Welcome to Country is ‘divisive’ and ‘insulting’: Andrew Bolt

[@christinehoiles5525]

I hate being welcomed to my own country..I am a citizen of Australia having great great great grandparents born here..

[@imconnorsinclair5598]

I'm with you with the same page I hate this welcome to country thing I am a 100 percent citizen of Australia my grandparents both sides of my family I born here and most my grandparents are buried in Australia I was born Australia and I'm going to die in Australia case close

[@17_73]

How wrong can you be you are a immigrant not a native Australian if your heritage goes back 240 years or more then you can claim you are a native Australian. Your diatribe is one of a conqueror.

[@kellysouter4381]

I was born here, I've lived here all my life and I don't require a welcome to my own country.

[@Flanklin.]

You are a visitor.

[@samnewman3123]

@@Flanklin. i was born here. it's my country and my land

[@johnpro2847]

the Aboriginals are visitors from Africa. if you want to be pedantic..can't we all just get on with out lives instead of looking for a fight

[@Flanklin.]

@@johnpro2847 my people's land mate,

[@Flanklin.]

@@samnewman3123 my people's land, you are a visitor

[@christinehede7578]

I, as a person born in Australia to parents born in Australia who had three of four parents born in Australia find it annoying to be welcomed to my own country all the time. What a farce.

[@LewiTheFly992]

Can agree. I have been told over and over again by my school that it is my fault for all of the indigenous peoples misfortune and suffering. I get so mad. It’s not my fault, I was not alive when it happened. The message that is pushed by many is ‘Let’s forget are differences and move forward’. Yet they dwell in the past. Constantly telling me it’s my fault. That I have white privilege. I can tell you I don’t feel like I have any privileges.

[@krillinroshi9312]

This was in response to @jc idiot in another post on this blog. I liked your comment and agree wholeheartedly with you! Thought id share it here so you know your not alone! You may not agree with it but i thought to share it anyway 😅 ------------------- ‘They didn’t conquer the land because the land didn’t fight back?’ Are you daft or something? So because they didn’t fight back and subsequently got dominated!!! How is that not conquered! What is the difference between invasion and conquering? A legal definition that requires no learning but the dictionary summary. So they took over the country quietly and Mabo got a high court decision because the british did not pummel them into submission? That judge and lawyer needs to be reprimanded, stripped of their station and held in contempt of court!! If they did not do as the clerical term suggests that they took over by invasion; does not mean that they did not conquer them for they did so but undoubtedly without wholesale bloodshed as is usually the case for military invasion! That you willingly abide by that imbecilic view of the mabo deception as they surely were a conquered people as any before them! Lucky for them they did not go to war for they would have been hunted down, ‘subjugated’ and or annihilated. Wholsale bloodshed! So thats what the Mabo submission gave us is this idea they did not get annihilated because they had a chance of holding off the might of the British Empire? Dreamtime! But we are now subject to the bullshido decision that idiot judge made on the idea it was not conquered by military might but through quiet subjugation as invasion?! What is conquering but invasion through military means and might i add again ‘wholesale bloodshed’ of which they were spared yet somehow that became their point of reference? They didn’t fight back because they neither had the means or the resources obviously! Second to that they were not united and never could be as they were self reliant yet lived exactly the same way in different parts of the land. Their nomadic lifestyle never developed to be accounted worthy of our historical knowledge because when the English came here some 200years back? There was 6thousand years recorded history of accumulated knowledge in the world! Australian Aboriginal history is Absolute HOGWASH! The history of mankind is riddled with the usurpation of power: 6thousand years of recorded history tells man has been killing and dominating his brother, neighbour, tribesmen, family since time immemorial! We came from Nomadic Tribes to Empires to Kingdom’s to the Democratic Republican model of governance today of the 21st century 2023: The English came to Australia some 2 - 3hundred years ago and found these people living stone age like; thats only 2-3hundred years ago? Despite the FACT we already have 6thousand years of Recorded History, which has given us the pyramids in Egypt (that cannot be unraveled still), pyramids in the Americas; Europe had built Cathedrals and monuments built by other civilisations around the world which is still mind boggling to our educated times? And somehow, an imbecilic anthropologist would have us believe their deductions of what ever matter or elements that brought them to this conclusion is completely neutral and fairdinkum? DELUSIONAL! All our histories, every land and freedom/s were won by war of attrition, the pages of history runs rife with the blood of war, no peoples or country is innocent of this charge There’s no first nation peoples bullshido, no man is an island and no man created a dam island for tht matter. The history of the world is riddled wth conquerors and the conquered! The strong take because they could and dictate the terms. Does tht make it right? Only God can judge! But to be emancipated from a feudal caste system tht the world of the past centuries were caught up with until the 17th 18th 19th and 20th century, were Christianity became the changing of the guard A mandate from heaven to free up the people of the world from stifling persecution of the masses by the feudal warlords, dictators, emperors and pagan kings. Especially from Church and State unions that killed indiscriminately in the name of God? Obviously by their rambling, the Australian Aboriginals went through same persecutions as those of conquered countries wth supposed far more superior resources, technologies and knowledge base. Seems like no matter where you are in the world, man must subjugate his brother for the sake of domination and control. Thank God for Jesus Christ our Lord and Saviour, who came and died so we can be free from the tyranny of ancestor worship and the lies of mythological subjugation thts still prevalent in the world even today. Especially with this Aboriginal ancestry dreamtime bullshido! They don’t own this land for they did not create it. History is riddled with first nation usurpation. Every country of today is testament to the fact! Why should these morons get a pass?! In 300years of occupation they have not added anything worthy to mention for the progress of Australia as we know it today and ‘WE’ are all proud to be called under the patronage of the English monarchy and her Protestant Christian heritage! ‘Advance Australia Fair!’ So says our National Anthem! 2023! Kick them out! If their ways or their mythological Gods were superior they would be in power and by what we know of them they would be merciless, reckless and destroyers of men! Kick them out!

