Australians have ‘had it’ with Indigenous welcome to country

[@beetlebopter888]

Scrap those other flags while we're at it. One flag, one country.

[@garybilkey1244]

I Have been saying to obvious for the last 10 years Politition s always gutless to act I think before you become a pollie you should have to sit a intelligence test Far out we would nt have any poliies Lol my rant

[@Diponty]

The southern cross offends you? @@bigcone5151

[@Dash829]

Those Flags are not Legal…Only OUR AUSTRALIAN FLAG 🇦🇺

[@kristalm-e1k]

No Way.

[@kristalm-e1k]

​​@@Dash829it was made Official and Legal in 1996. The Aboriginal one. I don't know about the Torres Strait Islands one.

[@GlennWD]

It's time to celebrate Australia Day. 🇦🇺 We deserve to enjoy our country & it is time for Aboriginals & Aussies alike to be grateful & get on with living.

[@MsBiggles51]

Aborigines are Australians. We are equal, and all we need is to treat each other as equal.

[@MichaelIrwin-j3m]

The protesters will be out to spoil our day .

[@PsytanicA]

@@MichaelIrwin-j3m Like they always do, with every attempt at unity they quiet simply cannot have that. That's why they do it. When a good thing arises, they begin a new crisis.

[@ZELJKO472]

Even you give into all their demands the social justice cult will be still unhappy and demand more.

[@franktully3065]

​@@MsBiggles51Agreed. Well said.

[@marksmart9754]

They’ve had it with a lot of the aboriginal industry hype. Favoring 3% of the people against 97% is ridiculous.

[@mikeoz4803]

I'm an aussie & do NOT need to be welcomed to my own country!!!

[@richardsaunders3743]

The failed 'Voice'(sic) proposal was not of, or from rank-and-file Aboriginals - It was of the Nabobs!

[@cudgee7144]

Try half of one percent of the legitimate Aboriginal race, the rest claim to be of Aboriginal heritage because it's trendy and profitable.

[@richardsaunders3743]

@@cudgee7144 Hear! Hear!

[@elzelinakriek-breet3092]

That's like New Zealand!

[@ricky6864]

The indigenous industry is making a fortune for some while the needy are still needy

[@ZELJKO472]

And is run by people whose sole existence is to feel offended on behalf of others. It is a racket and total rort. Aboriginal Corporation is double NASA'S budget!!!

[@VK-qo1gm]

Atm, no different in white communities, some are dripping & grabbing wealth & many are living in cars, tents, etc, except car families are told they're not trying hard enough, no handouts

[@kathrynperry992]

Exactly. 3% of the population of Australia, are allocated 33 billion $ dollars per annum. Where is the money going? The Aboriginal industry is alive and well, to many greedy Aboriginal criminals are riding the gravy train..

[@AdmiringRouteMap-wn6tx]

​@@kathrynperry992 $33 billion lol it should be $500 Billion a year to indigenous peoples 😅

[@AdmiringRouteMap-wn6tx]

​@@kathrynperry992but seriously clown , according to statistics indigenous peoples are either in jail so they get the same treatment an same spending as any prisoners, an some indigenous peoples are homeless probably be near 7% -10% Apparently indigenous Australians are bulging good nothing according to SkyNews an it's fake commentors , But most of that $33 billion is spent to hire majority white Australians to work to apparently help these indigenous peoples, so cut $33 billion off we'll see who riding that gravy train "white people " be alot of white people that will be like those statistics for indigenous peoples, dumb people these days so pre 1980's Thinking bigots think they can make a come back

[@leelengkon]

One country, one national day and one flag. That is unity.

[@Hup-x1y]

With 2 laws , , colonial law put the rest as outlaws😊

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

Aboriginals had tribal laws and customs that varied between tribes. There are some facets of Aboriginal laws and customs that would have the woke running and screaming into the night in abject horror ... I don't think anybody in their right mind either past or present is going to claim a return to Aboriginal laws and customs is an improvement ... although now you mention it ... ! @@Hup-x1y

[@lanceMollenhauer-mf1xz]

​​@@Hup-x1y Commonwealth corporation is over gone back to constitutional law. The financial district of London is over as well as colonial law..

[@nintencat]

Wanting to Believing Something and Believing it are two different things.

[@morisongregory]

One people

[@aussie807]

Welcome to country is a modern invention, I don't need to be welcomed to my own country and find the whole thing offensive.

[@Hup-x1y]

OK , ,next 😊

[@alanc6781]

@@Hup-x1y Meaning?

