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People are not “placed” on the floor – that is what you do with bags, boxes and rubbish. But that was the word used by the Northern Territory police to describe the sequence of events to the media. Tragically, painfully, I think it says a lot.

Almost a million more people voted yes in the referendum than voted for the Labor party in the recent election. The combined Liberal National party vote was about half the no vote. While the majority rejected the voice proposal because they didn’t know, didn’t care or thought it was unfair, this cannot be mapped on to the political snapshot that the election provided. The referendum was not a proxy election. The door to meaningful, symbolic and practical recognition can and must be opened again.

These were the top posts across Aussie Zone at the end of this week

Top 5 from Australia:

• Weekly Random Thread #38 19-09-2023
• Rooftop solar eats up all demand in South Australia, world’s most renewable grid
• Scientists take out full-page New York Times ad calling on Australia to end ‘climate annihilation’
• Australian journalist calls her baby ‘Methamphetamine Rules’ as a test of naming regulations
• Tens of thousands of Australians hit the streets in support of the October 14 referendum

Top 5 from Aussie Enviro:

• Australians support fossil fuel industry paying for the costs of climate change
• [Fenced in from predators, these numbats are thrilling ecologists as they repopulate the Eyre Peninsul