Why the 2023 Voice Referendum Failed | Damian Freeman

Reflecting on his pivotal role in the development of a proposal to recognise Australia’s Indigenous peoples in the Constitution, Damien Freeman explains how something that started off as an exercise in settlement politics ended in a failed referendum.
Damien Freeman is a visiting scholar at the PM Glynn Institute. He founded and directs the Governor-General's Prize for the Constitution Education Fund Australia. Together with Julian Leeser MP, he established Uphold and Recognise, a non-profit organisation committed to upholding the Australian Constitution and recognising Indigenous Australians. In 2015, Noel Pearson launched The Australian Declaration of Recognition, a pamphlet written by Freeman and Leeser.
Damien lectures on ethics and aesthetics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, and convenes a public conversation series with Dr Simon Longstaff AO at the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He is currently working on a project investigating the conservative cast of mind in contemporary Australia, with particular reference to Tony Abbott.
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[@CISAus]

Why did the voice fail?

[@pressb]

Many reasons, but, to me the most telling one was the character of the proponents of the scheme. Their dismissive attitude, which became more contemptuous of the Australian public as their campaign progressed, produced the unambiguous result their behaviour warranted.

[@aggressivecalm]

We, (the sane, coherent, level-headed, pragmatic commonality) have perhaps become exhausted from Australia’s elite postmodern asinine concoction, and fabrication? All under the inescapable truth as Laura Tingle and her ABC herd assert: (accepting of course Laura Tingle and her ABC herd, and the yes23 favoured, privileged, elites) Australia is racist, and all of Australia (accepting of course Laura Tingle and her ABC herd, and the yes23 favoured, privileged, elites) are holding back, obstructing, oppressing Indigenous Australians. Over and above that predicament/fact Indigenous Australians correspondingly have no responsibility whatsoever for their situation. That generations, hundreds of government bodies, and hundreds of millions of dollars, the emergence of Indigenous justice practices, the emergence of Indigenous demands for treaty… So one country two-systems… An increasingly divided, disconnected, conflicting, disunited, divergent, and factionalized Australia…

[@jarrodf_]

Because Dutton opposed, ie per every other Referendum in Australia's history. Look at the Voice's approval rating - tracked down the instant old-mate opposed. Nothing more or less complicated than that