, your efforts to help can actually harm if you don't have access to crucial information about how indigenous communities live.

We need to accommodate our help, our efforts, our aid to the specific needs and ways of life, values and dynamics of the many indigenous communities, especially rural, that exist across Australia, so that they have access to the same human rights we all do.

The human right to healthcare and education that we all have- it's not accessible in the same ways for indigenous communities.

It's provided, but on western terms- with the western expectation that children will leave their families for 6 months at a time and travel extremely far away to attend school, for example.

This is so backwards and outdated even for western sensibilities, and an incredibly outdated mode of education that is unhealthy emotionally for any child, let alone vulnerable people who have to choose between a western run school and their culture, their families - literally being a part of their community, a present member.

There are better ways to provide access to education than this. Ways that don't disrupt their connection to community, land and culture.

And the best people to ask, to provide information that can properly inform us about these issues, and how best to navigate them, fix them, are the the indigenous Australians themselves- they are the experts.

So that our aid and help and efforts actually do - help. Actually work.

The funds are going there anyway. So we need to put it to use in effective ways.

What we have now doesn't work.

We can only make it better.

Please Vote YES for The Indigenous Voice to Parliament

It is the beginning of lasting, effective positive change for vulnerable communities, and for us all.

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[fuckyeahworldoftaika]

#senator briggs #taika waititi #vote yes #indigenous #aboriginal #australia #video #the voice referendum

[official-boobies-posts]

always was, always will be aboriginal land ❤️💛🖤

#dont know how many aussies follow me but its jmportant #for those who arent australia!! #today is invasion day otherwise known as australia #its a celebration of the mass genocide of the aboriginal and torres strait islander people #(the owners of aussie land) #weve also very recently lost a vote to give aboriginal people a say in what happens to that land #thankfully the protests all over the country were huge #ive just gotten home from one that had tens of thousands of people marching through meanjin #if youd like some links to support indigenous owned businesses (v important to do especially today) #feel free to dm me #australia #invasion day #australia day #jan 26th #change the date #vote yes #land back

[you-need-not-apply]

Vote yes.

#yes #australia #Australia referendum #referendum #vote yes

[galaxynajma]

#jjk #jujutsu kaisen #kenjaku #jjk polls #jjk 239 #jjk spoilers #vote yes #do it for them

[spnexploration]

Let's not screw this up, eh?

#yes23 #yes23au #vote yes #voice to parliament #auspol #referendum #australian politics #i already voted because i'm working #so i am disappointed i missed out on a democracy sausage #i don't want to be disappointed by the result too #but referendums do have a tendency to be lost in aus...

[thisdiscontentedwinter]

This is hilariously on point, but also painfully true.

Remember that the No Campaign with its "Don't know? Vote No" is banking on voters' ignorance. How about "If you don't know, fucking look it up"?

Conservatives are supposed to not mention that part where they like their voters dumb and afraid. These arseholes have put it on posters.

#auspol #straya #vote yes #voice to parliament #yes23

[getousatoruu]

#vote yes #sukuna #ryomen sukuna #jjk

[cupidsbower]

If you aren't sure how to vote in the upcoming Australian referendum and would like to talk about it, you're welcome to DM me.

I think voting yes is a good idea. Putting the Voice into the Constitution rather than doing it some other way means two important things. We will be required and accountable to make it happen, and we can interpret it so that the form it takes matches the times, even as times change. It's both flexible and a promise.

There have actually been Voices to Parliament several times before, both here in Australia and overseas, and they have generally worked well. None of the worst case scenarios happened, and some good did happen as a result. At worst, they were a neutral thing.

Without being enshrined in the Constitution though, those previous Voices have mostly been discarded with the change of political parties and the usual political business, even when working well.

It's time we did better by our Indigenous brothers and sisters, and this is a practical and useful way to do so. As Tom Cardy points out in his inimitable style, this is an opportunity to grow, and I think it will take us to a good place.

#the voice #australia #vote yes #tom cardy #Youtube

[dungeonsandkobolds]

Reminder to all my Australian followers to check your voting enrollment ahead of the referendum!

#aus politics #politics #not dnd #vote yes

[aloeverawrites]

Hey guys, I just wanted to ask for a favour. If you could follow the "Vote Yes" tag on here to keep up to date on the Australian Referendum for the Indigenous Voice to Parliament, and reblog posts if you can. I want more people to be talking about it as it's a really important step for human rights and hopefully international support can convince Tumblr Aussies to vote yes.

The Voice would recognise Indigenous people in the Australian constitution and would create a body that would advise the government on policies that are made about Indigenous people. The Voice wouldn't have any power to vote themselves, they would just be an advisory body. While it wouldn't have power we would have records of the government ignoring it's Indigenous people and opting for harmful programs, and this public platform would make it a bit more difficult for it to brush people off. And hopefully they'll be be deterred from committing to genocidal, horrific polices like the Stolen Generation again.

