Welcome to Country ban proposal met with ‘overwhelmingly positive’ response

[@adonleon]

Well said. Stop wokeness and we don't need a welcome to our own country!

[@NoelineHobbs]

I’ve been told these so called traditional welcomes are fake. They are paid approximately $700 each to perform them 💰💰💰💰💰💰💰💰

[@BigSkippy1263]

They should have to pay you for having to listen to it.

[@CheckYourLeaderTV]

It’s divisive. I’ll say it again. As a veteran of 33yrs service in the Army, why do I need to be welcomed to my own country? Particularly given I’ve actually defended it?

[@chrisruss9861]

Which of the three flags being displayed everywhere did you fight under? With all this divisiveness no wonder there is a recruiting crisis.

[@macca777]

Thanks for your Service mate.

[@CheckYourLeaderTV]

@@chrisruss9861 the ANF. It’s the only flag other than my Regiment’s Sovereign’s Banner I acknowledge

[@rhondalisting474]

Thankyou sir for your service I’m a mother whose son served also. Totally 💯 agree with you

[@every1665]

You make a very solid argument and one which any ABC 'debating show' host would answer with "Well, that's just ridiculous. We'll move on now..."

[@CaesarSausage]

My parents, grand parents and great grand parents are all buried in this country, my country. It is offensive to me to have to be welcomed to it.

[@paddlesmcbean2366]

Mine too. I loathe this hateful socialist weapon.

[@rob6543]

Well said my family fought for this country

[@BigGen222]

I'm 8th generation. Couldn't agree more.

[@ironch3fq498]

My family also came in 1817 and explored out west NSW and have a river named after us

[@BigGen222]

@@ironch3fq498 which family? My whatever great uncle was Hamilton Hume, another explorer of the day.

[@anthonysteele9769]

Welcome to country is not part of Aboriginal tradition. But this is MY country as well and no one does a welcome to MY country nor do I want one.

[@homers7777]

Yep.. Over it. I was born here so I'm also indigenous.. the 3% need to get a job and give back to the country

[@jakotae]

About time someone had the nuts to say what most of us think.

[@robinbrown8963]

We know what that coward wop Abo Sleazy stands for? nothing, for 97% of Real hardworking Australian taxpayers.

[@livefree7005]

👍

[@PaddyWagonn]

Highly doubt its most

[@jakotae]

@@PaddyWagonn yea you probably would.

[@Mark-e9u9s]

Good, I’m sick of constantly being welcomed to my own country!

[@roddowie1022]

Ditto - 100% over it!!

[@markcoles6861]

Totally agree 💯 % 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@brianmorris8045]

Me too.

[@Casey2262]

Same thing happening in New Zealand with the Maori. I feel like a foreigner in my own country.

[@MoolsDogTwoOfficial]

We ALL are Australian, Aboriginal or not.

[@mhomho1979]

No one needs to be welcomed to their own land

[@maureen-rn3pv]

I’m a migrant of 47 years that contributed in a small way in the making of this great country. My first powerful impressions of Australia and AUSTRALIANS was the egalitarianism. I felt comfortable, accepted and respected. I’m still working and contributing in a small way so I’m SICK AND FED UP at looking at my salary email stating RESPECT TO THE PAST PRESENT AND GOD KNOWS WHAT ELSE NONSENSE. If anything it should read, THANK YOU FOR YOUR CONTRIBUTION TO THE UPKEEP OF THIS GREAT COUNTRY.

[@GlennClark-ke8hf]

We are all sick to death of it.

[@nonconformist.]

It's rent seeking BS.

[@every1665]

They certainly don't perform these sacred ceremonies for free!

