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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Randy,
Like you, at first this “Melbourne” claim seemed a head-shaker.
Reading the blog, I half-expected the city to be annexed by didgeridoo militia and the world to end.
But apparently not a single property or patch of land will be seized. From what I can tell, it’s about recognising that some scraps of Crown land, some rivers, maybe the odd duck sanctuary have meaning older than the bitumen now smothering them, and have a "connection" to Indigenous people and a "say" in how some are managed.
Even if a few of us bull-horned revolutionaries decided to storm Parliament House, crying Down with Lefties and the Global Elite! naked with firecrackers, or electrostatically charging tin-foil hats, it wouldn’t end well. Nor overturn the High Court’s Mabo (92) decision or the Native Title Act (93) that followed.
In the grand scheme, Australia’s about on par with the US on Indigenous recognition, maybe a touch better, as we’ve passed the Apology Stage but not yet reached the Treaty Stage. New Zealand, Canada, and a few Scandinavian or European nations are already in the grown-up paperwork phase. That’s probably where we’ll end up too, one day. Like it or not.
Hoe
I don't understand why folks are determined to scream "Lefty Marxist" about this. It is almost willfull ignorance at this point. Imagine the noise if a formal treaty was produced.
I shouldn't bother to bite, but I am caring for someone today and I'm a bit bored
Dunno buddy, where's Daz when you need him? What puzzles me is when people call others Leftie Marxists while throwing poo at Global Elites and embracing conspiraces to which Marx would give big sloppy kisses for. And he seemed quite an angry fella, just quietly.
Yeah...the constant calls for conformity and perchant for purity testing track with that idea too
Spot on Pou
Lacks common sense or practicality to me. To boot stamp all races and cultures who fit into a theoretical "lower socio economic class" lacks nuance. Might as well call us all "Africans" since we all originate from there.
Sorry your wrong Māori are still heavily disadvantaged in the health education and represent a far to high number in the prison system here.
An example here is Maori men on average will die 8-10 years younger than there white equivalent.When your saying they aren't persecuted what this governments trying to do now is lift the retirement age fully knowing Māori die earlier.
Sneaky Cunts
Coryn, the irony is NZ is considered a world-leader in how they have dealt with Indigenous matters. It all started with the Treaty of Waitangi (1840). We haven't even got there yet, unlike Canada, US, and some Nordic countries.
Don't get me wrong HoE we are ahead of alot of the mentioned the issue with it is it's going to a generation or 3 before we see the equality that represents what our counter parts are going through.
Not going to lie here either but some of the decisions individuals have made over the years to don't help there cause for Maori.I'm thankful the position I and my family are in now.I'll say for the most part we are insulated from that inequality that a lot of Maori face here now that is probably similar to what aboriginal are facing.
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