Rebekah Barnett rightly notes that the polls are showing a defeat for the Yes in this Saturday’s referendum. “The most recent poll (Newspoll), conducted between 3-6 October, suggests a 58–34 lead for No. With the 8 per cent of undecided voters excluded, No leads by 63–37. Significantly, support for the Voice has dived among the young, university educated and Labor voters, all groups that were previously safe bets for Yes.” That is a bad sign of them, as the Yes side depended upon support from the university set, yet when I visited my old university today, I noticed only two white women wearing Yes t-shirts, all day. At the time of the same sex marriage, posters were everywhere, but I could see nothing. It was as dead as a woke door nail. That is a sign.
Barnett reflects below on how the Yes campaign lost, due to defects in their campaign. True, but I think the more basic issue is how the prime minister through acting with secrecy, and failing to release details, saying that once they had the power, they would set everything up, made a fundamental mistake. I would hope that no-one would accept just giving him a blank cheque that he would fill-in how he wanted. And, that is exactly what happened. Let us hope that fundamental reason prevails on Saturday.