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wake the fuck up media!
@stu I have unsuccessfully tried to find what Bud1 posted in this forum topic which I commented on as "powerful and truthful words" a day or two before he was most recently sin binned. Can you post the link to his or my reply for me here, Cheers
So the breakdown was 40-60% ... that would be right. In 67 it was 90% with bipartisanship... that's 10% of the racist/haters accounted for. Take 10% racist/haters off the 60% leaves the conservative 50%.
That's about right... the reason Coalition govts get in... It's only when this cohort sees the absolute corrupt rubbish they've voted in (such as the last lot of bandits) that they'll vote for Alp. Australia is a conservative country and, in general, people are wary/scared of change. That's why progressive politics is generally resisted. This should change once our kids grow up... they can see the catastrophes of climate change, they will learn of Australia's deeply racist past (WAP)... They will learn the necessity of valuing the environment. I'm an optimist.
As for the local crew... I would say about 60% are racist/stupid/gullible/ignorant... so that seems about right.
Glad someone called out that nonsense.
Geez the only people really raving about woke etc are the right. Been MO of extreme right and fascists groups for years. Create enemy then go hard, Nazis did it well and it seems to be the same groups @gsco is claiming are doing this that the Nazis went after.
No I am not calling anyone a Nazi, just highlighting who they attacked. Left wing groups, unions, homosexuals etc.
That we are heading down trumpist style mess is squarely on right side of politics. Albo for all his faults and fuck ups tried to unite country where Dutton etc divided, black gangs anyone?
Now I just read that Jacinta Price having a go at AEC. Dangerous undermining institutions such as this, not the words of true conservative.
As a side note, have started watching doco on Netflix called Ordinary Men, about nazi death squads who were just tasked with killing Jews. Heavy as they were just 'normal men.'
Banality of evil.
There is no politics in this passionate statement .
Exactly what most Australians want to happen with the FNP issue .
That is why the polls were so positive at the start .
For governments to lead and for the media and opposition to keep them accountable .
For governments to get off their bums and do some real work .
Address the most urgent issues now .
They have been working on it since fucken 1967 !
Oh My Stars - it seems so obvious .
KISS .
Maybe the issues he is talking about could have been helped by the Voice?
Faux outrage me thinks ...
Id meme it if I knew how...
you cannot be serious!
the dude just won the battle of his life...
faux outrage... not neceessary / not possible
you're whole premise is contemporary 'progresive politics' isn't part of the problem...
broken
again...
irredeemable
(you)
Ok yep I apologise. Typed before thinking too much.
Still the Voice was going to address the things he was talking about. It was a start and something new.
No member of LNP really has any right to criticise as they were in govt for a decade and did sweet fuck all.
Price is IPA sock puppet and my guess now Gina etc are finished their campaign, she will drop from view.
'woke'
'fascists'
'homosexuals'
haha
call out your bitches... before it is too late!
And if you think Dutton is now going to step up to help FNP's, I've got a cheap bridge for sale.
Only positive I can see is that the electorates Dutton needs to be electable all voted Yes.
LNP brand toxic in their traditional areas and where they need votes.
Ha ha OMG i saw Roves rant
Not going to bother picking the whole post apart but
"20% of the 4% indigenous people(0.8%) who don't want the Voice"\
Has been found to no longer to be true the correct figure from more recent polling was 59% Aboriginal support, majority but far from 80%
Continuing with the 80% figure through the whole campaign like they did was misleading and would have been like continually claiming 60 to 70% of Australia supports the voice because that was the figure very early in the year.
Andy - If the process was done properly we would have known ( not a maybe ) these issue would have been addressed .
That is what referendums are supposed to do , in the real world .
The vote would be a big YES , today , as the early polls indicated .
I feel so sad and angry today .
What a waste !
Perhaps , things in Alice Springs , would not change much , longterm , with either a Yes or a No ?
I pray work has been done on a Plan B .
Our festering sore is a National disgrace !
It's distressing for our whole country .
Thanks for proving my my point on which side of politics amplify identity politics, and then you mentioned critical race theory. Mate, they’re largely identity politics talking point’s originating in the US. On one hand you say we’re on a slippery slope to US style division then you immediately want to discuss and blame lefty’s for raising these issues in Australian discourse. Are you kidding me?
I don't...
dutton has nothing but bile
and, but... he influenced no one!
yes, he could've gone bipartisan...
but labor made no effort to bridge the gap
none whatsoever
they also refused to meet the blak sovereign movement...
flatly refused, many offers...
own goals all round
Problem with this theory is polls and seats show that while LNP voters tended to vote No and Labor voters tended to Vote yes some LNP voters voted Yes and lots of Labor voters No, even polls showed not all Green voters voted Yes although they followed party stance much more than other voters.
