Naaman Zhou on why Australians voted against the constitutional referendum known as Voice to Parliament, which would have given Indigenous peoples an advisory body.
The path to the latest question—whether to recognize Indigenous people in the constitution and give them a voice to parliament—which went to the people and lost, on Saturday, started more than half a decade ago, near the foot of Uluru, the enormous red-rock formation that stands at the center of the country.
The center-right opposition, the Liberal-National Coalition, formally opposed the Voice, with its leader, Peter Dutton, saying that it would “permanently divide us by race”; in September, he published an op-ed arguing that the Voice would “confer a privilege” on Indigenous people. Dutton also suggested that the Voice would lead to some form of reparations.
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