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"Mr Pascoe believes bullying occurs between those who learned of their heritage and identified later in life, against those who were born and raised steeped in the heritage.

“I've seen these people assume positions of power, and literally push around both old men and women who they disagree with,” said Mr Pascoe.

Yorta Yorta man Ian Hamm, a board member of the Healing Foundation, an advocacy organisation that supports members of the Stolen Generations, holds similar concerns regarding the population increase.

“What is the life expectancy of Aboriginal people per se, off the 2022 set of data with this huge growth rate? Will that life expectancy rate take a sudden skew one way or the other?”

“A referendum on the Voice to Parliament, and for the states now doing Treaties, what will this population explosion mean?”

...Dr Stephen Hagan, a Kullilli man from Queensland told Insight he holds no concerns about people “who are on a road of discovery. I encourage people.”

However, he asserts there are serious negative consequences for Indigenous people who ask the newly-identified about their heritage. Recalling occasions when Dr Hagan has asked colleagues and associates the standard Indigenous protocol questions "Who's your mob? Where are you from?", to understand a person’s Indigenous identity within the kinship structure, he said a common response nowadays is “that’s lateral violence”.

Dr Hagan added the burden of proof “is not [upon] those people claiming to be Aboriginal. The onus is on the people who are challenging them. We don’t have the capacity, the financial resources to take them to Court.”

“They are protected. They can sign a statutory declaration [to confirm they self-identify] and they’re in. They can take on a $200,000 job anywhere they want.”

“People are being remunerated very handsomely to hold a lot of senior positions and in our business” and organisations.

“People are growing rich on our misery.

“This increase in fake Aborigines coming into the organisations. They are basically white people, they’re controlling the narrative of black affairs and they’re controlling the policy that will come out of these organisations.”

MORE http://www.sbs.com.au/news/insight/article/community-leaders-warn-many-who-claim-to-be-indigenous-could-be-fakes/bc6c8bneg

Bruce Pascoe would know, in fact he’d have first hand inside knowledge.

We all live different lives.
We have a private life.
We have a working life.
We have a public life.
We can live them separately most of the time.

Lidia Thorpe was chosen by a large group of people to represent them in parliament.
That is her working life.
She can still have a separate private life.
When the two give the public cause to believe there is a conflict of interest, she must do something to change that.
As I understand it, she did so of her own accord.

Unless she loses the confidence of those who voted for her, she should stay put.
This dramatic idea that the slightest misdemeanour means banishment to the back of beyond is quite absurd.
Let's get real about this.
Some persons seem to think that if they can wield a hatchet well, they are being useful and worthwhile in the community.
I think they just want to feel powerful.

Lidia Thorpe is simply a nasty piece of work.

Unless she is a complete moron she should have seen that getting paid to sit on a classified committee whose purpose is to discuss amongst other things actions to be taken against organised crime while dating a senior member of a criminal gang was a massive conflict of interest.

This green fwit poser could have avoided all of this sh1tstorm by choosing any other committee and should be the first corrupt official to face any new federal ICAC.

So far she has exposed Adam Bandit as a flaccid doormat who is happy for yet another green criminal to walk all over him.

Ipso Facto,
What do you think should be the punishment for politicians who swear a false oath or affirmation to get into Parliament?

Was there a Liberal plant in the jury in the case of the alleged senior Liberal rapists Bruce Lehrmann? We did see Liberal Senator Linda Reynolds inappropriately trying to get the good oil on Brittany Higgins evidence, no doubt so she could massage her own story.