Australian national broadcaster ABC has projected three states voted No, effectively defeating the referendum.

Australian national broadcaster ABC has projected three states voted No, effectively defeating the referendum.

  • @pezhore@lemmy.ml
    4•2 years ago

    I’m not familiar with the Australian political terms, can you share what this means:

    inner dialogue between their mobs and local governments

    To me, that sounds like the Aboriginal/Torres Strait Islanders are free to think about what they want, and then form a potentially violent, roughly organized group of people to confront local officials… But I assume I’m missing something.

    • BananaTrifleViolin
      5•2 years ago

      In Australian slang a mob can just mean any grouping of people, not necessarily a criminal group or a group of rioters. It’s not uncommon for people to refer to their own ethnic or political grouping as a mob; at least from what I’ve seen when reading Australian websites.

      And by local government I think they are referring to the states and territories governments.

      • KᑌᔕᕼIᗩEnglish
        5•2 years ago

        This is correct, mob in this context is a number of indigenous people belong to one particular community. There are various different mobs out there which is one of the reasons why a singular controlled voice was never going to work.

    • @eatthecake@lemmy.world
      10•2 years ago

      From google: ‘Mob’ is a term identifying a group of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people associated with a particular place or Country. ‘Mob’ is an important term for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people, as it is used to describe who they are and where they are from.