Yeah… so much for the Voice. Referendum voting day was today, and, well, the trend for referendums to absolutely tank (there hasn’t been a successful one since 1977 because the Constitution makes it near-impossible for them to do so) only continued in the end. There will be recriminations, of course, lots of soul searching about how and why it failed and what the fuck is wrong with Australians, and I have no particular desire to engage in them myself… except perhaps for the so-called “progressive No” lot. There were indigenous folks opposed to the Voice cos they thought it wasn’t enough, and I respect that viewpoint (needless to say, that respect doesn’t extend to Warren Mundine or Jacinta Price whose opposition to the Voice was rooted in Liberal policy and selling their useful idiot souls to a right wing that despises them). I respect it, but… if we couldn’t get up something as comparatively small as this, how the fuck do you think something actually bigger like a treaty is going to happen? Blak sovereignty? Fantastic, I’m sure. Not going to happen within any of our lifetimes, though, is it? Not if we can’t get something as comparatively simple as the Voice. Bah. Back to business as usual in this country, then… sigh.
