What you said about surf club being charged for welcome to country at events
Furore has erupted after it was revealed a local surf club was being charged a $500 fee to use the beach. HAVE YOUR SAY
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Furore has erupted after it was revealed a local surf club was being charged a $500 fee by an Aboriginal corporation each time they held an event on the beach.
Yamba Surf Club was asked by the Yaegl traditional owners Aboriginal Corporation to pay a $500 “fee for service” for each of its four events - including a nippers carnival - over the 2024-25 lifesaving season.
The corporation said the payment was to conduct ‘welcome to country’ ceremonies at the events.
The demand has outraged some surf club members, with one slamming it as “un-Australian”.
See what you had to say below and join the conversation >>>
This has to stop
Garry
Simple solution - stop native title, stop welcome to country, treat all Australians equally
Issy
Welcome to country is not a service anyone wants.
Geoff G
Cancel the Welcome to Country ceremonies. They are not necessary and most people do not want them
Henry
This has to stop. We are all Australians.
Sonya
This is out of hand! Nobody owns the beaches or oceans or national parks!
Ian
The world has gone mad. Thanks to the woke
Why am I being welcomed to my own country?
Mathew
Again, I will ask the question of why am I being welcomed to my own country?
Ron
We don’t need welcoming to the country we were born in
John-Arthur
Why do every day Australians need a welcome to country ceremonies. We live here
Rod
Don’t pay the money what are they going to do about it, no welcome to our own country. That’s a win.
The division will grow
Ann
I always thought the Indigenous people wanted to be treated equally, fairly and to be respected. I believe they achieved that some time ago. What has happened? Now all other Australians just want to be treated equally, fairly and to be respected. Do we not deserve those same rights? To those trying to cause division, back off! We are all Australians and we all deserve equality.
Coffee Guy
There is a growing resentment to these ceremonies. No one listens. Not achieving anything.
Dave
The more this happened, the more the division will grow
We didn’t vote for this
DJ
Come on, we voted no last year Get rid of Labor
Censored Pending Cancelled
If LNP promise to scrap this crap they’ll win the next election in a landslide. Thanks Albanese for dividing Australia on race.
Chris
All this does is fuel division between all groups.
Well done Albo. This is all on you and Labor for being the most decisive government in Australian history. You wanted a legacy … and you got it. Just not the legacy you wanted.
Frank
David Crisafulli is doing as he has promised. Cancelling the truth telling debacle. Hopefully the next will be cancelling the WTC. What an absolute farce.
Anne-Maree
You have to be joking, we didn’t vote for this
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