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Question: Will you vote for a separate Aboriginal Voice in Parliament?

YES    
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NO    
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Total votes: 38
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Reply #390 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:40pm
 
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 2nd, 2022 at 8:58pm:
You're progressing - good.

So why should any difference be accorded to their identity, given that they are already treated equally under the Constitution as citizens?



Because by their 'identity', they have a life expectancy some 15 years less than 'non-abos'.

You got to fix that (rather,  the government has to fix it, because you can't fix it), if you want to stop people -including fair-minded whites - banging on about injustice to first nations' people.


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Bonus question:-  Which other 'identities' are different?


Diversion; Meister pointed to enough identities already, no more please....

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The Basques may not wish to be Spanish.... so be it..... but does that create a need for separate government within government - a shadow government?


No, it creates a demand for separate nationhood ....put that in your pipe and smoke it for a while....  

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Ethnicity is not the same as nationality... John Smith is testament to that...


And nationality is a convention....

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Reply #391 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:44pm
 
Gnads wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:11pm:
Maybe this Aboriginal woman can give you some insight into identity & culture?

It's 27 min long if you can spare the time?

[]https://www.facebook.com/JacintaNPrice/videos/169111871896615/?comment_id=301984074952966&reply_comment_id=3103835866500337&notif_id=1659483120547848&notif_t=comment_mention&ref=notif[]

Her insight into her culture is precisely what Noel Pearson (a person I respect and trust) has said over the years.

Of course Aboriginal people aren't really Europeans with dark skin, any more than the indigenous people of NZ and the Americas were or are.

The issue of rewriting history became an embarrassment for African-Americans when it was revealed that Alex Haley's family biography 'Roots' was a fabrication. Haley attempted to transcend the transatlantic annihilation of the slaves' African cultural memory by creating a fiction that his family had retained African cultural memory via an oral family tradition. His intentions (at least in his mind) were honourable but, in accordance with the Platonic maxim: the good is subordinate to the true.

That Aboriginal culture has always been that of a hunter-gatherer tradition has no relevance to the prospect of permanent representation in parliament.
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Reply #392 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:47pm
 
(permanent aboriginal seats in Parliament)

As before - that is a totally separate question and would require a totally separate referendum.  You can't just arbitrarily mix things up like that.  BTW - Maori seats was a position imposed on all by the government of the day ..... it was an administrative issue and not a referred to the people one.

Remember that back then the majority of people didn't have votes ..... and plebiscites were unheard of... voting rights depended on your property ownership..... same as here...

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/maori-and-the-vote/setting-up-seats
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Re: The question about a voice will be asked...
Reply #393 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:49pm
 
Gnads wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:20pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 2nd, 2022 at 11:19pm:
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 2nd, 2022 at 11:16pm:
3.3% of permanent seats in Parliament is fewer than they now hold...

Some of you need to get out of that PC world you were raised in under our protection and learn to think.....

Why would any government offer permanent seats to a minority so small it hardly reaches that of Muslims?

You're missing the point.

Aboriginal people can also hold non-Aboriginal seats where they would have a duty to represent all people within their electorate, but there will also be permanent aboriginal seats whose electors will be aboriginal only - the NZ model.

Indigenous people have a unique status in Australia; Muslims do not.


No way.

No special(exclusive) seats on top of the ones they may already hold to represent only Aboriginals.

It hardly surprises me you hold that attitude. It is a generational one that will die when the last of your generation is gone.

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Reply #394 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:51pm
 
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:47pm:
(permanent aboriginal seats in Parliament)

As before - that is a totally separate question and would require a totally separate referendum.  You can't just arbitrarily mix things up like that.  BTW - Maori seats was a position imposed on all by the government of the day ..... it was an administrative issue and not a referred to the people one.

Remember that back then the majority of people didn't have votes ..... and plebiscites were unheard of... voting rights depended on your property ownership..... same as here...

https://nzhistory.govt.nz/politics/maori-and-the-vote/setting-up-seats

And it clearly has met no overwhelming resistance from the NZ people since its establishment in 1868.
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Reply #395 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:58pm
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:44pm:
That Aboriginal culture has always been that of a hunter-gatherer tradition has no relevance to the prospect of permanent representation in parliament.


Though we can look forward to passage of time and assimilation to render permanent representation of that culture  superfluous.

But in the meantime I will vote for the voice, because we have to close the gap first (15 years average life-span)....though what we will really discover, with the voice enshrined,   is that the current neoliberal free market orthodoxy is as obsolete as the hunter gatherer economy..... as noted by a Canadian aboriginal who said that even with all the 'bells and whistles' of constitutional recognition and a voice, the egregious situation on the ground for aboriginals in Canada has not changed one iota. 
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Re: The question about a voice will be asked...
Reply #396 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:03pm
 
Brian Ross wrote on Jul 29th, 2022 at 10:40pm:


Who cares about what we MIGHT BE ASKED?

Here's the question WE ARE ASKING RIGHT NOW: Where is the over half a BILLION dollars required to fund this referendum coming out of? Aged Care? Health? Education? Housing?
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Re: The question about a voice will be asked...
Reply #397 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:03pm
 
thegreatdivide wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:58pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:44pm:
That Aboriginal culture has always been that of a hunter-gatherer tradition has no relevance to the prospect of permanent representation in parliament.