[@fandangofandango2022]

Love this Great Post / Wonderful.

[@Jonesy1701]

Absolutely. One flag, one national day, one country. Don't welcome to me to my own country. I was born and raised here, this is my home.

[@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 allowed to use it at a fee of $5,000. White-fellas may use it for free.

[@evah787]

Hahahaha 😂🇦🇺

[@josephgee143]

It's their ancestral land dated back 65000 years. If Israel can claim their biblical land, they should be able to re-claim their ancestral land.

[@froggygreen2876]

​@@josephgee143Earth is only 6000 years young

[@aaronaaron6569]

​@@josephgee14365000 years is misinformation. 😂

[@grantroberts7065]

Hand over your land to them well.@@josephgee143

[@befeleme]

I acknowledge and pay my respects to the British and European elders past and present who introduced civil society and prosperity to Australia.

[@alibarber57]

As the saying goes Give a white man a pile of bricks and he will build a city Give a black man a city and he will turn it into a pile of bricks Take note of South Africa

[@zeropoint546]

And banned cannibalism.

[@bruhdudeguyman]

Seeing how they treated indigenous folks, I'd have to wholeheartedly disagree with you. Genocide, slavery, mass stealing of land, alongside other unspeakable horrors, I find it difficult to believe Europeans brought "civility and prosperity" to the land now known as Australia. The First Nations peoples have 70,000+ years of rich history and culture. They were doing quite well for themselves before the British came.

[@befeleme]

@@bruhdudeguyman There was no genocide, slavery and "unspeakable horrors" etc. done to Australian Aborigines by British settlers. The Aborigines were quite apt at doing this to themselves. Their 70,000+ years of "rich history and culture" did not get them to progress beyond their stone-age level even to a point of inventing a written language, having any system of agriculture, or having a legal or moral system that would ban rape, sexual abuse of children, and incest. In contrast, the British settlers who came here only over two hundred years ago developed an almost uninhabitable land by establishing farms, roads, schools, hospitals, towns and cities, railways, ports and harbours, universities, health clinics, telecommunication networks, factories and industries, warm (or cool) comfortable homes, shopping centres, reliable and abundant food supply, libraries, clean water, electricity and gas, airlines, the rule of law, etc. etc. And all that is available for the Aborigines, too. They are the beneficiaries of colonization as much as everyone else. But by all means, do keep believing in your fairy tales. They have nothing to do with reality.

[@bruhdudeguyman]

@befeleme Despite the fact that Australian enslavement of indigenous people's only ended in the 1970s, you still seem quite confident in spreading crazy racist shit. Hundreds of cultural groups and languages that were once of the land of Australia are now lost to time due to the violence and disease brought by the British colonists. Children were stolen from homes, enslaved and forced to assimilate into the culture of colonists. Yet to this day, there are still hundreds of First Nations in Australia. These people have their own languages, religions, and ways of life that have contributed to their communities and land for tens of thousands of years. The idea that these people are/were moral less monsters that contributed nothing is absolutely mind-boggling and ridiculously racist. Especially when British colonists were literally committing sexual violence against young girls and women, alongside the massacres and mass dispossession of land. Do some research about it, dude. Holy shit - this stuff is fucking awful and nothing to be proud of.

[@smyleymk9821]

Best thing i have heard all week . How does anybody need a welcome to the very COUNTRY THEY WERE BORN IN .

[@mickzammit6794]

I was welcomed to this country seventy three years ago. No hollow stick,no burning leaves. Just welcome.. from the doctor and nurses

[@Hup-x1y]

It's then they slapped your face n activated your colonial privilege

[@goldenautumn3073]

And that's ALL we need.

[@moaningpheromones]

oor - look at him, g'day mate - welcome to the outside.

[@Prognosis__]

Finally, some sanity has prevailed

[@RoderickEmanuel-m7d]

The capital of Awusytrslia is Sidnee.

[@trevorkeyser9746]

One Australia 🇦🇺! Not two. Until the government starts treating all Australians as Australians we will never be one. One group does not deserve to be treated better than the other.

[@Hup-x1y]

It's the red neck Ozzie that needs educating

[@goldenautumn3073]

Nor has any 3% minority any right to dictate to all other Australians how our country, or government or anything else, has to be run. They were given an inch and now want the whole nine yards!

