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  • OT: Whisper, what was this all about?

    From Sawfish@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 15 09:25:35 2023
    https://thehill.com/policy/international/4256944-indigenous-australians-call-for-a-week-of-silence-after-historic-referendum-fails/

    Earlier in the week I very briefly skimmed an article that seemed to say
    that in a sort of plebiscite, Australian voters rejected a sort of
    official category for aboriginal, ostensibly to be used for special consideration in law.

    This seemed like a very poor idea--it's what has happened again and
    again in the US for the last 50 years--and so the fact that it failed
    seemed sensible.

    But I wonder if there's a lot more to it than that and I'd be interested
    to hear the opinion of someone living there.

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  • From Sawfish@21:1/5 to All on Sun Oct 15 09:24:47 2023
    https://thehill.com/policy/international/4256944-indigenous-australians-call-for-a-week-of-silence-after-historic-referendum-fails/

    Earlier in the week I very briefly skimmed an article that seemed to say
    that in a sort of plebiscite, Australian voters rejected a sort of
    official category for aboriginal, ostensibly to be used for special consideration in law.

    This seemed like a very poor idea--it's what has happened again and
    again in the US for the last 50 years--and so the fact that it failed
    seemed sensible.

    But I wonder if there's a lot more to it than that and I'd be interested
    to hear the opinion of someone living there.

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  • From The Iceberg@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Mon Oct 16 05:05:30 2023
    On Sunday, 15 October 2023 at 17:26:54 UTC+1, Sawfish wrote:
    https://thehill.com/policy/international/4256944-indigenous-australians-call-for-a-week-of-silence-after-historic-referendum-fails/

    Earlier in the week I very briefly skimmed an article that seemed to say that in a sort of plebiscite, Australian voters rejected a sort of
    official category for aboriginal, ostensibly to be used for special consideration in law.

    This seemed like a very poor idea--it's what has happened again and
    again in the US for the last 50 years--and so the fact that it failed
    seemed sensible.

    But I wonder if there's a lot more to it than that and I'd be interested
    to hear the opinion of someone living there.

    heard about this, looks like yet another call for more money for more politicians with the aim of getting more free money for random lazy people for doing absolutely nothing. The proposal did sound quite well done except it was a bit sketchy on what it
    would do and what exactly it could do, cos it looked like it could really do nothing - so really would just be a nice big $$$ for politicians to sit around and chat.
    Get impression most people voted against cos of that and cos it also included "Race" in the proposal, which would divide people, which of course is always another aim of this kind of thing.
    In Oz there aren't many real native Aborigines left anyway, they are mostly multi-racial, is that the same with the Indians in USA?

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  • From *skriptis@21:1/5 to Sawfish on Fri Oct 20 08:48:37 2023
    Sawfish <sawfish666@gmail.com> Wrote in message:r
    https://thehill.com/policy/international/4256944-indigenous-australians-call-for-a-week-of-silence-after-historic-referendum-fails/Earlier in the week I very briefly skimmed an article that seemed to say that in a sort of plebiscite, Australian voters
    rejected a sort of official category for aboriginal, ostensibly to be used for special consideration in law.This seemed like a very poor idea--it's what has happened again and again in the US for the last 50 years--and so the fact that it failed seemed
    sensible.But I wonder if there's a lot more to it than that and I'd be interested to hear the opinion of someone living there.-- --Sawfish~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Life is a tragedy to those who feel, a
    comedy to those who think."~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~


    https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2023/10/19/australian-masterclass-in-how-to-defeat-identity-politics/?li_source=LI&li_medium=liftigniter-rhr


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