[@jenniferharrison8915]

As a 6th generation Australian, I find these ceremonies insulting, embarassing and most offensively they are totally unprofessional and tedious! Stop them completely, they are not at all authentic and obviously purely to get easy payouts from weak woke walkovers! 🇦🇺😵

[@TheDiudang5127]

Well said. Couldn't agree more. 👍🏼

[@garreysellars5525]

I aggree whole heartedly I have formulated a response to this absurdity but was refused to be allowed to voice it At my own 60th birthday before Christmas I let it out and was applauded

[@sniiiper3d645]

As the original generation of people that called this home I suggest you not insult our culture and remember the land you lived on once belonged to a people that are now dead and forgotten

[@garreysellars5525]

@@sniiiper3d645 So are you the sole survivor of the race of pigmes that were removed rather ugly

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@sniiiper3d645 As "custodians", not "owners" and also as immigrant visitors to the lands of Australia you should respect our right to the freedom to decide whether or not this ceremony is appropriate to our lives and our cultures! It is not authentic, entertaining, enlightening or appropriate in Australia - it is just embarassing, intrusive, tedious, and divisive! (If you are an "original generation" them you must be in the world records for longevity! My great great great grandmother was "an original generation", as in originally from Africa and a direct descendant of the world's "first" tribes!!)

[@Hannah125i]

This definitely needs to happen. Time to pass on the virtue-signalling bollocks.

[@therealuglytruth9288]

All councils should ban welcome to country and acknowledgement statements.

[@raf6009]

I hate the welcome to country with a passion. It needs to stop!

[@calcium3124]

Why tho? It’s a simple acknowledgment of country, no one is denying your citizenship with these words. It’s just showing some respect stop whinging

[@panhandle5648]

​@@calcium3124respect to who and why? Respect to some people who look bit like some other people 200+ years ago because I don't look like them?? How about u fuck off with ur racist shit u grub.

[@patrickjohnson8741]

Good !!! We have got to get rid of all this rubbish & segregation AND BE AUSTRALIAN

[@MichaelIrwin-j3m]

Stop the 40 billion a year to the aboriginal corporations would be a good start that amount of money per year is ridiculous the tax paying Australians need to know why that amount is needed to date it is close to 1 trillion over thirty years and the issues are still here what has changed is the activists want more enough is enough .

[@soullessnight6539]

@@MichaelIrwin-j3myou know the money is going to the greedy top few of Aboriginal politicians. Don’t blame Aborigines for what is decided by politicians. It would be the same as us getting blamed for that idiot we call our PM.

[@sniiiper3d645]

@@MichaelIrwin-j3m what's funny is that money is barely going to us the indigenous people

[@sniiiper3d645]

It's not rubbish nor segregation, it's paying respect to our ancestors that died for you people to call it home, the least you can do is pay us some respect and acknowledge the land once belonged to my people who BARELY survived colonialism. Just remember indigenous people use to roam this land but now we are only %3 of the entire population, we literally faced genocide for you to trash us and walk all over our culture and history.

[@MichaelIrwin-j3m]

@sniiiper3d645 It's not funny It's taxpayers money get off your arses and do something about it yous want to protest against Australia day get out and protest about were the money is going.

[@electro_sykes]

if Captain cook hadn't of come, then Australia would be under dutch or even Japanese rule which would be worse. It would also be less developed and in a corrupt state that Africa currently is today

[@chrispekel5709]

It might even have become French!

[@ZELJKO472]

If they had of welcomed Cook they might not have had problems. 7 ships full of emaciated convicts and some generals is what they call an invasion. I would hate to see them against the Spaniards, Belgians, French or Japanese. The Japanese viewed the Chinese as inferior even when China had temples, the Great Wall, big structures and so on. Imagine what they would have thought of the Aboriginals?

[@electro_sykes]

@@ZELJKO472 exactly my point

[@electro_sykes]

@@chrispekel5709 true.

[@deanpd3402]

If they ended up under Japanese rule, they would have found out the true meaning of the word genocide.

[@jschap712]

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

[@YeastTV]

what happened?

[@brandonnesfan]

Bro what are you on about?

[@martinrayner6466]

"Welcome to country", as displayed in the video with a smoking ceremony is Paganism! *Forcing any religious beliefs on others is a disgrace.* Imagine if the Catholic church forced an incense ceremony *on everyone* before they could perform any public event! That would not be tolerated. _And I don't hold anything against the Catholics..._

[@soullessnight6539]

@@martinrayner6466probably would be ok if it was the Muslims😊

[@laslogemes500]

Fuck it of

[@gerrycooper56]

One flag, one national.