[@malcolmmcgrath9344]

The world has gone nuts, welcome to country' and saying sorry is more important than celebrating Australia Day, flying the Indigenous rag is equally important as the Australian flag, fringe issues such as transgender get more news than proud to be straight, alternative energy sources are more important than proven reliability. Well, I was born here nearly 70 years ago and I do not need to be welcomed to my country by anyone, particularly not by those Indigenous people who would like to see us kicked out or have our wealth confiscated for their needs. I have never been one to fly an Australian flag, I always thought it was enough to just be an Australian, but I think that this year I might go to Coles and buy some Australian flags just to identify that I am not gay, not transgender, don't support LBwhatever and not Indigenous. Why Coles, because I am annoyed with Woolworths, but that is a different story. So, to all of you proud Indigenous Australians, non Indigenous Australians, new Australians, fly the Australian flag and be proud to be in the lucky country, because even though we have some issues, it is a damn sight better here than anywhere else, and for goodness sake put those damn gum leaves out.

[@goldenautumn3073]

Good comment - we feel just as you do!

[@Risng_Phoenix]

Ok, you just sound like an old racist.

[@caznden]

I was born here 85 years ago next week, before most” Indigenous” people, so LET ME WELCOME MOST OF THEM TO “ My country “ !!

[@Quazmodic]

I don't need to be welcomed to my own country.

[@TheSalsa8888]

Australia is focusing too much on Indigenous, while the real danger is the proliferation of Islam

[@dilligaf8349]

Gov pays a fortune for all sorts of studies. You will find this nowhere unless you talk to the terror police but aborigines are the easiest to convert to Islam. Strange fact. Hey sky, what happened to the jail warden firing machine guns on tax payer time. Seems to be no news coverage.

[@scorpionking4012]

TheSalsa8888 💯💯 they slowly getting bigger and stronger all over the world.

[@irinayudina4309]

No. This abo movement intends to take our land and our houses and the United Nations is behind them. If we are not careful, Australia will end up like South Africa today. Where white farmers are now being forced to hand over their land to indigenous South Africans.

[@RobsonHolding]

@@mac2626 even the innocent Muslims who live in Australia and just keep to themselves going about their daily lives, like everyone else?

[@littlecatfeet9064]

⁠@@RobsonHoldingpoll them about support for homosexuality or whether they support Hamas, like the innocent Muslims quietly shouting “gas the Jews” outside the Opera House.

[@ETERNITY777]

😡 YES REALLY SICK AND TIRED OF LISTENING TO THIS CRAP 😡😡😡

[@ralphmogridge8364]

Yet SkySpews will trot it out every year!!!

[@fredvandevelde4576]

Time to get rid of the BS around this welcome to country and the smoking ceremony which was never part of aboriginal culture. All aboriginal flags should be removed from public buildings - one flag one country. Australians have spoken.

[@mjkelly9801]

As mixed ~70% aboriginal, 30% Irish catholic family, we all think of us as _Australians!_ 🇦🇺Bringing up past is just DIVISIVE

[@yowie7169]

Sky news brought it up.

[@Chad.H.]

The wealth of the country should be divided equally .this is democracy. But by giving few more than the rest not because of their achievements and contribution but because of their race is pure racism

[@gutless1108]

No, that would be communism & we're experiencing the damage being done by its precepts.

[@johnwilliams7999]

The problem is the wealth of the country is given to a few huge companies while the majority of the people are given peanuts. With the wealth this country has we could have universal health care, excellent schools every where, decent houses for all, but the wealth is being whittled away by 0.1 percent of the country

[@Hup-x1y]

Natural resources indigenous

[@beckywates1819]

I'm glad Australians are speaking out, because where does this end? We paid for our homes and now we are told we don't own them? ??? Who developed this country? God save Australia.

[@jschap712]

After the disgraceful racial hatred on display at New Years Eve, I'm less inclined to humour the whole welcome to country nonsense.

[@GG_Booboo]

I missed that, what happened lol!

[@louiseemma9246]

I'm out of the loop, what happened?

[@user-dk7su3lp6e]

@@louiseemma9246 there was aboriginal rap groups, lots of white guilt, etc

[@rOb1842]

Yeah I thought hate speech was illegal

[@jschap712]

@@GG_Booboo kzbin.info/www/bejne/epWneGBrhM9obdU

[@farticusruntus]

Just a farcical scam.

[@jakotae]

I'd like to welcome the indigenous Australians to my country.

[@Hup-x1y]

England sux 😮

[@frankyyaggabot6222]

Yes, just recently it's gone downhill rapidly ... hmm ... I wonder what could have caused that? @@Hup-x1y

[@alanc6781]

@@Hup-x1y How would you know?

[@donna6592]

@@Hup-x1y this is Australia, not England.

