Controversial AFL Welcome to Country faces backlash over political tones

Shadow Indigenous Australians Minister Jacinta Nampijinpa Price has shared her thoughts on the Welcome to Country ceremony given at the AFL semi-final on Saturday after it sparked backslash over political tones.
It comes as Brendan Kerin, a cultural educator from the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, told the crowd in Sydney; “A Welcome to Country is not a ceremony we’ve invented to cater for white people,” he said.
“It’s a ceremony we’ve been doing for 250,000 years-plus BC. And the BC stands for 'before Cook'.”
Ms Price said she was “over it” claiming the thing has gone “beyond ridiculous”.
“Look, I'm just a bit over it all really. I mean, you know, there's a whole lot of reinventions of culture taking place and it's turning into a bit of a fantasy, 250,000 years. I really don't think so,” Ms Price said.
“If that's the case, let's just stop doing them. Let's stop doing them. And if it's all about dividing people by race and we're supposed to be doing this in this particular way for that or whatever, like it's got beyond ridiculous.
“We need to just get back to being Australian again, as far as I'm concerned, where why don't we invent a ceremony that involves all of us together as one country instead of reinventing stuff.”

[@darrynaustin6379]

He gets paid $10 000 for this crap then has the nerve to be racist

[@redskittlesx93]

You can join in with - The (Acknowledgment of Country) is open to anyone and is commonly gatherings as a sign of respect for Indigenous cultures and histories. But, yeah fuck the culture right?? Yeah sounds awesome... So dumb!

[@TheHsan22]

I heard that one was $12k

[@tomburgundy7200]

10k to waste everyones time.

[@waynetowers5828]

@@darrynaustin6379 They should have a first fleet ceremony, after all football is something the White man invented, it’s not native

[@MrDeano-eu9rg]

Where did you get these numbers?

[@308V8HZ]

KEEP POLITICAL RACISM OUT OF SPORT !!!!!

[@trawallajack]

Well said @308V8HZ Its even in Supercars

[@308V8HZ]

@@trawallajack Fuckn sad mate , ernie dingo started all this shit .

[@jasonl1942]

All ofsport is about political correctness, inclusively and diversity now. The moment corporate sponsorship was involved, the balls were essentially neutered of everything.

[@soundknight]

Out of everything...

[@308V8HZ]

@@soundknight True !!

[@georgetsagaris4470]

I'm sick of having to listen to these ceremonies every time I watch the footy.

[@JustNanJustSoap]

I have lived back in Melbourne for the last 12 years, these ceremonies have been part of football for all this time plus....it annoyed me all that time ago, but so too does the football..I saw it as tokenism...which it was, and now it has a life of its own...too late to cry about it now, you all let it happen...

[@jimmyjack7884]

Racist bastard

[@MikeAhern-199]

250,000 yrs ago, every human alive lived in SE Africa and no one had left the continent. Maybe this explains why aboriginal culture hasn't developed without a grip on reality.

[@joshuasadler9243]

​@@MikeAhern-199they are deliberately being brainwashed. Divide and conquer tactics

[@WalmerEstate]

This ceremony should be reserved for visiting dignitaries, not Aussies. It's meaningless otherwise.

[@briananderson7285]

This shit has to end....Australians wake up and stop voting for the woke uniparty.

[@johnkearney-es4tq]

Can we PLEASE get RID of Welcome to Country Australia voted NO to the Voice we are all ONE people so just get over it .

[@369ZIR]

You whites don’t even know what this ceremony means. This is why when us immigrants take over? We will not listen to you. You don’t even respect indigenous culture so why should we cater to you? Get ready to be a minority in your life time. 😂😂😂😂

[@MarcoMasseria]

Well, apparently you aren't. You may think you are. You may like to say you are, but clearly there is a case to be made that you are in fact, not. Just my take from here in Uruguay. Presidente Rivera made this a moot point for us, here.

[@karaleeanderson261]

No you get over it 😂

[@xavierhirschfeld8419]

Good advice ... Get over it ... Move on.

[@MarcoMasseria]

@@karaleeanderson261 Well said, sir. #WakeUpWhitey

[@Cookie-dr6iq]

I don't need to be welcomed to my country by someone wearing a possum and holding gum leaves. These "ceremonies" are nonsense and need to stop.

