AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agoAustralians vote No in referendum that promised change for First Nations people but couldn't deliveredition.cnn.comexternal-linkmessage-square43fedilinkarrow-up1106arrow-down17
arrow-up199arrow-down1external-linkAustralians vote No in referendum that promised change for First Nations people but couldn't deliveredition.cnn.comAlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.world to World News@lemmy.worldEnglish · 1 year agomessage-square43fedilink
minus-squareFaceDeer@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up16·1 year agoThe text of the proposed constitutional amendment can be found here. The entire extent of its “recognition” was to create a body that can make presentations to Parliament.
minus-squaremetaStatic@kbin.sociallinkfedilinkarrow-up4arrow-down18·1 year agoNo, it was to give the government of the day the power to create that body however they saw fit. anytime the government seeks to expand it’s powers you need to ask yourself “Do I want the other guys to exercise this power?” Labor already listens to our elders, the voice only needed to force future conservative governments to do the same and it failed miserably.
minus-squareDubman@lemm.eelinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up1·1 year agoDamn wouldn’t want any “governments of the day” to receive advice on issues that affect communities that don’t get a say in what happens to them. Why do so many of you act like this was some kind of plot to supercede power and abuse it? It was an advisory council.
The text of the proposed constitutional amendment can be found here. The entire extent of its “recognition” was to create a body that can make presentations to Parliament.
No, it was to give the government of the day the power to create that body however they saw fit.
anytime the government seeks to expand it’s powers you need to ask yourself “Do I want the other guys to exercise this power?”
Labor already listens to our elders, the voice only needed to force future conservative governments to do the same and it failed miserably.
Damn wouldn’t want any “governments of the day” to receive advice on issues that affect communities that don’t get a say in what happens to them.
Why do so many of you act like this was some kind of plot to supercede power and abuse it? It was an advisory council.