[@mikeoz4803]

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

[@OriginalPuro]

I would love to be welcomed to my country, it would've been the only time we would've been acknowledged as the people who actually live in the country, rather than "everyone lives in the country". No, my country is made up of 93% ethnic population, yet we're being pushed aside because "but inclusivity and immigration" "other cultures WOOHOO" "oh we need to tone down our culture to accommodate other people".. I would love to be welcomed to my country, I haven't felt welcome here in over a decade because of all the SJW nonsense, "white men are the devil" "anything negative about islam is racism" "respect other cultures even if they don't respect yours" and so on.

[@mikeoz4803]

@@OriginalPuro When they welcome you, they see you as a 'guest' in our own country. Also, 1 million Indians have been imported here in 5 years. They are running everything & taking all the jobs. I went to a house auction yesterday & 3 Indian families were the only bidders. In India they were not forced to take the deadly mRNA covid clot shot. France calls it the Great White Replacement. In 100 yrs white ppl all over the Western World will be extinct.

[@Tydy1011]

@@OriginalPuro we'll said, these people have nothing interesting going on in there lives so they need something to cry about

[@philthomas7140]

I agree 100%. I hear acknowledgement of country a couple times a day for every meeting... absolutely sick and tired of it.

[@w_stanky]

Speak up. Talk to your colleagues, unite and be strong in numbers.

[@CN-yn1fm]

I went to a conference with approx 20 speakers across a day, every single person did an acknowledgement, absolute bollocks, over done, overused and lost meaning. It's purely tokenistik

[@philthomas7140]

@@CN-yn1fm spot on. Broken record and now has no meaning

[@mysticseraph2213]

It's at the point now where I don't feel the need to be on time for a meeting because I know I've got a good couple of minutes after it starts where I won't miss a thing

[@mysticseraph2213]

@@CN-yn1fm Every. Single. Person? Oh my stars, how annoying is that! It's bad enough at the beginning of a conference, but all throughout the day? What an absolute waste of time!

[@ianwilson8759]

I hate being born in a country where I have to be "welcomed" to my country at various events by people who are just like me, born here, but who are also being paid to offer this "service". They are being paid for by me, through my taxation. How patronising and cynical is this so called ceremony? Whenever this occurs, I do not think of aboriginal people being special or different to anyone else. All that happens is that I get wound up and hate the low-grade spectacle that it is.

[@knight2425]

What about being born in a country that makes you feel guilty and insults you because of the colour of your skin, not so long ago they wanted to end this kind of racism but now they say it’s ok

[@robinbrown8963]

And the worst example of that is the grubby ABC whether it's

[@knight2425]

@@robinbrown8963 The ABC is irrelevant much like the people that work there and enjoy the programs

[@TheDiudang5127]

Well said. Thank you. 👍🏼

[@grinslayer1232]

I was on a plane and the pilot had to say it when we landed, we landed in Kalgoorlie btw

[@marksmart9754]

It’s just a rort for the aboriginal industry. 97% of Australians have no connection to it.

[@KegRaider]

As a FIFO worker, I hear the speech every week on the aircraft. The first few (dozen) times were ok, but after a year or so, I just keep the headphones on noise cancel with some music. Thanks to our veterans who actually kept OUR country free.

[@danielkemp6582]

Should hear it in the schools. At end of year presentation, school kids adding on "Aboriginal Land, always was, always will be" added, pure activism. Be vigilant in counter teaching your kids the propaganda which our educational institutions are pushing.

[@Bruce15485]

I would take my kids out of that school !!

[@jazzysnaps]

Welcome to the NO vote.

[@aumatto]

lol

[@bushranger51]

About time this Bull Crap was stopped. Irrespective of your ethnic back ground, I AM, YOU ARE, WE ARE AUSTRALIAN, and no ethnic or religious group has the right to try and dominate our society. I an sick and tired of being welcomed to MY country! Yes it IS my country, as well as YOUR country, and anyone else's, who are proud to be called Australian.

[@vickieconomou5608]

100%! This welcome to country has to STOP!!

[@MRP1NCHY]

AH, CLASSIC RACISM. WE DO IT BEST IN AUSTRALIA

[@tinkingtinking2134]

Lets talk about where the 42 Billion a year is being spent. Their 3% of Australia and yet have more privileges and hand outs that majority don't use like dental care, health care etc. Every community gets at least $30,000 per person a year for work purposes yet my aboriginal friend has seen about $500 of that $30,000 in the last 6 months. This is every year, even if he doesnt get work, as long as he's a number of the community books the government gives out the money......so where does it go???? Even he doesnt know.

