The wheels of the Woke Wagon are falling off around the world. The Trump election and its blitzkrieg on wokeism and waste since Inauguration Day have woken timid centre-right parties around the world up to the fact that they can openly oppose the left and win.
In some ways, though, the death knell of wokeism began to sound in Australia nearly 18 months ago. The resounding defeat of the ‘Indigenous Voice’ referendum, despite a concerted finger-wagging campaign from politicians, big business, sports and entertainment stars, academics and activists, flipped a switch in many ordinary Australians. They suddenly realised that they could stand up to the bullying of the elites and that millions of their fellow Australians stood with them.
For a while, the elite tried to act as if nothing had changed, with state governments continuing secretive negotiations with unelected activist Aboriginal groups. But even those are falling apart as either new conservative governments find their balls or leftist governments facing re-election realise just how on the nose this sort of bullshit really is.
After seven years, millions of dollars and thousands of kilometres of travel, the Northern Territory government has officially ended the process of forging a treaty in the NT.
Of course, it should never have taken seven years, millions of dollars and thousands of kilometres of travel for government to wake up to themselves. But that’s the left elite for you. There’s nothing they love so much as spending other people’s money on their pet boutique causes.
While exactly how much funding was spent on the treaty process over the past seven years remains unclear, the costs of setting up a treaty commission and treaty office cost millions.
“Under the former Labor Government, territory taxpayers forked out $5.3 million for the Treaty Commission/Treaty Office between 2018-19 and 2023-24,” [Aboriginal Affairs Minister Steve Edgington] said.
Consultations alone cost aound $4 million, and included thousands of kilometres of travel by staff of the former Treaty Commission to various Aboriginal communities across the NT.
Until Territorians elected a government with an ounce of sense.
Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro said the new Country Liberal Party (CLP) government was no longer pursuing plans for a treaty with Aboriginal people, which Territory Labor began in 2018.
“We’ve never supported a treaty, so that’s all been dismantled under our government,” she said in an interview with Stateline NT […]
Opposition Leader Selena Uibo, a former treaty minister under the former Labor government, said the abandonment of treaty ignored 30 years of advocacy in the NT.
And so they should. The whole idea is completely ridiculous.
What, after all is a treaty?
Former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice commissioner Mick Gooda explains in simplest terms a treaty is “an agreement between two sovereign peoples”.
Precisely.
Nations do not sign treaties with their own citizens. The very idea, as John Howard has said, is constitutionally repugnant.
Think for two seconds about what Gooda is saying: ‘two sovereign peoples’. In other words, he’s predicating his argument on the assumption that Aborigines are not part of Australia. This is literal racial separatism, every bit as much as the Voice was. Worse, Gooda is openly declaring the existence of an Aboriginal ethnostate.
Gooda also openly admits that there was no hope of negotiating a treaty in 1788, with a people whose social organisation rarely rose above that of a tribal band.
When the First Fleet raised the flag in 1788 there were no individual agreements – or treaties – with the hundreds of First Nations groups across the continent.
“If people said we needed a treaty in 1788… the Eora people [of Sydney] didn't have the right to sign my land away in Central Queensland, and as a matter of fact if they had signed a treaty a lot of people would be hating on them right now,” Mr Gooda explains.
So, why have activists and leftists been so keen on this ridiculous idea?
“Compensation” was also a deciding factor in Queensland, according to the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Mick Gooda.
It always comes down to the gibsusdat.