[@RT_today]

You're right. These ceremonies are nothing but a cringe fest.

[@cliffhigson7581]

And a big money earner for them, just Google welcome to country ceremonies cost. A very nice money maker.

[@WalmerEstate]

Government to blame - they are encouraging division with this.

[@mikespike2099]

Welcome to country is akin to magical thinking … how about a prayer before every game?! Because that’s what is going on! It’s a prayer to invite ancestral spirits - it’s monetized hogwash that feeds the leftist elite!

[@norlshouse7289]

Very white black fella…. Wonder what percentage of aboriginal blood he has??

[@jamesmatheson5115]

Once the Labor Party is voted out we can get rid of all this BS and anyone thats attached to it.

[@PotatoMan88]

The liberals are just as anti-white. How naive are you?

[@sweetascuzz]

Coalition wont get rid of it

[@IngloriousGlueBombs]

@@sweetascuzz the coalition is no longer conservative.

[@ChrisM-fz6xx]

They were doing this bullshit long before Labor was elected . You don't know what you're talking about .

[@chrisbishop4671]

No

[@selectpestprice1692]

Bring back Australian values.

[@royboy4571]

Sorry, what the f**k are they ? Peace and Love from a fellow whitey !

[@camb6176]

@@royboy4571 A Elon says "GFY". If Australia wasn't great once, it wouldn't be culturally diverse. Amazing how cultural diversity has ruined the Aussie legend.

[@waynetowers5828]

@@selectpestprice1692 Australian values as we know it have gone forever I’m a 67 year old man and I agree totally but Australia as we knew is finished That why I left 2 years ago (7th generation Aussie) The country if rat shit

[@Jhchah2492]

I never lost em😉

[@waynetowers5828]

@@Jhchah2492 Yes but the governments have

[@thetruthhurts122]

The public is sick and tired of the AFL forcing to listen to this welcome to the country. The AFL only focus the Aboriginal flag when the national anthem is played and not the Australian flag. It is disgusting and embarrassing. AFL is a culprit dividing this country. How much do they get paid every time they do this? Remove the welcome to the country ceremony and remove the Aboriginal flag. There’s only one Australian flag.

[@kokmuncher6702]

AFL pushing lgbtq is worse

[@mrbigw100]

BC stands for Before Centerlink

[@Hudpix16]

😂

[@iggytull624]

That would be the Department of Social Security then.

[@cantbegood7]

😂

[@369ZIR]

Funny, I’m an immigrant and when we had covid lockdown? The majority of the people in the Centrelink lines were white Australians. This is in Brisbane. The stats also say Centrelink is used by white Australians more than any other ethnicity.

[@shannonsutherland2450]

Haha

[@stancraigie601]

That's a lie, Welcome to Country was invented by Ernie Dingo in the 1970s! I'm with Jacinta, scrap them!

[@AdrianAdrian-sg2tj]

It was a comic skit... correct.

[@redskittlesx93]

😆🤣 noo it wasn't! Ernie Dingo did not invert or alter the historical timeline of the "Welcome to Country" ceremony. The practice itself has been part of Aboriginal culture for thousands of years, reflecting a deep connection to the land and traditions. The 65,000-year figure refers to the estimated time Aboriginal peoples have lived in Australia. Dingo's critiques are more about how the ceremony is used and perceived in contemporary contexts, not about its historical origins. He emphasizes that the ceremony should be practiced with genuine respect and understanding, rather than becoming a token gesture. The traditional practice of "Welcome to Country" is indeed an ancient one, but discussions about its modern application aim to ensure it remains meaningful and respectful.

[@DamienB-m9x]

@@redskittlesx93I don’t recall Captain Cook being welcomed to Country when he arrived.

[@redskittlesx93]

@@DamienB-m9x , I wonder why? Did any of you go to fucking school or just took the time to educate yourself in this topics? Or just feeling some type of way so you thing you have a right to speak on tradition?? I swear, some of yous really need to "Educate your brain, a little more" 😆

[@mikespike2099]

Welcome to country is akin to magical thinking … how about a prayer before every game?! Because that’s what is going on! It’s a prayer to invite ancestral spirits - it’s monetized hogwash that feeds the leftist elite!