[@downtoearth1950]

So Much of their 'culture' has been invented for profit.

[@star_fossil]

Making it up as they go along. Because it was lost many years ago and they refuse to admit it.

[@MichaelIrwin-j3m]

Truth telling and no one else's truth.

[@soey.carter4126]

Yep, most it them live off government benefits and get everything handed to them on a plate

[@Bruce15485]

@@MichaelIrwin-j3m Don't have a problem with truth telling ! As long as both sides get tell their side of the truth !!

[@frankmontanari5534]

Australia has to be more vocal with our rights, and the voice referendum has shown us all the feelings we have suppressed for so long about the bullshit that the wokes and ABC media has shoved down our throats for so long Fark welcome to country I respect the aboriginal people, but not the elite group that get rich well before they do anything to help their own kind.

[@soullessnight6539]

The problem is Australia won’t stand up as a whole which we need to do. Our country is been taken over by Muslims. I don’t even recognise my city anymore. They all work at Woolworths and only employ their own. I thought we were only accepting Indian’s to cover our apparent skill shortages. I didn’t know we needed to fly skilled workers in to work at Supermarkets. Supermarkets were usually the first part time or casual job our school children did but now they can’t get a job there anymore.

[@blacksorrento4719]

Spot on Frank. Have not watched ABC for quite a number of years, Flew back into Australia from NZ and when the welcome to country speech came on upon landing, there was literally a collective nasal sigh throughout the airplane 😞 we have all had enough!

[@blacksorrento4719]

@@gppsoftware Yes I get your drift. Flying Singapore Airlines next month 👍

[@paulwilson7622]

True. It is sickening that the airline's grovel to this pathetic victimhood mentality!

[@russellritchings8082]

Welcome to country, is another way to say, show me the money.😂😂

[@kerriferguson2023]

Well said Steve Christou! We were all badly in need of a dose of common sense.

[@davidhorbenko7143]

Thankfully a politician with some courage and common sense.

[@mr-and-misses-smith]

Your welcome

[@ianlloyd1182]

Spot on, we need more of them with the intestinal fortitude to say NO to all this rubbish where it has no relationship to the event taking place.

[@Whitehorseandryder]

on this one point, at least..

[@tookyohead]

Sounds like a r*tard but yes let’s listen to his common sense. People are sick of being welcomed to country. Well people stfu why are you crying are you all not adults?

[@adamtroy4526]

As a native who’s family for generations have also served this country in the defence force, no fellow Australian needs to be welcomed into their own land.

[@TruBluOffroad]

Double hand shake to ya brother!!

[@falconmclenny7284]

This guy gets it, cheers brother.

[@babayaga489]

I am a very proud and grateful 4th Generation Australian 🇦🇺 My people first landed in Sydney in 1838, 50 years after the first fleet. They moved to the south coast of New South Wales and began farming again, as they had done in England. Generations of them are buried in the same cemetery, as I will be when my time comes. I’d call myself Australian 🇦🇺

[@gerardno2479]

Not to mention, the smoking ceremony was copied from the native Americans. If we were to have a truly authentic aboriginal ceremony it would be the, " give me that" ceremony.

[@looloo4029]

😂😂😂😂😂

[@Zedman3333]

Can we please stop bending the knee and constantly apologizing, i feel like every where i go i have thank and be sorry people for being in my own country for ever !!! ffs !!

[@elitechampion]

Exactly, we've certainly done nothing wrong to them. We've only ever supported them and given them all a massive leg up based purely on their race. A huge percentage of our ancestors were never even involved in the initial conquest of Australia, why should we have to accept their passive aggressive racism???

[@manoo422]

They should ban all discrimination, no one can legally be given ANY special treatment, no positive discrimination, no 'quotas', no special awards...

[@minimouse8225]

Tell that to moslims

[@irenafitzsimon371]

Then also make sure government employees eg public service, councillors, council staff are also employed at equal levels not diversity quotas. Qualifications, work ethics and experience should be colourless.

[@manoo422]

@@irenafitzsimon371 Yes, any person in any position simply due to ethnicity would be discrimination and banned.

[@manoo422]

@@minimouse8225 WE should be telling them!!

