Finally, they admit what it really means!

Well said. Our agreeable nature is used against us to further our own displacement and dispossession. Somehow we have to get over this natural tendency to be nice and to learn how to be more discerning.

@former_feminism I feel like this is an appropriate time to let rip this gem from John Saffran:

@former_feminism Such a good one

Our courts have betrayed the Australian people.

What a shock The left are gaslighting again Of course Welcome to Country is an exercise in power But these are the same people who tell us we're bigots if we don't think men should be allowed into women's spaces. They have no limit to the depths of gaslighting they'll dive to.

@TrumpetPatriots believes that Australia belong to all Australians equally.

With respect to indigenous people before Europeans arrived, they were never a unified people with organised control over the continent as a whole. The rest of my post is me thinking aloud, I don't recommend reading. It's my reflection. Aboriginal people could never have formerly made decisions on behalf of all tribes who often didn't speak the same language, and were often engaged in brutal hostilities with each other. It's likely they were unaware they lived on a big island. They were here thousands of years, but basically squatting. Nobody sold or gave them the land. They didn't "own it" in the sense of how we understand ownership of land by a group of people with shared interests in looking after the whole. Modern humans inevitably spread across the globe, which is a good thing, relative to humanity's needs on Earth. There was conflict when Europeans arrived, including highly regrettable crimes by some. That doesn't mean everyone today must be guilt-tripped and blamed for the violent actions of the few. Besides, there were genuine "yes please" reception to the technology that came with colonisation. "Yes please, we'd love to boil water on the fire in a metal pot, how can we get more metal pots?" The only way to get more metal pots, is to embrace modern civilisation. And that's what we have now. Nobody likes violent conflict. It happened, and we have reparations in the billions of dollars every year. And yet, we also have many successful Aboriginal people with voices, power, influence, their own TV shows... you name it. Still not enough? We must perform religious political rituals every time something opens? No. Enough is enough. Let's lift up ALL people who are struggling and stop coddling and pandering to particular races. The whole movement has been hijacked by other interests now including middle eastern extremist interests. Nothing good will come from that alliance. 60,000 years was a good run. Amazing they survived, but they were not flourishing by any means. No progress in that time, much tribal struggle, century after century until finally "help" arrived. Yes, the "help" became suffering for many, but let's not pretend they were absent suffering before colonisation.

They don't tell you that Howard brought in this phoney welcome to country performance. The same PSYOP device is seen in the US, Canada, & NZ. We are living through a time of Great Deception. A total war theatre, designed to make us fight each other.

It’s probably how they are getting away with making all that land native title or whatever & making land off limits to non indigenous people. I bet every welcome to country you sit through is like giving them consent that this is not our land. Acknowledgment of country is us giving our consent to Australia not being owned by Australians. STOP GIVING CONSENT!!!

This is divisive taxpayer funded BS! Why are we paying to be Welcomed to our own bloody country to the “people in the purple circle” as Madison King says! 3.8% of the population own 54% of the country under Native Title. Enough is enough.