The Uluṟu Statement Of The Heart

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Reports from the hustings yesterday, a bigger voter turnout than I was expecting. A lot of cats just want to get it over and done with I think.

You will hear more about the resource disparity between the Yes and No campaigns as the week goes on. Its patently obvious at the pre poll booths, more volunteers, more flyers and info to distribute for the Yes mob. I heard one estimate of their investment exceeding $100m...the ads will escalate more this week too. You can offer your services for the No camp via the fairaustralia website should you wish to help out there.

You have your "mind made up" voters on both the Yes and No sides. Its the Don't Know category that will obviously tip the scales one way or the other. And to me there are really 2 separate categories of Don't know. The first is those that know a bit about the campaigns/and issues and are genuinely unsure which way to jump. The second and perhaps more common are those that have no idea what they are being asked to vote on. I think (fear actually) that the well resourced Yes campaign will pick up a fair majority of both 'don't knows' who vote in person. That would be a shame for Australia if the corporate/big business sector won an important electoral campaign on the back of $$. I guess it wouldn't be the first time.

I was extolling the virtues of the amazing Senator Jacinta Nampijinpa Price to one of the Yes campaigners yesterday, and guess what she said? " Jacinta Price...oh she is such a racist".....wow, this is what it's come to.

I think I'll pass on Pete Garrett as an an example to follow thanks King. And Ray Martin...now that silly old buffer has doubled down on his ridiculous speech that good old Albo called "powerful ". He said we can't point the finger at China if we vote No on the 14th....seriously?? He is making Joe Biden sound like a Rhodes scholar. The Uyghurs say hi Ray.

You can see the win at all costs desperation approach of the Yes campaign now.

I'm still voting No, unless Kamahl changes his mind again....I would love to hear Albo splutter Kamahl-mentum just one more time.

You would have to get a feel for how things are gonna go down being out in the field as you are.

As you say, it's the i Don't Knows that will determine it. A mountain of taxpayer and corporately funded media bullshit, more lies and guilt baiting may get them over the line still.

[Random Rooster]

I'm still voting No, unless Kamahl changes his mind again....I would love to hear Albo splutter Kamahl-mentum just one more time.

I wonder what it is about Kamahl that would make either side think he would influence voters? A nearly 90 year old Malaysian born singer who the spruiked Sri Lankan Dilmar tea in between performing on the club circuit. I mean im sure he is still a great singer but most of his fans are dead! Am i being too unkind?

[ism22]

Voted yes on the weekend. Am aware of multiple friends who are anti-vaxx and were leaning towards voting no who have also voted yes after doing a bit of research.

[Jacks Fur Coat]

Voted yes on the weekend. Am aware of multiple friends who are anti-vaxx and were leaning towards voting no who have also voted yes after doing a bit of research.

I might have missed something, but where does being anti-vax come in?

[Andrew Walker]

I might have missed something, but where does being anti-vax come in?

I reckon isms comment is bullshit He’s a strange one at times

[Rooster1908]

I reckon isms comment is bullshit He’s a strange one at times

At times? lol . Izzy is not in the same realm as most

[Carlos Parra]

I haven't met a real life person who is voting YES. I suspect a few of my cousins lean that way, but everyone else I know is voting NO.

The usual cabal of left-wing tossers on my Facebook friends list are voting YES, though.

I know this, because they're signalling their virtue and racism with loud-hailers every single bloody day.

[rcptn]

Interesting ATSI support for the voice dropping fast.

[Paddo Colt 61]

This morning on Radio National, representatives from two polling companies discussed, inter alia, the demographic that makes up the "No" camp. There are those people who would prefer a Treaty, a more progressive group, but far larger is the component voting on Party lines - LNP voters. A further breakdown reveals that the better educated (those with a degree) are inclined to vote "Yes". On the other hand, those less well educated, older white males and those who dwell in the outer suburbs and the regions are naysayers.

What does this mean in a wider context? Surely it suggests that our "Democracy" is vulnerable to the influence of self serving powerful elites like mining corporations the likes of which destroyed the Jukan Gorge caves and, of course, media right wing monopolies. Essentially, then, our future national fortunes are in the hands of the suggestible dumbos who swallow the line that "elites" have eroded their "true Aussie status" in favour of "privileged" minorities. Trumpism in other words.

[Andrew Walker]

Jaxxx is a Trump fan

[rcptn]

This morning on Radio National, representatives from two polling companies discussed, inter alia, the demographic that makes up the "No" camp. There are those people who would prefer a Treaty, a more progressive group, but far larger is the component voting on Party lines - LNP voters. A further breakdown reveals that the better educated (those with a degree) are inclined to vote "Yes". On the other hand, those less well educated, older white males and those who dwell in the outer suburbs and the regions are naysayers.

What does this mean in a wider context? Surely it suggests that our "Democracy" is vulnerable to the influence of self serving powerful elites like mining corporations the likes of which destroyed the Jukan Gorge caves and, of course, media right wing monopolies. Essentially, then, our future national fortunes are in the hands of the suggestible dumbos who swallow the line that "elites" have eroded their "true Aussie status" in favour of "privileged" minorities. Trumpism in other words.

The better educated are higher paid and to assuage their guilt they virtue signal and vote yes.

[Random Rooster]

The better educated are higher paid and to assuage their guilt they virtue signal and vote yes.

Why would they be feeling guilt?

[rcptn]

Why would they be feeling guilt?

wealth

[Random Rooster]

wealth

People who obtain an education and become professionals, or who obtain a high-paying job and amass fortune, have actually earned it. Im pretty sure they don't feel any guilt over it- there's no reason why they would.....and if they did then a YES vote on a referendum wont make then feel any better

[Paddo Colt 61]

wealth

So your vote No is based on envy? I thought Johnny Howard had cured yez of "the politics of envy" and class war?

Classic Trumpism. The self interested rich have persuaded you that the Intelligentsia are your enemies. That "virtue signalling" and "woke" stuff is just "Hey look over there" and straight out of the Right's playbook - the billionaires who gouge and wanna cut your wages while claiming to be on your side against the "Elites". Sucker!