[@DISHWASHERANDDRYER]

This IS my country. Why should I be welcomed to a country I was born in 55 years ago? Enough already.

[@gjssjg]

@@DISHWASHERANDDRYER it's designed to divide and make us all believe we're "living on stolen land"..... some people believe that BS

[@ajs4x482]

I am the same age and think exactly the same, it’s just as much my country as anyone else’s.

[@JC-lu4se]

Country refers to the local land so you’re being welcomed to; the local land which may have got you killed thousands of years ago being Indigenous if were weren’t welcomed. I don’t agree with the practice in modern times, but that’s what is means.

[@franktully3065]

​@@JC-lu4seMaybe, but it's probably come to mean more than that these days.

[@WalmerEstate]

As Jacinta Price says, she did not grow up with this. It is a modern invention, and just divides us instead of bringing people together.

[@dontbeasheeple5883]

40,000, 50,000, 65,000, 75,000......... now its 250,000 years?? Yeah nah.

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

Humans, as anatomically modern Homo sapiens, are believed to have first appeared around 300,000 years ago in Africa. This is based on fossil evidence, such as the remains found in Morocco at the site of Jebel Irhoud.We have been in Australia for atleast 65,000 years

[@homebrandrules]

wrong, ITS NOW 1,250,000 quick buy in, its gonna keep increasing...

[@Martinoconnor-du6lc]

and they still did nothing.

[@SimonRoszkowski]

​@@Martinoconnor-du6lcabos were the first Christians... Jesus's said "don't do anything until I get back" 😅😅😅😅😅😅😅

[@user-xy9hg1ir9e]

Enough is enough seriously

[@AmandaBeisiegel]

SENATOR JACINTA NAMPIJINPA PRICE you are an amazing lady ❤️ well said 👏

[@BeachRecharge]

This is the legacy that Albanese will be remembered for. Complete nonsense that 99% of people don't want.

[@AshBhang2010]

This women would make a great PM

[@rodneyunicomb8019]

I agree

[@SGI999]

@@rodneyunicomb8019 Yep 👍

[@jeffmcgeary2962]

She seems to be fair and honest.

[@cavvy1499]

Idiot

[@jasonkells3150]

Yep 👍

[@brendabrown5419]

If the Indegenous Gentleman feels so strongly about introducing " Welcome to Country," then why on principle, did he not reject the money that he was paid in doing so??. God Bless.

[@redskittlesx93]

That's not his fault, that's the government's 😆... Educate yourself buddy!

[@jacksonwieringa4300]

Of course he had no issue with handouts 😂 10k for a few words and still not enough, strange it’s like it’s a recurring theme?

[@jasonl1942]

If not for the lucerative victim card, the world would be a very different place.

[@seriousmonkey5654]

@@redskittlesx93 Maybe he has a brain. Do you?

[@Perina19]

Good point

[@covertcounsellor6797]

Senator Nampijimpa Price is a national treasure. Pure common sense.

[@WalmerEstate]

She is gold for the Liberal Party and Australia.

[@Rose-jz6ix]

​@@WalmerEstateshe is liberal country party.

[@jamesaustralian9829]

We all voted no, we should not be putting up with this. Next welcome to country - boo it !

[@grantschelfhout1227]

How embarrassing! Cut his welfare payments ASAP!

[@TandMroaming]

Well said JNP! Hope you are PM one day

[@TerrenceBosworth]

Me too. Exactly. All of us as one people. Ernie Dingo invented " welcome to country" a few decades ago.

[@WalmerEstate]

@@TerrenceBosworth Wish he hadn't - it is getting overused.

[@WalmerEstate]

Jacinta Price is a very level-headed person, in stark contrast to some of the people who run our country.

[@seriousmonkey5654]

The colony built this country.

[@cavvy1499]

The colony is this country

[@WalmerEstate]

Yes.

[@AdamSabir1]

Captain Cook deserves more respect

[@lifes_abeach6040]

Prisoner's 😂

[@dtd1986]

We created a country that people all over the world want to move to, even those who don't share our values and hate the West.

[@gregoryray9920]

Audience members need to TURN THEIR BACKS in a form of silent protest

[@camb6176]

Boycott the AFL until they stop this attack.

