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, groups 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.
It's all nuanced HOE.
While the people are divided along cultural lines we seem to be sliding further into a corporatocracy.
We have people like Larry Fink head of Blackrock who's openly quoted as saying "you have to force behaviors, at Blackrock we're forcing behaviours "
Sounds like something Communist say, Blackrock State Street and Vanguard control %15 of the worlds money $60 odd trillion dollars worth.
Albo jets off to G20 summits to get his photos with world leaders , after the media's sent on the way the CEOs of those aforementioned company's hold court.
These people don't give a damn about race or religion, they steal our resources while the taxpayer subsidises it and our politicians get kickbacks.
Being the largest shareholders of the worlds biggest companies enables them majority voting rights which is leveraged against the CEOs , if they want a bonus they do as their told making those asset managers more money and gaining more clout.
The middle class is under attack worldwide , why we all complain about immigration and native title federal banks print money lowering our dollars value causing more inflation making us even poorer.
Now we've got governments around the world in lockstep stamping out the use of cash, heavily investing in digital id and currency , expanding camera networks , enforcing smart metres , banning combustion engines creating a digital prison .
The war machine and foreign aid is money laundering at the taxpayers expense, were are quietly funding our own demise.
The media is an increasing propaganda machine that stokes the fires of discontent why we all get fleeced.
Dont get me started on the misinformation, disinformation garbage which is censorship at its finest.
It never ceases to amaze me how politicians are so good at managing their own financial portfolios but so ordinary at looking after the country's.
I don't give a damn what race or religion anyone is , an areshole comes in many disguises but this bullshit narrative about racial inequality shits me.
Race shouldn't come into it only the inequality , you'll never get social cohesion when people are continually put into different groups with different funding along racial lines.
As pou says it's a class war and the scales are tipped while we fight amongst ourselves the people with their finger on the scales consolidate their interests.
The sooner people realise it's not white vs black vs Asian or Middle Eastern or Catholics v Islam v Jews v atheists and realise were all getting screwed the better off humanity will be.
I read somewhere $20 odd trillion dollars was siphoned out of the pentagons budget to build an underground city for the elite.
If that's true and they bunker down god help us were proper fu$&ed.
Exactly Bup. All this focus on minority rights and hand wringing about privilege and colonisation is to silence people angry about inequality. The more we focus on 'social justice', the greater the inequality in the world and the more the working class gets disenfranchised and alienated.
Society might be able to walk and chew gum at the same time, but if so, why aren't we? Most likely is that walking and chewing gum is the dumbest metaphor for what's happening. The elites don't want us walking anywhere, and to make sure it doesn't happen they've tossed some social justice (gum) to the few, while everyone else gets reminded of their privilege. How can you complain about inequality when you're a coloniser right?
If there was any justice the elites would hand over their stolen real estate to the indigenous peoples, rather than some public parks that cost them nothing.
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
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