[@deniserothwell6325]

I was born here I am indigenous in this country! If I don’t belong here where do I belong!

[@RobsonHolding]

Dont like it? Leave.

[@xr88yu]

That's why they changed it "fRiSt NaTiOnS pEoPlE" interestingly they made the same change in Canada aswell.

[@pwillis1589]

OMG, read the definition of indigenous people in an encyclopaedia. You are Australian by birth. This is not the same as being indigenous. I can’t believe you have made a comment on this subject and be so obviously completely ignorant.

[@JC-lu4se]

@@xr88yu They changed it to that so they can claim sovereign people of this land and make the false claim that they weren't small tribes but indeed "nations" with their own culture, language and history.

[@Hup-x1y]

Where your ancestors are from , , , naturally 😮

[@sturod2016]

The Welcome to Country ceremony is a fine example of force feeding woke crap so much that receivers are now having a gag reflex.

[@kristalm-e1k]

What is this welcome to country ceremony?

[@TheDiudang5127]

Well said. 👍🏼

[@Hup-x1y]

Waltzing Matilda ceremony😅

[@kristalm-e1k]

@@trevorbramich4849 your right.

[@kristalm-e1k]

@@Hup-x1y 🆒😎

[@husa58]

I'm sick of these Aboriginal activists full stop......

[@GazGuitarz]

They can barely be called "aboriginal" when most of the city mob are mixed blood Anglo. Must be nice to not only ignore a large part of your heritage but to also selectively hate the "white" side of your inheritance too.

[@Trotter7]

They will just find another way to alienate the majority of Australians.

[@royroyson2655]

We've had it with the whole aboriginal victim card,if we want to solidify our country we need to stop segregation of us,we are one country as a whole not two,we need to remove the corrupt government and aboriginal council and replace them with patriotic Australia loving citizens that have been here suffering under the thumb of so called freedom

[@johncorlett3699]

i turn my back, everyone should

[@ChrisJensen-se9rj]

The only " connection" these people have to " the land" is their hands out permanently for government funding

[@LolangLayas]

As a migrant I don’t understand why we fly 2 flags when this is only one country, suppose to have only one flag. One flag means one country, one sovereign, one territory, one people. Australia shd only pay allegiance to one flag.

[@JohnThomas-i4x]

3 flags - They've added the Torres Straight as well...

[@jennyanntrimmer]

About bloody time.

[@RobsonHolding]

We need to deport ALL Muslims next, born here or not.

[@dotdashdotdash]

Aw yeah

[@AlanCurtis-t6v]

I still say AYERS ROCK. I will NOT be welcomed to my own country. I will not attend a smoking ceremony.

[@mickden3155]

It's just more native BS we have had enough of lately.

[@batmanlives6456]

We voted NO !!! No means NO !!!!!

[@mickden3155]

@@batmanlives6456 Exactly no is No

[@peterwatson9280]

Welcome to country crap is getting old really fast

[@batmanlives6456]

@@peterwatson9280 we voted NO Crap over !

[@calcium3124]

Who’s we? Cause it sure ain’t me bud.

[@Meowser186]

Canada has the same issues. Time to move forward and stop living in the past.

[@roberthale8441]

Warren and Jacinta are trying to bring us together that’s very true

[@jettstream2886]

They're pathetic

[@AlanCurtis-t6v]

They are both great people. I wish ALL the others were like them. Some are, like the guy I met yesterday.

[@Eilen62]

​@@jettstream2886You need to actually LISTEN in order to LEARN! Seems it may be a bit beyond your years, though.

[@jettstream2886]

@@Eilen62 I listen to the grievances of normal people involved in any event in any country; ergo, I won't be listening to you.

[@Eilen62]

@@jettstream2886 Then piss off already, would ya' 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@jacquiemc1701]

Welcome to country we’ve all had a gut full sick of it .

[@graemekeeley4497]

The notion that Australians must be welcomed or invited to their own country by Indigenous leaders - which occurs at the opening of state and federal parliaments, conferences, and school assemblies - is a divisive and destructive one. This practice, while it may appear reasonable or harmless, is a manifestation of the ongoing assault on Australia’s Western heritage and implies that non-Indigenous Australians, whose families have called Australia home for many generations, do not really belong here. The Majority of all Australians regardless of race have made it clear it's time to call for an end to welcomes and acknowledgements of the country.

[@goldenautumn3073]

It's truly embarrassing and in fact, quite 'loopy' in my view. Just because this small group happen to believe something DOESN'T mean all other Australians do, nor that we have some weird obligation to get involved in their beliefs. They're losing all sensible perspective.