[@gregoryray9920]

@@camb6176 Unfortunately you have to boycott bloody everything to completely avoid their self indulgent crap. They are so concerned with meaningless symbolic gestures rather than the dysfunction within their own culture

[@DaleRyan-g5r]

This is gaslighting. React? You prove their "point".

[@camb6176]

@@gregoryray9920 AFL is a good start. They keep bringing politics into the sport.

[@gregoryray9920]

@@camb6176 Very true, the AFL get behind every issue the vast majority of us couldn't care less about

[@pablovalentine8976]

As a part Aboriginal man Iam embarrassed by this misinformation and disinformation , Two years ago it was 40 thousand years Aboriginals were here . Now just 2 years later this fool said it is 250 thousand years. Enough of the crap i say .

[@BigBopper-zm1kf]

I'm fourth generation born and bred Australian. You disgust me when you have the audacity to welcome me to my OWN country 🇦🇺

[@user-xe1ol7xh4i]

I tell my young kids they are doing a welcome to commonwealth they are welcoming the indigenous people to to commonwealth land 😂

[@Posy13]

Fair dinkam mate

[@Sylmarys24]

A country we've done more for in 60 years than they have in 60,000.

[@TheObSeRvErTheObSeRv]

If i was there i would have called out BULLSHIT.!!! And notice there was NO AUSTRALIAN FLAG AROUND THE FIELD.!!!

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

Didn't you learn an manners as a kid.?

[@44shots6worlds]

You're obviously a immigrant, aboriginal, or a wokey because wtf you yapping about byou think what the aboriginal fk head said was respectful?​@@rosshitchen-ij6en

[@SimonRoszkowski]

​@@rosshitchen-ij6enits called self respect but they don't teach that at school these days... Now kids are taught to hate their country, hate themselves and pander to minorities that really don't matter in society...

[@redskittlesx93]

What's a Aboriginal flag? Australian, yes? Fucking retard.

[@Lord-H27]

Fck I hate most white Aussies!

[@runestone1337]

When this racist rubbish came up on the Kayo broadcast last night I just hit the "back" button on my Apple TV remote to go back to the menu. Everyone in the room thanked me and after a few minutes I went back into the game and the entertainment continued. If only the AFL knew how much this stuff is utterly despised out there in the real world.

[@44shots6worlds]

Mate I'm pretty sure if they could see the numbers of who change channel on the telly or other broadcast systems they'd realise but still wouldn't care the city's are woke asf and the sporting organisations are the same

[@warren4110]

Not only the AFL mate! It’s crept into everything ; we can’t watch TV without them thanking whichever tribe used to live on the land upon which the program was made. B/S!!!

[@WalmerEstate]

@@warren4110 Agree. Every country has gone through what Australia has. And we have all benefited from the sacrifices of those early settlers.

[@garthodowd6846]

AFL is the wokest sporting organisation in Australia

[@redskittlesx93]

So, everyone in the room was "Bigot" ?

[@chiss64]

Jacinta for Prime Minister

[@JuneCahill]

Stop taking Taxpayers money, we are sick of being welcomed to our own Country,

[@rick381v69]

Senator Price, once again, is the voice of sanity and inclusively.

[@kaosthecosmicreviewer1055]

Absolute ingrates, we should take back the +$40 billion per year. Complete waste of taxpayers' money.

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

You should show some respect to the thousands of Aboriginals who fought and died for Australia in all the wars we have participated in.

[@44shots6worlds]

​@@rosshitchen-ij6enmore white people died for Australia them aboriginals That's facts you're obviously not white or you're old

[@Martinoconnor-du6lc]

@@rosshitchen-ij6en you should show respect for the whitey's who extended your life, and bend over backwards for your ungrateful arses. you want us to keep saying sorry. how about saying thank you.

[@SimonRoszkowski]

​@@rosshitchen-ij6enthey made up maybe 3-4% of people who fought. You are so disrespectful to the ANZACS who fought...

[@joshuasadler9243]

​@@rosshitchen-ij6enthe best way to show them respect is to be treated as equals and stop allowing people to play the aboriginal card to further agendas that are based in divide and conquer tactics. We need a full investigation to where all the money is going and why it isn't having any postive impact. We need to focus on real education like maths and science and include history, the good the bad and the ugly. But that has been tainted by activists.