[@robmitchell5737]

2024. The year woke died.

[@blacksorrento4719]

Oh I do hope so!!!

[@4thought___]

In other words, the year Communism died.

[@jeanettemccormack1041]

We certainly hope so and Ernie Dingo and his mate have a lot to answer for with all this needless carry on.

[@MamaMia145]

​@@4thought___ Communism has already been dead for a while.

[@FS-virtuoso]

My great grandchild is the seventh generation born here. We don’t need spiritual ceremonies to feel we belong.

[@edmurks236]

what else would they be if not Australian.

[@sandynigel7296]

You could say we were subjected to it

[@deanpd3402]

and that's the other aspect to all this, I'm not interested in bowing down to and being subjected to pagan ceremonies.

[@pa6370]

It's not about making you feel as though you belong. It's about placing ones self higher on the order of precedence. It's very much about power, ego and position. They receive their acknowledgements prior to any other person or entity - regardless of merit.

[@Tbirdtrav71]

@@pa6370 Well said. Like God save the Queen before anything/anybody event. It's a power play. Like a cat pissing around it's area.

[@elainehodge9415]

Don't forget it was Ernie Dingo that bought this into being as a humour skit, then it was taken on board by the woke idiots!!

[@Bruce15485]

I laughed when I first saw that skit ! Not laughing now !!!!

[@MajesticAquariumsTV]

Get rid of it! It’s just a money grab!

[@Legumis]

They don't have to be banned. Just make them irrelevant and unnecessary.

[@fergie8716]

Just stop paying for them, it’ll soon stop

[@TheMazinoz]

Maybe loud booing might get the message across!

[@befeleme]

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

[@mr-and-misses-smith]

We’re all children of the empire

[@Explorshon123]

Truth bomb!

[@RabidRoo]

People think we have to pay respects to Stone age Neanderthals 😂😂😂

[@Monkeyboy2457]

We acknowlege that the English invented cricket and soccor and rugby league and rugby union and would like to pay our respects to the hard working people who built this stadium and the roads that lead to it and for the cars we have to get to the game.

[@Aquatyger]

and we should not leave out those who fought in the various wars to preserve our democracy and protect our way of life.

[@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.

[@pizzapilgrim6525]

😂🫣

[@ellesmerewildwood4858]

"Yes but what have the invaders ever done for us ?" (Play on Monty Python's "Yes, but what have the Romans ever done for us ?" from Life of Brian."

[@johnstaring3210]

You forgot an often abused welfare system !

[@wyattfamily8997]

And sufficient funds to pay $ 34 BILLION per year to support a small percentage of the inhabitants.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Yes, my great great grandfather built or helped build half of Tasmania into fertile farmland, small business and successful exports! He came alone in chains and had little peace, food or shelter, yet he made a huge postive impact here to last for generations! Welcome to Australia where we work hard for a living, have empathy for our fellow man and are happy to be known as an honest Australian mate! 👍

[@tennesseethompson5287]

Well said Steve, you are absolutely correct every Australian I talk to about this is more than sick of this overdone ceremony to the point of nausea

[@RyanThomson-c5b]

May be talk to more Australians then. Because there are a lot who disagree!

[@tennesseethompson5287]

@@RyanThomson-c5b No need for that!!! Ryan, NO means NO!!! Haven’t you heard???

[@tennesseethompson5287]

13 million people voted NO Ryan, in “the voice”referendum! Let’s vote on this overdone to buggery watered down irrelevant ceremony then Ryan! It could reach 14,000000, that’s 14 million Ryan!

[@anthonysutherland4108]

I love traditional artwork.... Acrylic paint on masonite sheets. 'Traditionally' sourced from Bunnings.🇦🇺

[@jeanettemccormack1041]

OMG you've got that right.....what a joke the whole nonsense is.

[@LarryaproudU.S.citizen]

When I go abroad, I respect the host countries laws and customs, spend my money enjoy the people always expressing grattitude . I even hold my hand over my heart facing their flag when they play their anthem. I resent it when people come to my nation illegally, hate and disrespect me while stealing my money.

[@harrywalker968]

how many countries, you been to,,that have 2 flags..?.. one real,, one made up.. thats the first thing id ban.. then all the millions per yr to the elders,, get a fkn job,,or fk off under a tree..

