Frank wrote on Aug 19^th, 2023 at 1:42pm:


The moment the special privileges and affirmative action dries up, they will claim to be white again.

Without knowing their backgrounds of course
I'd be unable to identify any of these people as
being Aboriginal—except for maybe the young
lady on the far left.

   

And because of their light complexions, I'd be
guessing they've never suffered from racial
vilification, discrimination, employment inequalities,
bigotry, prejudices, or narrow-mindedness that
their darker-skinned peers have been subjected to
for decades.

In turn then, because of this, it's hardly appropriate
for any of them to claim any special dispensations
based solely on their self-identified Aboriginality.

(I'm assuming the article covering this
image in fact confirms they are Aboriginal?)

AusGeoff wrote on Aug 20^th, 2023 at 12:10pm:


It is important to be clear about what Aboriginality is, who can and cannot claim Aboriginality, and most significantly, what entitlement comes with Aboriginality and why.

I do not see what disadvantage a middle class person of any hue or colouration would suffer. Selective high schools, university courses in medicine and engineering and dentistry and law are full of non-whites so pigmentation is evidently no drawback.

If blonde, blue eyed daughters of middle class families can claim Aboriginality to get into medical school, get Aboriginal- identified positions in the public service or corporations, then Aboriginality isn't about disadvantage either. There are equally blonde and blue eyed daughters of non-Aboriginal working class families who are demondtezbly more disadvantaged and lower on the socio-economic ladder but cannot claim Aboriginality so they do not get the bonus ATAR point to get into medicine or law.

So if it's neither race, nor disadvantage - what is it?

Is it "the ancestral tie between the land, or 'mother nature', and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors"?  What about the blonde anc blue eyed ancestry and ties to the lands of England, Scotland, Ireland and returning thither?

Always been the problem at the heart of 'affirmative action' - it invariably went to the 'middle classes' and next to none went to those in true need - I'd love to hear the background of each of these suffering, struggling students....

Frank wrote on Aug 19^th, 2023 at 4:38pm:


ahhh, so now hair colour is what decides if they are aboriginal ... got it

John Smith wrote on Aug 21^st, 2023 at 1:31pm:

It is important to be clear about what Aboriginality is, who can and cannot claim Aboriginality, and most significantly, what entitlement comes with Aboriginality and why.

I do not see what disadvantage a middle class person of any hue or colouration would suffer. Selective high schools, university courses in medicine and engineering and dentistry and law are full of non-whites so pigmentation is evidently no drawback.

If blonde, blue eyed daughters of middle class families can claim Aboriginality to get into medical school, get Aboriginal- identified positions in the public service or corporations, then Aboriginality isn't about disadvantage either. There are equally blonde and blue eyed daughters of non-Aboriginal working class families who are demondtezbly more disadvantaged and lower on the socio-economic ladder but cannot claim Aboriginality so they do not get the bonus ATAR point to get into medicine or law.

So if it's neither race, nor disadvantage - what is it?

Is it "the ancestral tie between the land, or 'mother nature', and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors"?  What about the blonde anc blue eyed ancestry and ties to the lands of England, Scotland, Ireland and returning thither?

Brian Ross wrote on Aug 21^st, 2023 at 3:55pm:



Hanson 'glossed over' nothing.
Opposing the Voice or Aboriginal special treatment is not a 'diatribe. Her warnings of the negative consequences of large scale unassimilating immigration have proven true. No personal history has been rewritten, amazingly or otherwise.
There was never a time 'she refused to to have anything to do with Indigineous Australians'. Total, barefaced Bbwianesque lies.

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 19^th, 2023 at 7:08pm:


If they were white Frank would have been crying over their victimhood status rather then trying to deride them.