It should also be noted all of Western Sydney a very large multicultural area voted No
BTW. Once the kids grow up, so will the way they vote, the brain isn't even fully developed until the mid to late 20's and then throw in life experience .
It was not Labor's policy. It was an election promise before they gained power.
The wreckers wrecked it. Yep Labor could have run it better, but easier to tear down than build.
Anyway it's done, but reckon this lefty woke journo nails it.
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/commentisfree/2023/oct/14/al…
We saw plenty of disgusting tactics from the Yes campaign. Spitting middle aged women, gimps wearing dog masks in public, Briggs labelling everyone racists that didnt agree with his sellout views. Ray martin, the rainbow brigade asking for their own voice, The harrys abusing anyone that didn't agree. The list goes on.
Bumping up the dung pile
Sypkan, but "the left is kind" someone on this forum once said. If it is progressive activism it must be good no matter what the behaviour.
China's cultural revolution struggle sessions were very progressive, left and "kind":
"Struggle sessions or denunciation rallies were violent public spectacles in Maoist China where people accused of being "class enemies" were publicly humiliated, accused, beaten and tortured by people with whom they were close. Usually conducted at the workplace, classrooms and auditoriums, "students were pitted against their teachers, friends and spouses were pressured to betray one another, [and] children were manipulated into exposing their parents"
Ideology, self righteousness and group think can lead to some very strange places on either end of the left to right spectrum.
The left is actually more prone to extreme ideology and activism than the right because self righteousness is easier to sustain using the "greater good" and virtue justification. Tens of millions were killed under the kindness of the left in China and Russia for real or perceived wrong think.
That is, excepting religious fundamentalists, who have the ultimate justification of god on their side and can be equally frightening.
If its so wonderful and magic no reason Albo cant put it in policy like he should have before taking it to a referendum.
Obviously Jacinta will drop from view, at the best of times people dont even know who the Indigenous minister of affairs is let alone the shadow minister of indigenous affairs.
BTW. You do know Gina funds Aboriginal program's and also would have provided many very well paying jobs, id expect also provides income to mobs with land rents etc
https://nit.com.au/17-10-2022/4098/when-it-comes-to-roy-hill-and-gina-r…
here u go GuySmiley
Page 72,
(I just googled a few keywords.)
for sheer comic value its
1. Trump beats Hilary
2. No vote
3. Brexit
Thanks gsco.
Imo Bud1’s words ^^^ are the best written anywhere I have read arguing for the Voice by a person often dismissed.
So where does this leave us and what next? All I’m prepared to say is if the country isn’t prepared to say YES and embrace the request for the Voice, something that wouldn’t have meant 2 beans to people what future chance has any government of any persuasion have of getting people to agree to change that actually effects their life in the tiniest of ways?
What a miserable selfish country we have become.
Yep disgusting far worse than the Nazis pushing the No vote.
So if wazza has been so involved and concerned why hasn’t there been better results ? that’s the questions the media should be asking. JP wants an audit into the spending, great idea let’s look at the last 10 years .
yep agree with all...
except the lack of empathy part... it's true for certain sections of the community... but...
'...It will require a new generation of Indigenous leadership to pick up the pieces of this failure...'
yep
that's what is needed!!
so so much...
people won't listen to jp... they're 'triggered' ...instantaneously...
so I urge you to listen to little hardnut kuarna girl on that qanda episode...
'aboriginal leadership needs a good clean out'
'need some new blood'
the voice was only ever going to empower the old guard
the crew that got us to this point... with all the corruption and cover up that comes wih em...
look at the history of some commentators on here, they take any criticism as attack... and attack back...
they don't believe in reform, or that any trasnparancy is needed, they cannot distinguish between heartfelt constructive criticism and 'racism'
all they do is frown...
frown, slur, and belittle...
the whole blackfella land council, NGO mega-complex needs reform
needs!!!
a shining ray of sunshine...
all power to jp and am... and little hardnut kuarna girl...
it's gonna hurt, but little will change without it...
That's why the last corrupt lot got definitively turfed out on their arses
Look to yrself dickbrand
Tell me how the voice would only empower the old guard . The design put forward by the yes campaign was for community elected representatives not government appointed ones . The LNP are all for a voice but only want JPs voice , why do you think that might be ?
Sypkan wtf was that gender rally video, my brain short circuited. Had to look up what a TERF is and well there you go there's a contested discourse on that one. Pink blue and Lenin flags were something new.
