Australian Aboriginal History, human evolution on this planet and 'The Voice' boondoggle.
The Smoking Ceremony was invented in 1976 by Ernie Dingo. The Acknowledgement of Country was invented in the 1990s.
Aboriginals, like everyone born here, are Australians. Most Australians have ancestors born elsewhere. Does that make them less entitled to equal political status? WHY?
If everyone is entitled to equal political status why should Aboriginals be granted separate representation? Isn’t that the forerunner to apartheid?
Every Australian has a unique history and personal and societal needs. No two humans are totally alike but arguably all have the same Creator-given human rights.
Being Australians, Aboriginals should have the same political and civic rights and responsibilities as everyone else. Special pleading for unique political rights based on ancestry are neither democratic nor just and equitable.
Giving special political status to the progeny of one segment of the population presupposes the progeny of all other groups are less worthy.
In a democracy everyone should have equal rights and receive equal political and civic treatment.
The progeny of English and Irish convicts who built Australia’s infrastructure and prosperity can surely claim their ancestors experienced hardship and disadvantage while creating the basis for our current prosperity. If disparate political representation is to be granted to current generations surely the descendants of English and Irish convicts merit it?
In 1967 aboriginals achieved political equality and today some 11 elected aboriginals have the same VOICE in the Australian Parliament as other Australians. To suggest that they have a lesser VOICE than other groups in Australian politics is a LIE as the campaign for “The Voice” attests.
No other minority Australian groups get a special "VOICE" on national ABC news and other programs every night, but the Aboriginal Industry does.
Apart from having 11 Aboriginal senators there are 400 taxpayer funded Aboriginal Groups plus an Indigenous Affairs Minister - Linda Burney.
In addition there are 32,278 Aboriginal Corporations;
243 Native Title Bodies;
48 Land Councils;
35 Regional Councils;
122+ Aboriginal Agencies;
Advisory Boards;
145 Health organisations';
11 indigenous Federal MP’s’
12 Culturally important Indigenous days;
Taxpayers pay A$33 Billion annually for 984,000 aboriginals (3.8% of the population)
Expenditure per person in (2012-2013) was $43,449 on indigenous Australians compared to $20,900 on other Australians. Inflation will have increased that amount;
Australian taxpayers spend at least 100 Million PER DAY on direct support for indigenous Australians which equates to approx A$39.5 Billion of direct Government expenditure p.a…
At best, ‘The Voice’ is nothing but a one way ticket to poverty for other Australians.
Alleged net worth of Marcia Langton - $1.6 million; Linda Burney- $5 million; Noel Pearson- $5 million; Anthony Albanese- $10 million.
The Aboriginal Industry is using the Voice referendum campaign to conceal its real grab for more constitutional power, namely its ludicrous demand for a treaty between approximately 500 aboriginal communities in Australia and the 97+% of non-indigenous Australians. That is not only racist and divisive, it's ridiculous. For starters, how can the Australian nation enter into a treaty with itself? Is it covertly envisaged that the Australian nation is to be divided into about 500 separate nations all controlled by people claiming some indigenous DNA?
Moreover, giving Aboriginal advocates special constitutional rights to further increase their demands for special treatment and more community resources won’t ensure that rural aboriginal communities actually benefit from the existing A$33+ billion annual national subsidies to the 3+% of the population that currently claim some aboriginal DNA. That’s a very hefty annual subsidy on a per capita basis, especially if it is genuinely directed at alleviating the disadvantage of rural aboriginal communities. IF outback aboriginal communities aren’t getting it, that must be because Aboriginal Industry organisers are getting an excessive share.
Existing subsidies, IF equally distributed to all Aboriginal communities, would already have solved their problems. For an example of how some aboriginal elders unequally distribute funds to other aboriginals see eg: Elizabeth Wynhausen’s article appeared in the Weekend Australian Review Section January 6-7 1996 p1-2: THE BROTHERS - https://elisabethwynhausen.com/EW09_the_brothers.html
The situation has deteriorated since 1996.
Rosita Díaz also draws attention to this problem of unequal funding distribution to aboriginals by the Australian Aboriginal Industry. see: @RositaDaz48: https://twitter.com/RositaDaz48/status/1701090826032726323
Rosita suggests that Linda Burney needs to be Audited saying that “Auntie Gucci”, Linda Burney, has been in Charge pf Indigenous Affairs for nearly 2 decades and that in the last 14 years, A$490 Billion has been spent on her watch. The question is: “Where has all the money gone”?
In any event the entire Australian Aborigianl Industry needs to be properly audited annually: https://twitter.com/RositaDaz48/status/1701090826032726323
Rosita Díaz X Post @RositaDaz48 also mentions some obvious flaws in recently concocted Aboriginal culture and history.
•Dot painting was invented in 1971 by Geoffrey Bardon who then taught the style to aborigines. •There are no dot paintings in caves.
