Royal Family gone WOKE?! | King Charles adjusts royal 'TRADITION' to avoid offence on Australia tour

‘We’re prioritising political correctness. It’s woke ridiculousness.’
Political Commentator Anna McGovern on reports the Royal Family are dropping the term 'walkabout' for fear of insulting indigenous communities on their tour of Australia.
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[@julieannejoolz]

Im an Australian, and i think the majority of Australians wouldn't make the connection between the two words. Nobody would think it's racist to use that term.

[@TTTTTT-ix6tu]

Totally agree.

[@Rumkitty2000]

@julieannejoolz People borrow from other cultures all the time. They always have. It's why great civilizations developed at crossroads where people from different cultures would meet. Sailors would pull into ports and caravans into cities, where so much more was exchanged than just goods and services. Ideas were exchanged, languages, foid, cloth, etc. That's why this whole idea of cultural appropriation is ridiculous!

[@Rose-jz6ix]

Canberra & Sydney might give a toss, however most Aussies don't give a toss. My aboriginal friends and I voted NO much to the horror of the east coast touchie feelie woke lot.

[@Zodiacircle]

I'm on the East Coast and everyone I know all voted NO... I think in the cities there was some wokey touchie feelie people, but as you know. No matter what part of Australia you live in, the City folk are not the real essence of Australians. The rest of us however are the real deal 💚💛

[@simabelhinha4973]

Rubbish...

[@HellsCaretaker]

There must be something else between reality and the upper class, a small group of people who deliberately misinform and distort the truth. I can't explain this discrepancy between reality and assumed reality any other way.

[@carolan3269]

When Charles said; "We recognize today that diversity is our greatest strength" I wondered why he wasn't a bit embarrassed to include that...

[@peterlloyd2310]

I'm Australian. Crazy decision, no reason why he can't use the word walkabout, disppointed in King Charles giving into the woke.

[@Zodiacircle]

It is a story some one has made up.. The Royals didn't make the word up.. Australian people did way back in the 1800''s.. The Royals have never used it.. The Newspapers do and Media and the people. It is a slang term. Not Aboriginal at all.. Not in the slightest and they cannot dictate to me or any of us that they own the word and we can't use it.. The performance they put on in my country before every sporting event isn't a traditional Aboriginal thing either!!! It was invented by 'Ernie Dingo' for there to be something, to be a part of the Opening Ceremony for the Sydney 2000 Olympics. So NOT traditional aboriginal in the slightest, just more propaganda and lies.

[@cathleenlagarce368]

😂 it's just a word. They don't care about the word. Leave them alone. Go woke go broke

[@Zodiacircle]