[@mickn8615]

Every event l attend and thy trot out some fake. I turn my back to this nonsense. Copped a small amount of abuse, to l was disrespectful and l always reply, 'they are disrespecting you. Ernie Dingo invented that crap'.

[@Telewest792]

One people one nation we are Australians we are not English or Dutch or Italian or Greeks or Arabs or Swedes or Norwegians or Americans or Canadians or any other race we are all Australian it’s time to stop all this woke crap and welcome to OUR country rubbish and move on and start fixing the economy and by the way we said a resounding NO and that is the end off it .

[@lesteraizlewood8457]

I would like to see a truthful account of how much is being charged by those who perform 'Welcome to Country' by the various speakers. It is certainly not a free welcome.

[@ZELJKO472]

Taxpayers via councils. Councils use your money to perform these shenanigans

[@JC-lu4se]

Costs range from $800 - $6000 depending on the amount of people involved such as dancers, smoking ceremony etc.

[@Josma432]

Broken Hill council has stated you’re welcome to perform it but we won’t be paying anyone. I’d love to know how that’s going.

[@Hup-x1y]

Then it must be stolen like all countries colonized by Britain

[@alanc6781]

I will never be going to a Welcome or to a Smoking ceremony. It is BS.

[@raniburtenshaw1619]

Thank god a voice of reason. The constant pushing and forcing this crap down Australians throats has become sickening!!!

[@tritonjackmam5.681]

AND NOW WOOLWORTHS AND BIG W HAV DECIDED TO NOT SELL ANY AUSTRALIA DAY PRODUCTS 🇦🇺 ITS DOWN RIGHT DISCUSTING AND AS THEY SAY UN AUSTRALIAN 🇦🇺 ANZACS WOULD WONDER WHAT HAPPENED TO THE LAND THEY FOUGHT FOR 😢😢😢

[@jaclowho7958]

Boycott Big W and Woolsworth. Let’s see how long this crap can continue.

[@pingu_ibis]

our anzacs had aboriginal people fighting beside them! not every single one of them was white!

[@DisgustedAussie]

It's also all about the money they get for the act!

[@alancotterell9207]

We live in a democracy where it is OK for anybody to have a go. I can see their point of view, but Aborigines are not the only people whom are disadvantaged. Any answers to poverty and ignorance should apply to all citizens without fear or favour.

[@crzxr]

'whom are' ? Ouch; subject pronoun governs the verb.

[@alanc6781]

They have had 230 years to join us and live with and beside us.

[@dianeunderhill8506]

@@davidp6311 So you would still be living in the Stone Age then?

[@goldenautumn3073]

That's a delusion. The aborigines in fact were NOT the sole 'first people' to set foot in Australia! Do an Internet search and find out the facts. There were several races who migrated overland (as the continents of Australia, New Guinea and Asia were then joined) - the aborigines were just ONE native race among them. Who was there to say an aboriginal was first to set foot here? Who cared? Everyone who has ever lived in Australia has been a MIGRANT - NOBODY owns any part of it and have no right to, unless they WORK and save the money to buy some. If the aboriginals are entitled to grab whatever land they can get out of this idiotic government, so then do all Asians, New Guinea natives and other races such as the Chinese, who had ancestors migrate to Australia at that same time. As well, where at ANY time was there a legally binding transfer of land ratified to authorise transfer of Australian land to ownership of the aborigines and nobody else? It's all based on fairytales - dreamtime fairytales - and the Australian people are being duped by it.

[@djlow2398]

The words have already changed from traditional custodians to traditional owners.

[@GazGuitarz]

This is all a part of UN Agenda for the 21st Century. It's a back door for the UN to ban private ownership of land.

[@donkeylove2590]

I demand a special ceremony because I'm English. We invented almost everything and practically invented the western world.

[@Hup-x1y]

Every thing the English touch turns to shit, , Long drop

[@gl3832]

Sorry, Romans and Ancient Greeks did. You then went on from there.

[@nightraven2975]

You didn't invent as much as you're claiming.

[@donkeylove2590]

@gl3832 😆😆😆 Look up inventions per nation. Jealousy of your superiors isn't a good look

[@donkeylove2590]

@@nightraven2975 Per capita, more than anyone else. But cry and be jealous if you must. Jealousy of your superiors isn't a good look

[@antp9555]

Woolworths and Coles have added their bit by banning the sale of Australia Day merchandise. I don't have a problem with anyone, I just don't think politicising everything for 'better' approval ratings and expecting everyone to blindly agree to it all is not the way forward.