[@yellowjacketyesthewaspbuzz8430]

@@krillinroshi9312 cool

[@showstealer1829]

Stop. Being. So. White. Karen.

[@echelon2k8]

@@LewiTheFly992 That's what happens when CRT enters your school though a bunch of leftists, I guess. It's even worse at uni now, I believe. It's become less about encouraging critical thinking and more about accepting ideological indoctrination.

[@hellas_crater]

I went to a conference last year for work. It was opened with a Welcome to Country from a local "elder," who looked about 24, & had blonde hair, blue eyes & skin the colour of cream. It took considerable effort not to laugh out loud, & I wasn't the only one ....

[@patriot77185]

It's in every school now !!!!!! Racist, I do not need to be welcomed to MY OWN COUNTRY !!!!!

[@40frankied40]

Why laugh? Do all Greek people look the same? I've seen blond hair, blue eyed geeks. Should I be laughing? Should I doubt their roots? Should I check that they're not Swedes pretending to be Greek?

[@iancremmins4727]

i am white, my daughter is aboriginal my daughters mother is aboriginal all of my grandkids are aboriginal, 2 of them have white skin, they are aboriginal, i grew up in a town of 1000 people , there were red headed Aboriginals, blonde haired aboriginals , try and separate genetics from heritage , i have missing genes which cause all my joints to be loose, i am still human, i was born in australia my DNA test proves my Irish heritage because my father and grand father were born in Ireland, it only takes a few genes to make us different in appearance but when it boils down to it, that person your referring to is Aboriginal , i hope you can come to believe that

[@hellas_crater]

@Ian Cremmins I have a couple of aboriginal ancestors myself, that doesn't make me "aboriginal" before anything else : I don't think my ethnicity - regardless of what it is - is the most important thing about me, or anyone else. I'm neither proud nor ashamed of it, it's just a thing, like my height or shoe size. I found the situation mentioned in my original post funny because this supposed "elder" was about half my age, dressed in basketball gear more associated with African-Americans, mispronounced the name of the clan on whose behalf he purported to be welcoming me, & made a frankly laughable comment about the disadvantages suffered by people "who look like me" - the only trouble he would have on account of his looks would be from people who didn't like Vikings.

[@iancremmins4727]

@@hellas_crater you say you dont think your ethnicity is the most important thing about you, yet your quick to put down the person doing the welcome and doubting their ethnicity, as for your comment about he may have trouble from people who dont lke vikiings, therein lays the problem, there is always someone not liking someone else, as for his garb, American basketballer you say, was he expected to be naked? the things you mentioned can easily be overcome by simply not concerning yourself with it, if it has nothing to do with just ignore it

[@simonworthington-eyre3525]

The Voice is even more divisive and insulting, that needs to be dumped immediately!!

[@regwatson2017]

Totally agree. Welcome to Country is meant to reinforce we are on "their" land and need to keep paying them for the privilege. I wonder if it would have remained "their land" with the Japanese heading south in World War 2 ?

[@ZerothAmendment]

They had a stagnated culture for thousands of years, someone needed to intervene and bring them into the modern age.

[@adriangallyot4193]

@@ZerothAmendment You clearly know nothing about how complex and advanced their culture was for its time . . I suggest you get educated before opening your mouth

[@adriangallyot4193]

You might want find out about the 44 indigineous diggers who were sent off to fight in the boer war as "trackers" for the empire . . which were not permitted to re-enter their own country because of the newly passed White Australia policy. Also maybe realise that indigineous soldiers have fought in every major war Australia has been involved with. So yes they were fighting for their country too during WW2 . . even though their country didnt actually recognise their rights as citizens till 1967. So please know your history before opening your mouth

[@raymarsh5455]

@@adriangallyot4193 44? That is a token contingent - Not a serious force that really had any serious effect on the outcome of the war. There were very few indigenous soldiers in WWII.