[@just_norma7]

Well said Steve! Let’s put an end to this nonsense, it’s patronising and offensive. I would like to acknowledge all the immigrants who came here and worked theirs guts out, my father being one of them, making this country what it is today. Without them it would be nothing. Enough BS!

[@kevinanderson1873]

Could not agree more with the sentiments expressed. I agree that the silent majority is at last speaking.!

[@MichaelIrwin-j3m]

More will speak up we all saw Comrade Mayo an co and what they had in store for Australia .

[@ZELJKO472]

Fake Mayo. Fake Aboriginal and full time race hustler.

[@turnyourbacktoit]

44 % of Australia is under some sort of abbo control.

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

@@turnyourbacktoit Are you wiping away tears while you type your message.

[@turnyourbacktoit]

@@rosshitchen-ij6en I'm watching the dog that doesn't know how to bury his bone

[@horses2by]

Well said thank you 🤩 I voted NO!!!!!!!!

[@travbright7939]

Just go within 200ks of any aboriginal community in Australia and tell me you feel safe. Respect is earned. Nothing is owed to anyone.

[@4thought___]

Or try living next door to them drug dealing for Middle Eastern guys.

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

Depends who you are.If your an alpha male you feel safe everywhere.

[@travbright7939]

@@rosshitchen-ij6en lmao hero

[@rosshitchen-ij6en]

@@travbright7939 Not really.Just keeping it real.

[@pushagainstthezeitgeist4968]

I’d like to acknowledge ancestors past and present who, with great courage and at great peril, sailed into the tempest torn seas to settle this land and to make it into the great nation it is today. And to create and foster a culture that First Nations people everywhere so readily embrace and rely upon.

[@beachbum433]

Don't become a martyr and ban it, mate. It was started by Ernie Dingo as a joke (which it still is!!!) in 1978. It was introduced without much community consultation, so just consign it to the dustbin of history where it belongs... Good luck, mate, I'd vote for you!!!!

[@Misslastcentury]

That's correct about Ernie Dingo. On one of his travels he met with local indigenous people (can't remember exactly where, perhaps Pacific islands) who performed a Welcome to country for him. He then brought it back to Australia. So the stupid thing is that it's not even part of Aboriginal culture!!

[@Coastal603]

Well said, Steve. Exactly the thoughts of all Australians right now.

[@frednerk3477]

All except the small group of professional elite aboriginal activists, who have become rich by creating division and suckered Albo into his dreadful referendum lunacy.

[@kristie7680]

Speak for yourself 🤢

[@tookyohead]

Australians are a bunch of soft Karen’s, y’all cry when it’s an issue to do with the voice or black fullas. But when it’s Covid or something y’all are good little sheep. Laughable how ignorant y’all are.

[@1977ajax]

I remember coming across some such stuff years ago. I told them I wanted nothing to do with it. Co-workers said that I had to 'respect their beliefs', but had no answer when I asked them who was respecting mine.

[@morganclare4704]

Excellent!

[@zAngus]

Wonder how many welcome to country ceremonies there would be if those conducting it weren't paid...

[@tin2001]

I've got no problem with an Aboriginal person reading out a short welcome when I visit an Aboriginal site or attend an Aboriginal event... But being welcomed to a public place I already regularly attend, and probably know more about than the young white person telling me about it, I just roll my eyes. And dont get me started on the smoking ceremony thats completely incompatible with my Christian beliefs. Anyone asks me to participate in those, I'm just going to say NO and leave.

[@star_fossil]

Noone wants to smell like a campfire

[@kirkc4696]

​@@star_fossil.....except Albo!

[@martinrayner6466]

"Welcome to country", as displayed in the video with a smoking ceremony is Paganism! *Forcing any spiritual beliefs on to others is a disgrace in a free society.* Imagine if the Catholic church *forced* an incense ceremony *on everyone* before they could perform any public event! That would not be tolerated. _And I don't hold anything against the Catholics, or the Aborigines..._ *I informed my children's school, that they will not be attending any religious/spiritual events held in "NAIDOC Week", as it is an affront to our culture. We are Pentecostal Christians, and don't **_force_** our culture onto others. The school complied. My kids, and a few others did their normal school activities.*

[@Robert-do3cd]

It's all bullshit, but I including your religion. As a 53yo atheist who was a Southern Baptist for the first time 48 years, I was I'd like to know which part of the smoking ceremony is incompatible...... It's not. Hey, let's find out how much you actually know about your fake religion. How many gods does the bible say there are???

