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You can’t blame the non-Aboriginal majority of Australians for beginning to wonder if the ‘Reconciliation’ hair-shirting will ever come to an end. Generations who’ve never known an Australia where Aborigines didn’t just have the same rights as all other Australians, in fact often more, are endlessly hectored and finger-wagged to apologise and shame themselves for things they never did.
On the other hand, the goodwill of the initial ‘Sorry Day’ decades ago never seems to be returned. Instead, strident Aboriginal activists (often whiter than me or thee) escalate the violent, hateful rhetoric, demanding to ‘burn down’ a supposedly ‘illegal’ Australia. Oddly, they never refuse the ‘colonisers’ handouts.
And, for all the blatherskite about ‘truth telling’, truth seems to be even further from the activists’ minds than reconciliation.
More than 840 long kilometres lie ahead as Indigenous leader Travis Lovett and thousands of determined walkers set off on Sunday to march from Melbourne to federal parliament in the cause of nationwide truth-telling about the colonisation of Australia.
Will that include the truth that nearly every Aborigine alive today is living a far more luxurious lifestyle than ever existed for the 45,000 years prior to colonisation? Or that the vast majority of ‘Aborigines’ would not exist without the colonisation which too-obviously contributed the majority of their family tree?
‘Aborigines’ like this:
Wurundjeri elder and educator Uncle Bill Nicholson will speak to the crowd about his people’s history.
Quite obviously, largely a history of marrying white people.
On Tuesday, Travis Lovett and his wife, Renata, will step out along the Hume Freeway to Wallan, a route considered too dangerous for a large group to tackle.
And their lily white skin will be a blinding hazard to night drivers with their lights on high beam.
It will end at Parliament House in Canberra on May 27, the start of Reconciliation Week and the 59th anniversary of the 1967 referendum that changed the Constitution, enabling Aboriginal Australians to be counted as part of the nation’s population.
There, Lovett plans to deliver to Prime Minister Anthony Albanese a letter signed by thousands of Australians that calls for the development of “an agreed truth about our history”.
What on earth is an ‘agreed truth’? Forgive me for thinking that it’s a euphemism for manufactured lies. Lies, such as the so-called ‘Massacre Map’, or Bruce Pascoe’s ludicrous pseudo-historical fairy tales.
And too-obvious bullshit like this:
“Truth-telling is not about blame,” the letter says.
Well, you could have fooled the rest of us. Because, so far, that’s all it’s been about.
“It is about healing. It is about finally listening to those who have carried memory and hurt, culture and resistance, through invasion, frontier war, stolen children, stolen land, prisons and policies that have too often treated Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people as a problem to be managed rather than as sovereign peoples to be respected. Truth-telling is an act of respect and an act of national repair.”
If that’s his idea of ‘truth-telling’, then ‘truth-telling’ is clearly a load of bollocks. “Finally listening”? We’ve had little choice but to patiently endure the endless whining, carping, demanding and bullying. Far from “national repair”, it’s done nothing but divide the country between activists who can’t stop tub-thumping and grifting, and the other 97 per cent of the country who are growing heartily sick of paying for it all, without ever a single word of gratitude.
Activists who just can’t seem to help speaking with forked tongues.
Lovett said the purpose was not to reignite debate about the failed referendum on an Indigenous Voice to parliament.
Instead, it was simply a request that the prime minister continue to meet his pre-election promise to address the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which included a truth-telling process in partnership with Aboriginal Australia.
And a so-called ‘Voice to parliament’.
And that was overwhelmingly rejected by Australians, but the tiny clique of activists just go on trying to get their way by stealth.
And never, ever, letting up with the poor-fellow-me bullshit and welfare demands.
