The Wrong Referendum

https://www.ozpolitic.com/articles/wrong-referendum.html

This year, Australians will go to the polls to have their say on the wrong referendum.

On the one hand, the aboriginal voice to parliament is a racist, meaningless, populist gesture straight from the Chinese Communist Party playbook.

On the other hand, the major parties have, over the past few decades, broken a convention that has been followed since 1948 for allocating 6 and 3 year senate terms after a double dissolution election. By introducing new legislation for counting votes, and repeatedly breaking promises regarding how these terms would be allocated, the major parties have opened the door to whichever group controls the senate effectively stealing additional senate seats for themselves. This has affected the outcome of two federal elections and consequently the type of legislation that has been allowed to pass through parliament.

Although an agreed convention ought to work for allocating long and short term senate seats, the repeated broken promises mean that the only way to fix the problem is via a referendum that dictates the seat allocation. Unfortunately, despite previously showing strong support for, and universal agreement on the method, the major parties are no longer willing to even acknowledge there is a problem to be fixed, because to do so is to acknowledge their own lies to the Australian people.

Back to the voice to parliament. It is, at its core, racist. You may be tempted to dismiss this as some kind of benign racism, just as you might be tempted to dismiss whatever form the voice takes a benign dictatorship, but it is far more insidious. It is an attempt to rebrand racism as a social good and a means to solve genuine and significant problems, particularly in remote aboriginal communities. It does this by providing a facade of progress that will, maybe for a decade or two, let people think we are fixing these problems. Further, it will continue the ultimate cause of these problems. The aboriginal culture that we as a society are suddenly so keen to protect is not the tradition culture of pre-colonisation aboriginal society. Instead, it is a new culture that has been crafted through generations of learned helplessness. By stealing aboriginal wages and giving them whatever we deem necessary, we have taught aborigines in our regional communities that there is no point trying to work hard to better their lives, and that they should look to white authority figures for a handout. This has been watered down in recent decades into various forms of welfare and the soft bigotry of low expectations. Even more recently, we have been teaching aborigines to turn this history of oppression into blind racism, which always comes with some kind of handout.

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freediver wrote on Apr 8^th, 2023 at 9:22am:



Misrepresentation: it is a new culture struggling with annihilation and dispossession, and generations of learned welfare dependency.


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WTF does this mean? Surely just a sneaky attempt to deny the fact welfare dependency is forced onto people, NOT sought by them. 

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That's what the imposition of welfare dependency is. 

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A handout? Enforced welfare dependency resulting in the egregious gap statistics....

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I've already refuted enough of it...

Australia: Populated by Indigenous Aborigines...
...then British Cops and Robbers, then American Free Settler Colonialists with a right to own a gun and shoot Boongs, then every other peoples from around the world.

There is really no 'official' thing as an Australian.

Jasin wrote on Apr 8^th, 2023 at 1:26pm:



Remember Redfern in Sydney?

The Abbos got almost free state housing there -

how did they thank us?
they smashed the houses to pieces -
with holes in every wall until they all had to be bulldozed.
You can't help Abbos - no matter how much money you spend on them -
they are dying out - they will be extinct in 100 years.

thegreatdivide wrote on Apr 8^th, 2023 at 3:26pm:


I actually agree with you, at least in this context. You would realise this if you would stop parroting CCP propaganda long enough to read what you are responding to.

I have seen you try to change dozens of different threads to this same topic. I have had the identical argument with you several times about it. It is boring and irritating. You don't live in this country. You know nothing at all about it. You even thought we were in the USA for a while. But you keep trying to tell us what it is really like here.

Ah, my bad. I keep forgetting that every topic is in fact about your idiotic CCP propaganda.