[@kamala7101]

@@adriangallyot4193 'complex and advanced' 😂🤣 They weren't Egyptians you know

[@brianholloway1451]

If we had an honest debate that told the absolute truth things would be very very very different

[@adriangallyot4193]

I think we are having that debate Brian, but some of us dont want to know the absolute truth

[@brianholloway1451]

@@adriangallyot4193 don't forget it was only four years ago that most of the aborigines thought that the aboriginal flag was there in Chester alright I didn't realise it was a white man's flag and he even had a patent on it. And that's only in less than one generation they got it wrong. So if you was allowed to have a real debate and not be intimidated or have your house burnt down then I would say it would be a real fair debate. Because I can tell you now it is very very very easy to prove aboriginals haven't been here any more than 4000 years by their own dreaming stories. And what about the enormous amount of Orange hated people over 8 feet long were actually deemed aboriginal sacred site and you're not allowed to go near it dig it up or say anything about it. Please tell me when were aboriginals 8 feet tall with orange hair.

[@TheGingerMale]

I agree, in such a world, there wouldn't be a bunch of racists glued to their TVs believing that Aboriginal people having political power is "divisive" just because Paul Murray told them so.

[@thepanel2935]

Speaking as a person who has returned from working overseas for a stretch, I can assure you that Australian politics is now incredibly toxic.

[@bananaguard]

Skynews highlights that well

[@justincarter1950]

Lol don't you mean the media is toxic, politicians haven't changed one bit

[@keefrasputin634]

The Murdoch Family is spreading its poison in Australia through Sky Australia, the Telegraph, the Australian, the Courier Mail. It’s a toxic formula that worked for them in America resulting in a corrupt administration , a failed coup, and an indicted former president. There is very little evil in the world that doesn’t carry the stench of the Murdoch Family.

[@iancremmins4727]

the liberals were toxic, we are back on track now

[@justincarter1950]

@Ian Cremmins and Labor not?

[@lwf3723]

Exactly Andrew…. I am sick of being welcomed into my own country, one that I was born in, pay taxes in and contribute to my community!! I will be voting NO!!

[@williamzk9083]

I recently flew to Kalgoorlie via Perth from Sydney. I endured “acknowledgment of Elders” about 16 times. Takeoff and landing each flight to an return. That’s 8 times at least. Then operating the entertainment system. It was tedious and consumed bandwidth when safety should have been paramount. I detest it it’s so utterly boring now.

[@adriangallyot4193]

@@williamzk9083 Try sitting through the Queen's funeral procession for a whole 2 weeks . . but everyone was very happy to do that on every major channel

[@patriot77185]

and also contribute the $32 billions given to the Aborigines every year from your taxes !!!!!

[@dfor50]

​@@adriangallyot4193 when exaggeration turns to lies.

[@adriangallyot4193]

@@dfor50 what is an exaggeration?

[@glucid4222]

Unlike my children, I wasn't born in Australia, but when I pledged my allegiance to it more than 40 years ago, as a new citizen, I don't remember doing so only for one part of it or another. I also understood that I was welcomed to make it my new home country, by all Australians, so long as I respected all Australians equally, and all that they've achieved together, as one Commonwealth. In honour of all those who serve and have served and who have made the ultimate sacrifice, in the name our nation, I couldn't possibly say yes to anything that contradicts that same united Commonwealth, in favour of elevating one set of interests, at the expense of all the rest of us. I just hope that everyone else has the same principles, otherwise any divisiveness that's given a chance to creep in amongst us all will only serve those who don't want us all to prosper as one united Commonwealth. Nobody who wants to be treated special can't then possibly expect to be treated as an equal with the rest of us at the same time.

[@BlackStump172]

You are Australian as are those who received Citizenship this Australia Day !

[@elizabeth-ot1iv]

I was born here, and am so grateful for my good fortune. Bravo to you for this wonderful acknowledgment and perception of Australia. Thank you.

[@davidwight249]

We came here and conquered this country 250 years ago, whether people like it or not. We turned a baron desert in to a rich, first world country. I am damn proud of my ancestors.

[@battlechaser8197]

Yeah same here, ""bit"" of a pity about the genocide of the original inhabitants, but as the saying goes, you can't make an Omelette without breaking a few eggs.

[@davidwight249]

@@battlechaser8197 They are lucky we kept as many around as we did.

[@battlechaser8197]

@@davidwight249 Troll, or unbelievably stupid?

[@budabethekoalabear4739]

​@davidwight249 PROUD that your ancestors killed thousands of aboriginal men women and children?

[@budabethekoalabear4739]

​​@@davidwight249you didn't keep anyone around loser aboriginal people have been fighting for over 250 years you tried to us off but you couldn't do it and now you want to cry around ahaha not ONLY DID WE SURVIVE BUT WE ARE THRIVING

[@msanthropic5401]

Yes it is. I don’t need to be “welcomed” to my own country, particularly not by people who despise me for the colour of my skin.

