Trumpster,

$40 million is a conservatives estimate for Charlie Windsor's junket. $2 million you say, that's about 7 cents p/a for every Australian. Do you know how much us taxpayer shell out for aged welfare for the Old Farts $55 billion.

$144 million in stolen wages from aboriginal workers in WA, disgraceful.

You and others here are only banging on about this because it involves Aboriginal people.

That useless slug Peter Dutton cost the taxpayer $449,914.23 in expenses last financial year. A big chunk of it spent flying his family mob around the country.

Another useless slug feeding off the taxpayer is Pauline Pantsdown, who claimed $74,397.29 in domestic travel. This parasite on the taxpayer even had the hide to make a claim for 33 cents for an "office consumable" must have been that paper clip ttbn is banging on about.

"I (ttbn) have as little to do with people as possible these days," Everyone should be thankful for such a small mercy.

Hi Paul,

If seminars began with an official of the Crown welcoming me to Australia and having me sing a round of God Save the King I would be equally disgusted and angry.

What is odious to me about welcome to country/acknowledgement of country is the coercion and absence of an underlying democratic process.

Richard Walley told NITV News in reply to the
criticisms that "Welcome to Country" ceremonies are
new rituals.

Walley explains that what we have today are new interpretations
for non-Indigenous that are quite new, but they are
connected to something quite ancient.

That, "Welcome to Country" ceremonies have taken place for
thousands and thousands of years in Indigenous communities.

This can be confirmed at any of our National and
state libraries, and in the works of reputable historians
using primary sources and archival collections.

"The Führer visited a lunatic asylum. All the patients were told to stand in a row, and they were given instructions on how to salute him. When Hitler approached they all raised their right hands and shouted: ‘Heil Hitler!’ Only the last man in the row uttered no sound and did not raise his hand. Red with rage Hitler stepped up to him and shouted: ‘Don’t you know who I am? Why don’t you raise your hand?’ ‘I beg your pardon,’ replied the man politely, ‘I am the doctor. I’m not a lunatic’.’"

https://www.theholocaustexplained.org/resistance-responses-collaboration/non-conformity/refusal-to-salute/

Hi Foxy,

All indigenous people have in their culture some form of "welcome to country". In the case of my wife's people its called a "Powhiri", which is rather elaborate, with set rituals and protocols. These ceremonies were of great practical importance, not just ceremonial, they indicated that the visitors were not hostile and come in peace, and the host were also similarly obliging.

What some ignorant clowns here want to believe is indigenous people were constantly at war with each other, that's simply not true, constant war serves no ones purpose, and is counter productive.