TT ÚC SAU KHI PHÓNG LAO ĐÒI SỬA HIẾN PHÁP THẤT BẠI - NAY ĐANG GẶP PHẢN ỨNG NGƯỢC CỦA DÂN CHÚNG BẢO THỦ./-Mt68

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Calls for Anthony Albanese to resign after Voice referendum failure.

The immediate impact to Anthony Albanese’s political future has become a major talking point after Australia resoundingly voted No.Several Liberal politicians and conservative commentators are calling for Anthony Albanese to resign in the wake of the referendum.

South Australia’s Opposition Leader David Speirs said the Labor Party needed to “make a call” on Albanese’s future today.

“Some people are saying he should resign. He should resign because the damage he has done to our country and to the very fabric of what it means to be Australian is, quite frankly, heartbreaking,” Mr Spiers said.

“The prime minister should think about his future. I don’t think he will resign but there are international precedents there.”

Sky News host Andrew Bolt suggested the Prime Minister “should go” for subjecting Australia to the “poison” of the referendum during a fiery clash over the fallout of the Yes wipe out.

“I just wonder now how he can continue as Prime Minister. He’s put us through this nightmare and wasted nearly $400 million of taxpayers money, putting Australians at each other’s throats. “And unfortunately the poison from all this will survive.”

Several Liberal politicians and conservative commentators have called for Anthony Albanese’s resignation in the wake of the Voice referendum. Picture: NCA NewsWire / Martin Ollman

In The Australian, columnist Simon Benson wrote the consequences for Albanese are “unknown”.

“Failure of the referendum doesn’t necessarily go to fatality of leadership,” Benson wrote. “But the question is whether there is a residual effect that goes to a broader issue of political competence and judgment.

“Is what has been exposed by the Voice reveal something endemic about how Albanese deals with the big issues?”./-

KẾT QUẢ TRƯNG CẦU DÂN Ý SỬA ĐỔI HIẾN PHÁP AUSTRALIA 14-10-23 "NO" ĐÃ THẮNG.

NO THẮNG KHÁ BẤT NGỜ VÌ CHÍNH THỦ TƯỚNG ÚC ANTHONY ALBANESE ĐÃ ĐÍCH THÂN CẦM ĐẦU RẦM RỘ, TRÀN NGẬP QUẢNG CÁO LÔI KÉO CỬ TRI BẦU "YES" LỚN NHỨT TRONG LỊCH SỬ BẦU CỬ Ở ÚC CHÂU TỪ XƯA TỚI NAY./-TCL/Mt68

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Australians vote No in referendum that promised change for First Nations people but couldn’t deliver.

Sat October 14, 2023 

The Voice Referendum

Yes

39.75%

60.25%

No

Residents cast their votes in the Voice referendum at a polling center in West End, Brisbane, Australia, October 14, 2023.Jono Searle/AAP Image/Reuters Brisbane, Australia CNN With a two-letter word, Australiansstruck down the first attempt at constitutional change in 24 years, a move experts say will inflict lasting damage on First Nations people and suspend any hopes of modernizing the nation’s founding document.Preliminary results from the Australian Electoral Commission (AEC) suggested that most of the country’s 17.6 million registered voters wrote No on their ballots, and CNN affiliates 9 News, Sky News and SBS all projected no path forward for the Yes campaign.

The proposal, to recognize Indigenous people in the constitution and create an Indigenous body to advise government on policies that affect them, needed a majority nationally and in four of six states to pass.Prime Minister Anthony Albanese had championed the referendum and in a national address on Saturday night said his government remained committed to improving the lives of Aboriginal people and Torres Strait Islanders.“This moment of disagreement does not define us. And it will not divide us. 

We are not yes voters or no voters. We are all Australians,” he said.“It is as Australians together that we must take our country beyond this debate without forgetting why we had it in the first place. Because too often in the life of our nation, and in the political conversation, the disadvantage confronting Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people has been relegated to the margins.”">“This referendum and my government has put it right at the center.”Supporters of the Yes vote had hailed it as an opportunity to work with First Nations people to solve problems in their most remote communities – higher rates of suicide, domestic violence, children in out-of-home care and incarceration.However, resistance swelled as conservative political parties lined up to denounce the proposal as lacking detail and an unnecessary duplication of existing advisory bodies.

On Saturday, leading No campaigner Warren Mundine said the referendum should never have been called.“This is a referendum we should never have had because it was built on a lie that Aboriginal people do not have a voice,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.

During months of campaigning, the No vote gained momentum with slogans that appealed to voter apathy – “If you don’t know, vote No” – and a host of other statements designed to instil fear, according to experts, including that it would divide Australia by race and be legally risky, despite expert advic to the contrary./-