Why did we even bother voting? Despite Australians overwhelmingly rejecting apartheid-style racial separatism at the ‘Voice’ referendum, Labor governments are going right ahead and doing it anyway, without even deigning to bother with anything like a vote.
Which is how the left always operate: they never, ever, take ‘No’ for an answer. Political toddlers that they are, they either cry and stamp their feet until they get their way or they try and sneak behind the grownups’ backs and steal the cookie anyway.
Naturally, it’s the Victorian Labor government that has been fastest out the gate, shoving the whole ‘Voice’ packaged down their citizens’ throats. Including cradle-to-grave racist indoctrination.
Aboriginal truth-telling will be embedded into the Victorian school curriculum, with students from prep to year 10 to be taught the “enduring harm” of colonisation, dispossession and injustice as recounted by our First Peoples.
Australia’s first treaty between a state government and Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people will be introduced to the Victorian Parliament on Tuesday, with a formal apology, a reframing of our school curriculum and greater use of traditional names for natural parks and waterways among the reforms contained in the agreement.
They’re going the full North Korea.
The treaty process will culminate later this year with a formal signing of the historic agreement and a mass celebration of Aboriginal music and culture in central Melbourne, before fresh elections are held to decide the new make-up of a First Peoples’ Assembly to work out of a dedicated room in parliament.
And everything Australians, including Victorians, so comprehensively rejected will be forced on them regardless.
As previously revealed by this masthead, a permanent First People’s Assembly with powers to advise government on any matters that affect their communities and to be consulted on proposed laws directed to them, will be the decision-making body within Gellung Warl, a new statutory corporation intended to play a “central party in the democratic life of the state”.
The entire document is a constitutional abomination. Even the Australian government’s own laws state that a treaty is an international agreement concluded in written form between two or more states (or international organisations) and is governed by international law. “State”, in this case, means nation state. Victoria is not a nation-state, nor is it making a treaty with another nation state. Not even nation states can make treaties with their own citizens.
This ridiculous, un-constitutional document proceeds from a lie on its very first line: The place we now call Victoria holds the oldest living cultures on Earth. This is simply untrue, yet it’s the opening statement of the document that will upend the entire process of governance in Victoria. The document is riddled with sinister, racial separatism, such as “First Peoples’ authority to self-determine their affairs”. In other words, ‘Aboriginal’ Victorians – no matter how pasty white they are – will live under a separate legal system to everyone else.
Indeed, as regards the paleface ‘Aborigines’ – having got their hands on the handles of government – the box-tickers are racing to stop anyone else from jumping on the gravy train.
Victoria’s new voice-like body will have legislative backing to make statewide rules about who can and cannot claim to be Aboriginal, creating centralised and uniform authority that could end self-identification in government jobs and even lead to prosecution of frauds.
Because that couldn’t possibly foster nepotism and corruption.
In a submission to the Yoorrook Justice Commission, the Aboriginal Justice Caucus also said it wanted an end to the use of statutory declarations in lieu of the standard three-part Aboriginality test. It also wanted people prosecuted under the state Oaths and Affirmations Act 2018 if they made a statutory declaration they were Aboriginal when they were not.
What is is this ‘three-part Aboriginality test’? A whole lotta ‘I Just Reckon’ and gatekeeping.
The widely accepted Aboriginality test has three parts: a person must identify as Aboriginal, they must be Aboriginal, and they must be accepted as Aboriginal by elders or others with traditional authority.
‘They must be Aboriginal’: as determined, how? It certainly won’t be by a simple DNA test. Nor is there any actual requirement for hard proof, or any sort of cutoff, such as rigorously exercised by Native American tribes. Any old whitey who can gin up a supposed ‘Aboriginal’ ancestor, however remote, can claim to be ‘Aboriginal’ – as long as they get the nod from those who’ve already carved out their little empires.
Yet, as website Dark Emu Exposed rigorously documents, many of the most prominent ‘Aboriginal’ activists and academics – the very people who will hold the gates in Victoria – have only the most tenuous, or more often non-existent, claims to Aboriginal ancestry.
Victoria has long been the sick joke of Australia. Unbelievably, it’s about to get a whole lot worse.
