I just received this which pretty much sums up the whole 'Aboriginal Industry' that we now have enforced upon us. It'll be TLDR for some but makes for interesting reading for those who are just a little concerned which path we're going down. I am wondering though,since our TV screens are being bombarded by the promotion of the Yes vote,that it isn't some form of reverse psychology by our incumbent government.....I know for meself whenever one of the adverts comes on the remote come into play.: It is this monster Aboriginal Industry that is eroding our Nation. The concept that you can be Aboriginal because you feel like an Aboriginal defies logic. It is one huge squeaky wheel that is gaining momentum to the detriment of our Australia ( all of us - black, white , brown, Afghan, English, Asian). I hope people keep their own minds open and use their sense of what’s right when it comes to the Vote. We are being swindled Interesting statements. Make up your own minds SHARE WIDELY AND MAYBE SAVE THE NATION. The author of the following article, which really is a wake-up call to all Australians, is Dr (Professor) David Barton,. Dr Barton specialises in general adult and geriatric psychiatry with a particular interest in neuropsychiatry acquired brain injury, and the association between depression and cardiovascular disease. He works in centres in Melbourne and Ballarat JANUARY 23, 2023 Australia’s Aboriginal Industry: Always Was, Always Will Be About Power. By Dr David Barton. In 1983, as a naïve youth worker and concerned by what I had been reading since the early 1970s about what was happening with Aborigines in Alice Springs, I moved there to see what I could do to help. All told, I spent six years in Central Australia, leaving both depressed and convinced that the situation could never be fixed. … Unfortunately, much of what passes for Aboriginal ‘culture’ today is an invention of the last 50 years. Fortunately, much authentic Aboriginal culture of the past has vanished. The gruesome initiations, genital mutilation, inflicted cicatrices (Scars), burns, ritual spearings, sorcery and payback murders have by and large disappeared. Nevertheless, inter-tribe clan grievances often remain, as can be seen at some football indigenous matches, both on the field and amongst the spectators. Even though these encounters can still become violent, at least those conflicts are mostly played out with a football, not spears and clubs. Meanwhile, the Aboriginal Industry is chock full of ill-informed, urban myth-makers and illusionists, this caste of urgers and deluded pretenders giving rise to the patronising insistence on the uniqueness of ‘Aboriginal knowledge’ about everything from agriculture and fish farms (a lá Bruce Pascoe), water and fire management (a lá ‘cultural burning’) to Aboriginal ‘art’, ‘fashion’ and even ‘astronomy’, and not to mention Ernie Dingo and Richard Walley’s thoroughly overdone ‘Welcome to Country”. This is mostly snake oil fakery, an effort to convince contemporary Australians that the Aborigines of old were something they clearly never were. Worse, histories and observational accounts of early Aboriginal life and culture are vanishing from library shelves, replaced by the anti-white post-modern dogma of ‘invasion, colonisation and inter-generational trauma’. It is unusual today to find any history book about Aborigines in a secondary or tertiary institution that is more than fifteen years old. This is cultural censure and erasure happening right under our noses. We are all the poorer for it, black and white alike. Meanwhile, the recent invention, exaggeration, distortion and misrepresentation of the alleged ‘frontier wars’ serves as a made-to-order replacement ‘history’ intended to raise the status of Aboriginal people and degrade that of settlers. It is yet another bill of goods, a distorting sham, being hawked by a power-grabbing activist elite in whose interest it is to falsify and distort our history. The goal, need it be said, is an attempt to paint a genocidal racism as Australia’s original sin. … Equality of opportunity is not enough for the power hungry, to whom any perceived inequality in outcome is an opportunity: Unfortunately, self-determination for many people who today identify as Aboriginal is taken to mean the normal rules — keeping children in school, eschewing clan and domestic violence — aren’t thought to fully apply. This is nowhere more apparent than on the troubled streets of Alice Springs. ‘Self-determination’ means ‘we’ll do what we