The Royals have never used the term Walkabout!! It was an old White Australian term ( going back to like the 1800's) used between them and Aboriginals in communicating with each other. The Aboriginals learnt the word.... two English words joined together, in like an Aussie slang word, for when someone has gone somewhere but will be back.. The aboriginals back in those days had no problem with the word and also used it when communicating with the white people as they were learning English words and what they meant. The way it became well known else where in the world is because; in the 1970's a Australian news paper headline was being cheeky and dubbed Queen Elizabeth II walking around meeting the Australian people, on one of her many royal tours in Australia, as 'The Royal Walkabout'! I remember my parents being concerned at the time, that The Queen would not like such a cheeky headline ( but it was taken in good heart and was not seen by anyone as being rude to The Queen ( including Her Majesty herself or The Aboriginals, it was just cheeky and very Aussie thing to do) The Royals have never used the words themselves. It is just the People that refer to it like that, and the newspapers/ media. Not a Royal Tradition!! It is an AUSTRALIAN word. The Royals had nothing to do with it. They were just the recipients of us using the word in a description of them meeting the people.. The Aboriginals are not the owners of that word, Australia last time I looked is not under a dictatorship ( I know there are those that would like it to be, but tough for them ) We will call The Royal Walkabout ' a Walkabout as an when we want.. It is NOT a aboriginal word. It is clearly English spelling, the aboriginals never had their own written language ( only drawings) and I'm pretty dam sure those drawings are not in English and has anyone seen any ever where there is someone walking???? There are animals and a man with a spear and those sort, even one that looks like a tall sail ship? But I'd like to see one of a walking man. Just saying!! So it was not and is not and never has been a traditional aboriginal word for what these people are trying to say it is meant to mean. It is a quintessential Aussie Slang Word and the Aboriginals have no ownership to it and can not tell the rest of us that we cannot say it or use it , because of some story they have made up in 2024... Sorry but Not Sorry. " The Walkabout" is not a pigeon hole description type of word. I go 'Walkabout' when I walk my dog, when I go for a hike , walk round the block to visit someone in the neighbourhood.. So No , no no it does not mean that the aboriginals are going to do ritual or anything like that ( it can be used to say that if they want too!! but please read again what I have said above).. The Queen DID NOT Coin the phrase at all.. It was Australians, it is an Australian word... FGS!!! We don't bow down to what you call " this stuff" we do it our way. No, again NO , we have not become woke to aboriginal stuff, If anything especially since I was born we have joined together and grew up together and learnt about each other together!!! By the way, any Australian can identify as Aboriginal because there is no way to prove that I am not!!! in this country!! God.... we just Voted NO in the last referendum.. Obviously GBN doesn't know.. No, we don't use the word 'liberty' down here, that is american and we are NOT America and never want to be!! I know all these countries like England who are in such a shit place, would love to think Australia is too.. Sorry NOT Sorry, we are not like the rest of the world and that is that... I have not heard the King mention anything of what this guy is saying, where is the proof ??? That's right there is NONE!! So, I don't know where GBN got this story but it is absolute nonsense.. I think these POMS don't like the fact that KING CHARLES III is our King too.. Sounds to me as if they don't want to share him...lol... Why would Australians want a President... These Poms obviously do not know that, Aussies don't like self-serving, power hungry, greedy career Politicians!!! and we never have. The politicians would love and fancy themselves as Australia's first President , but we just answered that question in the last referendum , known as the Voice, an attempt by them to change our constitution... Guess What GBN??? WE SAID " NO " 63% of the country SAID NO!! Cheers from this Aussie!!

[@here_we_go_again2571]

King Charles has always been "woke". He has showered us with his ideas, some of them very goofy; since he became the crowned Prince of Wales (Boy oh boy, was that a PR disaster!) The latest and most offensive of those ideas, to those who are Anglicans, is his coronation vow to be "Defender of the faiths" (plural) while he is the supreme governor of the Church of England. (So much for the Church of England having a temporal defender!)

[@Bethoflife]

I'm not Anglican , but as a Christian , also found it offensive ! It would include a faith migrants are trying to force upon others ; a faith that contradicts everything Christ stood for !

[@thevocalcrone]

Walkabout is not an offensive term. Most of the Indigenous I know will use it, however, potentially coming from the King (and I think it became an issue because of Prince Phillip used it to a 'modern Aboriginal'). Not all Indigenous are in touch with their culture (despite what is said in the media), if they were born and raised in the urban environment they may never have attended the sacred ceremonies (or certainly at the time that PP said it), so it would potentially ahve been perceived as presumptive or arrogant.. but we definitely don't say to people 'gone walkabout?" unless we know them, and its apparent that it has happened. I know one job i had another guy went 'missing' for about three months and then turned up at work one day. Yes he had gone 'walkabout' to process some family stuff, it all got too much for him so he went bush.

[@Zodiacircle]

This story is propaganda.. I'd like to see proof that The King even said anything at all about the word Walkabout.. The Royals are not the ones that have ever used it anyway, no. The Australian News papers/ media use it. The People of Australia use it, but the Royals have never used it.. This story is BS, someone has made it up..

[@Rumkitty2000]

Oh FFS! A word can have more than one meaning, and language evolves and changes over time. Fulani is a phoney! She went to BP to deliberately cause trouble!

[@Zodiacircle]

I call Bullshit on this story.. Where is the proof that the King even said anything close to what this panel are trying to make out he said.. No, this story is propaganda..

