Australia to vote against 'voice' in parliament for indigenous people 

I'm proud of the people of my Nation including many Indigenous who voted to reject the divisive voice.

Nicole Johnston, this is disgraceful reporting. This was editorial comment, not reporting the facts. This result does not entrench poverty and disadvantage. It was a rejection of a poorly designed system that would produce more bureaucrats, not solutions.

Insane. Trying to create a two tier system. How did that work out for South Africa?

That wasn’t a report. That was a politically biased diatribe.

The smug satisfaction of metropolitan "elites" shines from the intro to this piece. Utterly ridiculous to imply that "yes" would have been a "vote to unite the country". This was a divisive policy. The "no" vote was a vote against racism and a vote against the ignorance and arrogance of the "elites".

Now let's see a proper audit of the $40 Billion we spend each year

proved how disconnected from reality some journalists are

What a politically biased report! Racism means differentiating in rights and treatment according to race. “Yes” would have done that and begun a great divide. May Great Australia always be one nation.

When do indigenous Europeans get a voice?

NO we do not need to vote YES, we need to find out how 30 billion spend on 3% of Australians each year and First Nation Australians still feel neglected and living in poverty. While at the same time politicians do not care about rising living cost, housing crisis, interest rate rising out of control for ALL Australians.

It wasn’t a referendum to recognise First Nations. I’d was for a “voice” to parliament which was a second government. No thanks

Albo has to go , find out were the 40 billion a year goes , and there will be hope and get rid of all the money grabbing organizations, who make themself wealthy off it , and give Linda Burney a kick up the back side and make her do her job what she highly paid for , there must be thousands who would do a better job than her,

It wasn’t to bring Australia together. It was to create a separate entity entirely apart from the Australian Parliament based on the colour of someone’s skin.

This would have done nothing to improve the lives of everyday indigenous peoples. If it had done so I would have voted for it. It was just so a few Canberra types could feel good about themselves. The correct choice.

Common sense triumphs again

"It will put their rights back years"....HOW?! It sounds like Australia did something right and rejected a racist law.

Good to see some sanity still exists in the crazy world we live in.

does this mean fatalbo gets the sack for wasting millions of taxpayers $$$$$$$

Democracy says all Australians should be equal. GOOD THING. TIME TO CELEBRATE the right outcome

She forgot to mention alcoholism.

The people dividing Australia are the people who came up with this referendum instead of concentrating on the lives of the average Australian.

As someone who has no idea about this, I still have no idea about this. What was the reasons for no? What are the differences? Are they cultural? Economic? What's the population difference? This report is clearly trying to hide some basic info from the viewers

Conflating recognition with extra seats at the tables of power was the killer. Nicole Johnson is a bleeding heart. Why show a remote homestead littered with rubbish and tell us that Aboriginal people have lost hope? Using pale-skinned Yes advocates like Linda Burney, Marcia Langdon, Thomas Mayo and Lidia Thorpe didn't help their cause.

Garbage report, they still don't get it.

So much grace and humility that we were kept in the dark and given no detail at all. Called Stupid, Ignorant and every other derogatory name by the PM and his Ministers and supporters. After that show of distain what outcome did he expect?????

Every concession leads to more concessions and then special treatment

That’s great news keep Australia British!! 🇬🇧 😊

Sky news appears to be very divisive with its reporting.

Great propaganda Sky! "No hope now!" Really objective journalism serving the people and not an elite agenda.

The indigenous people of England suffer the same fate

Dumb idea that would have lead to a divided nation.

"Trauma" Not biased at all.

The people have spoken themselves and they have done it loudly. Congrats to the Aussies there.

No to Cultural Marxism.

I would trust Jacinta Nampijinpa Price over this 'impartial reporter' any day.

I am French... lets suppose that a France referendum proposes to discriminate the present citizens : those with French grandparents will have the right to vote twice, and those who became French by immigration can only vote once. Would this be against democracy ? and maybe racist ? .... I think yes .... but this is exactly what the wokes proposed in this VOICE referedum, is not it ?

As a non Australien I didn’t really get what this was about. Apparently some sort of indigenous council with no real power to improve the lives of indigenous people.

Albo and Labour and unions needs to go. Common-sense prevails

Australia was a Big Desert before the arrival of Europeans with these so called Indigenous people living a hunter and Gatherer lifestyle in Australia. the Europeans built Australia from Scratch and built all the infrastructure in Australia. For Example: Europeans built Dams, Highways, Universities, Railway Network, Electricity infrastructure, Hospitals etc.. therefore Europeans owe nothing to these SO CALLED Indigenous people or anyone else. Note: Conquest, warfare and slavery has been taking place since the dawn of civilization with all ethnic and racial groups at one point of time in human history have been involved in Warfare, conquest and Slavery, therefore blaming Europeans for wars and conquest and letting everybody else off the hook is nothing but shameless hypocrisy.

Albo must go

The people have spoken.....and loudly. An excellent result in defeating a "cause" that was baseless and divisive.

There’s something to be said about mandatory voting.

Nice to see that common sense does occasionally prevail.

Originally was 1 piece of paper....29 words.... Now 440 words......

Most ridiculous legislation.

Cameron resigned when he lost the EU referendum

so why should it be set back for them why is there no hope?, such bias reporting. it belongs to them

I see a lot people saying this is about racism, that can’t be denied but definitely shouldn’t be over exaggerated. The indigenous people of the ‘yes’ campaign have been antagonists for years and built their careers around it. They bear little resemblance to traditional aboriginal culture. Aborigines are not one nation but many, more like continental Europe. These antagonists have turned support for aborigines from a large majority into oblivion.

