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Congrats Melbourne Council. Lets hope other councils follow this brave council's leadership.
Making Invasion Day History.
The indigenous peoples of this land reject Australia Day, and they reject what it 'represents' ???
In an ideal world, we 'white' southern-land-colonists should relinquish political authority over this land.
And give all political authority [over this land, and over the making of all its laws], to the many activists who [are themselves, and] better represent the interests the descendants of the original inhabitants.
Why so ?
Because the original inhabitants of this land, in managing their own communities, have been an example to everyone in this land, of how a people should govern themselves.
/sarc offMy real opinion;
'Whitey' governance of this land and its people is and has been, far,
far from perfect.
But where is the example of a better model [from an example within their own communities], from the indigenous peoples of this land ?
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"Politics: The business of getting power and privilege without possessing merit."
- P.J.O'Rourke - All the Trouble in the World.
"If you want to know a man's character, give him power."
Abraham Lincoln
Practical politics consists in ignoring facts.
- Henry Adams
There is nothing that is wrong, that cannot be remedied, by doing what is right.
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Our job is to live as well and as long as we can, and to help others do the same.
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"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman
Deuteronomy 8:2
And thou shalt remember all the way which the LORD thy God led thee these forty years in the wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in thine heart, whether thou wouldest keep his commandments, or no.