[@majorlaff8682]

Coles Redlynch had plenty of Australia Day singlets, t-shirts, flags, paper cups, paper plates, tablecloths, t-towels, streamers, stubby holders, and other items, this morning. They also had plenty of customers, unlike the betrayers.

[@mikeoz4803]

I'm an aussie & do NOT need to be welcomed to my own country!!!

[@haroldguenther3317]

I don't need a welcome home anything this is my home 🖕🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@OzzyBattler4697]

I only wish we could get rid of this ridiculous "welcome to country crap".

[@Risng_Phoenix]

Why

[@Bruce15485]

An Earnie Dingo invention ! I laughed when I first saw it !

[@SamLukie]

We don't need a welcome to our own country. Why don't you do it for free if it's genuine.

[@yggdrasil9039]

The subtext is always 'feel guilty, you are bad'. That's not a healthy way to carry on.

[@ChrisJensen-se9rj]

Ive heard politicians tell us that the " health gap" has to be "closed"? Are we not individually responsible for our own health? Why is the lower life expectancy of Aborigines everyone else's fault but themselves?

[@matthewrobinson8886]

Only because this tripe has been rammed down everyone’s throat

[@olddog-fv2ox]

Loved the joke background of the smoking ceremony, invented by Ernie Dingo being turned into a serious ritual😂😂😂

[@Call_Me_Trinity]

Aussies have been fed up with it for many years.

[@larry514]

About Bloody time …. Only the Australian Nation Flag and not the two other Rags.

[@dawnemile7499]

It shows that there is a coordinated effort when the same things about Indigenous land is done in Canada as well.

[@GazGuitarz]

It's the UN using indigenous people and "Treaty" agreements as a backdoor into banning private land ownership.

[@alibarber57]

All coming from UNDRIP United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples Being applied to Australia..Canada and New Zealand to create division...disharmony Noel Pearson and Marcia Langton have made frequent trips to the UN They are hateful Communists

[@mikkybozzy-my2vk]

Woolworths and bigw are throwing out Australian flags that wher put on shelves for Australia Day. The Australian flag. The flag of the country. No country in the world would have that.

[@igorcicimov6234]

I didn't come here from a divided war torn country to re-live the same f....d up life again! Screw that. One people one country one flag. Stop bringing up the history we all come from nations that have suffered and lost much more than a land at some point in the past and leave us live in peace. I bloody hate turning on the tv there are always some lunatics talking woke rubish these days.

[@denestone9534]

Thanks Great Grand Father Grand father Uncles And Father For Fighting For This Nation In All The Conflicts So Far.And Contribution To Building This Nation.

[@ireneschmid6819]

Leave Australia as it us.At least we can pronounce the names we have.Im sure they don't have such insecurity ,that they need to re name everything We are all one nation and one people under God God Bless Australia ❤

[@GazGuitarz]

I don't speak wokish or pronounese or any of the plentiful different aboriginal tongues. Good luck governing a divided nation that can't even understand each other.

[@littletony1764]

I have never taken notice of this garbage in the first place!

[@CheCosaTesoro]

It's true. Went to a conference and the usual acknowledgement to country was performed at the start. But then very speaker, 8 in all, did their own, with different levels of acknowledgement. It got ridiculous. One speaker acknowledgement run almost 2 minutes and descended into "white invasion " bashing.

[@Amanda-kd3cm]

🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄

[@alanc6781]

I will never go to a Welcome ceremony nor a Smoking ceremony.

[@kenkur27]

Exactly what's happening here in Canada!

[@prussiaaero1802]

We were at an international conference in Melbourne, MAJOR world organisation, and the opening speaker, supposedly indigenous, told the world that prior to (some year mentioned, 1974 for example) “you could keep an aboriginal as a pet.” It was disgusting BS and embarrassing. 99% of the audience from overseas would have had no clue what he was waffling on about. They would have much preferred to see some true aborigines and true aboriginal cultural corroboree dance etc. he single handedly shat in his own nest.

[@truesouth4784]

British colonisation is the best thing to happen to this country. Can you imagine if it was a Dutch, French or a Spanish colony. Just ask the Andean natives how that Spanish colonialism went for them.

[@ZELJKO472]

Aboriginals had a picnic compared to the Congo under the Belgians. Problem is Aboriginals don't know any other history. They think they are only group to have had bad things happen. Chinese are calling, Cambodians, Rwandans, ex Yugoslavs, South Americans........

