@BigDave is inferring what I would suggest seems to be @afterspivak attitude based on previous postings, it was what I inferred @afterspivak position to be as well, although @afterspivak seems not to get @BigDave comment.
Certain parts of cities were in favour and other suburbs in the same city voted against. It’s easy for media to be misleading to say a city voted yes when a select suburb is chosen but the majority of a city suburbs voted against. Take Sydney as an example.
Why would you? What does a persons education level prove? Nothing at all imho. I know people with post graduate education who voted no living in Sydney. I know people with no tertiary education who live in Sydney who votes yes.
It was a specific response to @BigDave 's comment. I pointed out that this is not the data set I was looking at.
Guy
Don’t know much about it. Would a Yes vote give the aboriginals special seats in the House, or just the much less powerful Senate?
If so, I’m agin it. Taiwan gives special over-inflated seats to aborigines, and I’m opposed (my three sons could vote in them, but they always choose regular ballots). I’m opposed to specially divided racial seats in the States as well, though I can understand the long history of vote suppression that led to it- it seems to me you’re just exchanging it for legalised gerrymandering.
Though it was democratically defeated, you could and perhaps should read more about the Australian proposal, should you be interested, as it called for none of the things you listed in your post.
Guy
Special interests inclusion within the Constitution? No thanks. It would constitutionalise a race-based lobby group, equipped with a separate bureaucracy, that would give Indigenous citizens the ability to have an additional say on every law and administrative decision , not just those relating specifically to Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders.
Christ Australia needs 20,000 Sir Johs these days–he would cut through such horse shit and red tape. Glad Australia still has some sensibilities on such matters. Canada, on the other hand!