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As support for the Voice drifts off further into the ochre.
Good to see you, Jack!
So, um, yeah. A fitting epitaph for the Voice.
They have never been ‘nations’ nor tribes… they were and are family groupings.
The English could not find anyone to parlay with.
And if you want to see family groups fight each other then go to Moama, NSW which is just across the river from Echuca, Vic.
I note the net zero crowd are strangely silent, where are the extinction rebellion people? How long before the glue themselves to a welcome to country rep?
South Coast NSW when I was a kid they wanted to develop behind a beach, local abo activists found some bones they said and off it went, various families got their noses into it. 20 years it took before a road went in.
The real story though was white residents and visitors quietly happy the development was blocked and ruined. Not a bad gambit
Now it’s going australia wide.
I probably shouldn’t, but I find this hilariously funny and another case of leftist intersectionality gone wrong.
Aborigines can’t even agree among themselves in their own area, yet the Voice is supposed to solve all.
Personally, and in any case, I would tell all the superstitious smoking ceremony or welcome to country people to (as the British would say) “sod off!”
It’s almost as though various aboriginals or groupings thereof are deliberately sabotaging support for the Voice.
Just like the ones who stopped the farmer or pastoralist from building a small bridge over a creek on his own property because of spiritualistic mumbo jumbo.
It’s a funny “First Nation” (or nation, period) that didn’t even have a head, chief or leader.
Must be a unique “nation” in all of history, which had not the remotest resemblance to a governing body, or any kind of authority.
Considering the complete absence of aboriginal written records, I’d like to see how competing aboriginal land claims would fare in a court of law.
The didgeri-duo add elegance and class to any road opening.
First of all, that bloke was upset because he was missing out on the money. That was obvious. He calmed down when the nice lady said he could have a cut.
Secondly, how utterly cringeworthy is it to watch these craven politicians stand over the leaves and try to scoop the smoke onto themselves? The stupid ceremony was probably only invented a few decades ago. Someone should have a laugh and put some tobacco or dope in the fire.
The absolute state of gen-x though right?
Holy shit. Didn’t know it was going to be bad.
Secondly, how utterly cringeworthy is it to watch these craven politicians stand over the leaves and try to scoop the smoke onto themselves?
If someone lit up a cigarette, the same “scoopers” would be diving for cover and calling in emergency services.
If someone vaped they would probably have an apoplectic fit.
Smoking ceremonies are so pagan and prehistoric.
Chance for Indigenous recognition could be lost forever: Burney
https://www.afr.com/politics/federal/chance-for-indigenous-recognition-could-be-lost-forever-burney-20230710-p5dn2m
‘Mermaids took him’: Harold Holt disappearance story cited in native title stoush
Holt disappeared after swimming at a beach near Portsea in 1967. Walton said her grandmother had told her Holt “shouldn’t have been swimming there”.
Asked by the Bunurong’s lawyer why, Walton told the court: “Well, that is mermaid country. Her belief was that [mermaids] took him.”
Walton said identifying as Indigenous was important to her. “There’s an obligation for Indigenous owners to Country and culture,” she said.
RTWT
https://www.theage.com.au/national/victoria/mermaids-took-him-harold-holt-disappearance-story-cited-in-native-title-stoush-20230707-p5dmjk.html
A race to the bottom.
Are we there yet?
that Victorian Barney has been going on for years.
…
This is a modern enclosure act movement. The wanabee aristocracy are using their control of the system and courts, corrupting private property law to seize huge chunks of the country.
If this “recognition” is lost forever, then Burney will just have to be satisfied with the recognition they already have. I’m not pretending to care.
Lost forever? so be it
It’s too much – these ridiculous individuals bending down to receive the smoke. Nitwittery.
Sad.
Funny how suddenly everyone pretends to care about the constitution after three years of mocking anyone quoting the bits that limit power.
Keep running boys! I saw the goal posts heading over that hill over there … we almost got em.
No … keep going … FORWARDS!!!
US Ambassador, Caroline Kennedy, last year – Smoke on the Mortar
https://www.smh.com.au/politics/federal/kennedy-signals-new-developments-on-aukus-as-she-plans-solomons-trip-20220725-p5b4d9.html
Mermaids?
I am beginning to think that a bunch of latter day Ernie Dingos are competing to see which can get the most ludicrous tale recognised by the politically correct politicians, media and courts in Australia.
They are competing for the right to lodge native title claims.
Both lots ought to fail.
Sealers stole Aboriginal women from various mainland sites, as well as Tasmania. That’s well established.
There is sufficient information to more or less identify about four of the women taken from Point Nepean.
Various attempts to rescue women stolen by sealers failed, either they couldn’t be found or refused to be rescued. This all happened in the early 1830s.
Some of them were taken on to Albany in Western Australia.
None of them appeared to have lived traditional lifestyles, how could they have? and their connection to country seems to have been severed at that point, in many cases voluntarily when offers to take them back to their tribes were refused.
A continuous and unbroken connection?
It doesn’t seem likely.
Not to mention the Mornington Peninsula claims also appear to overlap claims by yet another two distinct and well established tribal groups, the Kurnai of Gippsland and Melbourne’s Wurundjeri.
WA Aboriginal Cultural Heritage Act has anticipated trouble with recurring strife between competing “Native Title*” claims- it will create corporatised Land Councils, whose jurisdictions will not overlap and who will reign unchallenged whithin their booyahs.
*Yes, “cultural heritage” is title. It will enable the land council controllers to extract rent and direct development, as well as the cash cow smoking ceremony welcome to country routine.
The organisation I work for (Victoria, public service) used to have an acknowledgment of country which mentioned the wurundjeri and woi-wurrung. Then from one day to the next it changed to a generic statement about elders and ancestors. When I queried this, it was explained in vague terms as a result of recent ‘discussions’. Presumably complaints from the various indigenous families, bitterly warring for government largesse, who make up the state’s rich aboriginal tapestry.
“explained in vague terms”
Pearson claimed the country owes its success to Aboriginal foundation (customs/culture); that’s fairly vague.
A woman named Teely declared that Aboriginal people built the nation; but didn’t say what was actually built. Vague-ish.
The present cricket captain was quite vague when he said Australians know about the achievements of the Egyptians but not those of the Aboriginal people; he didn’t say what these achievements were.
And the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs – relentlessly vague.
And we are presented with the Vague Voice ™.
I wonder who gets to count the referendum ‘votes’!
I wonder who gets to count the referendum ‘votes’!
That is my big concern.
And also the referendum being done by mail-in ballots – would that be legal?
This is a link to a twitter post that contains a video of Teela Reid with a Voice.
from the preamble on the twit
Fat Tony
Check the AEC – General Postal Voters
Yeah, right.
Noel Pearson urges Queenslanders to treat voice referendum as ‘the ultimate State of Origin’
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jul/10/noel-pearson-urges-queenslanders-to-treat-voice-referendum-as-the-ultimate-state-of-origin
I’m not the least bit worried about the referendum. Not while Noel Pearson continues his various attempts to rally support.
According to Teela Reid, the Voice is about “demolishing” what she calls “systems of oppression”, and would be so powerful it would be “very difficult for a government to ignore”.
No, no, no, that’s impossible. Turd Case has assured us that the Voice will have no real power. Alongside his genius, what would that aboriginal woman know.
LOL.
Cummins is a moron and a product of our e̶d̶u̶c̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶ propaganda system.
Pesutto is despised by conservatives and those on the right here in Victoria.
The only reason the left don’t despise him more is because they recognise that the Labor-lite Pesutto is absolutely no threat to them.