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mothra Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 35268 Gender:	Re: Welcome to country Reply #15 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 2:29am All prejudice is based on ignorance. You are being welcomed to Country, not a country. Are you unaware of what the word means in this context?
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freediver Gold Member Offline www.ozpolitic.com Posts: 48834 At my desk.	Re: Welcome to country Reply #16 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 8:20am Perhaps mothra means cuntry. They often have to bring outsiders in to welcome people to their own workplace.
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Reply #17 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 9:26am

mothra wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 2:29am:

All prejudice is based on ignorance.

You are being welcomed to Country, not a country.

Are you unaware of what the word means in this context?

Bollox. You are either lying deliberately or you are extremely ignorant deliberately. Bit of both.

It is always welcome to a particular tribal territory. A Cape York aborigine could not welcome you to 'Gadigal country' in Sydney. They can't welcome you to the Australian continent as a whole since that was never in their tribal mental repertoire.

Now go and be not an idiot on purpose any more.

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Reply #18 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 9:32am

mothra wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 2:29am:

All prejudice is based on ignorance.

You are being welcomed to Country, not a country.

Are you unaware of what the word means in this context?

What is the difference in the aboriginal context?

Aboriginal people also use the plural lands, not land, when referring to aboriginal clans' ancestral geographical place. Why do you think they use the plural?

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MeisterEckhart Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 11924 Gender:	Re: Welcome to country Reply #19 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 9:54am mothra wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 2:29am: All prejudice is based on ignorance. You are being welcomed to Country, not a country. Are you unaware of what the word means in this context? BTW, when aboriginals refer to 'welcome to country', they mean 'welcome to [this] country'.
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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20499 Gordon Gender:	Re: Welcome to country Reply #20 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 10:01am The welcome to country should be performed by the Diprotodon optatum.
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Gordon Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 20499 Gordon Gender:	Re: Welcome to country Reply #21 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 10:02am Welcome to my land
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Re: Welcome to country
Reply #22 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 1:34pm

AusGeoff wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 2:21am:

John Smith wrote on Dec 26^th, 2022 at 7:21pm:

I'm just surprised it's taken the bigots on this forum to cry about the welcome to country Cheesy

I'm no bigot, and never have been.

I've found that if it looks like poo and smells like poo, it's safest to assume it is poo.

If you don't want to be called a bigot make sure you don't look like one

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Reply #23 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 1:44pm

mothra wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 12:27am:

AusGeoff wrote on Dec 25^th, 2022 at 9:43pm:

I'm a fourth generation Australian, and regard myself as indigenous.
One of the many meanings of the word is "originating or occurring
naturally in a particular place". The word originated in the mid-17th
century from the Latin indigena, "a native".

Oh good. Cats, rabbits, foxes and cane toads are indigenous now. We can stop worrying about them. They belong here and stuff.

Animals are not people. It must strike you as unheard of, or possibly an extreme right wing conspiracy theory but it is the truth.

There. Will you ever recover from this unkind piece of bigoted hate speech from me??

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Reply #24 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 1:47pm

Frank wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 1:44pm:

mothra wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 12:27am:

AusGeoff wrote on Dec 25^th, 2022 at 9:43pm:

I'm a fourth generation Australian, and regard myself as indigenous.
One of the many meanings of the word is "originating or occurring
naturally in a particular place". The word originated in the mid-17th
century from the Latin indigena, "a native".

Oh good. Cats, rabbits, foxes and cane toads are indigenous now. We can stop worrying about them. They belong here and stuff.

Animals are not people. It must strike you as unheard of, or possibly an extreme right wing conspiracy theory but it is the truth.

There. Will you ever recover from this unkind piece of bigoted hate speech from me??

So the definition of the word changes based on whether you're talking about animals or people? Cheesy

Go get that refund..... seriously!

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Our esteemed leader:
I hope that bitch who was running their brothels for them gets raped with a cactus.