[@learnenglishwithauntyjeanp1646]

A few years ago an Ab. teenager was charged with stealing. Her distraught Mum tearfully asked her, " Why are you doing this? You know it's wrong & I didnt bring you up to steal." The reply? "They stole our land off us so now we steal off them." That was told to me by an Aboriginal friend who was the girl's aunty.

[@ZerothAmendment]

Thats why Aboriginal large number of incarceration isn't an issue of race, i mean just coz someone is in prison doesnt mean they dont belong there! Commit a crime, do the time!

[@dfor50]

So why respect them if they don't respect us?

[@peterbreis5407]

Bullshit!

[@MrAndrew1953]

Yes like you I have many generations besides my parents who were born,raised and died in this country. Together with my brother and sister, I scattered their ashes on Mt Taylor in Canberra. This is as much my country as anyone else's. These people are saying with this welcome to country ceremony, everytime they hold one,we are reinforcing our ownership of this country. I think Aboriginals in this country have to understand it doesn't just belong to them solely anymore. Other people for generations are stakeholders in this country now and for the future.

[@resinvillarama1287]

Is it dividing people? Well yes.. so No

[@yellowjacketyesthewaspbuzz8430]

Am I ignorant and don’t want to learn more about it other then watching sky news and reading comments? Yes… so no* fixed it for ya friend

[@beepbeep6861]

First nations people were never accepted and that's a fact

[@Cobber2023]

The good old welcome to country ceremony that dates back to 1976 what an ancient custom.

[@zalired8925]

Blame Ernie Dingo, he came up with the idea in a pub in WA trying to come up with a welcoming ceremony for a mob from up north. He even joked about it in an interview.

[@Whylivere]

Yep absolute load of crap

[@patrickjohnson8741]

OK. its getting boring now.

[@davidwight249]

I was born here, my parents were born here, their parents were born here. This is my/our country and I dont need a welcome every day.

[@b.alexanderjohnstone9774]

We can't have a statue of James Cook but we are asked to perform the rituals of others? I used to be more willing to go along but no longer.

[@IceBreakBottle]

Cook was a violent conqueror..

[@joshapps8259]

Welcome to a country I was born in and raised in. If I’m not welcome then dont take my taxes.

[@michaeldamato9466]

If I hear any crap like that I'm definitely going to object, I'm tired of a few Abo's with self loathing issues, trying to get it over the rest of the country.

[@beauvearing8450]

Abo's! Been a while since I've used that name! Maybe back in the 80's @ zillmere (indigenous name) and Sandgate (pommy 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 name) "blended" in with the darkies alright back then, great AFL players the blacks, I played for mayne 🐯 (2nd top side) back then and we, "couldn't get past" sherwood magpies (top 🏆side) who had 3/4 of their team as indigenous! Nothing at all wrong with the, "modern day aborigine" just needs a bit more education is all! cheers 🍻

[@tedsmall3793]

The racists are the ones who wrote the voice. I am a first fleeter and I am proud of what we have accomplished in the 200+ years. I have contributed to where we are today and I resent the garbage our Prime minister and others are sprouting, trying to divide us and pit one minority group who are largely supported by the Australian taxpayer to the tune of $33 billion each year against the 96% of the rest of us. I am offended each time we have to endure the “Welcome to Country” as though we ar

[@bartosneville8793]

Last year I had to put up with three welcome to country at one event. Not only did the host say the bullshit, the two guest speakers said it also. I was tempted to yell out, "oh for fucks sake, this is getting beyond a joke!" What made it worse was the second guest speaker tried to out do the other two welcomes by saying something like, "underneath these buildings, underneath this concrete, it is and will always be Aboriginal land". Again, I felt like yelling out, "if that's how you feel, give it back to them". I didn't of course but some day someone will.

[@MG-bv8fi]

As someone with Aboriginal blood in my veins, this Welcome To Country is offensive and a waste of time!

[@JC-lu4se]

They got me on the Skybus to Melbourne airport. An Acknowledgment of Country how Australia has never been ceded from the Indigenous. Warning: wear headphones at all times!

[@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.

[@christinac3929]

And as for the Aboriginal voice claiming that Australia is still their land and always will be, it is dangerously divisive and exclusive. What do they expect to do with the 95% of current Australians? Send us back to where our great, great, great, great, grand parents came from! I don't think so! I still don't understand what Aboriginal people feel they don't get that other Australians get. When they live in APY lands, they moan not getting a mental worker, presumably a white person. Education is the only way out of poverty and university is free for Aboriginal people and it's not means tested. Every Australian has a voice to parliament if they use it. We vote and have access to our local MPs as well as federal portfolio ministers. In the hope that I won't have to sit through another embarrassing and meaningless Welcome to country palaver, I will vote NO.

[@ap692]

If they want to be a voice, get voted in like anyone else!

[@lankylad8244]

Guess what we are doing later this year?