like and you can pay for it’. Self-determination’ is about colonising and taking control, accepting all that whitefellas have to offer while offering nothing in return. Self-determination is about undermining whitefella institutions, judiciaries, organisations and bureaucracies. Self-determination is about enculturated white people who, on the strength of what may be a mere speck of indigenous DNA, now identify exclusively as Aboriginal, thereby giving themselves an economic and social leg-up. For the activist cadre it always was and always will be about money, power and control, all underlined by the notion that members of one race enjoy a preeminent ascendency over all other Australians. More examples of ‘self-determination’ can be found in the ban on climbing Ayers Rock (Uluru), Mt Warning (Wollumbin), Mt Gillen, and many Grampians climbs, all for ill-defined or unexplained ‘cultural’ reasons’. After much outcry, consideration is now being given to re-opening the Mt Warning climb, but only for those who pay a fee and are escorted by indigenous guides. More rent-seeking, what a surprise! Australian place names are also rapidly being overwritten with (most likely made-up) Aboriginal names (eg: K’gari, once known as Fraser Island). All of this is about claims to ownership, to ‘sovereignty’. These changes should not be mistaken for deference to Aboriginal culture; it’s no more nor less than an insidious takeover. What we are experiencing here is cultural guerrilla warfare, the picking off one target after the other. Don’t believe it? Look no further that what has happened in New Zealand. The Voice: Self-determination is not about ‘closing the gap’, nor Aborigines ‘having a voice’ — all of that can be achieved without a change to the Constitution. Indeed, the $35+ billion currently spent on Aboriginal affairs and the 11-plus current Aboriginal members of parliament are more than enough to fulfil both aims. The Voice referendum is purely and simply about the drive towards Aboriginal sovereignty, which can only be achieved by changing the nation’s foundational document and charter. Under the Albanese government, self-determination means the coming referendum, whose barely concealed intention is to divide Australia along lines of race. … What is hiding in plain sight is the Albanese government’s intention to de-facto fund and promote the ‘Yes’ campaign whilst hamstringing ‘No’ advocates. Anything the No campaign says can and will be construed as “misinformation”. We have seen this already with the appalling attacks by Noel Pearson and Marcia Langton’s on Jacinta Price. Brace for much more of that — and wonder, too, if the bile and attempts at character assassination are a foretaste of an empowered Voice? … Meanwhile, Australians are subjected to a daily and massive pro-Yes propaganda barrage by the taxpayer-funded ABC and SBS. Remote Aboriginal Australians are unfortunate mascots in a power struggle among the white majority. The Voice is just the latest attempt by the left-bureaucratic class to get more control and further exploit the rest of us -- Happiness is an inside job
Reflection on Welcome to Country by Bess Price - Jacinta’s Mum How good is this lady to tell this truth that all those playing the race victimisation card will hate. Good on you Bess Price to acknowledge we are all AUSTRALIANS regardless of race Reflection on Welcome to Country by Bess Price - Jacinta’s Mum A former indigenous politician who received a prestigious award from Barack Obama has described Aboriginal 'welcome to country' ceremonies as '********'. Quote from former indigenous NT minister Bess Price (mother of Jacinta Price). 'All the "Welcome to Country", all the "Smoking Ceremonies" and all the made up ******** rituals about "pay our respects to elders past and present" is just one big lie. The 'welcome to country' was adopted into Australia's parliamentary protocols in 2008, after the then prime minister Kevin Rudd delivered his apology to the stolen generation. However, two years after that decision Aboriginal entertainer Ernie Dingo claimed that he invented the concept in 1976 when Pacific Island dancers demanded they receive a traditional welcome. The Aboriginals have supposedly been here for at least 30,000 years (some say more like 60,000 years). That’s about 29,750 years before the British arrived. The fact is, as uncomfortable and as unfashionable as it is, aboriginal Australia had not produced anything resembling a Shakespeare, nothing much in the way of technology, never