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After the vote on giving more help to the indigenous people was rejected one Australian summed up his feelings on the subject.

Unfortunately we live in a mainly bigoted country.
 
hilts said:
After the vote on giving more help to the indigenous people was rejected one Australian summed up his feelings on the subject.

Unfortunately we live in a mainly bigoted country.
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Worked briefly in Melbourne which struck me mostly as a cosmopolitan and modern outward looking city. However the casual racism I encountered reminded me of 70's Britain and some of the views about indigenous people were extremely racist.
 
threespires said:
Worked briefly in Melbourne which struck me mostly as a cosmopolitan and modern outward looking city. However the casual racism I encountered reminded me of 70's Britain and some of the views about indigenous people were extremely racist.
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Same in Sydney, for such a multicultural City, it’s had a real undertone of racism.
 
threespires said:
Worked briefly in Melbourne which struck me mostly as a cosmopolitan and modern outward looking city. However the casual racism I encountered reminded me of 70's Britain and some of the views about indigenous people were extremely racist.
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I've worked with a few a Aussie's in the last few years. They can be quite guarded in foreign company, but get a few drinks down them and the casual racism starts to rear its head.

Not saying all Australians are racist, but certainly the one's I've met haven't taken their equally & diversity training seriously.
 
hilts said:
After the vote on giving more help to the indigenous people was rejected one Australian summed up his feelings on the subject.

Unfortunately we live in a mainly bigoted country.
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wasnt a vote about giving them more help it was about having a certain process (the voice) put into the constitution which was the wrong way to go about it. they could do it through legislation if they think its warranted but the constitution shouldn't have special references to one particular race - it should be promoting that Australians are all one, whether black, white, asian whatever. The various aboriginal bodies, and there are hundreds of them, receive approx $30billion a year in various funding, they urgently need to be audited so the money gets to the right places , some of the stories you hear of misappropriation are insane
 
TinFoilHat said:
We should shoulder some blame as we sent out biggest cunts over there a long time ago.
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You could get sent over there for some really petty and minor offences as the underclass were treated like dirt by their Lords and Masters back in the day.

Not much has changed really.
 
Some countries recognise the unique place indigenous populations have and others don’t. This was a chance for Australia to do so and move closer to the model NZ and Canada have adopted.

The vote was overwhelmingly no in every state. No leaders said that the idea was divisive, would create special "classes" of citizens where some were more equal than others, and the new advisory body would slow government decision-making.

It’s a strange argument where Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders currently suffer from abuses to their human rights far more than other citizens.

I am by no means an expert but this feels to me to be an opportunity lost to address both the historic injustices and the present day problems. To me the indigenous population of any country are a special class of citizen and should be recognised as such.
 
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