Re: the voice result, how do you all think the prediction of graduate/non graduate and internationalist/nationalist voting intentions suggested here...
https://tapri.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/Voice-finalV5.pdf
...worked out on the day?
Is that all you can think of fishfood? You're on #boycottindo's truck of stupidity, ain't ya dumbo.
Anthropology 101 will teach u thickheads that comparatively blackfellas were living a MUCH healthier AND longer life at the precolonial time than Europeans. They worked less for their food, had more time for their cultural/spiritual pursuits and I imagine were much happier than their peasant counterparts (soon to be invaders/dispossessors). Yes it would've been tough living in the bush but that's why they're so resilient... not like the privileged whiny softcocks that are today's berleys, indos, gscos etc
as peter garrett found out...
you can only really work within the system we have... unforunately, with all the compromise and tempering that comes with that...
I think it was mundine that said...
'...i realised you can only do so much from outside the tent...'
you can bag him as a compromising 'coconut' if you wish
or you can appreciate his genuine concerns and efforts within the system...
both in labor and the coalition!
the guys a pragmatist
I'll take pragmatism over nutty ideologues anyday!
nutty ideologues whose only goal seems to be to tear the whole fucking thing down... in seach of some long passed mystical utopia...
idealism is good... but...
Yeh, maybe give it a couple of days, IB.
and rightly so...
ALL corruption should be shone on and challenged
and that's the difference between you and me winnie...
ALL!
possibly the only difference... I grew out of my 14 year old girl idealism...
Geez watched 30 seconds of that. Not woke enough to watch more. :-)
Sorry dickbrand... fail to see any idealism on my part. Just interested in justice... for ALL.
And btw...u sure you've grown out of yr girliness?
dude... it's their pet project!
theirs!!
same old cats that have been there eons...
I don't hate on em like some do
but fresh blood and new ideas are good
"...The design put forward by the yes campaign was for community elected representatives not government appointed ones..."
yeh, and look how that is done...
how it has been done for eons
you've been around long enough - and been close enough to village life (im assuming) - to see how power is entenched
the voting patterns of remote communities is gonna be most interesting... already seeing signs...
and, the latest poll... 59% support amongst indigenous crew...
that's some pretty significant numbers!
especially when you consider many truly would have nothing to lose from the proposal...
literally nothing to lose
except their 'voice' maybe...
Edit: Commendable words Harry. So true.. It’s a given that they lived in a utopian paradise, they had things very well organised and they’re movements regulated according to the seasons conditions, winter storms, summer sunshine.
Anyone even hinting at the suggestion they are better off now because of the industrial revolution and the colonial occupation may think that’s the case but it cannot be right.
That form of thinking is either ill-informed of how they ‘lived the life’, or have prejudiced, bigoted and or vested interests, they cannot be that dumb or antagonistic, sorry.
"...Sorry dickbrand... fail to see any idealism on my part. Just interested in justice... for ALL.
And btw...u sure you've grown out of yr girliness?..."
nah, still got a bit of benchong...
Hey gsco, while you have your big pinboard set up (so the neighbours can see what a beautiful mind you have, and what academia and the private sector missed out on) could you use your bits of string and flag toothpicks to try to work out a really serious concern: why does this bewildering video^^ have the same transitional music the WSL uses?
FNP prior to colonisation had a pretty good life.
But there was quite a lot of ritualised conflict between tribes and payback type conflct. Wholesale slaughter of other tribes did not seem to occur. Stick to your territory, respect the "rules", kept conflict at a minimum. Early historical accounts suggest that lots of fights were over women.
I have a book on this guys life:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcisse_Pelletier
"He was abandoned in 1858 at the age of 14 on the Cape York Peninsula, in Australia, during the dry season (late September or early October). He was discovered and rescued by an Aboriginal family and went on to live with the Uutaalnganu. They adopted Narcisse who they named Amglo, for the next 17 years, until he was found by the crew of the John Bell on 11 April 1875."
He did not want to be rescued. He fully settled into tribal life and was never happy back in France.
Cook observed tribes having an easy happy life compared to his sailors sweating all day repairing his ship.
Another 10,000 years left alone might have been good but was never going to happen.
One of the major colonising powers was going to arrive and colonise at some point with all that entails. They all could be brutal and by the time Australia was settled they had become experienced at doing rapid colonisation through dispossession, disease and often murder. For example, it was sort of all over in South Australia in 30 years (control the water holes - for farming - in a dry country destroyed their food sources). Australia was ideal for sheep and cattle which allowed fast expansion and required huge land expanses. Whereas Brazil was a hard slog through jungle and with a climate that led to disease.
