The Voice Must Lead to Return of “Stolen Cultural Land” and “Compensate” First Nations People! By James Reed
It is all coming out in the wash regarding the Voice and its less than open agenda. While PM Albo maintains that it is a symbolic gesture, many of the cultural elites are moving to the heavy white guilt mode, that a No vote will doom Aborigines. It is prima facie absurd, since it means, given that there is no present “Voice” apart from a non-representative number of Aborigines in parliament, which does not count of course, Aborigines are doomed now, and were for a long time. Who will fall for this emotional output? Surely only those who are already in the grips of trendy inner-city white guilt, and neo-Marxist university brainwashing.
But, the real thing behind this though is that the Voice is needed for the next step of the agenda: “Repatriation of stolen cultural heritage, development and aid programs, compensation, and other measures are part of the global human rights response to the legacy of imperialism and colonialism.”
As over 60 percent of Australia is now under native title, one can only guess how much else will be given if the Voice succeeds. It is really about the dispossession of mainstream Australia. The Voice must be decisively defeated, or Australia is lost. And, the evil Labor Party needs to be crushed, so that it does not recover for a decade.
- “Academic says No vote 'dooms Aboriginal people'
- 'Politically immature' to deny 'cultural obligations'
A key architect of the Indigenous Voice to Parliament thinks Australia is obligated to return 'stolen cultural land' and 'compensate' First Nations people.
Marcia Langton has republished her 'Welcome to Country Handbook' with new details pertaining to the upcoming referendum.
The academic said a No vote would 'doom' Aboriginal Australians 'to a permanent status as marginalised peoples' and cited a 'growing impatience' over the delays in 'righting the fundamental injustice'.
The prominent anthropologist and geographer is the latest in a string of government advisors on the 'Yes' side of the referendum who have publicly discussed compensation and land being returned to traditional owners, after Thomas Mayo and Teela Reid made similar representations.
'Our predicament is known the world over, and in other such countries there has been a reckoning with the colonial past,' she said.
'Repatriation of stolen cultural heritage, development and aid programs, compensation, and other measures are part of the global human rights response to the legacy of imperialism and colonialism.
'Pretending that Australia has no such obligations is a head-in-the-sand approach, politically immature and distinctly unhelpful in overcoming the problems that we have inherited.'
Professor Langton continued: 'The impoverishment of former colonies with the centuries of extraction of human labour and local resources all taken is now recognised as mass larceny.'
She recently noted that if the referendum were to fail, many non-Indigenous Australians would 'not be able to look [her] in the eye' as a result of the shame.
She will not speak at conferences, and she can't imagine there will be too many of her peers who would be willing to perform Welcome to Country ceremonies.
Two years after last publishing her Welcome to Country Handbook, Professor Langton released a new edition with Hardie Grant, edited with new and up-to-date details about the progress of the push for a referendum.
She said she is 'counting on [her] fellow Australians' to vote Yes, vowing that doing so will 'end the blame game and political theatre of white guilt'.”
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