The Voice to Parliament referendum results are in and it is a resounding victory for the ‘No’ campaign which won the national vote 60.25 per cent to 39.75 per cent, with all 6 states voting ‘No’ along with the Northern Territory. Only Canberra voted ‘Yes’.

The ‘Yes’ campaign had a large amount of money, an army of volunteers that swamped the ‘No’ campaign, and celebrity endorsements such as Panthers star Nathan Cleary and even MC Hammer.

They had the support of universities and public institutions like mine (the University of Sydney), where the ‘No’ vote was not even mentioned. Instead, they held ‘Yes’ rallies, littered the campus with ‘Yes’ signs, and even gave out free badges. It’s no wonder students felt ‘entitled’ to a ‘Yes’ victory and in the aftermath of defeat, the university has offered them counselling…

The ‘Yes’ campaign had the backing of big corporations such as Qantas and the four big banks. The banks – of course – definitely weren’t supporting the Voice in the hope of future favours.

There have even been complaints that the referendum rules were tilted in the ‘Yes’ campaign’s favour with ‘ticks’ being allowed as a valid ‘Yes’ votes while ‘crosses’ were not. In addition, the Australian Electoral Commission admitted that due to the nature of Australia’s secret ballot, if multiple votes were to slip through they would be unable to identify or remove them. This comments came after a Labor MP tagged her Twitter post #VoteEarly #VoteOften – shorthand that implies multiple voting. This happened amidst the controversy of Yes23 signs colour-matching AEC voting centre signs which the ‘Yes’ campaign didn’t remove even though they were told to.

The fact that they had all of this in their favour and they still managed to lose (quite the ‘achievement’ can I say) shows you how much of a disaster the Voice referendum really was.

The ‘Yes’ campaign made many errors but their fatal flaw was underestimating the Australian people.

‘Yes’ campaigners constantly went out on TV and social media to claim that the Voice was ‘just a simple thing’ or ‘just about recognition’, completely ignoring regular Australians who knew this wasn’t the case.

When ‘Yes’ campaigners were asked some of the most basic questions about the policy – such as how many people are going to make up the body, or who was going to be on it, and how they were going to choose them – they never had an answer.

To me, this perfectly encapsulates the arrogance of the ‘Yes’ campaigners and their disdain for regular Australians.

Quite frankly, it’s an insult to Australians to put out such a half-arsed policy and expect Australians to vote in it – let alone expect them to be stupid enough to let the Prime Minister get away with it.

If you dared to go against their narrative of recognition, you were smeared as a racist or a bigot. ‘No’ campaigners were often verbally abused and one ‘Yes’ campaigner was caught on film spitting at a ‘No’ supporter!

The Remain campaign tried these tactics in the UK and it didn’t work out very well for them either!

How shocking… Verbally abusing voters doesn’t make them want to vote for you! Who knew?!

I suppose nothing quite sums up the disconnect between the ‘Yes’ architects and the regular people than the revelation that the only territory to vote ‘Yes’ was the Australian Capital Territory, with the individual areas in each state representing the inner city areas full of the Woke elite that have nothing in common with your regular Australian

The ‘Yes’ campaign was a concoction of elitism, arrogance, and sadly, at many times abuse. And the Australian people weren’t going to stand for it. Despite all the money, resources and rule-bending, they lost and deservedly so.

Let the Voice referendum be a lesson to the elite – the regular Australian people aren’t as stupid as you think they are.