Why did Australia vote No in the Voice referendum?
I’m in Sydney for the Voice referendum result and was ready to settle in and watch the declarations for each state – but it’s already over. No looks to have won, by a pretty big margin. Tasmania voted No and New South Wales seems to have gone the same way. Both were swing states. If those two voted heavily for No, then it’s likely that it has won by a landslide. Similarly, No is way ahead in Victoria and is likely to win by a large margin when counting begins in Western Australia. So, an ‘Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice’ will not added to Australia’s democratic apparatus. Aussies have voted to protect the principle of everyone being equal before the law and in parliament.
And from New Zealand … slightly to the right of OZ
New Zealand: out with the old, in with the new
With Christopher Luxon now the next New Zealand Prime Minister and a majority about to be formed in Parliament via a coalition with the Act Party and its very inspiring speaker and leader, David Seymour, there is little doubt that there is light at the end of the tunnel.
New Zealand First may jump on this bandwagon too and why wouldn’t they?
With Labour and the Greens having plummeted in the results, the dream, or rather, cauchemar, of their coalition has been rightly thrown under a bus.
h/t TB Canucklehead and a few others.
