Australians have resoundingly rejected a proposal to recognise Aboriginal people in its constitution and establish a body to advise parliament on Indigenous issues.

Saturday’s voice to parliament referendum failed, with the defeat clear shortly after polls closed.

  • Dojan@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Honestly don’t know if that latter bit is true. We manage to be absolutely atrocious to the indigenous population without third parties meddling. I don’t think there’s a single native population that hasn’t been mistreated; had their culture and names taken away, sent for reeducation, eugenics, and so on, so forth.

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      That’s what I as an outside person have read for like a decade. Australia is usually looking good because it’s not 'murica, kind of like Canada, but bloody hell don’t look too close.

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      I agree but at the same time in this modern age of ‘social media’ I am certain that the people who said openly that they wanted to take down The West, are doing so.

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      1 year ago

      Sudan Ethiopia and Thailand, IIRC. There’s one African nation, and one SEA nation that never got colonized.

      Edit: I didn’t remember correctly

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        Ethiopia and Thailand, and they were arguably colonised at least in part by Italy and France respectively.