[@stevewynter4519]

I couldn't believe what i was hearing it was embarrassing for all Australians, Please let this be the nail in the coffin for welcome to country it has overstayed it's welcome

[@redskittlesx93]

it still remains a culturally importantace practice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples.. So, how's life ya "Bigot" ?

[@Jeff-ty4oi]

I am sick to death of this welcome to country bullshit, i work FIFO every time national jet lands at perth airport they give this welcome crap it needs to stop and now it means nothing absolutely nothing.

[@44shots6worlds]

Mate if ya a FIFO just walk away and go to your area majority of cunts would agree with you even if they didn't follow ya

[@davepowelldrumz]

my missus gets it twice a week at art school.

[@TheBlw86]

I FIFO from Tasmania. Welcome to country in Melbourne. Welcome to country in Perth and then welcome to country on national jet when I land on site. Three times in one day !!! Absolute joke and people are over it.

[@44shots6worlds]

@@TheBlw86 walk out of it

[@44shots6worlds]

@@Jeff-ty4oi leave when they do it walk past it

[@simonboland]

250,000. Do I hear 300, 350, 400. Going once, going twice. Sold.

[@rc70ys]

😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@shannonsutherland2450]

Hahaha

[@sweetascuzz]

Same BS going on in NZ -Its a joke

[@perrindabrowski824]

I'd say it would be easily proven that Maori"s are behind this somewhere.

[@agentsmithmememe]

250,000 years, wow that's an increase on 60,000, what next they tamed some dinosaurs?

[@ACDZ123]

Ha ha they are a bunch of F .....ds aren't they 🤦‍♂️

[@KingsleyThomson-j1w]

Right on,,,,I remember back when it was 20 000 years,,, when will this madness end!

[@ACDZ123]

@@KingsleyThomson-j1w ha ha yer it was 25 to 30 thousand years when I was I school about 50 yrs ago .they keep adding 10 thousand every decade 🤦‍♂️

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

@@ACDZ123 The oldest known artifacts discovered in Australia are stone tools found in the Madjedbebe rock shelter in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. These tools have been dated to approximately 65,000 years ago, making them the oldest evidence of human occupation on the Australian continent.

[@ACDZ123]

@rosshitchen-ij6en you can't date stone ...next

[@anomadhunter]

This was outrageously divisive. He didn’t thank the Brits for bringing modern medicine and technology to Australia…you’d think these indigenous activists would prefer that everyone lived in grass huts and caves, with no electricity or modern conveniences. My ancestors fought and died in Europe to protect the freedoms of all Australians. They get no thanks from these ungrateful indigenous radicals. Sick of it.

[@desleesaccomanno3685]

If white man hadn’t come and colonised this country it would be completely barren. They would have eaten all the wild life and then died of they would not be here today to cross breed with the white man to keep their generations going

[@SOC675]

You would think they invented everything

[@stavio12]

🤣🤣 I think the indigenous managed just fine without the Brits modern medicine and technology for thousands of years. Why didn't you mention Brits bringing in alcohol and introducing it to the aboriginals and causing all sorts of problems with that. There's two sides of every coin, if you're going to mention the good then please conveniently don't leave out the bad.

[@francesfallon8121]

I am 81, born in Australia and feel insulted with the welcome to the country ceremony. I am also white, a Christian and love the Australian way of life which is going down the gurgler. God bless Australia.

[@JC-lu4se]

Well mate, at 81, you'll be able to understand that "country" refers to the local lands you're on. It doesn't mean the nation state of Australia. Cheers.

[@neveling67]

I agree with you. I think as an 81 year old you’re likely to have more common sense than a woke liberal who doesn’t have capacity to do good so they virtual signal and make up terms like “country” to self soothe because their parents failed them and they have no grit. It’s pathetic.

[@bojangles2492]

250,000 years? Says the guy with no written history and virtually no archaeological evidence, these guys have been standing on their fairy tales so confident for too long. I want to see that soap box removed from under them quite unceremoniously.

[@wiselistener4978]

She's a real salt of the earth politician. Would vote her in as PM in a second.

