Grappler Truth Teller Feller wrote on Apr 7
th, 2023 at 12:33pm:
You have a problem with common law being properly codified and organised so that it does the intended job equally for all rather than permitting an ad hoc accumulation of disparate results?
Yes, when that law oversees entrenched poverty and homelessness, amidst soaring inequality and gross accumulation of wealth by individuals.
Quote:Clearly your idea of law and of common law is distorted.
How is promotion of
collective wellbeing "distorted"?
Quote:One wrongful decision made on the basis of a previous decision but not the same shows the need for proper codification....
Sounds sensible....
Quote:Mabo was a distinct claim where there were clear connections...
But anachronistic in the modern world; in today's money-based economy, we need houses to live in, not land with equal rights to roam over ...
Quote: most modern claims have only an alleged 'spiritual' connection, since none of the claimants actually live there - they live in town and eat Macca's etc - and they scarcely live the transient, land profligate hunter gatherer lifestyle. On that last - that means such mega claims are wrongful from the outset.... history has overtaken them.... sorry to explain that to you.
No need to explain it to me: I want us ALL to move forward into a new world eg, described in the UNUDHR.
Quote: It is nothing but semantic abuse to say that people should have the right to exercise traditional things on a huge swathe - something they were always able to do - and then somehow translate that into absolute ownership by modern rules.
Correct: a confusion of cultures and anachronistic ideas.
Quote:It just doesn't wash - hence the need for a proper reconciliation and ratification of what 'native title' actually means in the modern age.
I agree; for me 'native title' should mean exercise of personal agency in a poverty free world.
[I reject claim of mere "assimilation", since what I am seeking requires change of our own
'survival of the fittest' 'culture' as well.
Quote:I know that's too hard for you to follow out there in Housoville with your Houso mouth....
Refuted above; whose's insisting on maintaining the 'cultural status quo', you or me?