SteeleRedux

You’re still on first base, whereas I’m sliding in on a home run.

There is no conspiracy theory, it’s true. The Aboriginals are being led by the nose willingly by Toady Politicians on all sides that lack imagination and inner fortitude enough to guide Australia on a path of independence.

Maybe do some research and follow the trail. At the least you can read that’s a good start, and allow yourself the pleasure of free thought.

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Dear Murray (the author),

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As Darwin explained in 1859 in his famous book “On the Origin of Species” :

« Natural selection is the process through which populations of living organisms adapt and change. Individuals with adaptive traits—traits that give them some advantage—are more likely to survive and reproduce. These individuals then pass the adaptive traits on to their offspring. Over time, these advantageous traits become more common in the population. Through this process of natural selection, favourable traits are transmitted through generations. »

Our indigenous peoples have been obliged to follow that path, either by nature or by force.

About 60% of our approximately 1 million indigenous peoples have more or less assimilated our culture today and about 40% have not. The 60% are what we might term “progressives” ("one who favours, promotes, or commends social and political change in the name of progress") and the 40% are “conservatives” (preserving traditional values and maintaining the status quo).

The assimilation process has by no means been entirely “natural”. It has been largely forced. The 1937 Assimilation policy defines the objective as follows :

« Generally, by the fifth and invariably by the sixth generation [2062 – 2087], all native characteristics of the Australian Aborigine will be eradicated.... The problem of our half-castes will quickly be eliminated by the complete disappearance of the black race, and the swift submergence of their progeny in the white (Commonwealth Government, 1937). »

The Aboriginal Welfare Board carried out the process of breeding out the black appearance, black culture and the black characteristics of Aboriginal people. Aboriginal children were adopted or fostered by non-Aboriginal parents or sent to institutions for non-Aboriginal children.

The Assimilation Policy was eventually dismantled in 1969, but the effects of racial bigotry and discriminatory practices continued well beyond that time.

The 40% of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander “conservatives” reject or are incapable of assimilation – which is their utmost right.

That is why the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples exists and what the Voice referendum was aiming to accommodate.

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Finally, some are waking up to Labor !

Banjo Patersons snow job for the day!

“That is why the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples exists and what the Voice referendum was aiming to accommodate“.

You’re actually on third base, an improvement on our dim witted friend SteeleRedux. The problem you both share, is your self indulgent habit of lulling yourselves to sleep with the strains of your own violin music!

Since your argument above adds more traffic to the six lane highway of white racism, a question immediately popping into mind is; if Aboriginals were considered to be children at risk, judged on the community standard of 1936, why do you judge that act of kindness one of racism when those children were taken into white communities to be raised in a progressive and hygienic environment which offered them nurturing and an educated and integrated future? You advertise yourself as the racist with that one!

But moving on to home base, the UN 30/30 biodiversity charters aims are to use Indigenous populations to achieve its aims of locking away from functioning populations, vast areas of our Country for preservation purposes, which also includes voiding the use of the oceans for fishing and recreational use.

The UN charter clearly states the intention to use native title, treaties and whatever imaginative innovations such as the Voice to achieve the theft of land from the rightful inhabitants who are actually all Australian citizens. Australia does not belong to the UN to do with it what it wills.

The second hole in your theory promoting the voice is the pretence that the voice would assist in the welfare of the Native Australian. It dies not need my input to debunk that one, that was a straight out no it wouldn’t, and 60% of Australians recognised that point.

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Dear diver dan,

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You ask :

« … if Aboriginals were considered to be children at risk, judged on the community standard of 1936, why do you judge that act of kindness one of racism when those children were taken into white communities to be raised in a progressive and hygienic environment which offered them nurturing and an educated and integrated future? »
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I find it difficult to imagine, diver dan, that you could possibly ignore that those “acts of kindness” as you describe them, were often executed without the slightest warning, aggressively, and sometimes even violently, as brutal acts of kidnapping – given the wide publication of numerous victim accounts and first-hand witness testimonies, as well as the ample literature, and numerous films and documentaries on the subject.

Colonisation is rarely a peaceful event and after the battle is won, the victor’s law prevails and it’s the victor’s version of events that goes down in history. We all know that.

Following the colonisation of Australia, the two policies that dominated the Colonial government’s approach to the Aboriginal population were biological absorption and cultural assimilation.

Biological absorption that reigned from the late 19th century until after the First World War attempted to integrate Aborigines into white society by segregating full-blooded individuals with the hope that they would eventually die out, and by encouraging mixed-race individuals to marry low-class white individuals, thereby reducing the Aboriginality of subsequent offspring.

Cultural assimilation, which became the preferred policy after the Second World War, attempted to culturally integrate Aboriginal peoples into white society. The focus was no longer on race but on the degree of civilisation and comfort within the white cultural and sociological sphere.

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Aborigines were considered to be an inferior race – and possibly still are by some Australians of Caucasian descent, even including Aborigines with a much higher degree of academic, social and political status than themselves.
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By the way, diver dan, I can’t help wondering what your attitude would have been if the Japanese had invaded Australia during the Second World War and driven you out of your home, parking you in a reserve somewhere in the Northern Territory and kidnapping your children “to be raised in a progressive and hygienic [Japanese] environment”. Would you describe that as an “act of kindness” ?

Let’s say the newly-installed Japanese government of Australia also decided to do exactly what the Colonial government of Australia did – you know : biological absorption : breed out your European genes – followed by cultural assimilation : oblige you to speak Japanese and adopt the Japanese culture.

Would you consider that too just another “argument that adds more traffic to the six-lane highway of white racism” ?

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