The Voice

[LP]

Not sure it's the 'vast majority'.  If 10% of the swinging voters would have seen a different outcome.  The 'If you don't know, vote no' catch-cry was well and truly on display where I voted, and I would suggest that many of the people walking in to vote had only that message ringing in their ears, because many people (I use my 4 adult children as exhibits) couldn't be bothered finding out what this referendum was about.  Perhaps that explains why the inner-city academics voted yes, while the outer-suburbanites voted no?

Possibly, but I think the slogan effect was greatly overstated, perhaps that is being discussed because it's what many in political and academic circles want to be the truth.

Personally, I think by far the biggest impact came form those identified as Indigenous who publicly opposed the referendum, and that's an uncomfortable place to go for the politicians and academics because they can't offer something that will unify the very group they are trying help. We seen just in the last few days how the tone of the debate has changed, even before the result the shouting and finger-pointing started.

The left media are now publishing voting analysis booth by booth, that's a thinly veiled effort to label everyday Australian's as racist based on where the lived and voted. I's the very divisional thing Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine warned and rallied against, and it looks like they are now proven to be true.

I'm not sure how politicians and academia will explain that away because Price and Mundine made the bulk of their statements before the vote. I expect the left will now try it's best to smear them, so we will see more finger-pointing and personal attacks. Which leaves the "experts" from the Yes campaign coming across as "When you are wrong it's your fault, and when they are wrong it's your fault!"