#YES23

[aardvaark]

i’m so disgusted and saddened by this country tonight, i don’t even have the words right now. i can’t imagine how much more painful this must be for Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander peoples, for my Indigenous friends, family members and acquaintances. for now, all i have is some resources.

the First Nations-specific crisis support (suicide) hotline: 13YARN (13 92 76)

the national crisis/suicide hotline: 13 11 14

donate here to pay the rent if you’re living on stolen land (ie all of "australia")

here’s a list of some other Indigenous organisations that accept donations

plus messages from some Indigenous creators to fellow Indigenous people:

and here’s a link to the full post from that last image, there’s a few more pages.

#auspol #referendum #yes23 #voice to parliament #indigenous voice to parliament #always was always will be

[aliceonn]

My heart goes out to all Indigenous Australian’s who are hurting today.

#auspol #referendum #indigenous voice to parliament #yes23 #australia

[tallowandport]

#voice to parliament #yes23 #yes23au #indigenous voice to parliament #the voice to parliament #referendum #auspol #voice referendum #Youtube #vote yes

[claraameliapond]

PSA : THE INDIGENOUS VOICE REFERENDUM 14th October 2023

The Yes Vote is literally just giving indigenous Australians A SEAT AT THE TABLE to give information and advice about issues and governmental decisions that affect them.

Indigenous information and advice for indigenous issues from indigenous Australians.

That's it . It's acknowledging their existence as the first peoples of Australia and recognising that they have valuable information to contribute about their cultures, the ways they live, what their most pressing needs are and the best ways in which to help, to enable governments to effectively help them.

The government already provides "help" each year, in an effort to close the gap on education access, healthcare access, and many other pressing needs - they are already using taxpayer money to do this but crucially, these efforts have not been successful because we are missing out on crucial information.

The Voice to Parliament gives the government access to invaluable information that enables it to create and better implement aid, education, healthcare , equal opportunity.

I have been very actively involved in many Reconciliaton efforts for the vast majority of my life -

At 16 I travelled to some of the indigenous rural communities in Australia, met elders and individuals no tourist has access to meet, learnt from them, and saw what was there.

I saw the attempts, the efforts to provide access to Western education, that the rest of the country has, to provide healthcare, housing etc.

They don't work

They are based on western ways of life, ideas of community and interaction.

It's not the same.

They don't work.

Fundamentally because even if well intentioned, your efforts to help can actually harm if you don't have access to crucial information about how indigenous communities live.

We need to accommodate our help, our efforts, our aid to the specific needs and ways of life, values and dynamics of the many indigenous communities, especially rural, that exist across Australia, so that they have access to the same human rights we all do.

The human right to healthcare and education that we all have- it's not accessible in the same ways for indigenous communities.

It's provided, but on western terms- with the western expectation that children will leave their families for 6 months at a time and travel extremely far away to attend school, for example.

This is so backwards and outdated even for western sensibilities, and an incredibly outdated mode of education that is unhealthy emotionally for any child, let alone vulnerable people who have to choose between a western run school and their culture, their families - literally being a part of their community, a present member.

There are better ways to provide access to education than this. Ways that don't disrupt their connection to community, land and culture.

And the best people to ask, to provide information that can properly inform us about these issues, and how best to navigate them, fix them, are the the indigenous Australians themselves- they are the experts.

So that our aid and help and efforts actually do - help. Actually work.

The funds are going there anyway. So we need to put it to use in effective ways.

What we have now doesn't work.

We can only make it better.

Please Vote YES for The Indigenous Voice to Parliament

It is the beginning of lasting, effective positive change for vulnerable communities, and for us all.

#VOICE TO PARLIAMENT #THE VOICE #AUSTRALIA #YES 23 #YES23 #AUSTRALIAN REFERENDUM #AUSTRALIAN REFERENDUM 2023 #INDIGENOUS VOICE TO PARLIAMENT #AUSTRALIAN POLITICS #INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIANS #AUSPOL #REFERENDUM #YES #VOTE YES #Important #Pertinent #Please share #love #Vote #Voting

[the-meaning-iz-42]

I was reading through the official no case in the referendum booklet and one of the points is it will let the door open for activists.

Now all I can imagine is the liberal party members skittering backwards like vampires from the light in a decrepit crypt, the source of the light being someone in a rainbow T-shirt holding up an aboriginal flag.

#god no not the activists #my one and only weakness #non white cishet lobbyists #the horrors #auspol #referendum #the voice #yes23

[mengjue]

Well, as feared, it looks like the worst of Australia’s racism, ignorance, and apathy is on display today. The statements from No voters and campaigners have been absolutely shameful

#yes23 #voice to parliament #auspol #Australia

[blueboyluca]

My dogs are politically active and they say to Australians vote YES for an Indigenous Voice to Parliament on October 14!

