Seems that the indigenous people of Australia ( A particular Tribe) are looking to claim a large proportion of Melbourne as native title so they can make sure the region is looked after correctly. The Waterways, native lands etc..Is this ok and do you think that it affect people that live there or businesses as such. I'm ok for areas of Australia being looked after but not sure if this will help or not. An excerpt from the News Article:
The Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung people in Victoria have filed a native title claim with the Federal Court, seeking recognition over country that spans much of Melbourne.
Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung elder Perry Wandin said the claim was part of an intergenerational pursuit for his people's connection to their land to be recognised.
"Wurundjeri people have fought for decades for recognition and respect and have been at the forefront of protecting culture and country in Melbourne and surrounds," Elder Perry Wandin said.
"We want the waterways, the land to be looked after."
The Wurundjeri Woi-wurrung claim area covers most of metropolitan Melbourne, beyond the Great Dividing Range, west to the Werribee River, east to Mount Baw Baw, and south to Mordialloc Creek.
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They start behind the line due to inter-generational trauma. I cannot believe that good folk still argue this point
The most disgusting thing I've seen in NZ was how Maori soldiers after WW2 got treated vs there white counterparts.Both spilled blood for there country fought shoulder to shoulder.When the white soldiers got back they got parcels of land and war medals.The Maori soldiers got nothing until 2020 in which they got there war medals 70 years after the fact with an apology as most of those men who got there medals received them posthumously as the last Maori battalion soldier died last year.
There white counterparts built wealth of those parcels of land and past them down to generations and some still own these to this day.See this is the type of thing that indigenous have to battle with going to a gun fight with a knife pretty much and hence the generational pain they have to fight this is why these Treaty of Waitangi reparations are so important for Maori.They've had to wait nie on 200 years for them while government and there English have prospered.
Same thing happened here Coryn, at least with ww1 land parcels I know for sure. WW2 as well i am fairly certain. It was a low act.
Shameful
But it didn't happen over Millennia Frank, it was only 200 odd yrs ago.
Many countries offer reparations and concessions to Indiginous peoples.
This Melb thing seems fucking stupid but Mabo and Wik decidions are well reasoned,justified law here in our fine country, signed by court and both sides of politics
You can't change history!
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