[@thevocalcrone]

just a comment.. listening to people who are not part of your country, your culture, your tradition.. these people are not qualified to discuss what is appropriate as far as cultural respect goes. Certainly not backwards in coming forwards with their opinions though. The queen did not 'coin the phrase' either - it is an aboriginal phrase. Incidentally i'm becoming less caring about monarchy i'm sick to death of hearing about them and while i have compassion for people struggling with health issues, i believe that both the PoW camp and the Sussex camp are guilty of attempting to emotionally manipulate the public and there is a sense of entitlement attached to all parties. Plus the 'rivalry' is providing a distraction to the really big issues such as Guardian/Protector of the faith, and remaining free of politics, which William is treading a fine line with , hiring Jacinda Adern, and it appears the RF is becoming more embedded with celebrity and discrediting themselves. I watched the reports on Taylor Swift making her political endorsement and wondering if she was influenced by the RF as she seems very chummy with William and of course William and Catherine are very chummy with the diabolical and superwoke Adern.

[@Rumkitty2000]

Wirds can have more than one meaning and they also change and evolve over time.

[@thevocalcrone]

@@Rumkitty2000 walkabout meaning hasn't changed and for the Aboriginal people it remains the same from what i know. however as someone pointed it out, using the term by PP back in the day would imply he has an understanding of the Aboriginal culture - which he could only have a cursory understanding, so its a bit like feigning a cultural understanding that isn't there. A bit like someone saying 'Oh you are scottish? I'm very empathetic toward Scottish people because I have Irish ancestors and we share that celtic connection" and when my ancestors travelled to Australia I checked the manifest and there was a load of Scottish on board as free settlers.

[@Rumkitty2000]

@@thevocalcrone Well people have used the phrase "Walk or walking around about town" forever. Language changes and evolves. Gay used to mean happy, but now it's used to refer to Homosexuals. Words and phrases get c I denied, too. So saying "I'm going for a walkabout " is no big deal and not offensive.

[@thevocalcrone]

@@Rumkitty2000 you make a good point. these days non Aboriginal will use the term as well. in fact i will if i go for a bush walk or to the park or wandering outdoors "went walkabout in the garden'.

[@Rumkitty2000]

@@thevocalcrone Exactly!

[@paulaciciovieira5627]

Rubbish...🤣🤣🤣

[@julietodd6269]

We’ll have a awesome time on your tour of Australia hope United Kingdom still here when you return

[@lornaprice3748]

Not sure about the standard of your alarmist journalism

[@TTTTTT-ix6tu]

King Charles is humble and gracious, so it’s lovely.

[@isabelwright8910]

It's respect for indigenous people nothing woke about being respectful, we could do with a bit of respect in this country which your always going on about .😅

[@stopthelie7752]

Majority of things the other side claim as woke are just being considerate, kind and respectful.

[@kimberlyzickefoose2746]

Lies 🤥

[@Shaw-e5d]

🎉Fully support King Charles, Charles is being respectful 🎉

[@-Avra-]

HORRIBLE!!!

[@Zodiacircle]

I have not seen anything in this broadcast, that proves that The King even said any of what this guy is claiming.. I call Bullshit on this story!!

[@anitakennedy7248]

It is not a weakness to respect other cultures. "Walk about" is a culture happening, and as such, the term should not be used lightly by anyone, especially the monarchy.

[@Rumkitty2000]

Oh stuff it. Words change and have multiple meanings. They also change over time. This is so stupid. He's big on not offending to the extreme, because he hates confrontations and avoids them like the plague out of fear.

[@Zodiacircle]

No it is not... Walkabout is AN AUSTRALIAN term, a quintessential Aussie word, that means going somewhere but that they will be back! The Aboriginals do not own the word, they did not invent it, they didn't even have a written language, thank you very much!!! It has been around since the 1800's... I still go 'Walkabout' when I walk my dog, when I visit neighbours around the block, when I walk down the shop, when I go for a hike.. when someone is walking around meeting people. These are all definitions of Walkabouts and it has been so, for the last couple of hundred years!! Nothing to do with Aboriginals owning the word but rather it is an Australian slang word, that belongs to all Australians and our country as one country!!!!