Five months after LNP MPs voted in favour of the laws to set up a First Nations Treaty Institute and a truth-telling and healing inquiry, leader David Crisafulli has declared the path to treaty is "not the right way forward for Queensland".
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.
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.
no that’s fair, thanks for the clarification