Australia Rejects Recognition of Aboriginals - For Shame

Do the Aborigines commit as much crime as Irish Travellers?

Is there a large percentage of them in prison?

I heard during the week that a poll had up to 40% of Indigenous Australians voting No.

The premise polled very well initially, but as details or should I say, lack of details emerged, more and more people turned against it.

The issue was seen as elitist, and the number coming out confirmed that.

Only Canberra and some wealthy suburbs in Sydney and the like voted for 'Yes'. The rest of the nation, especially working class areas voted 'No'.

An unfortunately legacy of how they were brutalised.

There was a rape policy where young girls were taken and then systematically bred with whites to "bred the black out if them".

White australia doesn't really talk about it.

In view of what happened in Canada, and our legacy in regard to Native peoples, I am not shocked, just disturbed, as per usual in this kind of situation.

When the Canadian government wanted to "clear the land for Euro settlers in the late nineteenth, they proceeded to displace Cree communities that were located in the prairie provinces to territory around James Bay in Quebec, where Innu and Inuit people crossed paths with them.

Fast forward to the early seventies, the Cree were displaced, disturbed again when Quebec decided to build massive Hydro dams along the La Grande river which was essentially the size of England in scope.

Nowadays, it is increasingly difficult to plan and execute these developments without compromising solutions of a higher order toward indigenous populations, and also the "white villages" near the coveted sites. On Quebec’s Lower North Shore, the Innu communities and towns along the Gulf of St Lawrence got massive annual contributions for allowing development of the Romaine project to go through.

The technique is now to promise jobs and training to locals, and shower them with money.

The reason why Australia and Canada wanted the Indigenous populations to settle is that the nomadic lifestyle meant these people could and did claim rightful use of territory (UN…) since they occupied it versus the invaders purchasing mining claims and unbridled expropriation policies. Not a pretty picture. I am thinking that Rio Tinto and other large Australian mining concerns have a very strong commitment to keeping with the status quo in these matters. In Canada, BC is a good place to look at constant scuffles btwn Government and First Nations as far as territorial uses go.

No was absolutely the correct decision. There is no justification for separating a particular ethnic group in the constitution and giving them special status. That has always and will always lead to disaster. Especially in a muti-ethnic melting pot like Australia, where people from literally hundreds of different countries have come to make home. Just treat everyone the same with equal rights.

Lets bear in mind the Irish were treated horribly in Australian for the first 200 years of its existence. Should the Irish have special status in the constitution? where does it stop.

This is just the type of woke nonsense dreamed up in the office of an NGO, and make no mistake its coming to Ireland.

No as I stated in my post I’ve met relatively few , and all in NYC . I found all of them quite racist and intolerant of non caucations . Small sample size but MY experience. I never claimed ALL Australia was like that just the ones IVE met

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