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The proposal to create an Aboriginal body to advise parliament on indigenous matters was rejected in all six states of Australia by an average of 60 to 40 per cent. Indigenous communities in the most remote areas voted largely in favour.
Polling stations are open for the historic referendum on the rights and recognition of indigenous peoples. This follows a campaign that exposed deep rifts between the country’s white majority and the descendants of its first inhabitants.
Throughout Australia, it is said that there are over 200 Aboriginal languages and 600 dialects, but apparently no writing system for recording the spoken word.
References to the need for “greater training” are aimed at covering up the systemic character of state violence against working class, poor and indigenous people thrown into the prison system.
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