Shameful

A great and sensible decision by they Australian people

Wow this is straight up propaganda.

Disgraceful report. Pure propaganda

is this to stop having aboriginals in parliament? Confused

Settler colonial states are not democracies.

AUSTRALIA originally belongs to the aboriginal people ...... 😁👍

? But it’s ‘their’ country ?? Outrageous ...

Awesome! Love to see the same referendum in Canada...likely the same result.

every aboriginal person I have met or come in to contact with on my many trips to oz has been a drunken, drug fuelled, racist mess, I'm sure there are good folks amongst them but I'm yet to meet any in person

That didn’t go well did it….

Everybody wants special treatment nowadays and everybody wants to play the victim, the eternal infantile generation.

The B's pushed buy Nicole j is the sort of dribble that perpetuates this ✌️

What utterly partisan reportage !! And also a total misrepresentation of feelings as facts. Laughable.

Surely with the youngest not able to buy a house there are more important things to vote on.. Good for the Aussies for saying no

Finally the tide is turning 🇬🇧 ❤ 🇦🇺 .

Do white people in Australia not feel shame for how indigenous people are

INCREDIBLY BIASED report haha

End race based law everywhere...

Sad day for Australians . !!!

AUSSIE AUSSIE AUSSIE

The first nation people should have a voice.

Democracy gave the wrong answer did it sky? Fascists.

Is this what passes for reporting these days? What a completely bias report. The journalist should be sacked.

This woke government will just find another way.

Im deeply disappointed sad

I just find it strange how the whole world was watching this. I generally thought everyone, particularly in the UK, India, South Africa, and NZ would care more about Australia failing in Cricket and Rugby than something that is only meant to benefit aboriginal Australians.

My heart goes out to those living in horrendous poverty. Why is it though that every day ordinary Australians are getting the blame, with the media sticking the knife straight into divisiveness. Why aren't the media blaming the Government, or the city of London for their pain?? That's where the pain belongs. Stop dividing ordinary every day people. I pray people wake up & come together against the Government of the western world who are causing this crazy situations.

Common sense from the voters of Australia.

What happened to unbiased resorting?

no

Great news 👏👏

I'm half Arab n support the indigenous people of Australia

To explain to the non australian readers, we had begged for twelve months for details on the structure, and how it was to work, which were never provided. There was a twenty six page outline plan, detailing a serious list of historical grievances which were being applied to all present day australians, even the millions of recent immigrants. It also outlined treaty, the aboriginal version of 'truth' (which in many cases is fundamentally flawed), and reparations for thevills of colonisation, this despite a yearly budget for three percentbof the population of nearly forty billion dollars. The no vote didnt occur from racism, it occurred from the utter contempt the government and the leading activists held for the australian people. Our own prime minister told us he wouldnt provide details as we would vote it down. Dont fall for the misinformation, australians are traditionally protective of the constitution and our multicultural society. People dont come here to be different, they come here to be accepted, and the idea of separating ourselves by class or race is inherently abhorrent to us.

Good call. The 122-year-old Commonwealth of Australia Government can never have any authority to grant or withhold the right to a 'Voice' - that is the say the right to be listened to by the Government like human beings instead of entirely ignored like soon-to-be-driven-to-extinction animal wildlife - to anyone, let alone to the at least 40,000-year-old First Nations of Australia, especially not conditionally upon a successful result in a colonial referendum. The First Nations already have that right, and indeed always had it from the beginning, were born with it just like anybody else, and just like anybody else no one may take that right away or place arbitrary conditions upon it. No matter what anyone believed, this referendum had nothing to do with restoring the rights of Aborigines, it was about Commonwealth Government misappropriating authority and credibility at the expense of the First Nations of Australia, and permanently establishing the Commonwealth's final authority over the granting or withholding of inalienable human rights to Aborigines who already possess those rights forever, and by association thereby establishing the Commonwealth's final authority over human rights for _all_ Australians. Australians were absolutely right to reject it and the result does them credit.

Aboriginal Australians don't need help from the government. They are wiser than the government.

Im so glad australia rejected this massively

I don't watch the news, and I'm not on social media, apart from a couple of things I look up on RU-vid. I thought it was for the right to have their say in parliament, which I think they should. When I saw the news ads on TV with indigenous arguing both sides I thought that the referendum was ridiculous. If they can't make up their minds then why are we wasting our time. Should let the indigenous sort out what they want. Then go from there. All it did was cause confusion.

find we’re all the government funding is going first coz it shore as hell any going to outback community’s but in to peoples pockets and back handed deals

"Australians" and Australia 👍

So the Occupiers get to Decide about the Natives. 😂😂

contre les absurdités woke qui nous sont imposées.

Tell me, if us Brits hadn't landed in Australia what state would the locals be in now, still living in mud huts and running about with spears and dropping dead from disease before their 30th birthday?

B A S E D

I don't understand this - I thought Australians were decent folks? Surely it should be the indigenous people deciding if Australian settlers should have a right to govern!

Australia to vote against 'voice' in parliament for indigenous people 1526pm 15.10.23 a bit crap, i would say...

haha well done australians say no to woke

What crap. Albo your not an Australian.

Rubbish reporting Sky

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Good.

I supportequal rights , nobody is beyond reproach