Though we can look forward to passage of time and assimilation to render permanent representation of that culture  superfluous.


Ethnic and religious identity is predicated on ancient tradition and is the most tenacious of human activity.

As is witnessed in China as a result of the cultural devolution, the Chinese have suffered immensely due to the forced destruction of their ancient traditions - something that has not afflicted the Taiwanese.
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Re: The question about a voice will be asked...
Reply #398 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:06pm
 
thegreatdivide wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 12:40pm:
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 2nd, 2022 at 8:58pm:
You're progressing - good.

So why should any difference be accorded to their identity, given that they are already treated equally under the Constitution as citizens?



Because by their 'identity', they have a life expectancy some 15 years less than 'non-abos'.

You got to fix that (rather,  the government has to fix it, because you can't fix it), if you want to stop people -including fair-minded whites - banging on about injustice to first nations' people.


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Bonus question:-  Which other 'identities' are different?


Diversion; Meister pointed to enough identities already, no more please....

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The Basques may not wish to be Spanish.... so be it..... but does that create a need for separate government within government - a shadow government?


No, it creates a demand for separate nationhood ....put that in your pipe and smoke it for a while....  

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Ethnicity is not the same as nationality... John Smith is testament to that...


And nationality is a convention....




Correct - part of the reason for that is genetic, there is the violence and stress they impose on one another in far too many cases, the diet they choose to pursue, and they lead a life of often substance abuse.  Those are personal issues most of which can be fixed by them.  They do not want 'intervention' - they want to 'do things their way'.

Doesn't matter what 'nationality' is - it is what it is.... being part of a nation, a group with generally the same requirements.  It is impossible to simply abolish nations and then have totally open borders - clearly all  cultures are not equal in their behaviour and values ... and each is as entitled as any other to stick to what they want.

We simply don't whip our women for adultery - if we did there's be plenty with scars on their backs to equal those of a galley slave... we don't stone them either ... so we are quite content with out own national identity, thank you.  We don't need any help with that....

NONE of this has anything to do with the demand for a shadow government...... something that no group is entitled to here under our rules...

As an aside - I warned yez all years ago about Labor and their quota for women.... now the fruit is starting to be eaten by the bats .... once you swallow the idea that quotas are the way forward, you will swallow this equally divisive nonsense as well.  I warned yez not to vote for Labor.....
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Reply #399 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:09pm
 
Oh - the Basques occupy in majority a clear area of Spain - they are not scattered across the whole country in twos and threes ... over to you.... I offered the Cheers a Noweto homeland of their own where they can 'do things their way' to their heart's content..... have their own passport and national identity and all that, their own laws .... the thing they can't have is ownership of all Australia now... it's gone with the wind..... they are the minority..... no tail wags the dog...

Put that in your pipe and smoke it .... you youngies are so easy... so easy you don't begin to even know it...
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Reply #400 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:11pm
 
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:06pm:
NONE of this has anything to do with the demand for a shadow government...... something that no group is entitled to here under our rules...

A shadow government has not been proposed, you are merely parroting the mindset of your generation and the generations before, as iconified by Joh Bjelke-Petersen.
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Reply #401 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:12pm
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:03pm:
Ethnic and religious identity is predicated on ancient tradition and is the most tenacious of human activity.


Where is Boudica's  ethnic and religious identity today?  Her's was much later than aboriginal culture, but assimilated by successive waves of conquest. 

Not to mention her iron age pre-literate economy...

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Reply #402 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:15pm
 
Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:09pm:
Oh - the Basques occupy in majority a clear area of Spain - they are not scattered across the whole country in twos and threes ... over to you.... I offered the Cheers a Noweto homeland of their own where they can 'do things their way' to their heart's content..... have their own passport and national identity and all that, their own laws .... the thing they can't have is ownership of all Australia now... it's gone with the wind..... they are the minority..... no tail wags the dog...

Put that in your pipe and smoke it .... you youngies are so easy... so easy you don't begin to even know it...

As the English did to the Scots at the turn of the 18th century.

Geriatric sensibility is ineradicable. You are the recipient of the white trash cultural milieu you were born into.
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Reply #403 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:17pm
 
thegreatdivide wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:12pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:03pm:
Ethnic and religious identity is predicated on ancient tradition and is the most tenacious of human activity.


Where is Boudica's  ethnic and religious identity today?  (her's was much later than aboriginal culture, but assimilated by successive waves of conquest. 

Not to mention her iron age pre-literate economy...


So, destruction of ethno-cultural identity by conquest is what you're advocating.

As the CCP has done to the Tibetans.
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Reply #404 - Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:27pm
 
MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:17pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:12pm:
MeisterEckhart wrote on Aug 3rd, 2022 at 1:03pm:
Ethnic and religious identity is predicated on ancient tradition and is the most tenacious of human activity.


Where is Boudica's  ethnic and religious identity today?  (her's was much later than aboriginal culture, but assimilated by successive waves of conquest. 

Not to mention her iron age pre-literate economy...


So, destruction of ethno-cultural identity by conquest is what you're advocating.


Why did you make that wrong conclusion to what I said? Which was:

"we can look forward to passage of time and assimilation to render permanent representation of that culture  superfluous".

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