[@ap692]

@@lankylad8244 voting for them to be given a free passage in. Be like any other MP and get voted in by the public like any of us can

[@yetanotherspuart3993]

They already have an Aboriginal group that deal with issues. Why is a second one needed, which will waste another 5 billion a year just to keep it running??

[@Rhythmattica]

@@yetanotherspuart3993 Like all the billions the liberal party has given via proxy , so called privatisation? Neither side has the answer.. But come on, theres more pressing cases where tax payers money has gone, and still going... A Privatisation grift... You know, the one's hidden by political red tape... Just look at what the Libs did to the healthcare system... The voice? So what....... Theres WAY more pressing matters many seem to divert away from. Like Sky and Fox...

[@Bruce15485]

@@yetanotherspuart3993 Another Indigenous voice?? Sure! Add it to the list: - Australian Indigenous Foundation - ABCare - Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS) - Australian Indigenous Minority Supplier Council - Aboriginal Maternal and Infant Health Service - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission - Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Health Performance Framework - Assembly of First Nations - Australian Indigenous Economic Policy Research (CAEPR) - Closing The Gap Clearinghouse - Conciliation and Arbitration Commission - Cooperative Research Centre for Aboriginal Health - Cape York Institute - FaHCSIA; Department of Families, Housing, Community and Indigenous Affairs - FCAA; Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines - FCAATSI; Federal Council for the Advancement of Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders - Healing Foundation - Indigenous Advisory Council - Indigenous Advancement Strategy - Indigenous Community Governance Project - Indigenous Education Strategic Initiatives Programme - Indigenous Land Corporation - Kapululangu Aboriginal Women’s Association - Koori Business Network - Kimberley Indigenous Management Support Service - Koori Maternity Services - Larrakia Development Corporation - Ministerial Council for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Affairs - National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation (NACCHO) - National Indigenous Australians Agency - National Indigenous Times - New South Wales Coalition of Aboriginal Peak Organisations (COAPA) - NAIDOC; National Aborigines and Islanders Day Observance Committee - North Coast Aboriginal Corporation for Community Health - National Centre of Indigenous Excellence - NITV; National Indigenous Television - NNTT; National Native Title Tribunal - Native Welfare Council - Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination - Office of the Registrar of Indigenous Corporations - Queensland Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Child Protection Peak (QATSICPP) - Aboriginal Peak Organisations Northern Territory (APO NT) - Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody - SNAICC Resource Clearinghouse - South Australian Aboriginal Advisory Council - The Koori Mail - The Lowitja Institute - The Indigenous Affairs Group - The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) - The Victorian Aboriginal Child Care Agency (VACCA) - Western Australian Aboriginal Child Health Survey - Working Group on Indigenous Reform Wow! What an industry.........

[@thepanel2935]

Can we have a Welcome To Country in maternity wards when babies are born? Maybe Ernie Dingo can perform it. For a fee.

[@yellowjacketyesthewaspbuzz8430]

What a great idea! Where should it start?

[@Gungho1a]

​@@yellowjacketyesthewaspbuzz8430 1973. It's older than dot painting by a year or two. So, I suggest we do it in a cattle paddock where the other BS is.

[@yellowjacketyesthewaspbuzz8430]

@@Gungho1a source needed

[@zalired8925]

Ernie Dingo actually made up welcome to country in a pub in a last minute decision to welcome a group of Elders from up north somewhere.

[@julietharty1965]

Don't forget Tan Grant, he can play the guitar (poorly) and sing in some unknown dialect. Hooray.

[@rinzler9775]

Two of my direct ansestors fought to protect this country from invasion by imperial Japan, who, if they had won, would have got rid of all aboriginals. Do I get a "thanks for defending the country" ceremony ?

[@annviolet4727]

'No more welcome to country,' says Professor Langton. Read between the lines folk! Remember Lydia Thorpe's tirade with her 'war stick?'

[@michaeldamato9466]

I must be warped.... when she had her fist up in the air in parliament I thought it was odd that she would show her preference for the fist...... and for that "war stick" I just thought it strange showing her preference for large sticks.... if that ain't funny, I don't know what is... 🤣😂🤣

[@dfor50]

She has no respect for our people and elders so why should we respect hers?

[@patrussell8917]

Hearing Langton downgrading general Australia when she appears to have achieved much aided by white money &culture is sickening If she will not answer when requested for her opinions by saying NO then main public wont be devastated at all Welcoming ordinary born and bred citizens of this country to their own country is insulting and breeds resentment creating divisions Lady should visit Alice Springs to re-educate herself

[@pushagainstthezeitgeist4968]

I’d like to acknowledge the elders past and present who, facing much peril, sailed to the ends of the earth and built Australia into what it is today. Introducing a culture that has been so readily embraced and relied upon by the First Nations peoples.

[@ZerothAmendment]

And when they arrived they were attacked by local tribes, i mean what do Aboriginal tribes have against immigrants?

