Don't take my word for it; read what Dr (Professor) David Barton has to say about it. Dr Barton specialises in general adult and geriatric psychiatry with a particular interest in neuropsychiatry acquired brain injury, and the link between depression and cardiovascular disease.
To quote from his article in QUADRANT, "The contemporary definition of ‘Aboriginal self-determination’ is not about fitting in with the mainstream, of integrating or assimilating, but of splitting from mainstream Australia. Meanwhile, the rest of us get to pay for it whilst the rent seekers contribute very little to the community and Aboriginal lives, including those of children, continue to be ruined."
And he continues, "The Aboriginal Industry is chock full of ill-informed urban myth-makers and illusionists, this caste of urgers and deluded pretenders giving rise to the patronising insistence on the uniqueness of 'Aboriginal knowledge' about everything from agriculture and fish farms (a lá Bruce Pascoe), water and fire management (a lá ‘cultural burning’) to Aboriginal 'art', 'fashion' and even 'astronomy', and not to mention Ernie Dingo and Richard Walley’s thoroughly overdone 'Welcome to Country'. This is mostly snake oil fakery, an effort to convince contemporary Australians that the Aborigines of old were something they clearly were not. Worse, histories and observational accounts of early Aboriginal life and culture are vanishing from library shelves, replaced by the anti-white post-modern dogma of ‘invasion, colonisation and inter-generational trauma’. It is unusual today to find any history book about Aborigines in a secondary or tertiary institution that is more than fifteen years old. This is cultural censure and erasure happening right under our noses. We are all the poorer for it, black and white alike ...
... Labor and their confident, conceited acolytes would have us believe that support for the Yes vote is a lay down misère. It is beholden upon the rest of us — those who care about Australia as a whole rather than advancing the narrow interests of one group only — to contest the creation of a separate and sovereign Aboriginal nation on the Australian continent, for that is where the ‘Voice’ will take us. Once embedded in the Constitution, such an internal ‘sovereign nation’ will be impossible to dismantle. Despite Albanese & Co's efforts to promote one side of the debate and suppress the other, this is the threat and the message all Australians must hear." [Read the full article here]
I left South Africa in 1969 because I hated its policy of Apartheid. I equally hate Albanese's planned policy of a reverse-Apartheid. If it is indeed a lay down misère, it may be time to think of emigrating again!
Any advance on $3 million for the "Riverbend" property, plus furnishings, machinery and tools, and including an ageing FORD FOCUS which, as has just now been diagnosed by the NRMA, needs a new EGR valve?