[@anneloving8405]

Do people seriously think that if the British had never come here that Aboriginals would still be living as they always had now???😂😂😂

[@jeffappleton926]

@@anneloving8405 Um, you're completely missing the point. The original poster was saying that it was likely Indigenous Australians would have experienced much harsher forms of colonisation if Australia had been colonised by a European power other than the British. Given the history of Spanish, Belgian and French colonisation that assessment is probably true.

[@AnthonyRooney-be2tx]

If the Chinese or Japanese had got here here first ?

[@mattmatty4670]

​​@@anneloving8405lol actually like you said before 65,000 years right?. Still in caveman mode right ?. Well UNTIL the poms Scottish Irish dragged our asses into the future, is that correct ?

[@greatnorthern3481]

At last yes I’d vote for you let’s end all the bull shit

[@20121961]

Good to hear! That black, red and orange rag flying on the Harbour Bridge, instead of the NSW flag that used to be there, is not my flag! 🇦🇺

[@rabbidcrazy787]

Not a rag.

[@claireatkinson9041]

Hallelujah !!!! Common sense prevails….i don’t need to be welcomed to my country and I don’t want to be made to feel guilty about not wanting to hear it! I wonder how many of us just go along with it because they’re too afraid to say how they really feel? 🤔

[@ChrisJensen-se9rj]

Let's see all the government funding and " special" treatment disappear as well. How much longer does the Australian taxpayer have to subsidize The Great Aboriginal Gravy Train "? When does it come to an end? Seperate legal services? Seperate health clinics? Abstudy? Mining royalties? Free housing? Communities that aren't financially viable or responsible? Can these people do anything without government funding?

[@beckywates1819]

I came to Australia, but i can see Australia bringing changed. We need to respect the constitution and im glad someone is speaking out.

[@rodav]

I was sick of it the first time I heard it. If they hadn't used bad English and instead said ''welcome to THE country ", everyone would have said "I was born here". Leaving out "THE" somehow made it acceptable.

[@alibarber57]

I would like to acknowledge those who came here from other lands and built this nation from nothing

[@GazGuitarz]

Like the Italians, Greeks and other European nationalities who built the original Snowy Mountain's hydro scheme. We used to celebrate their contribution and assimilation into our civilisation. Now we only celebrate people who live in humpies and eat insects. Probably because living in a 15 minute humpy town and eating insects is a major part of UN Agenda for the 21st Century.

[@nigellee9824]

From what I understand, is that Australia now has the wheel…..it didn’t used to have it did it…

[@crzxr]

Darwin predicted that races such as the Australian aboriginals were doomed to disappear, superseded by technologically (etc.)superior races; only the efforts of some within the superior races to protect aboriginals have allowed them to buck the fate Darwin foretold for them; but their uppity behaviour may yet lead to their destruction as everyone gets fed up with them.

[@goldenautumn3073]

Which will serve them right. The historical record fact is that the aborigines have ALWAYS been helped by those who federated our nation, from the word go - done all they could to provide services, medical treatments, child-raising advice, education on how to build homes, how to work and become productive members of an advancing society - but they REFUSED, preferring to not work at all or become educated. Time for some HONESTY and TRUTH on this subject, and speaking plainly.

[@veronicaheadland3136]

I'm a Noongar Wadjuk woman from Perth, but I'm also a very PROUD AUSTRALIAN!!! Very proud to be a part of this beautiful country we live in, I agree we all need to stand together as one and celebrate Australia Day because look what's happening in the world today, we are very lucky where we live and the free freedom we have, all this does is keep dividing us all and confusing our younger generation, all of us weren't here 200yrs ago, we can't change what happened but we can make a better future for everyone and make our country greater by coming together us one❤

[@rickfromhove3324]

Shout over those who start the “welcome to country”. Turn your back is another one.

[@TheDiudang5127]

Great idea. Everyone should turn their backs on the pathetic'ceremony' 🤮

[@pwillis1589]

What a wonderfully hateful response to a friendly welcome, you racist dimwit.

[@queenslander7756]

Throwing green leaves on a fire is senseless to me, because I’m NOT indigenous! I’m a proud Australian white fella!

[@virginialawrence2277]

Ugh!

[@jc-qd6be]

just wanna watch the footy ...

[@TheBasedAustralian42]

When I was young I went to a majority indigenous school and we never once did a welcome to country. If it wasn’t relevant to their culture then why do we have to do it now?

[@underalions2023]

Look how they carried on when told by sa they weremt gonna pay for it no more.

