• AlmightySnoo 🐢🇮🇱🇺🇦@lemmy.worldOP
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    1 year ago

    What’s depressing is that they lost to a “If you don’t know, vote No” slogan:

    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

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      1 year ago

      months of campaigning? for the Yes vote maybe.

      I saw literally nothing from the No camp in the media. the first time I saw the slogan was on polling day.
      They didn’t lose to a slogan, they lost to a literate public actually reading their shithouse proposal.