If polls are correct about the triumph of the No vote, expect large numbers of multicultural voters to be part of the revolt against establishment bodies.
This is especially true given Australia’s status as the most multicultural country in the world, as defined by the proportion of people born overseas.
Ethnic communities tend to have higher rates of informal voting. In the last Federal election the seat of Fowler, with large Chinese and Vietnamese communities, had a rate of 10.5 per cent voting informally.Key No campaigner Nyunggai Warren Mundine suggested ethnic communities should also have their own clause in the Constitution, a proposition widely criticised and shot down.
Take this comment by the chief executive of the Federation of Ethnic Communities Council, the umbrella for a host of disparate of multicultural groups. Whether the Voice is about race or indigeneity, as Noel Pearson has attempted to frame things in response to criticism about dividing Australians by race, there is a weakness of collective identity in Western societies such as Australia.In justifying support for theamong ethnic communities, a regular point is the view that there is a mutual experience with experienced racism and past colonial subjugation.
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