Apparently the PM will announce we will have the referendum on October 14. ( Why do so many overseas countries have elections and votes like this on a working day. It makes no sense at all.)
I should firstly say i have always thought the referendum proposal would fail. It is simply too easy for people to make up reasons why the change is to be opposed. Surely the referendum on the republic showed that. Secondly it is false to say you need bi-partisan support for it to get up. In 1967 it did not occur despite bi-partisan support for the FIRST question ( usually ignored).
I am also having deja vu. some people keep on saying reject this proposal and we will come back with a better one. I kept on hearing that false statement when we were 'debating' the republic.
I am also amused by those aboriginal elites criticising Aboriginals supping the proposal as elites. It was similar in the republic referendum.
I can't get over how poor the spokesmen and women are. Warren Mundine is not even articulate and has never been impressive so how is he a front man? Whilst Price is articulate she is frequently shown to be wrong.
There was a time opponents kept on saying people were saying they were racists. They offered no evidence and I admit I never saw it or heard it but wella. They produce a racist ad in the form of a cartoon that Bill Leak would have been proud of.
We have also had at least two people associated with the no campaign making racist comments. Note however it has had little effect on voting intention. This means most people have rightly come to the conclusion that the no campaign is not overly racists but only at the margins.
Lost in all this is how to bring Aboriginals up to the standards most other Australians have.
Whoopsy I should have added Burney has been hopeless as the minister. McCarthy is way more impressive.
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