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Some important Australian hashtags:

#VoiceToParliament and #AusReferendum Especially if you are not an Indigenous Australian, please use these hashtags (ideally with a cover warning) when discussing the Voice To Parliament referendum.

#AusLit Australian literature

#AusBiz Australian business

#AFL Discussion of Aussie Rules football

#NRL Discussion of rugby league

#AusPol Australian politics

#NSWPol State politics in New South Wales

#VicPol Victorian state politics

#QldPol Queensland state politics

#TasPol Tasmanian state politics

#SAPol South Australian state politics

#WAPol West Australian state politics

#NTPol Northern Territory politics

#ACTPol ACT politics

Elsewhere on the Fediverse, there's an Australian discussion group on Lemmy here: https://lemmy.ml/c/australia

And for AFL football here: https://lemmy.ml/c/afl

You can follow both from Mastodon by following @afl and @australia .

Any posts where you tag @australia or @afl in the first post of the thread will automatically be added to those discussion groups.

"Thorpe signalled she will continue to argue against constitutional recognition and the Voice “advisory body with no power”, warning that there are “progressive nos” who oppose it “for good reason” …

"Asked if she planned to start a new political party or what structure her movement would take, Thorpe replied that “it’ll look like what the Blak Sovereign movement tell me that it looks like”.

"“There’s definitely quite a big movement of people … experts like [lawyer] Irene Watson from South Australia … academic Chelsea Watego, [writer] Ronnie Gorrie, Ted Wilkes, Nyungar from WA … it’s right across this country."

#LidiaThorpe #BlakSovereignty
#VoiceToParliament #IndigenousVoice #UluruStatementFromTheHeart
#AusReferendum #AusPol

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/feb/09/lidia-thorpe-wont-rule-out-launching-new-political-party-as-she-doubles-down-against-voice-to-parliament

Labor senator and Aboriginal elder Patrick Dodson, in a speech yesterday (4 February 2023), said:

"There are some out there who are pressing for more detail. They will never get enough ... Our political process is in the parliament, and that’s where the detail is always settled and proposed. So don’t get distracted by the call for more detail …

"I hope that Australians will respond generously to this very simple request as the first step in us fixing things."

He stressed that reconciliation would go further, towards treaty and truth telling.

#PatDodson #PatrickDodson
#VoiceToParliament #IndigenousVoice #UluruStatementFromTheHeart
#AusReferendum #AusPol

https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/nonsense-and-mischief-pat-dodson-slams-critics-of-the-voice-20230204-p5chwi.html

"The nation’s peak body representing culturally diverse communities has criticised the voice to parliament no campaign’s push for constitutional recognition of migrants as “offensive” and “divisive”, saying they never asked for or discussed such a possibility …

"Carlo Carli, the chair of Federation of Ethnic Communities Councils of Australia (Fecca), the peak body representing people from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds, said constitutional recognition for migrants was an interesting concept but a “red herring” in this context, and he would oppose “pitting ethnic communities against our First Nations people”.

"Carli said Fecca supported the voice and the Uluru statement, and called Mundine’s proposal “surprising”."

#VoiceToParliament #AusReferendum #AusPol
#UluruStatementFromTheHeart

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/30/voice-to-parliament-migrant-and-refugee-groups-reject-divisive-no-campaign-proposal-for-constitutional-recognition