[@yellowjacketyesthewaspbuzz8430]

@@ZerothAmendment I think they’ve been very accommodating for the last 235 years 🤷‍♀️

[@echelon2k8]

@@yellowjacketyesthewaspbuzz8430 As a defeated people, they better be.

[@yellowjacketyesthewaspbuzz8430]

@@echelon2k8 Sovereignty never ceded friend. Thank you for your service tho

[@ZerothAmendment]

@@yellowjacketyesthewaspbuzz8430 Not really, they are 2.8% of the population and commit 35%+ or all crime.

[@Zog696]

Do Anglo Saxon British acknowledge Celts as the original owners of the land they now occupy?

[@henryjanicky4978]

We build this country for all...

[@margaretclarke3643]

What can I say Andrew? I agree with everything you say on this subject. The Australian Indigenous people don't know how lucky they are having been settled by the British, they should be very thankful for that. Had it been any other nation, there wouldn't be one of them left.

[@readyorknot2344]

Attempted to stop a thief from stealing $700 worth of sunglasses from my shop was told I was a racist and then picked up two more and shoved in his bag and left. Of course despite CCTV will never get them back. Thanks WA Government

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

That you bought from China for $2 each. Who's the real criminal, you didn't pay tax to sovereignty. Your sense of entitlement is insane

[@arkangelgaming35]

@You, I touch myself because "Welcome to Country" is just another "National Apology Day"

[@arkangelgaming35]

@You, I touch myself "Cultural Owner" and who "Culturally Owns" Australia? Not the white and not the blacks. Last I checked it's all of us, no matter what colour our skin, what we believe, what we do.. Australia is land of the free.. from the Aboriginal People to the European descendant White men and women even to the Asians, Chinese and Philippine people's. Australia is land for all, already has a diverse set of cultures. We don't need ANOTHER false reminder of the NOT First people to live here.

[@bidensaidthenwordwithahard4838]

​@@arkangelgaming35 ? Aboriginals owned the land less than 200 years ago. In retrospect, that is when slavery was abolished in America. Not very long ago. It is the most modern genocide that happened in global history. Australia is not nor hasn't been the land of the free since Europeans invaded it. Even then, migrants themselves were subjected to abuse (after abusing traditional land owners) you are wrong in every single part of your analogy. For example, we don't even have free speech or the right to protest in our constitution. We have to apply for permits just to have a protest.

[@readyorknot2344]

@Gonnatouch I'll tell you. Its my damned country too, always was. And I don't find being called racist for being a good citizen is not inclusive, its abusive and divisive and makes me quite resentful towards a holes no matter if they are AWLFs bleating. And this is an example of the attitude of people whom have been told you can get away with crimes if you claim racism be it toward you today or toward your ancestors.

[@janewood8665]

A few days ago in our suburb a vehicle was stolen by kids who eventually after a few hours of hooning around crashed it into a tree. Said teenagers are still in hospital fighting for their lives BUT according to comments on local Facebook pages it’s our fault because we stole their land. WRONG! Where do you start? A voice isn’t going to stop this crap and I have no idea what will.

[@Aaa-ft2sz]

Armed civilians would put a stop to it..

[@bananaguard]

A voice is a start what do you mean

[@psychedashell]

@@Aaa-ft2sz How, by shooting at the idiots while they're hooning? Not an improvement.

[@bananaguard]

@@paper601 To represent Indigenous Australians to the parliament and federal government on matters of Indigenous affairs. Do you understand?

[@dylaningram9675]

@@paper601 haha it’s the racist who play the victim card (white & black), because they can’t do nothing but whinge about Aboriginal Australians or whinge about white Australians haha. White people (not all) whinge when aboriginal people aren’t doing good but as soon as they are doing good then white people (not all) in this country whinge about that too & carry on like victims in this country crying that it’s all of sudden all about Aboriginal Australians instead of white Australians 😂 like for example: Latrell Mitchell…. Every time theirs an article about him, I go through the comments & you will only see white people commenting, “what about Murray”, “what about Graham”, “what about cook” “what about arrow” & also a bunch of racist shit why???? (We all know why). A lot of “what about us” victim mentality & yet apparently the only victim card users are aboriginal ? Dumbest, small minded shit ever Hahaha. The only thing or people aboriginal people use the victim card on is the government. White Australians (not all) play victim to every other race in the country, the media & the government if not as much then more in this generation. “Why do they get that & we don’t”, “why do they do welcome to country & we don’t”, whywhywhywhywhywhy…..cry cry cry. Going on like every black person doesn’t work, steals everything & dropped out of school ?? Not all black people are the same & not all white people are the same, so stop stereotyping carrying on like a kid with racist parents that doesn’t know any better. Educate yourself. Our country is multicultural asf now but yet white Australians & aboriginal Australians must be apparently the only people in this country still??? A lot of other people are born in this country, asians, Indians, islanders etc… not just people with Europe decent or Aboriginal decent. Is it just me or is there a lot of racism coming from the white people on social media & in crowds of sporting events the past couple years ?? Like I know theirs always been racism but it seems a little more lately then usual🤔

[@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied]

Don't trust a politician with a yes

[@madness8556]

I simply refuse to be welcomed to my own country thankyou very much!

