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The next steps? Triage Queensland and WA, assume Victoria and NSW will vote Yes, and send an army of volunteers to Tasmania and SA.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese and former AFL player Michael Long walking for the Yes campaign (Image: AAP/Mick Tsikas)
Welllllll, October 14 is not going to be one of the great days in the nation’s history. That’s starting to look very likely now. For a start, it’s just going to be a bit of a dud of an event. The entire country is being asked to troop out, on one day, to the local state school or old Rechabite hall, put one word on a single ballot and then go away again. One’s suspicion is there won’t be a lot of democracy sausage happening. Yes voters are going to be depressed — those that aren’t delusional — and No voters are going to be grumpy at being hauled out for all this palaver. Those still undecided on the day, I can’t even get into the head of. But no-one’s going to be real happy about it.
The Yes camp, one suspects, believed for a while that the fact of a voting day, an exclusive ballot, etc, would help it gain votes. Who would be such a bastard as to come out to a polling place, make a special trip, and then vote No to this very modest request? Came the answer: lotsa, lotsa people. The very fact of the forced vote will bring out a small No vote in its own right, voting thus in pure protest at being dragooned out of their weekend routine.
Read more about the Yes camp’s narrow path to victory…
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Guy Rundle
Correspondent-at-large
Guy Rundle is correspondent-at-large for Crikey. He is also an associate editor at Arena Quarterly and contributes to a variety of publications in Australia and the United Kingdom.
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