When the Reserve Bank announced, last week, that the monarch’s portrait on the five dollar bill will be replaced by artwork to “recognise the enduring connection that First Nations peoples have to Country”, Australians had every right to be furious. They could be especially forgiven for wondering, ‘Didn’t we vote against this bullshit?’ Not once, but twice.
Yet, to judge by the antics of the unelected elites, both the Republican and ‘Voice’ referendums were resounding victories for the chattering wokester class.
Had the proposal succeeded it would have given one race in Australia power and privileges not shared by any other Australians […]
Not only are people banned from access to Mount Warning, the Grampians, the Ayers Rock climb and Lake Eyre, but these bans could well have been extended across much of Australia. Since it is hard to conceive of anything which does not relate to Aboriginal people, all parliamentary decisions would most likely have ended up giving control to an unelected group of city-based activists.
Australian voters in their wisdom rejected it. Yet, far from chastened, the elite class simply carries on as if they’d won.
On the say-so of a tiny group of activists so fringe that even other Aboriginal groups disown them, a billion-dollar gold mine was stopped in its tracks, despite having passed every regulatory hurdle. Rock climbers are banned from the Grampians, supposedly because of ‘rock art’ that no one can actually see without a high-powered microscope and which not even Aborigines were aware of. Never mind that the rock climbers had spent years rehabilitating a site so sacred that it was a literal rubbish dump.
So-called ‘Welcome to Country’ ceremonies blight everything from football matches to simple airline flights, despite even Aboriginal groups condemning the tokenistic practice.
Worse, despite the Australian people explicitly voting to reject separate, race-based, legal systems, states push ahead with ‘Aboriginal justice courts’. Going even further, Victoria is, more-or-less surreptitiously, doubling down on their so-called ‘First Nations Assembly’.
The Australian people might have voted a resounding No to Indigenous separatism at last year’s referendum but that hasn’t deterred governments, plus the woke establishment more generally, from continuing to enshrine Indigenous grievance and victimhood.
And doing very little in practical terms to fix the problems of youth crime and family dysfunction as we see play out in places like Alice Springs […]
Unsurprisingly, because it’s the laboratory for the green-left, the Victorian Labor government is most committed and most advanced in the so-called Treaty and Truth push. Last week, the Allan government published its response to last year’s Yoorrook For Justice report, accepting almost every one of its 46 recommendations. Even the most radical were marked as under “consideration” rather than rejected outright, including the creation of separate systems for child protection and police oversight for Indigenous and non-Indigenous Victorians.
Given that even Victoria rejected the Voice last year, where is the support for this? Even among Indigenous people there are serious questions about legitimacy given that just 7 per cent of eligible Indigenous voters (out of a potential pool of 30,000) voted to elect the state’s First Peoples’ Assembly that’s now in charge of Treaty policy.
When Les Murray wrote about “the elite Revolution that rules unsullied by elections”, this is what he was warning about. These fatuous ninnies lost the vote, but you wouldn’t know it.
