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Let's establish a Makarrata Commission : Comments

By Rodney Crisp, published 1/6/2018

We can design and create a Makarrata Commission that's a democratically elected, non-legislative body speaking on behalf of all our nation's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples

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Alan B, It all sounds so simple doesn’t it?
Until you get down to the practicality of allocating individual areas of land and then it degenerates into actual blood shed. Multiple people claiming the best areas, denial of who is descended from who. Are adopted or step children elible etc?
Is the inheritance line paternal or maternal?
Problem is, most tribes have paternal line which makes all those descended from a white man somewhere in the past ineligible.
In the akimberley people are already at was over personal land rights, the worst is yet to come.
Posted by Big Nana, Friday, 1 June 2018 2:27:59 PM
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Hi Alan,

Maybe i didn't read the article properly, but if a Makarrata is just a Truth and Reconciliation Commission, i.;e. a body dedicated only to searching out the truth, all of the truth and nothing but the truth, AND if is constituted as a Court, with disinterested judges perhaps from the High Court or the various state Supreme Courts, then I'm all for it.

As for your question, " .... will it further embed professional victimhood (reverse apartheid) and a black armband view of history?" that would depend on what the truth, reality, evidence, turns up - I don't think that it will as enthusiastically support the Black-Arm-Band Narrative as people may assume. I suspect that there would be enough surprises, welcome AND unwelcome, for everybody.

For example, massacres: apart from a handful - Coniston, Appin, Myall Creek, Daly River - there don't seem to have been much archaeological or forensic examination of reputed massacre sites. A thorough examination of, say, twenty, around the country may give us all a better idea of what did, and didn't happen. Currently, there seem to be no such investigations anywhere in Australia, apart from one near Mulan in WA, and that's gone awfully quiet. Some bones were found in a camp-fire there: so what do you do with the bones when you're sitting around a camp-fire eating barbecued chops ? Bones in a camp-fire ? Human or animal ? Ancient, historical or very recent ? Natural or unnatural death ? Club wounds or bullet or sabre wounds ? Dead quiet. Personally, I suspect that there were some massacres but far fewer, and smaller, than some of the more lurid stories.

Do we rely on evidence or on stories ? So much to learn and uncover, so many inconvenient truths. Let it rip.

But a Makarrata shouldn't be any more than that, a thorough Truth Recovery process, not some sort of representative body - we have many of those already and they're called parliaments and local/shire/municipal councils.

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Friday, 1 June 2018 2:43:31 PM
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You had one of them once, it was called ATSIC, and you know where that finished, just ask Big Mama. What makes you think the next one will be any different. Just another gravy train for the powerful and stuff all for the rest.
I don't think so.

David
Posted by VK3AUU, Friday, 1 June 2018 3:02:31 PM
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Any entity claiming "TRUTH" or that leftist totem "TRUTH-TELLING" is ignorant or deceptive - just like Ministries of "TRUTH" [1].

Racially selected people supporting their racially exclusive Commission are all about Racial and Political views and Biases.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nineteen_Eighty-Four#Ministry_of_Truth
Posted by plantagenet, Friday, 1 June 2018 3:32:25 PM
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Before anything is done it needs to be determined who can identify as an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander.

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5790985/Woman-19-spat-police-assaulted-paramedic-came-aid.html

Looking at the photos of her in the 1st photo I do not see an aboriginal, in the 2nd photo maybe slightly.

Far too many are claiming to be Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander's, with Politicians and do gooders bending over backwards to appease them it can be an easy way to lots of benefits not available to ordinary Australians
Posted by Philip S, Friday, 1 June 2018 4:24:21 PM
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Folks claiming to be aboriginal, need to pass a DNA test to establish their bona fides and claims!

Although mixed-race people may be entitled to a view and input?
At the end of the day, those able to establish their racial bona fides, via a DNA supporting test, ought have the final say in any negotiated treaty acceptable terms and any and all rights.

And at no time should the very first of the original Australians have their legitimate claims diminished, through the activities of later land annexing arrivals.
Or sh!te stirring urban activists, with a very different divisive agenda?

Even so, the first nations need to settle their differences and ambit claims, so they look less like a divided rabble fighting each other over the spoils of defeat!

We've seen enough of nepotism, embezzlement and corruption, by various parties and blame shifting as some inexcusable activities, are claimed as cultural norms? That few if any tribes or people would want to own or justify as it's all whitey's fault?

We need some sane folk nominated that are able to accept current realities and what is actually possible?
As a start of many small steps that start a trajectory toward a final fully integrated position with claims of persecution and interference that allows things like domestic violence and child sexualization/abuse to remain as cultural norms! Along with astronomical STD rates among Juveniles the highest anywhere in the "civilized" world!

Stop all such unacceptable behaviour/ outcomes/excusing it and focus on what you want to happen.
And needs a few more Senator Bonners to step forward and put the first people's interests first and foremost, from inside the tent!
Alan B.
Posted by Alan B., Friday, 1 June 2018 6:50:19 PM
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