Firstly - I stand by my posting record.
As for offering solutions? We're being given
that opportunity with the Voice referendum. To
allow our First Nations people to suggest
what will work in their communities when government
is making laws and policies that will impact on them.

Of course the Voice alone will not solve the issues facing
Indigenous people. And, non-Indigenous people often don't
know how they should address social inequality brought about
by colonisation and white privilege. The Voice won't fix
what's broken. But it's a step in the right direction.

Indigenous leaders, scholars, activists and community members
have spent decades suggesting solutions to inequalities in
this country, which still haven't been implemented. For
hundreds of years Aboriginal communities have called for
appropriate representation in government.

Yes, there are a few aboriginal MPs - but they also represent
their wide electorates and don't speak on behalf of their
people. The Voice could potentially represent the views of
Indigenous communities and hopefully assist in informing
policy and legal decisions that impact their lives.

But the Voice can't solve the deeply entrenched bigotry in
Australian society, media and institutions.

And expecting it to do so is assigning the role and
responsibility of addressing bigotry to the very people
experiencing it.

This should be the ongoing work of everyone, all of the time,
regardless of the upcoming referendum.

The effects of the social imbalance caused by colonisation
impacts on everyone.

And the reason it continues is because people in power and
the wider community continues to benefit from it.

Josephus you really can't help yourself can you. Sticking to the Rightwing Nut Job script entirely of selectively posting material.

At least you provided a link this time so that is a step forward.

So what did you leave out? Just the critical statement that they had surrendered their native title.

"Noongar had agreed to surrender native title in the claim areas in exchange for a comprehensive set of benefits including the following and more:"

This was the sentence immediately prior to the rest of what you quoted wasn't it.

The fact you deliberately left it out speaks directly to your character and labels you as a little racist turkey selectively regurgitating any divisive take on the Voice that you can.

Utterly pathetic as usual and very much par for the course from you.

Only a racists and a bigot, such an old fool, would keep putting up posts about individual Aboriginal people who have made good in life! You are a jealous hater to think that people who YOU believe should be oppressed by your superior white society should live successful lives. I hope before YOU die, YOU get over it!

Josephus,

Here's something else you left out about Dr Hannah McGlade:

http://nit.com.au/26-09-2023/7822/the-voice-gives-chance-to-organise-collectively

Shame on you.

Hi Foxy,

Thanks for the read, about Dr Hannah McGlade and the story of her people, HEAR! HEAR!

You wont be receiving kudos from that fool spreading pixie dust at the circus, the Kudos Kid, nor from the bigoted racists Proud Boy Jose' or from any of the Decepticon's here, why should we care. Steele has shown these guys to be deceitful liars so many times, and so have I, and others, its getting boring.

Dear Paul,

In my life I had never met people as nasty as some of the
ones I've encountered here. I thought that we could have
discussions without personal insults and labels. Then,
unfortunately I go sucked in as well. I'm not proud o f
the way I have reacted at times. I always believed that
people are basically good and decent. I've been proven wrong
on this forum.

Anyway, we have enough of a choice in posters who are capable
of reasoned debates. We don't have to agree with each other,
but we do need to be civil. Unfortunately some aren't
capable of doing that. My father used to say - that those
sort of low-based attacks - usually come from narrow-minded,
ignorant people. Luckily, I have not encountered many of
those.

I have met some incredible characters on this forum, and for
that I am grateful. To me this is an ongoing learning process.
And I intend to make the most of it - while I still am able
to tolerate the noise.