'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow silence as referendum fails

Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile... by rainonmoon on Thursday October 19, 2023 @10:27PM (#37951664)

Hey friend, the answers to your questions are immediately accessible via the world wide web, but seeing as how I actually live in this country and have endured damn near a year of this dogwhistling quasi-rhetorical inquiry that you mistakenly believe was novel enough to chip in, I'm gonna let you find your own way to it. Or not. But this "debate", which never should've been a debate in the first place, has lost its charm. I hope one day you fix your heart.

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Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile... by tivert on Friday October 20, 2023 @12:44AM (#37952458)

"Friend," your non-answer answered all my questions.

Basically, it sounds like Indigenous Australians aren't actually disenfranchised (or you've counter-intuitively re-defined "disenfranchised" to mean "not extra-enfranchised"), and this body would have unequally granted certain racial groups extra power and influence in the government based on race alone.

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Re:'Reconciliation is dead': Indigenous Australians vow sile... by pauldenton on Thursday October 26, 2023 @05:25AM (#38023472)

As a Canadian Aboriginals getting free post secondary education here seems like they are getting extra privileges rather than equal treatment under the law. As former British colonies why don't we just treat everyone equally instead of tracking race through bureaucracy and hiring or firing on the basis of race. Deciding the price of government services entirely on the basis of race?

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