Sad and sorry tales.
Was Britain the best of many bad colonising scenarios? Probably early on given what we know of Spain, Portugal and the Dutch. But debatable. No good options.
Long term though. the British colonies around the world seem to have prospered far more than those of Spain, Portugul etc. There is a former spanish colony in central America that was initially a British Colony which still wishes a century later that they had stayed under British rule. Argentina has always struggled.
The legal, cultural and economic system from Britain has inbuilt advantages that spill over to all citizens to some degree in terms of stability and wealth.
A silver lining? I would say so, looking at the long term bigger picture. However, today living in the here and now for disadvantaged FNP, that would often mean little.
But at some point the past has to be seen as that and not dwelled on forever.
India was invaded something like 30 times. Could that all be reconciled fairly and justly?
it is concerning basesix, well spotted...what's your theory..??
meanwhile, some great commentary by Quadrant Magazine:
"The referendum result wasn’t a defeat for Constitutional recognition of indigenous peoples, or for the aspirations of indigenous Australians. It was a defeat for the particular, poorly drafted, over-expansive proposed amendment that was put forward by Australia’s indigenous elite. And it was a defeat for a political class that assumed it could bully the rest of the electorate into submission.
"The sense of absolute entitlement exhibited by the Yes campaign was palpable—and repulsive. They did little to hide the fact that they considered all opposition to the Voice to be motivated by ignorance, ill-will, or outright racism. Yes campaigners can only interpret their resounding defeat at the polls to mean that they live in a country that exhibits widespread hatred for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.
"Unfortunately, the highly-educated urban professionals who form the core of the Yes vote believe not only that their preferred solutions are the correct ones, but that theirs are the only moral ones. They openly disdain the opinions of those who live outside the urban cores of the capital cities, who lack advanced university degrees, or who are too world-wise (read: elderly) to be fooled by facile quick-fix policy rhetoric."
Our Very Own Brexit Moment
Edit: and the AFR:
Australians didn’t want a new, black elite
The Voice would have created a new, black elite, which may explain why white elites were in favour.
What the fuck are you on about Winnie? When did i ever suggest or even hint at this?
Get off the beers champ, you're making a fool of yourself....... AGAIN
careful who you frown, slur, and belittle...
you might just lose the lot!
For anyone interested https://www.abc.net.au/news/elections/referendum/2023/results?filter=al…
I'll leave the afore-asked question with you, @gsco, it is all a bit beyond me, the world is a rather confusing place, and the bits that are complex in a way that I have no understanding of, are best left to those that do. Re the Quadrant and AFR quotes: why is that great commentary? Seems kinda interesting, but then theories always are, though invariably say more about the theorists than the world. Probably a small part of the truth lies in most things. Do the quotes fit your theories?
1. Heavily indigenous booths in Qld have voted yes as follows: Palm Island 75%, Thursday Island 74%, Lockhart River 66%, Pormpuraaw 56%.
2. .In the NT, booths managed by the remote mobile teams consisting of a higher proportion of Indigenous Australians returned a Yes of 71.9%..The rest of the NT was 32.6%.
3. More analysis need, but it's clear Indigenous support is overwhelmingly Yes. Don't believe the lies.
4. Preliminary analysis In Bob Katter's seat of Kennedy, shows polling booths with a catchment of more than 50% Indigenous Australians returned a Yes of 69.5%. The rest of Kennedy returned a Yes of 18.5%.
5. It seems that the ~80% figure of Indigenous support was right
All the voting data is availabl
https://tallyroom.aec.gov.au/ReferendumNationalResults-29581.htm. Price became the Trojan Horse many white Australians could latch onto to justify their No position yet she was also strongly rejected in these remote communities in her 2019 Fed election defeat. Just another layer of the foul duplicity of the No con jobDont believe the lies...... yet the 80% poll that Yes23 used was clearly a lie.
It's not about dwelling on it forever... and it definitely wasn't a utopia. It's about knowing what went before, what then happened re colonialism, and where we're at now... and where we're going. If you watch early anthropology films no one was fat... no one. Everyone was slim and fit, maybe a little dusty. Once rounded into missions etc once mobile people became sedentary... and fat foods produced fat people (generally speaking of course)... eventually people wanted to go back to their countries, get away from whiteys bad influences... homelands started, mental and physical health improved then LNP govts kept trying to end this movement... too costly... get em all back into one centralised hub... Now blackfellas said they wanted a voice...Sorry peeps, whitey says No. Future? Can't wait to see all the rightwhiteys on here spark up again when Treaty time comes a knockin... Ewwww, we want One Nation... One Nation indeed!