[@rabekahscottheart4589]

Thank goodness. I was so tired of being at a conference where not only was there an initial welcome to country (which would be enough), but every speaker had to acknowledge the original custodians of the land. It was so bloody long winded. I respect aboriginal people but this constant acknowledgment is too much.

[@bashkillszombies]

Maybe they should have asked if we wanted this garbage in the first place?

[@annettebanks6022]

Sick to death of it being welcomed to my own country.

[@alwaysright3718]

But the abos already promised it would be scraped if the voice didnt get up....

[@Aaronwhatnow]

When did they promise that? They are not at all connected

[@alwaysright3718]

@@Aaronwhatnow He?

[@thethinkingman-]

people didnt understand that they should of voted YES so yes white people should thank the aborigines past present and future for making australia what it is today and one day the white will PAY for there mistake!

[@necrophagus9]

It's no use Lou...

[@wyattfamily8997]

So did the Prime Minister...still waiting for my PROMISED electricty credit.

[@Madstreaker007]

Minority groups controlling majority groups. Smoking and welcome ceremony before most sporting events, etc. I know of a lot of friends, people who switch the television off until the smoking ceremony is over, then turn it back on to watch the sport, etc. this ceremony has only been a recent thing. There is recognition given to indigenous people and support already. Now our sport cops a smoking ceremony when is enough enough. English settled Australia all those years ago and unfortunately many, many indigenous people died. (Terra Nullus) I wasn’t a part of that so why am I being subjected to all this ceremony other stuff. Recognition has been given a terrible thing occurred in the past let’s put it behind us and look forward to the future.

[@davidwilliams8405]

How can one not like, love the Aussies! I just love how people, on and off the air, can exchange is some really good-natured bantering while discussing relevant issues. Hats off, all I can say is that I can't wait to return to the Land of Oz and experience great, "Down under" hospitality and humor! G'day y'all!

[@Eilen62]

G'day, rightbackatcha 👍👍 and ... thank you!

[@nifty1940]

Love ya accent mate. Sounds like yuo'd be right at home with us lot. All the best 🤠

[@davidwilliams8405]

Yes indeed, I do believe I would, thanx!@@nifty1940

[@davidsolano5513]

All Australian people have had enough of this crap that serves a few people and they are paid heaps so it’s bad for everyone

[@dulciemidwinter1925]

I love this message, in the UK we need to say the same thing.

[@nikbull1258]

Look at NZ. We’ve been there, done that. Look at the results.

[@chriscoghlan692]

Well put. Aren't there some five hundred differnt Aboriginal Nations.

[@uingaeoc3905]

Pray tell ... just what have the Aborigines done for Australia?

[@AlanCurtis-t6v]

They killed off the people who were here before them. They were small people apparently, about 5 feet tall. All gone. All killed by the Aborigines. The first white settlers wrote about seeing it happen.

[@kev3642]

Well the Australian tax payers monies have allowed the likes of Noel pearson and his cronies as well as the people running other aboriginal bodies to steal from their own people and line their own pockets with everyday Australians taxes and then accussing those same Australians of being racist .I'm talking about all those racist % of aboriginals that stole their way to the top on Aussie taxpayer funded grants and they continue to do so.question them on where the money came from or where it went and you are immediately racist according to them. They are a blight on their fellow Australians indigenous and other wise.

[@JAMESLOONEY-kd1nu]

They didn't want a westernised industrial society that exists to make shit you don't actually need like 50 inch tvs.😅

[@dianeunderhill8506]

@@JAMESLOONEY-kd1nu No, you would have been sitting round a fire with your boomerang and existing in a country populated by people from the Stone Age!

[@JAMESLOONEY-kd1nu]

@dianeunderhill8506 good nice simple life not trying to impress others with shit I don't need from amazon

[@mclanaford2957]

Hear hear to this Councillor. 👏👏👏👏

[@Hup-x1y]

Yeah , , he needs to hear he's deaf asfk😅

[@donaldwingent547]

I am sure that the Aboriginal people themselves have had enough of 'Welcome to Country'. All people making a life for themselves in Australia belong here , because this is their home.

[@c-est-la-vie]

All that smoke can't be good for the environment 😂😂😂😂😂

[@optimistic5778]

I agree. It needs to go.

[@alanw8552]

My New Years wish has come true 😀👏👏👏

[@Jim-i4j]

Yes great news 👍👍💪💪🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@kevonmason6140]

Lets get rid of it, it is a load of BS.

[@kristalm-e1k]

You can make it "Welcome To Our Country."😊