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Indigenous Voice Yes or No?

How will you vote in referendum?

  • Yes

    Votes: 88 54.0%
  • No

    Votes: 30 18.4%
  • Probably yes

    Votes: 16 9.8%
  • Probably no

    Votes: 15 9.2%
  • Dont know

    Votes: 14 8.6%

  • Total voters
    163
  • Poll closed .
Does the AFL have anything similar? A truly independent indigenous voice? I can't think of one and I don't think it would fit with the insular way the place is run.

DS
I believe McLaughin tried to set one up, but he couldnt find anyone in the adjoining offices who could be part of it.
 
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Hey eZyT, no worries. I rarely make myself clear anyway - always struggle without facial clues and tone.
 
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If you take a look at some of the responses on the RFC socials, we still have a very long way to go...

No need to look there. Steve Price and Andrew Bolt are Richmond supporters as well. Every club would have members throwing toys out of their prams if/when the clubs make their announcement. Some racist, some deliberately hateful, some who will think whatever the Libs tell them to think, but I reckon most against are just ignorant who haven't taken the time to understand what the Voice is really all about.

You'd also have a handful of octogenarians who have lost the mental capacity to think for themselves and just go around reposting *smile* they get from Advance Australia news feeds. They're the ones I feel sorry for, or maybe it's pity.
 
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You'd also have a handful of octogenarians who have lost the mental capacity to think for themselves and just go around reposting *smile* they get from Advance Australia news feeds. They're the ones I feel sorry for, or maybe it's pity.

in my experience, hateful old *smile*, used to be hateful young *smile*.
 
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in my experience, hateful old *smile*, used to be hateful young *smile*.

I dunno. my mum is now a septuagenarian and gone full boomer after being left leaning her whole life. She doesn't comprehend why anyone would vote yes.
 
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once older people get into an echo chamber on radio or social media they start believing all the conspiracy nonsense and it's really hard to break them out of it.
 
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once older people get into an echo chamber on radio or social media they start believing all the conspiracy nonsense and it's really hard to break them out of it.
LoL what is the next lot of tripe going spew out of your Yea lots decadent grey matter.
 
Anyone who listens to the podcast Sizzletown, Tony Martim does a great little spot on the absurdity of the main arguments people are spouting again at the Voice.
 
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I haven’t read this thread for ages so I have caught up on a few weeks of posting
The most pertinent post in the end was one a few pages back by David I think who posted the wording of what we are actually voting on.
All the rest in noise and falls into the category of if you want to vote against something you will find a reason to do so.
 
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Oh hi tigaman
And who are you snigger at Octogenarians of this Country ?. They were born in the 1930/1940s with the world engaged in WW2. After that they put the head down , worked the butt off to improve their lot, their children's future & Australia's future. They did it hard compared to today's lot. They put with high 15% Interest Rates & assholes like Keating. The people who benefitted from these Octogenarian's toil besides Australia, are their son daughters grand kids which you are most likely are & you snigger at them. What are you doing on this site ?.
 
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15% interest on a $100K loan is the same as 3% interest on a $500,000 loan, just saying - the amount borrowed, inflated by current house prices, is far more important than the interest rate (not to mention the price of a house today in terms of a multiple of annual income compared to the 1950s and 1960s). We can also point to the redistribution of wealth towards the middle class in the 1950s and 1960s which is currently being reversed, and have a whole set of arguments about everything related, but that should be in the economics threads.

What is at stake here is a voice to parliament for the original, and dispossessed, occupants of this land.

The Voice is a very modest change, a long overdue change, a change which leaves control in the hands of parliament. All the scare mongering and strange citing of the sacrifices of previous generations doesn't change any of this.

Let's get it done.

DS

PS: just as an aside, interest rates in the 1960s were between 5% and 6%.
 
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