Recently there's been a lot of devastating developments when it comes to human rights around the globe. A Yes vote would be a great source of hope and step in the direction of a better world.

#human rights #vote yes #voice to parliament #signal boost #indigenous voice to parliament #indigenous rights #aboriginal rights #I know I'm not aussie I just want one country to be doing the right thing at this point like jesus- #history #leftist #leftism

[vinylluver]

I just voted YES for recognition of indigenous people in the Australian Constitution and providing them with a Voice to Parliament

#yes23au #yes23 #vote yes #voice to parliament #recognition #indigenous

[mmmmmm-queer-shit]

the no vote in todays referendum is horrifying, but unfortunately not unexpected. do better. as australians, do better. as people, do better, as voters, do better. as friends and family and lovers and students and teachers and carers, do better. your ignorance is no excuse to continue the cycle of racism.

#aus pol #australia #vote yes #voice to parliament #voice referendum #aboriginal #always was always will be

[claraameliapond]

The Indigenous Voice Referendum Australia 2023

Floored and devastated

repulsed at the racist selfishness of the no voters

It had NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM.

This is NOT who we are

Although it's a comforting narrative that no voters and conservatives are dying out - and will gradually have less and less pull

Firstly - It's too gradual to just wait it out

And Secondly- It's foolish to think that's only where these no votes are coming from

Younger less educated people are part of this too

Ignorant and arrogant - and selfish- that's what less education translates to.

This highlights, more than ever, how important it is to have strict policies in place legally for managing misinformation, fear mongering and propaganda spreading

We need laws about media monopolies and restricting or banning them altogether

Because one agenda from a multimillion dollar media monopoly cannot have majority access to inform a whole country. Especially because they were intentionally running interference with the simplest truth - they threw everything at it - spreading misinformation, blatant repulsive, violent lies - totally made up lies, not even remotely connected to what was being proposed. It's heartbreaking they could invent such lies and then spread those repulsive invented lies so fully and have people believe them.

And less educated people are always more vulnerable to propaganda: they believe hatred without a second thought. They don't fact check. They don't research. They don't make sure. Any excuse to flaunt their selfish racist self interest, against anyone else who might actually be more vulnerable, worse off.

However, That's the thing about this referendum - IT WASNT "US AGAINST THEM"

It was just : do we all agree that indigenous Australians should get to share information and advice with the government about how best to provide the care and facilities we already provide to them. So they work. Because they haven't been. So it would be a good use of money and then we can achieve permanent results and solutions for those issues and then move on, and do different things with that money. To actually move forward with this and not be stuck in stasis with things not improving.

That was literally all it was

It still is an issue now.

Don't loose hope

I'm still proud of all of the Yes voters- there were a good amount of us - and we will continue to turn the tide from ignorance and misinformation to the truth.

We've got to keep going 💪🏻 🙌🏻 👏🏻 🙏🏻

And now we have a more accurate idea of how to do that , and what needs to be fixed with people's understanding of this in our country. We can use this information to succeed

Ironically - doing exactly what the referendum was about : getting more accurate information to better help vulnerable communities of indigenous Australia.

But apparently, we've got to deal with the misinformed tantrum havers first - they make everything an "us against them" even when it literally wasn't. It doesn't affect anyone else. It could only have been positive. They make every issue an "us against them " even when it has literally nothing to do with them, because everything's a tantrum if it's not about them.

We've got accurate information now - just not about the people we were expecting : we know how to combat the racist minformation spreaders, and those who believed them.

What we need is :

Real limits and legal consequences on misinformation spreading, fear mongering and propaganda

Real limits on media monopolies and restrictions from letting them operate the way they do.

AND we do have to continue to combat this misinformation and propaganda whenever it is paraded near us. Respond with the truth, and make sure you ALWAYS RESPOND.

Don't let them think they're right.

Respond simply and calmly with the truth.

I'm sorry we have to do this but we do.

I don't want to be anywhere near those people, but if they identify themselves- we have to respond.

Respond and correct them.

Their idiocy can not and does not rewrite the truth. We are right and the truth of what this is, always was and what we need to do still exists

A few sources to begin to understand this:

A breakdown of who voted what where

Interpreting these results properly - this is well worth a read

I am looking forward to seeing the full count when it's ready. Make sure to look at those things - from Official sources.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO VOTED YES

I stand proudly with you on the side of truth. Empathy. Morality. Justice

We have a more accurate idea of what's going on now: let's get to work

Also thank you to MC HAMMER for supporting and encouraging and campaigning for people to vote yes. That was lovely.

It really was a very simple thing - the truth is still the truth and we will succeed

Love and strength to us all

By goodness we need it

Xxxx🤍🖤🧡❤🤍🖤🧡❤💗💖💜💕💕💓💗

My heart was so full when I voted yes - it's an obvious yes

And it still is

Because YES is the truth

It is what is needed.

Still.

And we will achieve it xxxxx

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