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- The Failure of the Voice Referendum and the Future of Australian Democracy (inbunden, eng)
The Failure of the Voice Referendum and the Future of Australian Democracy (inbunden, eng)
Australia, and Australians, stood at a crossroads in October 2023. Before them lay a new and more accommodating way to practice democracy...
Produktbeskrivning
Australia, and Australians, stood at a crossroads in October 2023. Before them lay a new and more accommodating way to practice democracy, a future in which First Nations people were given a representative voice in political decisions in this country. After months of a referendum campaign, struggling over foundational ideals and questions of national identity, misinformation, disinformation and racism, the proposal was overwhelmingly rejected in every Australian state and nationally.
The referendum campaign was Australia’s first since the failed attempt at a republic in 1999. The political and media environment in which the referendum campaign would unfold was fundamentally changed. These changes included the growth of social media, growing distrust of major political parties, and the rise of fake news and populist politics.
This book brings together a diverse set of perspectives to explore the many and complex political, social and historical factors that influenced the conduct of the campaign and led to the loss.
It includes contributions from lawyers, political scientists, historians, human rights experts, health policy experts, land rights campaigners and Indigenous affairs policy experts. The contributors in this book include First Nations and non-Indigenous authors, often writing collaboratively.
The majority of the views offered, based in expertise and experience, are those of First Nations. Their writings place the referendum loss in the context of political failure and attempts at structural reform, and Australia’s terrible record at amending the Constitution through referendums.
The book traces the legal and political development of the draft constitutional provision, and the influence of legal risk on the campaign. A major focus of the book is the impact of misinformation and disinformation, which was rife during the campaign, and media reporting of it.
The role that civil society and corporate Australia played in the campaign is considered. The Voice campaign will be placed in the context of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander politics and previous attempts at representation. The book will also place the call for Voice in the context of its ongoing relevance and imperative in Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander affairs, explaining the power of representation, the Voice as an expression of sovereignty, and the need for Voice to pursue other structural reforms such as treaty and to realise the promise of land rights.
The book concludes by reflecting on the role that history played in the campaign and the implications of the campaign for the practice of Australian history.
The book holds lessons for future constitutional change, Indigenous recognition, structural reform and Australia’s democracy.
It also looks, with constructive pragmatism, at the future direction of First Nations structural reform in Australia and the practice of democracy.
| Format | Inbunden |
| Omfång | 360 sidor |
| Språk | Engelska |
| Förlag | Anthem Press |
| Utgivningsdatum | 2026-01-13 |
| ISBN | 9781839995521 |
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- Format Inbunden
- Antal sidor 360
- Språk Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum 2026-01-13
- ISBN 9781839995521
- Förlag Anthem Press
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Specifikation
Böcker
- Format Inbunden
- Antal sidor 360
- Språk Engelska
- Utgivningsdatum 2026-01-13
- ISBN 9781839995521
- Förlag Anthem Press