How long before Australians start booing the tedious, fatuous, insulting, endless “Welcome to Country” nonsense? So far, a great many of us have so far settled for quietly rolling our eyes as we are browbeaten with this fabricated nonsense at weddings, school assemblies, sports matches and even every day plane flights. That may be changing. A stadium full of soccer fans precipitated an orgy of pearl-clutching from the chattering classes when they recently booed and jeered a “WTC”. A plane flight in WA erupted in laughter as the passengers all realised they’d heaved a spontaneous sigh of exasperation in unison.
Even a great many Aboriginal Australians are arking up at what is really little more than insulting tokenism.
Kiescha Haines-Jamieson said the ceremonies were now so ubiquitous that they had lost all relevance.
“It was never intended for opening football games or corporate and social events,” she said […]
Haines-Jamieson slammed the oversaturation of Welcome to Country practices at everything from workplace staff meetings to national sporting events.
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Other Aboriginal leaders are pointing out that when Australians can’t even buy a jar of Vegemite or a pack of bog roll without being virtue-signalled at, it’s demeaning nonsense.
Coles has stood by its inclusion of an “acknowledgement of country” on its receipts despite the move being slammed as “unnecessary” by an Indigenous leader […]
It comes after Channel 9’s The Block and Channel 10’s The Masked Singer also featured acknowledgment to country messages.
Wurundjeri elder Ian Hunter told the Herald Sun on Wednesday the Coles receipt message was “unnecessary”.
Not only unnecessary, but grossly insulting to actual Aboriginal culture.
“For it to have more meaning, it would be better for Coles to localise the message on receipts for specific areas, for example Coles in Darebin could acknowledge the Woiwurrung people,” he told the newspaper.
“The acknowledgement of country shouldn’t be taken lightly. I’m getting fed up with this; it’s a real overreach.”
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Firebrand Aboriginal Australian politician, Jacinta Price, is also sick of what she point out is little more than narcissism: non-Aboriginal people desperately flaunting their virtue and trying to impress each other by parrotting a ginned-up piece of fabricated modern nonsense.
Price has said that she was sick of being “symbolically recognised”.
She said she wanted to be recognised and respected for her character rather than for her race.
“I personally have had more than my fill of being symbolically recognised,” she complained after the Welcome to Country ceremony performed at the second State of Origin match […]
“It’s every single day ‘I acknowledge and pay my respects and recognise Indigenous First Nations people in the room’ what for?
“What for you don’t even know everyone in the room and why are we being singled out purely, only because of our race it’s divisive.”
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Not just divisive, but destructive.
This practice, while it may appear reasonable or harmless, is a manifestation of the ongoing assault on Australia’s Western heritage and implies that non-Indigenous Australians, whose families have called Australia home for many generations, do not really belong here.
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That division is tacitly admitted by the very modern inventor of the fabricated “ancient ceremony”, Ernie Dingo, who conjured the whole farce out of thin air in 1973. Dingo likens it to knocking on the door before entering someone else’s house.
Except that, for Australians, it’s not “someone else’s house”: it’s their home, too.
No matter what some racist leftist zealots might want to believe.