discovered the wheel and no philosophy to speak of, in the 30,000 years available to it. The English brought the rule of law, the Westminster system, the notion of progress and all the benefits of the science, technology and ingenuity of the modern European tradition. On 26 January 1788 when the First Fleet ships unloaded their 1200 convicts, Royal Marine guards and officials, not a shot was fired. As they looked around what's now Circular Quay they saw nothing other than bush. Not a single building, planted field, domesticated plant or animal - nothing at all. It was the same across the continent. It was "terra nullius" - a vacant land. There was no indigenous Army to defeat in battle, no Aboriginal flag to lower. There was nothing to claim as the spoils of victory. There was just wild bush. The few Aborigines who came out to have a look at these strange people were completely illiterate and innumerate and those on the south side of the harbor spoke a language completely unintelligible to those on the north side of the harbor and they'd been constantly at war with each other for as long as anyone can remember. To this day Australian Aboriginal languages consist of around 290-363 dialects belonging to an estimated 28 language families and isolates, spoken by Aboriginal Australians of mainland Australia and a few nearby islands. There was no "invasion". Since the arrival of the English, only about 250 years ago, Australia has prospered and developed into a modern first world country, along with all other Western democracies. Yet for at least 30,000 years (prior to the arrival of the British) the Aboriginals seemed to have not progressed one step. To put this into perspective, the Egyptian empire came and went between around 1570 BC and 1070 BC. Aboriginals had inhabited our great land for at least 27,000 years prior to the Egyptian empire. The Greek empire was at its peak in the period 500 BC to 300 BC and the Roman empire was at its peak around 117 BC. Each of those empires were highly advanced and contributed enormously to the advancement of the modern world. It therefore beats me why the Aboriginals are now so revered. 55 years ago, under the Holt Liberal government, 90.77 per cent of Australians voted to remove race from the constitution, putting ‘indigenous’ Australian people on the same legal footing as all other Australians and allowing them to be counted in the Australian population. It was a momentous shift towards equality. Half a decade later, the Albanese Labor government wants to insert ‘race’ back into the constitution! To enshrine a special place in the constitution based purely on racial grounds is racism pure and simple. Length of time on the continent, whether it be 40,000 years, 250 years or 10 years, shouldn’t be the determinant for any special consideration to any population cohort in the constitution. JUST A LITTLE SOMETHING TO CONTEMPLATE BEFORE SIGNING UP TO "THE VOICE” – TAKE CARE - WE ALREADY HAVE A PARLIAMENT THAT REPRESENTS “ALL” AUSTRALIANS! We are all Australians and should share the same laws and government. Black, brindle or white, we voted the government in to act for all Australians irrespective of colour or race.
Are you sure this is genuine? I have met Bess and, while she is not a supporter of the "Voice", it would surprise me for her to describe indigenous history that way and in that tone - it doesn't sound at all like the way she speaks.
Not sure, it was sent to me from what I would consider somewhat reliable. I only posted here as I have heard Jacinta talking in the same vane, but not in such detail. Lets take 70%, which we all know is fact, it still has enough foundation to cast a huge net of doubt over the 100% of the clap trap coming the the woke left.
Uhuh: https://www.news.com.au/travel/travel-updates/warnings/locals-outraged-as-popular-outback-tourist-campsite-closed-to-protect-aboriginal-cultural-heritage/news-story/e13bdb14affdbc11831d949092945d82
Funny how the installation of fencing and gates to prevent access to the site doesn't impact on the "preservation of the area" Brilliant. Lol.
70,000 years? Big fkn deal, how about 700,000 years https://greekherald.com.au/news/new-discovery-moves-dawn-of-greek-archaeology-back-by-a-quarter-million-years/
Good on 'em,I hope they don't kowtow to the bloody naysayers Lets see how fairdinkum the Murri's are now with their non traditional 'traditions': https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-06-02/broken-hill-city-council-ends-welcome-to-country-payments/102422570
