Australia has said No. The Free World has a fighting chance.
Rejection of the Voice is the biggest rejection of global Wokeness at the polls
It wasn’t even close. The proposed Voice to Parliament in Australia was convincingly defeated in a referendum in which the proposal failed both the popular vote and all six states by an even bigger margin than the 1999 republic referendum.
The symbolic significance of this result can’t be underestimated. For years, Australians have been lectured to, pilloried and demonised relentlessly by liberal elites in academia, culture and media about alleged “racism”. There have been countless moral panics manufactured to that effect.
But what are the lessons and underlying message from this spectacular (yet entirely expected) result?
Repeating the 1999 scenario, it was very much the case of a grassroots campaign with less resources behind it (but with the outstanding leadership of Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price) against a campaign with the endorsement of the government, corporations, celebrities and influencers.
The voting patterns in 1999 and 2023 haven’t changed much, despite a generation apart and demographic and cultural shifts. The Yes vote in both referenda prevailed in inner Sydney, Melbourne and Brisbane electorates, Canberra, Newcastle and Wollongong… and failed dismally in the suburbs and countryside. Many Labor electorates, some very safe ones, voted resoundingly no.
This would make Australia look like two different countries with completely different priorities and perspectives. This is not unlike the UK or USA, where similar divisions exist between urbanites and suburbanite/countryside people.
Australians simply don’t care about constitutional issues and have too many pressing issues such as cost of living. The aggressive race-baiters have belittled Australians and the public is well and truly fed up.
Moreover, the referendum dovetails perfectly with exposure of the Left’s sadism in endorsing the murderous Hamas terrorists in Gaza. The endorsement of the entire BIPOC, indigenous, DEI, CRT agenda has had ghastly consequences and should shame everyone who ever endorsed it.
They dragged us through hell in the last three years. They got their comeuppance. Australian voters fought back.