broadacre_farmer@lemmy.worldtoNews@lemmy.world•Australia Indigenous referendum set to fail as support dips, poll shows
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1 year agoIt’s been bungled pretty badly by the yes side, when you can’t actually say exactly what you want to change in our constitution it’s not a great sign of a decent change. If they could say exactly what they wanted to change (assuming it was reasonable) and Labor explained exactly what policy they wanted to back it up with I think they’d convince a lot of conservative Australians to vote yes as well. As it stands it isn’t likely to get through, I haven’t talked to an indigenous person who is going to vote yes for it yet either.
I also find it a bit ironic that Tasmania, the state that practically wiped out it’s indigenous population that they’re most in support of it.
Society relies on products they’ve developed, the world would be a very different place without gramoxone, 2,4-D and glyphosate. Considering glyphosate is the safest of the widely used herbicides it’s probably not a great thing to brand everyone who is against banning it a shill.