[@melhawk1352]

Just say 'I don't smoke'. 🤣

[@Barney_Rubble247]

Someone with a pair, great to see. 👍

[@andrewsexton6179]

Wouldn’t want to see them, but it’s great to hear lol

[@rodhowellnetwork28]

100% support this man and his council. Now the rest of Australia needs to follow. Enough of this folly.

[@davidpriddy66]

Frigging sick of being welcomed to my own country. Sick of division. So condescending. We are one people, one country. Why are these ‘agendas’? As always, it’s all about the money!

[@UnknownUser-sc6jx]

Ban it! This is BS how dare they welcome us to our own country we were born here we're Australian if they want to treat us like migrants we should stop paying tax.

[@tlb2970]

Finally common sense, well done 👍

[@felicitysummers9140]

I totally agree with the mayor, also yes we are all equal and I’m not impressed with having to hear the welcome to country that has been my country for 76yrs!

[@Yvonne-le6ju]

About time. Load of rubbish in the first place.

[@rickman2267]

Good work Steve, we've had enough of welcome to country!

[@traviscartwright3950]

I think your missing the point Andrew. They don't want to be treated as equals, they want to be elevated above everyone else and the sky's the limit. Too much is never enough for a delusional, entitled percentage of this community.

[@martinrayner6466]

We are all equals, they are just a little more equal... _Not on my watch._

[@robinbrown8963]

Entitled minority of the population, including those white grubs making out their protected species and scamming it big time. Give em nothing ever again.

[@turnyourbacktoit]

44% of Australia is now under some sort of abbo control. The indigenous industry rolls on funded by those they hate.

[@Yvonne-le6ju]

Spot on... Must keep paying the victims

[@deanpd3402]

@@Yvonne-le6ju All the handouts achieve is a great sense of entitlement and resentment, and it destroys their self respect.

[@1967hashem]

🤔 We don't want Pagan Festivals to ask the spirits can we have permission to pass thru their province. The country belongs to ALL Australians and not just 2% who own 44% of the land.

[@ZELJKO472]

Imagine the outrage if Christians were getting paid to do exorcisms of bad spirits at sporting events and so on?? Aboriginal smoke ceremonies are pagan rituals to cast evil spirits away. Yet the secular fundamentalists have no issue with it.

[@turnyourbacktoit]

That 2% of population now controls 44% of the land. A bit late for aussies to be finding their tongues.

[@deanpd3402]

@@turnyourbacktoit Better late than never. Aussies will find their tongues the more the govt pushes, especially once people find they have no property rights.

[@turnyourbacktoit]

@@deanpd3402 Hope your right.

[@morganclare4704]

True?? ( from Canada ) If true, AUSSIES YOU BLEW IT! Ever hear of the word " defeated ". cheers

[@philedwards2153]

Need to drop the Flag too

[@raykoschel625]

Scrap the welcome to country today

[@Brazill253]

"WE JUST WANT TO BE RECOGNISED" Well now we do that before every last thing we do and just like the "Apology" it has meant absolutely nothing.

[@barryrichter9084]

This "welcome to country" only significance is that of a money making racket.

[@robinbrown8963]

Just like their filthy rag flag, which hasn't got the dollar sign in the yellow circle.

[@ZELJKO472]

It is (UN) WELCOME to COUNTRY

[@r-labs9357]

@@robinbrown8963honestly all those United Neytions flags that I saw at Sydney’s airport have more significance that those

[@elitechampion]

Exactly, one of the Queensland governers said that they still welcome it but they won't be paying for it anymore. After that, the aboriginals there suddenly lost interest in holding them. It turns out that their real interest was just the money.

[@rob6543]

Well thank Christ a bloke that will be voted in a breath of fresh air 🇦🇺

[@dougsimonsen8651]

I have flown from Queensland to Western Australia several times in the last few years, and when I arrive in Perth, I wonder if I have overslept and arrived somewhere in Africa. This is Australia and as the overwhelming vote demonstrated, we we refuse to be decided by race. The nonsense of calling places by their "traditional names" must stop. We, as taxpayers fund this virtue signalling rubbish and for the sake of all Australia, it must end.

