Racism and Resentment: Public Opinion and the Voice

This webinar is the sixth in the Australian Centre's 2024 Critical Public Conversations series.

Join Raymond Foxworth, Ph.D., and Professor Carew Boulding for an insightful webinar as they discuss their latest research on Indigenous resentment and the Voice to Parliament Referendum.

In this presentation, Dr. Foxworth and Professor Boulding will discuss the role of Indigenous resentment and perceptions that Indigenous peoples were divided in motivating opposition to the Voice. They will also present key findings from a nationwide public opinion survey conducted during the week of the Voice vote.

This discussion will delve into the factors motivating citizen opposition to the Voice and explore the factors motivating citizen opposition to the Voice and examine the differences in support for the Voice between indigenous and non-Indigenous voters.

PRESENTERS

Raymond Foxworth Ph.D is a Research Affiliate with the Institute of Behavioral Science at the University of Colorado at Boulder. He holds a PhD in Political Science and works in the fields of Comparative and American Politics, with research interests in Indigenous Politics, Democracy, Development and Inequality, Civil Society, Race and Ethnic Politics, and US and Latin American Politics. His research centres Indigenous peoples in politics as active political actors looking to advance their inherent rights to sovereignty, self-governance, and autonomy.

Carew Boulding is Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado Boulder, where she has worked since 2007, after receiving her PhD from the University of California, San Diego. Her work focuses on understanding political participation in developing democracies, in particular, why people vote, why they protest, and how the context of democratic quality shapes those choices. She has a long-standing interest in Bolivian politics, and she has worked on several projects related to Indigenous peoples, including attitudes about Native Americans in the United States and Australia, and Indigenous political participation and behaviour in Latin America. She has three daughters and grew up in Boulder, Colorado. Her ancestors are Irish, English, and Norwegian immigrants to the United States.

The presenters have granted permission for this recording to be used for personal viewing and educational purposes.