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

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

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> Basically harmless except it could've guaranteed Indigenous Australians would have a say in the future of the country violently stolen from them, instead of continuing to be disenfranchised. Are Indigenous Australians denied the right to vote in modern-day Australian elections? Are there special constraints on their political activity that do not apply to other Australians (like being unable to serve in Parliament…

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 c…

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?

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

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post #35

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How do you personally choose whether an indigenous group have a right to be represented? For example, should people in Britain who can trace their ancestors to the Mesolithic gain this right too?

Perhaps a referendum would be a good way to do it? The UK has proposed, and even passed, a few of those in recent memory

Are the people of the UK feeling represented since all those referendum passed?

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

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post #30

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It should be about culture, not race.

Shouldn't justice be blind to culture also?

We don't let people conduct Human Sacrifice just because they have Aztec spiritual beliefs/culture
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