Queensland opposition backflips on support for state's Path to Treaty (www.abc.net.au)

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[-] Nonameuser678@aussie.zone 6 points 1 year ago

I'm surprised they even supported it to begin with. I mean it's the qld lnp...

[-] Marin_Rider@aussie.zone 1 points 1 year ago

maybe they should have had a look at that yes/no vote map posted here the other day. sure, most of the Yes was in NT, but quite a lot of crossover into FNQ aswell

[-] Zagorath@aussie.zone 4 points 1 year ago

It's worth noting that that map was by polling place, which means the population was not equal on a per-dot basis.

And when you look at it across larger populations, there's actually even more of a yes vote in parts of SEQ than there was in FNQ, purely because the population of (yes-voting) educated city-dwellers is larger than the population of (yes-voting) Indigenous Australians. So divisions like Brisbane, Griffith, and Ryan, as well as parts of Lilley (including the polling place I worked at) voted majority Yes, and represent a greater number of total people than those yes-voting polling places.

I'm not trying to make any value-judgment here, fwiw. Just pointing out some statistics.