Today everyone at the blog seems to be competing for horror story of the day. Well, here is my entry, that white, we presume, property owners will pay rent to Aboriginals each week. After all, Australia, according to the post-Mabo narrative was “stolen,” “invaded,” so white land owners are all crooks. Ok, let’s run with this, for the purposes of a reductio ad absurdum, to show how flawed the argument is. Bring it to a head. Add to the “Voice” referendum that all white land owners, presumably not Chinese, should have everything they own, including their underwear, taken from them, and be tossed naked into the wilds, or be forced to swim “home.” After all, it is “stolen” goods; their presumption. All wealth thus should go to the Rent committee. They will be free to sell it to communist China. And why not? It all follows logically from the “stolen” narrative, and the welcome to country philosophy. Invader and thieves require punishment, not to be welcomed, so the radicals, on their premises are “right”! So, have this, PM Albo, as the key thing in the “voice Referendum, if you have the guts. Let’s see where this one goes!!
Of course, the idea is absurd, but can be used against the “Voice” referendum. In the meantime, tell all that this is the sort of things we will see after the “Voice” hands over the constitution to woke Leftoid lawyers. Game over for life in Australia, and property rights. After all, Mabo overturned traditional property law, so this would be the next step. Oppose it now!
“A campaign calling for non-Indigenous Australian property owners to pay a “weekly rent” to traditional landowners has been met with staunch opposition, with One Nation Leader Pauline Hanson leading the charge against the move.
The scheme, Pay The Rent, would work as a voluntary weekly payment to a body led by Aboriginal elders and managed without interference from the government.
The programme, which has been quietly operating in Victoria, encourages non-Indigenous people to pay a percentage of their income to Aboriginal people out of respect for their ancestral land claims.
“Decisions about the distribution of money paid into this fund will be made exclusively by a Sovereign Body, composed of Aboriginal people from a range of clans and nations,” the Pay The Rent website states.
“That is, the money always and only belongs to Aboriginal people.”
Feminist author Clementine Ford and Greens senator and activist Lidia Thorpe are among high-profile identities who have voiced their support for the scheme.
However, the suggestion has also been met with harsh backlash, with Senator Hanson going as far as pushing others to sign a petition to “Stop the Rent Tax”.
A statement shared by the One Nation leader reveals her party “strongly condemns” the proposal for non-Indigenous Australians to “pay a race based rent tax”.
“The rent tax scheme would see millions of Australians thrown further into poverty as their rents balloon or families pay more on top of their ever-increasing mortgages” the statement read.
Hanson’s statement branded the scheme “deeply flawed and unjust” and a “form of discrimination”.
“One Nation believes this proposal is a distraction from the real issues facing Indigenous communities, such as poverty, unemployment, and crime,” the party notes.
“Instead of proposing a controversial and divisive race-based rent tax, One Nation calls for Australians to unite as one country and reject the left’s pro-apartheid madness.
“This scheme is the worst type of discrimination, and it is not a solution to the problem of reconciliation between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians.”
At the time of publishing, the petition shared by Hanson had received just over 400 signatures.
The movement has also been met with backlash online, with one person suggesting it was causing “madness and division” among Australians, while another branded it “extremely manipulative”.
“It is this kind of stuff that makes people want to vote NO on the voice referendum,” one social media user said.
Another added: “It’s one thing to ask for contributions to programs that will assist in reducing Indigenous disadvantage, it’s another thing entirely to tell people they owe rent for being on land they had no choice in being on.”
Others suggested that multimillion-dollar companies should be the ones “paying the rent”, not the average Australian.
“We talk about paying the rent, but why the average person? Isn’t that in itself a racist policy? Why not the rich companies and individuals who make an extremely comfortable living off the back off Indigenous land? Bigger profit, and they SHOULD be the ones paying the rent,” one person wrote.
‘Not enough’ to only Pay The Rent
Under the voluntary scheme, decisions about the distribution of the money being paid would be made by a “Sovereign Body” made up of Indigenous people from a range of clans and nations.
“That is, the money always and only belongs to Aboriginal people,” the Pay The Rent website states.
Money collected would be injected into Indigenous populations to support in their covering of costs related to housing, health and education, while reducing the need for government handouts.”