Could Premier Jacinta Allan explain why she’s even doing this?
The Victorian government refuses to say what it’s ready to give away as it negotiates the first state treaty with people claiming to be Aboriginal.
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The Victorian government refuses to say what it’s ready to give away as it negotiates the first state treaty with people claiming to be Aboriginal.
But no one has yet asked it what it’s demanding in exchange. Like, maybe, a discount.
For a start, I notice that everyone on the First Peoples Assembly that the government is negotiating with seems to have white ancestry as well.
Does that get the rest of us a discount on what we supposedly owe them for the evils done by whites, when those whites include their own ancestors?
And what about another discount for the good that whites brought.
We hear a lot about the bad stuff – the diseases, supposed massacres and so-called “stolen generations”. But what about the good – penicillin, aspirin, electricity, cheap food, pensions, houses, dentistry and the rest? Surely that earns us a discount?
Of course, nobody in these talks seems keen to consider the good that white settlement brought. Victoria’s Socialist Left government even created its Aboriginal-led Yoorrook Justice Commission to look exclusively at – or imagine – the bad.
As the commission’s website says, it’s a “truth-telling process into historical and ongoing injustices experienced by First Peoples in Victoria”.
“Truth telling?” Do we get a discount for the truth that even a Labor-appointed Stolen Generations Taskforce led by Aboriginal activist Jim Berg concluded there was “no formal policy for removing children” from Indigenous parents in the state?
Is there a discount for the truth that the Aboriginal society those white people destroyed wasn’t that great for many? For instance, one submission to the Yoorrook Justice Commission comprises three booklets called The Whole Truth, co-written by former Liberal minister Roger Pescott, which quotes sources describing terrible treatment of women that includes ritual rape and mutilation.
In fact, could Premier Jacinta Allan explain why she’s even doing this? Surely very few Aboriginals would choose to live as Aboriginals did the year before Captain Arthur Phillip landed at Botany Bay.
Nor would I take the word of the First Peoples Assembly. This body of activists was chosen by just 10 per cent of Victorians identifying as Aboriginal – and, in the nature of these things, the 10 per cent who are most radical.
It’s a farce, bound to divide and waste money. So can we at least get a discount?
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