[@majorlaff8682]

Welcome to my country. I'd like to acknowledge the early pioneers who came to this country over two hundred years ago and developed an almost uninhabitable land by establishing farms, roads, schools, hospitals, towns and cities, railways, ports and harbours, universities, health clinics, telecommunications, factories and industries, warm (or cool) comfortable homes, shopping centres, a reliable abundant food supply, libraries, clean water, electricity and gas, airlines, the mining industry ... the list goes on. Welcome to my country. The copyright of the above 'Welcome ...' belongs to me. Certain members of the community will be allowed to use it at a fee of $5,000. White-fellas may use it for free.

[@anomadhunter]

SPOT ON mate. You’d think they’d prefer to live in caves and have no modern conveniences or medicines. Sick of it.

[@robertmassolini4503]

YES!!!!!!

[@WalmerEstate]

And yet some of the State governments (including Victoria) are pushing on with treaties. despite Australians voting against this.

[@adods9824]

GOLD !!! 😁👍🇦🇺

[@msBatFink]

well said!

[@agentsmithmememe]

This is getting old and tiresome, the meaning has been lost

[@jenniferharrison8915]

The meaning was never found, unless you mean the insense burning in Asia to cleanse the soul, and later adopted by Catholicism, or burning sage to remove bad energy! They only burnt eucalyptus trees and scrub to scare out prey!

[@Planets-q3d]

Australian Bolshevik Commission needs to be defunded !!

[@BigBopper-zm1kf]

To each and every Australian who was born here I am your brother and WE are indigenous to this land. FULL STOP ✋️

[@wilson2455]

250,000 years? Must be one hell of a 'smoking ceremony'..

[@leannejones980]

😂😂😂😂 you've got to wonder what they're all smokin'

[@wilson2455]

according to the World Anthropomophic College, the 1st sign of human habitation in Australia occurred between 55,000 & 50,000 years ago, with human migration out of Africa occuring approx. 80,000 to 75,000 years ago. So me thinks this guy is having some serious 'Dreamtime' issues..

[@cozofcat9170]

@@leannejones980Wacky Bakky😊😊

[@colinfullford8630]

We already have a ceremony that involves all of us, it's called "The National Anthem" and no other ceremonies should be performed in conjunction with it. Period.

[@steveelliott5156]

The crowd should start clapping as soon as this rubbish starts to drown out the B.S to let them know we are sick of it.

[@HumbugDandy]

I go to the toilet and bar and get back in time for the National Anthem.

[@ianjones2401]

What a disgrace. Get rid of this BS

[@roywells7974]

he is so delusional and excepts us to believe this crap!! Jacinta speaks so much sense good on her

[@ronaldmasters1225]

The ABC should stick to news reporting and keep their political opinions to themselves, unbiased news is hard to come by these days.

[@warrenjones5077]

I thought ABC stood for Australian Broadcasting corporation but now i think it stands for something else 🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂

[@oldcynic6964]

The ABC gave up "news reporting" years ago. They are pro-diversity in everything except diversity of political opinion.

[@WalmerEstate]

Can we please have Senator Jacinta Price on your shows more often? She speaks such commonsense and truth, it's so refreshing to listen to her. Her comments are more likely to bring about social cohesion than all the protests and other trash we are fed on a daily basis.

[@franktully3065]

Love ❣️ Jacinta. If only we had more like her.

[@nataliemitchell5127]

Jacinta is brilliant 👏 so intelligent, makes sense and very relateable ❤

[@stevenkirk8401]

I'm not sorry for anything. You want my land. You buy it. If you have any issues? Take it up with the King of England.

[@petertalbot7261]

So am I mate. People are sick and tired of it

[@joannedye6401]

Well said, Jacinta.

[@howardramsay9596]

What an imagination, 250,000 years and still needed to be shown how to be civilised. Is that progressive or what.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

And speak English out of respect to all our cultures and not burn leaves near asthmatics! How can they charge us in Australian dollars to be insulted?

[@troywallace322]

They are the 5th world.

[@brooks9184]

As an American living in Australia, I gotta be honest. I’m blown away by how woke of a country this is and what seems to be a desire for more and more government oversight from the people here, and again that’s coming from an American 😂.

[@AndrewMiller-m9g]

@@brooks9184 I am not proud to be an Aussie because of the bullshit and the way the country is run this welcome to country crap and political correctness has stuffed australia up.

