@theconversation.com a year ago
I've studied the art of losing a referendum: the Australian government could have learned from other countries on these key points
It has been billed as Australia’s Brexit – a vote that pitted the so-called elites against the masses. The issue in question was the “voice to parliament”, a consultative body that would have given the roughly 3% of the Australian population that is Indigenous a constitutional right to be consulted before legislation pertaining to them was passed...