have you ever been welcomed to country at your job

what did they do

how long does it normally last

how often do you have to endure it etc

does it annoy you

Brian Ross wrote on Sep 6^th, 2023 at 5:12pm:


lmao why do you keep bringing up my avatar like i give a sh1 t

ill put someone even more offensive in there if you keep it up

three strikes brian and i'll do it

Sick to death of hearing this contrived nonsense... just get on with improving your lives and leave everyone else alone .... no wonder over 60% are against this voice... they're sick of hearing Abotalk day and night as if it actually means something ...

Down Victoria way they won't end up in prison if they'd just stop their bad ways... no worries.. must be 'scrimination when they're caught for a crime.... poor bastards ....    

Frank wrote on Sep 6^th, 2023 at 5:27pm:


Very inclusive and in keeping with modern British drama.... Marie Antoinette was black....

Hitler - Mein Black's Kampf!

JC Denton wrote on Sep 6^th, 2023 at 4:21pm:


It is a silly charade. I have been to meetings at most universities and a fair few state and federal departments and there is an unspoken protocol for acknowledging country. It is largely about perceptions, 'optics'.
It is never done when you are meeting within an organisational unit or for a specific purpose with one or two sets of outsiders. Then it's business.
If there is any minuting that is for a wide ranging discussion from a variety of participants from outside the organisation, it almost invariably done by the chair just to arse cover and virtue signal at the same time. It's done like the penitence, recited formulaicly like Hail Mary for the 57th time, in order to get it out of the way and to avoid any disgruntled complaints later.

I have chaired hundreds of meeting within and across universities and I never once uttered it myself. I had people who piped in, reciting it, between my introductions/welcomes to the meeting and the first item of business but it always sounded silly and twee.

Welcome to country is more complicated as you have to have a pool of local 'elders' - uncles and aunties they invariably call them,  each in their early 40s, looking and sounding a wizened 73  - who are willing to come and do it for a fee. If it's a big event like a conference opening or orientation for a new academic year or an opening of a new building or intergalactic telescope or biomedical lab (things Aborigines are well known for) it is simply unavoidable. Lives would be ruined if no due reverence was expressed for 50,000 years of aerodynamic, biomedical, architectural, intellectual expertise of Aborigines in whose proud footsteps we reverently and guiltily tread.

JC Denton wrote on Sep 6^th, 2023 at 6:18pm:

It is an essentially metropolitan ritual, invited by people who never come across an Aborigine, except as another lecturer or professor so they make nice.

It is a farce. Everyone titters inside, especially the half Abos performing it.