[@andrewbroome7404]

No one wants any of this crap. It's wasn't ever voted on and is just forced on people

[@killerbee1647]

Yep sadly you are spot on.

[@RabbityGoodness]

Every time I go to a school event or sports event or concert or public event - especially in the arts - some blue haired Caucasian “pays respects to elders” on my behalf. No National Anthem. Now our new tax payer funded buildings like Ambulance and Firestations have “on tribal land” at the entrance. 🤢 🤢 🤢 I will be standing and turning my back if it continues. We all should.

[@dayamitrasaraswati6276]

I love Jacinta Price! I agree that we should have a ceremony for ALL Australians.

[@WalmerEstate]

Why can't our white heads of state understand this? We are one nation.

[@ElvisPriscillaPresley]

250000 years later, and all they invented was a stick. You're welcome.

[@SOC675]

Exactly 😂😂

[@JohnGarofano-s5j]

The human race is not even 250,000 years old ,it reflects on his intellectual capacity,sick of it

[@JC-lu4se]

It's true there weren't many advances in technology, but living off the land for tens of thousands of years deserves a bit of kudos.

[@gjf327]

That is gold lol😅

[@Jhchah2492]

No no doooont 😂

[@garycooper7224]

An invention by Ernie Dingo and his mate that's turned into a money spinning load of nonsense.

[@thekunninglinguist2397]

I never watch the start of matches to avoid the aboriginal BS

[@Rod-rx4go]

Love you Jacinta you’re a true Australian

[@garethhiggon3971]

250 000 years and never invented the wheel., OK whatever .

[@Aesyrbane]

no one outside of Canberra wants these ceremonies. I don't need to be welcomed to my own country.

[@mr.gasser4521]

Remember that the majority of those in Canberra as you put it come from all parts of the country. But Morons like to blame a city that houses the rubbish from their own areas. STFU

[@pattayaguideorg]

FOOK WELCOME TO COUNTRY!

[@racerboy-d2z]

As an Australian im sick of this Welcome e to Country bullshit!

[@hibbosmodelbench2351]

The funniest thing about this bloke is he is knowingly misappropriating an instrument that his ancestors never used.

[@sirstiffpilchard]

What a load of lies from that spokesman.

[@purebloodnordicroamer7955]

I stopped off at Docker river aboriginal community just off the great central road NT, a couple weeks ago to grab some groceries from their IGA. I asked what does it means welcome to country and smoking ceremony. The aboriginal blokes said to me, “l don’t know what you’re talking about.”

[@44shots6worlds]

Because majority of places don't do the vs it's just woke city's

[@44shots6worlds]

Country towns don't do the shit

[@WalmerEstate]

Very revealing! Shows who is pushing this stuff!

[@russellholmes8742]

If aboriginals have been in Australia for tens of thousands of years they lived in a hell of their own making. There wouldn't have been one million when Cook landed. Population growth at modest rates will give billions of people in a couple of thousand years.

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

The Brittish murdered a lot of us.There is less than a million of us now roughly 750,000.

[@user-jk1gl3wk1m]

it's called Australia Day

[@Matt123a]

250,000 years and no wheel. Proud of that?

[@bettymarshall2702]

That was a quick jump from 65,000 to 250,000.😃😅😂

[@winnieblue9626]

Did they create a single brick?

[@Nae395]

I recommend all people offended either racially or religiously to submit a complaint with the AFL integrity unit and demand an apology by the CEO.

[@Magpie_Mark92]

Im sick of it being forced onto us everywhere we go

[@raysydneyaustralia]

All that time here, and not one house built.🤔

[@tobree1]

And no roads, no crops, no nothing. Just piles of empty shells and stone age art. It would be no different today had Europeans not arrived.

[@davidhales8799]

Don't give pascoe any ideas.

[@cozofcat9170]

@@tobree1And beer bottles 😊

[@DOWNUNDER.]

🇦🇺WELCOME 🇦🇺 WELCOME TO MY AND EVERY AUSTRALIANS COUNTRY. WAS THEN, IS NOW AND ALWAYS WILL BE. AND YOU'LL COME A WALTZING MATILDA WITH ME

[@ivanmilja9441]

AFL needs to scrap this crap 💩 every one is sick of hearing about it 👎

[@weekendwithbevoblog2171]

AFL needs to drop the woke stuff and simply treat all people with respect.

