That logic of pinching land does not work for me given that we have moved on and accepted more and more migrants into the country.
Wow, really??? Saying that decades of Migration means that the country being invaded by a foreign power, and the indigenous peoples forcibly dispossessed of their land, and often slaughtered, enslaved, or wiped out by deliberate infection with smallpox and the like, but it's all magically ok now or it's irrelevant because a certain number of years has passed ?!?!? Damn, that's ice cold. That argument might work if you were talking about great britain, and the celts being hammered by the romans and those who came after, but "Australia" is only about 235 years old, or maybe 122 years if you take Federation as being the start point.
So in the situation of a mixed cultural family you have half the family that are being held to account for pinching land from the other half of the family.
We also have a lot of success aboriginal leaders who have taken advantage of all the benefits of modern society that is a result of the country moving forward in both good and bad ways.
The issue for me is that we are not helping those in need rather just trying to help a very broad brushed definition of someone with links back to their ancestors culture. We don’t even really test how strong that link is and it is very easy to close the gap on paper with already successful people identifying as aboriginal.
I do get that there are good intentions. I am also super skeptical of opening up the doors for more political and power manipulation in the name of what is the right thing to do.
Yeah, about that, political and power manipulation has been happening, TO ALL OF US, for as long as what we now call Australia has been occupied by people other than the indigenous inhabitants.
Also, The referendum question is simply whether there should be some sort of
advisory body enshrined in the Aus Constitution - At All.
There's nothing to say that an unreceptive government wouldn't just ignore any advice it didn't like.
So not on an individual level like this ?
amp.abc.net.au
What form should the repetitions come in?
Not that it is part of this referendum, I am curious on how this will work on a practical given people feel strongly about it.
*Reparations. and yes, it isn't part of this referendum. so using it as a boogyman tactic like the LNP is, isn't appropriate.
Anyways, there used to be an advisory body ATSIC, bought in by the Hawke labor government, but it got shut down by the johnny howard LNP gubbinment.
Sure, there was a degree of dodgy shit going on, esp with one of the later chairs, Robert Clark, but he got booted.
It was, among other things a convenient reason to dissolve ATSIC. Johnny and the LNP didn't want there to be
Any kind of First nations advisory body at all, and from the grubby level of the LNP/ 'no' campaign, it seems nothing has changed.
en.wikipedia.org
The nature of the proposed advisory body to Federal Parliament, and how it would operate, is going to be left up to the Feds to decide. So, look how the LNP are acting now, imagine how nasty it's going to get if they have to figure out what the voice to parliament will mean in concrete terms.
www.theguardian.com