#Yes23 #Topaz #Marceline #borderpap #papillon #Voice to Parliament #Australia #auspol

[froggiebi-moved]

i am so ashamed to be australian tonight. i understand the reasoning behind the progressive "no" vote, i do, but we cannot pretend that the majority of the "no" vote is progressive when racist white australians have made it clear they believe in the equality pie fallacy. this cannot be a win for first nations peoples, and i sincerely hope progress can be made despite this result.

#auspol #yes23 #yes23au #echoes from the void

[spnexploration]

Let's not screw this up, eh?

#yes23 #yes23au #vote yes #voice to parliament #auspol #referendum #australian politics #i already voted because i'm working #so i am disappointed i missed out on a democracy sausage #i don't want to be disappointed by the result too #but referendums do have a tendency to be lost in aus...

[thisdiscontentedwinter]

This is hilariously on point, but also painfully true.

Remember that the No Campaign with its "Don't know? Vote No" is banking on voters' ignorance. How about "If you don't know, fucking look it up"?

Conservatives are supposed to not mention that part where they like their voters dumb and afraid. These arseholes have put it on posters.

#auspol #straya #vote yes #voice to parliament #yes23

[angelofdumpsterfires]

anyways i think every aboriginal and torres strait islander person should be allowed to personally run a knife thru peter dutton’s fucking body

#auspol #australia #yes23

[vinylluver]

I just voted YES for recognition of indigenous people in the Australian Constitution and providing them with a Voice to Parliament

#yes23au #yes23 #vote yes #voice to parliament #recognition #indigenous

[claraameliapond]

The Indigenous Voice Referendum Australia 2023

Floored and devastated

repulsed at the racist selfishness of the no voters

It had NOTHING TO DO WITH THEM.

This is NOT who we are

Although it's a comforting narrative that no voters and conservatives are dying out - and will gradually have less and less pull

Firstly - It's too gradual to just wait it out

And Secondly- It's foolish to think that's only where these no votes are coming from

Younger less educated people are part of this too

Ignorant and arrogant - and selfish- that's what less education translates to.

This highlights, more than ever, how important it is to have strict policies in place legally for managing misinformation, fear mongering and propaganda spreading

We need laws about media monopolies and restricting or banning them altogether

Because one agenda from a multimillion dollar media monopoly cannot have majority access to inform a whole country. Especially because they were intentionally running interference with the simplest truth - they threw everything at it - spreading misinformation, blatant repulsive, violent lies - totally made up lies, not even remotely connected to what was being proposed. It's heartbreaking they could invent such lies and then spread those repulsive invented lies so fully and have people believe them.

And less educated people are always more vulnerable to propaganda: they believe hatred without a second thought. They don't fact check. They don't research. They don't make sure. Any excuse to flaunt their selfish racist self interest, against anyone else who might actually be more vulnerable, worse off.

However, That's the thing about this referendum - IT WASNT "US AGAINST THEM"

It was just : do we all agree that indigenous Australians should get to share information and advice with the government about how best to provide the care and facilities we already provide to them. So they work. Because they haven't been. So it would be a good use of money and then we can achieve permanent results and solutions for those issues and then move on, and do different things with that money. To actually move forward with this and not be stuck in stasis with things not improving.

That was literally all it was

It still is an issue now.

Don't loose hope

I'm still proud of all of the Yes voters- there were a good amount of us - and we will continue to turn the tide from ignorance and misinformation to the truth.

We've got to keep going 💪🏻 🙌🏻 👏🏻 🙏🏻

And now we have a more accurate idea of how to do that , and what needs to be fixed with people's understanding of this in our country. We can use this information to succeed

Ironically - doing exactly what the referendum was about : getting more accurate information to better help vulnerable communities of indigenous Australia.

But apparently, we've got to deal with the misinformed tantrum havers first - they make everything an "us against them" even when it literally wasn't. It doesn't affect anyone else. It could only have been positive. They make every issue an "us against them " even when it has literally nothing to do with them, because everything's a tantrum if it's not about them.

We've got accurate information now - just not about the people we were expecting : we know how to combat the racist minformation spreaders, and those who believed them.

What we need is :

Real limits and legal consequences on misinformation spreading, fear mongering and propaganda

Real limits on media monopolies and restrictions from letting them operate the way they do.

