I don't need welcoming to my own country - I've always been here apart from relatively short overseas stints... mtuli-generation and born here  like several generations - I'm Indigenous..

You can keep your welcome to country for the new citizens on Australia Day.... (ka-tisssssssh- boom!)  ...... any local council that wants to not do it can have their funding cut.

I don't recall their ever being asked to become involved in things that are not within their province........ just maintain the roads and sewers....

Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Dec 25^th, 2022 at 7:50pm:

I agree totally.  I too am getting increasingly pissed off with this
typical bullshit suddenly appearing in every newspaper article and
TV show, film or documentary, art show opening, school concert
night, council or court meetings, and Australian web sites such as
the ABC's or SBS's.

Quote:

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".

I was born here in 1946, and certainly regard myself just as much, if
not more so, as an Australian, than any 20- or 40-year-old Aboriginal
activist half my age.

In short, this silly Aboriginal acknowledgement can only be seen as
ultimately divisive—furthering the "them and us" mindset amongst
both blacks and whites in Australia.

—As a side note, Ayer's Rock, Mount Warning, the Grampians,
   the Olgas etc were all here as geographic features for millions
   of years prior to the Aboriginal migration from SE Asia.  Nobody
   "owns" these natural features of the continent.i

Even some Aboriginal elders are speaking out and saying it is being overused, misused and is nothing more than virtue signalling, which is exactly what it is.

When I see it on the tv I change channels.   

Welcoming people to country automatically creates of them Outsiders and non-citizens of their own country.  Not a very subtle way of saying it's all theirs and nobody else has any rights to it at all.   The New Genocide Attempt at Whites .... second class citizens in their own country.... be careful what you ask for, Jacky-Jacky.

Clearly divisive and in all honesty, a declaration of war, all wrapped up in a smarmy way of insulting everyone else.

As I said long ago - once was enough - same as that stupid 'apology' and all the other BS that has followed from it.

Right - a PM apologised for past wrong - you've been recognised - thanks for welcoming us all as equals to our own country... now get on with fixing your own lives.

"As a side note, Ayer's Rock, Mount Warning, the Grampians,
   the Olgas etc were all here as geographic features for millions
   of years prior to the Aboriginal migration from SE Asia.  Nobody
   "owns" these natural features of the continent."

Exactly what I said...  NOBODY owns these natural features and nobody owns national parks.... there are NO unused parts of national parks - they are all in perpetual use AS national parks.  This all must be stopped right now, and while we're at it, we need a change in our immigration policies so as to exclude people with no idea other than bringing down in part or whole this country that welcomed them.  Any council that does not wish to abide by Australia Day etc can have funding cut.

Johnnie wrote on Dec 26^th, 2022 at 4:30pm:



I am sensing frustration.... 

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

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



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