•The Welcome to Country Ceremony was invented in 1976 by Ernie Dingo and Richard Walley to welcome Maori performers.
•There is no aboriginal word for a Welcome To Country like the Maori's Haka. •How can it be an 'ancient Ceremony' if there is no word for it. •How could someone say 'Who's going to perform the welcome to country ceremony’?
•The Acknowledgement of Country was invented in 1990s.
•The Smoking Ceremony is also a recent invention. •There is no film or video evidence of any of these ceremonies at important events such as royal tours, the 1956 Olympics etc., prior to the 1970s & 1990s.
•’Walkabout; is also considered an offensive term, since it implies someone is lazy or laye, despite it being an integral part of initiation ceremonies.
•The' oldest living culture' is not just factually incorrect, it defies logic. •The branch of the tree cannot be older than the tree itself. •Humans evolved in Africa. •There are African tribes who live exactly as they did 100,000 years ago, without mobile phones, 4WDs, or welfare, etc. •Aborigines are descended from these tribes as humans moved out of Africa around the world. —As such, Aboriginal culture cannot possibly be older than the cultures from which it evolved.
My comment:
I agree with Rosita Diaz’s debunking of alleged Australian Aboriginal culture and practices but disagree with her assumption that that humans evolved in Africa 100,000 years ago. The ‘Life Carrier’ narrative in the Urantia Book (UB) indicates that human consciousness arose near the south western edge of the Eurasian continent about 993,500 years ago. See: The Urantia Book, Papers 62, 63, 64 & 65 62:6.1 (709.2), 63:7.5 (717.6), 64:7.21 (729.2), 65:8.7 (740.3) (1) at: https://www.urantia.org/urantia-book-standardized/paper-62-dawn-races-early-man
Apparently the first two human beings here were born about 993,500 years ago and their progeny gradually spread throughout the continents, eventually reaching Australia via a land bridge from present day Indonesia/New Guinea. The first inhabitants of Australia were probably a pygmy people of the “Java Man” type who were subsequently genocided by larger peoples who probably migrated from India via the intervening land masses.
The Khazarian Mafia’s (KM) Darwinian evolutionary narrative that consciousness somehow arose from inanimate slime; and the KM’s bought and paid for scientists’ prognostications that the first humans appeared in Africa, is typical demonic bullshit, like the rest of our KM concocted history and science on this planet. That lying narrative is typified by the COVID-19 scamdemic; the KM’s ‘sickness industries’ debilitating and sometimes lethal vaccines for nonexistent viruses; and its ‘Chicken Little’ global warming cum climate change destroying the planet ‘yesterday’ propaganda; and all the rest.
In this free-will world we are of course entitled to believe whatever we choose, including the idea that we conscious, featherless bipeds, are a unique aberration and probably the only and certainly the smartest creatures in the Cosmos. BUT the belief that we are the most intelligent creatures to ever exist tends to be negated by the fact that we think that inanimate and mostly chimerical ‘money’ does ‘stuff' and that it has more agency than people.(2)
If further evidence that we are not the smartest beings in existence is required the fact that humans here entertain myriad ludicrous ideas like the ‘Voice’ campaign in Oz should remove all doubt.
Frankly I prefer the narrative in the UB as being somewhat more believable.
End Notes:
(1) The Urantia Book, first published by the Urantia Foundation in 1955, presents us with the origin, history, and destiny of humanity. It answers questions about God, life in the inhabited universe, the history and future of this world, and it includes an uplifting narrative of the life and teachings of Jesus.
(2) https://ronchapman.substack.com/p/cosmic-consciousness-and-its-energetic
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‘The Voice’ Boondoggle:
Giving special and unequal constitutional rights to Aboriginals is racist and divisive and will result in neither equality nor equity for anyone.
As regards claims that aboriginals were the custodians of this continent, there is no evidence for that assertion. Moreover, why, since no aboriginal alive in the last 200 years has ever acted in that capacity, is any aboriginal alive today entitled to ‘just terms’ for continental custodianship let alone the development of this nation? Convicts and many other non-indigenous immigrants exuded ‘blood sweat and tears’ to create the prosperous nation we have today; the Aboriginal Industry didn’t.
Professor Geoffrey Blainey and Warren Mundine state the bleedin’ obvious about this ‘Pascoesq’ ‘custodianship nonsense:
Australian historian exposes past of Yunupingu:
This is a good analysis: Fake Aboriginal History and Culture revealed -
These two looong videos also provide a lot of detailed info about even handed early British administration in OZ AND accounts of actual Aboriginal barbarism and brutality towards each other and especially towards Aboriginal females:
And:
Abuse of excessive powers granted to Aboriginal Land Councils are already obvious:
A recent Sky News video:
Sky News: Statement of fact- the British colonisation of Oz was the 'best thing' that could have happened.
Ron