AND we do have to continue to combat this misinformation and propaganda whenever it is paraded near us. Respond with the truth, and make sure you ALWAYS RESPOND.

Don't let them think they're right.

Respond simply and calmly with the truth.

I'm sorry we have to do this but we do.

I don't want to be anywhere near those people, but if they identify themselves- we have to respond.

Respond and correct them.

Their idiocy can not and does not rewrite the truth. We are right and the truth of what this is, always was and what we need to do still exists

A few sources to begin to understand this:

A breakdown of who voted what where

Interpreting these results properly - this is well worth a read

I am looking forward to seeing the full count when it's ready. Make sure to look at those things - from Official sources.

THANK YOU TO EVERYONE WHO VOTED YES

I stand proudly with you on the side of truth. Empathy. Morality. Justice

We have a more accurate idea of what's going on now: let's get to work

Also thank you to MC HAMMER for supporting and encouraging and campaigning for people to vote yes. That was lovely.

It really was a very simple thing - the truth is still the truth and we will succeed

Love and strength to us all

By goodness we need it

Xxxx🤍🖤🧡❤🤍🖤🧡❤💗💖💜💕💕💓💗

My heart was so full when I voted yes - it's an obvious yes

And it still is

Because YES is the truth

It is what is needed.

Still.

And we will achieve it xxxxx

#The VOICE #THE VOICE REFERENDUM #AUSTRALIA #YES23 #AUSTRALIAN REFERENDUM #PSA #The INDIGENOUS AUSTRALIAN VOICE #VOTE YES #THANK YOU FOR VOTING YES #Let's keep going #It's still the truth #We will achieve it #Antony Green #Referendum 2023 #MC HAMMER #KINDNESS #LOVE #SOLIDARITY

[the-meaning-iz-42]

Explaining why the lack of detail on the Voice is not a bad thing

One of perhaps the only valid arguments from the no camp against the referendum is that there is a lack of detail. This is true, however this is not a bad thing.

Here is the proposed constitutional change:

Pay attention to that last point, it's important.

That last point means that parliament is making up the structure of how the Voice works. It is making up 'its composition, functions, powers and procedures.' Everything about the Voice will be instituted by parliament at a later date, after the nation has agreed that they want the idea on a Voice.

We are voting on an idea, and that's okay. The detail in this place can change and this is a good thing. The lack of detail means flexibility in the Voices makeup, and is not a liability like the libnats would have you believe.

Let me explain further. In the off chance, the unlikely off chance, that something goes wrong with the Voice once it's been put into place (not that I think it will) then we have a safeguard, as in it can be reformed. They can change up how often they meet, the funding, the procedures, anything, if something goes wrong. This is a safeguard mechanism not a weakness.

Since we are voting on a concept, we are not voting on detail we have the reassurance that the Voice can be reformed if needed.

This is not a weakness, this is a strength.

Don't let the no camp twist a positive into a negative.

#auspol #the voice #referendum #yes23 #yes23au #legalities and shit

[lehhoh7822]

i was being approahced by old white people on the street asking if i would vote no. and you know. i was getting tired of things like that. tired of the stupid debates tired of the fucking racism the inability to give a fuck. the dark side, i guess, of australia not giving a sdhit about anything.

and then we lost it. watching youtube comment sections call us slurs and ask why we never took accountability. tazlking about how oppressed white people are. how fucking priviledged we are over them. the poor convicts. i couldnt give less of a shit.

and then we lost it. god ITS NOT HARD

ITS NOT HARD AUSTRLIAS

I CANT

i just. jesus fucking chrsit. there was a speech from a stolen generation survivor: a woman who is alive who was abducted, abused, raped and sent into slavery, robbed of her family and her culture telling us that we need a voice because THAT is what happens when they dont give blackfellas a voice

my grandparents and great grandparents never took their children to doctors for fear of them being TAKEN AWAY

iwas the only indigenous student during my tenure at the highest selective school in my state. the only one in a school of almost 1000

if you dont know, by npw, after MONTHS to learn.

then you CHOSE not to FUCKING KNOW

#auspol #yes23 #the voice referendum #personal #vent

[coolasakuhncumber]

Triple J, the publicly funded youth radio station in Australia, has been playing Yothu Yindi's anthem 'Treaty' on loop for the last hour instead of its usual First Nations programming, Blak Out. And honestly, I'm here for it.

#yes23 #voice referendum #yothu yindi #triple j #blak out #auspol #love it when they make a political statement even though they're technically apolitical #HERE FOR IT #this is restorative for the soul #they finished it off with a statement from Minister Burney and MY HEART #❤️💛🖤 #They played Treaty 11 times straight