[@TzarLatok]

Yeah, screw property rights.

[@rainbowcreative5318]

❤

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

Superiority complex = entitlement complex. Technically Australia doesn't exist

[@IceBreakBottle]

They aren't welcoming you to Australia.. You have no idea what you're talking if you think they're welcoming you to Australia haha Maybe get some education on the topic.

[@johnd5953]

Frankly we are all sick of Welcome to Country

[@janewood8665]

Every land on this earth has been conquered at some point in history with varying results. Who should I complain to and demand money from because my ancestor was burnt at the stake 1000 years ago? Who can I force to give me money because another of my ancestors was fleeced of the family castle?? What makes these people so special? What makes this such a divisive issue? What is this Voice business a cover up for? What’s going on in the background that they don’t want us to know? As far as I’m concerned it’s a load of crap. Get on with your lives. You only get one.

[@thebests3153]

Welcome to country is a bit like being forced to practice religion in schools, no one really wants to do it, but no one wants to offend either.

[@Bruce15485]

I thought this was a fee country !! Obviously not !!

[@rosa9079]

I’m not going to be welcomed to the country I was born in, and 5 generations ago.

[@bananaguard]

Then you'll be welcoming others who are visiting

[@pisces89]

@@bananaguard “visiting” being the key word😅 we arent visiting our own country

[@bananaguard]

@@pisces89 Because foreigners and tourists aren't a thing or people living in different areas of the same city

[@pisces89]

@@bananaguard so?! Ffs that means every single step we take we would have to be welcomed by someone who had some ancestor at some point. It comes across to other aussies as we are not welcomed tbh. Time to move forward like the rest of the world and stop this. We are all aussies. We all live here togther now. And all we ever hear is that they dont want us here, so why welcome us. Its just a way of saying, this is our land and we dont want you here.

[@barrysmith9411]

Yes you will . Just like you wore a mask. Just like you locked down. Just like you got medically raped.

[@steventilley2381]

I want a voice for the Blow Ins like me, just Forth Generation. Wheres my voice?

[@Mortzzz]

Lol it’s not like “welcome to this country as in welcome to Australia white folks” it’s welcome to this particular plot of land, in aboriginal culture there’s hundreds of tribes and bits and pieces of lands and borders. Welcome to country is literally welcoming those who may not be from that particular plot of land (country).If the meeting is in perth and they’re doing welcome to country (welcome to noongar land) if you’re not from Perth you’re part of the welcomed, If you’re from Perth, you’re part of the welcoming Regardless of your skin colour. Shame people feel this way but meh.

[@dudsummon3803]

Except its a new thing. It's an invention of the university system.

[@FreeTempest]

@@dudsummon3803 acknowledgement of country has literally been around for decades, this is just a new version

[@FreeTempest]

@Steve S try going outside and learning to read x

[@electricmaster23]

That’s optimistic! 😂

[@FreeTempest]

@@electricmaster23 what can I say, I'm a dreamer

[@zerocool7772]

Can't even watch the bloody footy without being welcomed to my own country. Whatever happened to I am, you are WE are Australian?

[@pendragon6449]

100%, there is nothing welcoming about it... It's just a woke virtue signalling pushed by Woke activists on to Govt, which is intern pushed on corporations, then the masses...

[@Crilic3]

We figured out that we're a country of assholes and that our decades of destroying another's culture and cutting them away from their traditions should be reversed. So now all events are participated in united cultural traditions of both the Euro Australians and the Indigenous Australians, which teaches the children of both cultures to value the others' culture and heritage. It's not about a song, it's about decolonisation.

[@bec.11]

We are all Australians 🇦🇺

[@rainbowcreative5318]

Well Said ❤

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

Terrorist flag

[@chemrot931]

Nah mate the Americans and so on aren’t

[@Kelly-wf5ie]

YET, CITIZENS OF NORFOLK ISLAND, BET U DID’NT KNOW THAT ONE !! ASK YR “ gov” Y IS THAT SO , OR FOIA !!

[@bec.11]

@Kelly it's an Australian external territory 🇦🇺

[@paddlesmcbean2366]

I reject the welcome to country. To my country. I was born here as were generations before me. Incredibly insulting. Vote no to racism, vote no to the voice.

[@TzarLatok]

Born on stolen land.... Or do property rights not matter unless you are white?

[@6t7ghost]

Typical Whitey reply 😂😂😂

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

But you are not part of the land

[@Whylivere]

@@KingofKings-tx6cm nor are you

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

@@Whylivere Yeah but I came here invited first class on a plane, your bloodline came illegally which makes you an illegal financial immigrant

[@ap692]

We need to stop parting us, we are not white and black people. We are all Australian! END OF DEBATE

[@rinzler9775]

Given I was born here, I always found the "welcome to country" run by people not even of the tribe that owned that original plot quite amusing, bordering on the offensive.