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John Smith Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 74257 Gender:	Re: Welcome to country Reply #25 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 5:09pm freediver wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 8:20am: Perhaps mothra means cuntry. Believe it or not but not everything is about you, you know.
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Reply #26 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 5:24pm

John Smith wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 1:47pm:

Frank wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 1:44pm:

mothra wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 12:27am:

AusGeoff wrote on Dec 25^th, 2022 at 9:43pm:

I'm a fourth generation Australian, and regard myself as indigenous.
One of the many meanings of the word is "originating or occurring
naturally in a particular place". The word originated in the mid-17th
century from the Latin indigena, "a native".

Oh good. Cats, rabbits, foxes and cane toads are indigenous now. We can stop worrying about them. They belong here and stuff.

Animals are not people. It must strike you as unheard of, or possibly an extreme right wing conspiracy theory but it is the truth.

There. Will you ever recover from this unkind piece of bigoted hate speech from me??

So the definition of the word changes based on whether you're talking about animals or people? Cheesy

Go get that refund..... seriously!

Yes, Thick-As, animals do NOT have welcome to country rituals - the subject of this thread.

On the other hand, they have been as unchanging for thousands of years as Aborigines - so maybe you are right, if THAT is the point you were groping to make.

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Grappler Truth Teller Feller Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 83842 Proud pre-1850's NO Voter Gender:	Re: Welcome to country Reply #27 - Dec 27^th, 2022 at 7:51pm Damn - must get around to my new year Xmas message video...
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Re: Welcome to country
Reply #28 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 12:02am

Frank wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 5:24pm:

John Smith wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 1:47pm:

Frank wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 1:44pm:

mothra wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 12:27am:

AusGeoff wrote on Dec 25^th, 2022 at 9:43pm:

I'm a fourth generation Australian, and regard myself as indigenous.
One of the many meanings of the word is "originating or occurring
naturally in a particular place". The word originated in the mid-17th
century from the Latin indigena, "a native".

Oh good. Cats, rabbits, foxes and cane toads are indigenous now. We can stop worrying about them. They belong here and stuff.

Animals are not people. It must strike you as unheard of, or possibly an extreme right wing conspiracy theory but it is the truth.

There. Will you ever recover from this unkind piece of bigoted hate speech from me??

So the definition of the word changes based on whether you're talking about animals or people? Cheesy

Go get that refund..... seriously!

Yes, Thick-As, animals do NOT have welcome to country rituals - the subject of this thread.

On the other hand, they have been as unchanging for thousands of years as Aborigines - so maybe you are right, if THAT is the point you were groping to make.

You can tell the old boy's starting to assimilate when he parallels the ways of the Australian Aborigine with our native fauna.

Superior culture, innit. Correlation not causation.

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Reply #29 - Jan 11^th, 2023 at 7:45am

Karnal wrote on Jan 11^th, 2023 at 12:02am:

Frank wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 5:24pm:

John Smith wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 1:47pm:

Frank wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 1:44pm:

mothra wrote on Dec 27^th, 2022 at 12:27am:

AusGeoff wrote on Dec 25^th, 2022 at 9:43pm:

I'm a fourth generation Australian, and regard myself as indigenous.
One of the many meanings of the word is "originating or occurring
naturally in a particular place". The word originated in the mid-17th
century from the Latin indigena, "a native".

Oh good. Cats, rabbits, foxes and cane toads are indigenous now. We can stop worrying about them. They belong here and stuff.

Animals are not people. It must strike you as unheard of, or possibly an extreme right wing conspiracy theory but it is the truth.

There. Will you ever recover from this unkind piece of bigoted hate speech from me??

So the definition of the word changes based on whether you're talking about animals or people? Cheesy

Go get that refund..... seriously!

Yes, Thick-As, animals do NOT have welcome to country rituals - the subject of this thread.

On the other hand, they have been as unchanging for thousands of years as Aborigines - so maybe you are right, if THAT is the point you were groping to make.

You can tell the old boy's starting to assimilate when he parallels the ways of the Australian Aborigine with our native fauna.

Superior culture, innit. Correlation not causation.

It is presented as a virtue, pb, 40k years of continuous presence.

Not something the megafauna that was here can say.

Or the desertification of the inland by burning, er.....sorry... wise management of Mother Gaia.

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