[@keithdevine8281]

As a returned serviceman I'm jack of being welcomed to country that i put my life on the line and a conscript to boot.

[@justvisitingterra6459]

IT'S LIKE BEING WELCOMED BACK TO YOUR OWN HOUSE BY THE NEIGHBOR'S AFTER WIZZING UP TO BUNNINGS TO BUY MOWER BLADE'S. SATT.

[@tin2001]

I found it bizarre at the end of the year to be sitting in the local high school hall, being welcomed to that country by a primary school kid and teacher for the primary school awards day. I attended that high school, and spent many hours in that hall both as a student sitting through assemblies, and as a technical guy for events held there. I know more about the history of that particular land than either of the people who gave the welcome. So yeah, it really is like being welcomed back to your own house by a neighbour for no apparent reason.

[@lornatodd4750]

Nailed it

[@mj_aussie_coaster_travels8310]

Don’t need to ban them, just make it illegal to have to pay for them. As soon as the grifters can’t make money off it they won’t do it.

[@batmanlives6456]

And that’s the crux of this rubbish…. Just a scam to make money

[@deanpd3402]

and many of those grifters have a lot more white blood than black, if any black blood at all.

[@vette63]

The people who claim to be black but have 99% white in them know how to play the system & the propergander game.

[@harbingerofchaos6720]

Sir, that is a brilliant comment. Make THEM pay the venues, councils, etc to be able to say it, as opposed to the other way round.

[@batmanlives6456]

@@harbingerofchaos6720 excellent proposal…. Activists and whingers will evaporate at the mere suggestion of paying for something…. They only understand the bludging aspect

[@shanereeve8123]

Welcome to Labour going out the door to the bus stop , lost and gone for ever

[@robd2096]

Welcome to country. As a tenant you will be expected to pay rent and reparations to us. That's what they (activists) are really saying.

[@suzannestrong9748]

Ban it please.

[@wyattfamily8997]

A Councillor with both brains and courage....who listens to those that pay his salary, about time.

[@oilpondsangel1024]

Hahaha😂 he would say anything.

[@olivernorth-coombes4720]

Welcome to Country is divisive.

[@jackturpin7828]

No money, no ceremony. That simple.

[@Bigfoot_2109]

Definitely sick of it! Its jammed down throat everywhere! Even my sons daycare, stickers on fire trucks, on job sites . This costs us tax payers billions!!!!!!!! We are all one

[@dallasdrew2390]

Ban it now !!!!!

[@Aliens_Gonna_Get_Ya]

Awesome… ban it nationwide… 👍👍

[@stenkarasin2091]

Yeah, I for one am fed up with it.

[@craigandrew6409]

I was born and raised here. If this isn't my country I don't have one

[@TheTeaParty320]

And to pay our respects to elders past, present and future is a joke. I cannot bring myself to pay respect to people I don’t know. How do I know they deserve respect when respect is earned and not automatically given. Worse yet, how do I know if the future elder doesn’t turn out to be another Hitler or Osama Bin Laden. So no, I decline to pay them any blind respect. If you want my respect, then earn it.

[@ce244]

0:05 Wearing a nice wool suit that cost a month's wages, wood smoke is the LAST thing I would want to stink it out.

[@Shizzle2TheDizzle]

I will always celebrate Australia Day on the 26th of January regardless

[@perentee77]

ALWAYS WAS, ALWAYS WILL BE EVERYONE'S LAND!!!

[@tanlongt]

Every time I hear the welcome country, I feel like I’m attending a funeral.

[@notwoke8291]

YAY! I loath the Welcome to Country gravy train

[@tarnpirlane6792]

To be honest...I don't think the British get enough credit for how they transformed this country.

[@philliplipple1799]

A cultural experiment that has reached it's use -by date. It has achieved very little and resented by many.

[@typetersen8809]

The "Welcome to Country" has worn out its welcome. It's only the usual grifting suspects that keep it going.

[@deanpd3402]

Fred Astaire could dance. Michael Jackson could dance. Welcome to country dancing is nothing more than foot stomping. Anyone can foot stomp. They get paid good money to do something anyone can do.