[@blackg0076]

How long before they claim first ever people on earth.

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

Could possibly be

[@44shots6worlds]

​@@rosshitchen-ij6enyeah no Yous weren't mate🤦🏻‍♂️you need to wake up to yourself

[@Magpie_Mark92]

They already do

[@SimonRoszkowski]

Technically humans evolved 40,000 years ago. So abos are really an intermediate species 😅😅😅😅😅

[@cavvy1499]

@@blackg0076 the whole planet belongs to them, it’s all stolen land

[@williamsharp2532]

15000 years ago, when I was still riding my pushie to school, we all got along a lot better than nowadays.

[@jmbroom33]

Our kids HAVE to do welcome to country every morning at school before beginning their lessons. The classes are majority Indian Asian African children which I find ridiculous.

[@Aussie-Nan]

Can we just stop welcoming ourselves to our own country, it’s a fact that this is rewriting history and not something Aboriginals always did, mad3 up to get money an$ they are paid a pretty penny. Love Jacinta always voice of reason.

[@VitZ9]

BC like Before Civilisation? 😆

[@WalmerEstate]

Before Christ.

[@cavvy1499]

@@WalmerEstate Christ is the bedrock of western civilisation

[@pattykake7195]

Before the Createous….🦖

[@bulkhammerii3419]

Before centrelink

[@cryptocryptkeeper6110]

Ernie dingo made this welcome ceremony in the 70s to invite the kiwis over. 250k years ago apparently

[@BeerGutGuy]

You won’t find welcome to country on Malcolm Douglas

[@lwf3723]

The only way for change is for people to start boycotting events that have a “welcome to country” The only way to get your point across is to stop the money train.. Less people = less money, the only language that speaks!!!

[@AndrewMiller-m9g]

@@lwf3723 I won’t watch any sports that have welcome to the country crap their need to be a patron that states that were sick of this crap and signed by many people .i sign it and turn my back we’re ever it happens .the country belongs to all aussies not them

[@markcroydon3195]

I have Indigenous, Irish, Scottish and English heritage. Are these ceremonies supposed to be welcoming me, or only part of me, or none of me? Why do we have this divisive practise in modern multicultural Australia anyway?

[@davidkennedy4845]

Because we have a dickhead for a prime minister with no "balls".

[@OG_Sigma87]

250,000 years and they didnt invent anything other than a stick clapping, boomerang and digaridoo. They couldnt even figure out the wheel or farming ffs

[@malcolmball2829]

What a load of bollox

[@81carrerasc]

Botox ?

[@81carrerasc]

@@slimlinebond botox ?

[@81carrerasc]

@@slimlinebond BOTOX ??????

[@RIGHTOCRYPTO]

Well said Jacinta. what would we do without you .

[@Peter-ge9oi]

I go to the football to watch football . I go as a " proud Western Australian white man from the Perth region ". I do not need to be welcomed to country. I'm already here. I was born here . Worked here all my life and paid taxes all that time . Australia is my country and always will be. I find it offensive to have to go through this made up ceremony that has been introduced to everything in an attempt to make the white man sorry to be alive . We're all here . Make the most of it .

[@AndrewZxr]

The welcome to country is wrong on every level 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@vincecalabro5189]

Jancinta you should be our first female primer minster of Australia 🇦🇺

[@AdamSabir1]

You aren’t Australian are you 😂

[@garthodowd6846]

Never heard of Julia Gillard? 😂

[@cameronnoble8380]

No one voted Julia Gillard into power.

[@garthodowd6846]

@@cameronnoble8380 she was still the PM

[@JGH1708]

Next time you're at a sporting event and the welcome to country occurs turn your back.

[@scrooge1970]

I am so over this welcome to country nonsense. When is it going to end? It is divisive and like a broken record.

[@binance9975]

we all voted no ffs so sick of it, just dividing us. well spoken Jacinta

[@toomuchlove1524]

They’re going back to the Fred Flintstone era

[@aaronduke8854]

Better than what your mum gave us

[@aaronduke8854]

😂

[@buildmotosykletist1987]

Eirnie Dingo invented it in the 1970's.