[@adriangallyot4193]

Did you ever think that might be because they are no actually traditional elders from that tribe left to do the ceremony? And how is that offensive to you as in any way?

[@Malaka-r9p]

Does Ernie receive royalties for welcome? It’s certainly not ancient

[@stevetaylor8298]

Welcome to country, really gets under my skin, I'm a 7th generation Australian, I was born here. if I'm older than any other 'Australian' I should welcome them. What we have now is pure racism with the aim to divide.

[@jazzysnaps]

Welcome to the country saved from occupation by Japan by all those who fought in WW2 for freedom. Lest we forget those who gave their lives including Australian Aboriginals.

[@kerrieannebaker8595]

including aboriginal soldiers who were then denied the same housing welfare as white return soldiers.

[@mariecameron9592]

@Shmuel Greenberg fascist

[@ADayInTheLifeOfJames]

@@kerrieannebaker8595 then..were you there… no… repatriation has occurred tenfold- move on. You either move with the times; or the times move with you .

[@Whylivere]

@@kerrieannebaker8595 ironic that nowadays alls abos live for is welfare 🤣🤣

[@arkangelgaming35]

@Shmuel Greenberg If Japan had conquered Australia, they would have annihilated the black population and kept the white population in their own segregated parts of the country.

[@LewiTheFly992]

That is how people are. You offer them a helping hand and they want the whole arm.

[@travstar5447]

I am Australian, i dont need to be welcomed to MY Country. 🇦🇺

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

Australia is null and void, it doesn't exist

[@IceBreakBottle]

If you think they're welcoming you to Australia you have no idea what it's all about and your ignorance needs to be educated.

[@beauvearing8450]

How on earth did margeret Langton become a professor?

[@fredbear-sf9st]

Welcome to country was never part of their culture. It was developed in the 1990’s when a conference was held between Aboriginal activists and Māori Activists. It now used in schools for any meeting and in our communities when any meeting is held even though it has nothing to do with Aboriginal people. Our children think it is part of their culture when in reality it isn’t and never was much before 2000’s.

[@Ree_____]

A welcome to country & an acknowledgment to country are two different things.

[@jackturpin7828]

It is a good money spinner for them they get paid every time for a bit more they will blow some smoke up your......

[@alyinwonderland8396]

Aren't they paid for doing it? 🤔 🤬

[@tinapowell5955]

Ignorance is bliss in this Country. MY ANCESTORS HAD TO WAIT TO BE WELCOMED ON TO OTHER NATIONS COUNTY LONG BEFORE 1990s. Get EDUCATED!!!

[@tinapowell5955]

​@@alyinwonderland8396 Yes Aboriginal people get paid BIG $$$ its WRONG!! Its SELL MY CULTURE for PROFIT🤬🤬

[@mlm3493]

Can’t anyone spell anymore?? How can you take anyone seriously when they can’t spell ‘sow’ when used in the context of the call for the Royal Commission on Murdoch? I am sure Mr Murdoch does not ‘sew’ at all😳😳😳

[@haruchai]

Welcome to what country, I'm already in mine. In my opinion all this madness is fueled by one thing, politicians and their desperate need to make a mark, to leave a "legacy", to be remembered for something other than just being a politician, in other words, their overblown egos.

[@jamesavery7921]

Yes, this welcome to country is getting on my nerves now. I don't mind if it's used in International events- but for domestic? No. I don't need to be "welcomed" to my own country. It is insulting and I refuse to acknowledge it anymore.

[@davidshore2159]

The Voice Referendum will divide Australia in the same way the Brexit referendum divided the UK.

[@talk2megoose520]

Regardless of vote - it’s already decided. Welcome to Australia where your future is determined by race.

[@yellowjacketyesthewaspbuzz8430]

Isn’t it already tho?

[@johnwoodrow8769]

Bit rich being constantly welcomed to Australia by people who in 95% of cases haven't been here as long as I have.

[@IceBreakBottle]

If you think they're welcoming you to Australia you have no idea what it's all about and your ignorance needs to be educated.

[@ultrajaywalker]

so what... you're old? unsurprising as your head seems stuck in the past :)

[@bladeleo71]

Reading these comments come as no surprise; a good portion of Australia has always had a problem with aspects of indigenous culture being ingrained into mainstream Australia, because a seemingly good portion of Australia would rather keep indigenous culture as a tokenistic novelty or perhaps even less than that. I'm seeing loads of comments saying a welcome to country is divisive; saying that "welcomes" are divisive is as silly as saying bachelors are married. A welcoming person is synonmous to an inclusive person; different aboriginal clans have been welcoming each other onto their traditional country well before Australia was called Australia; welcome to country is a good, respectful and well intentioned traditional practice that ought to play a positive role in the reconciliation between the indigenous and non indigenous.

[@skysthelimit780]

agree, its a sense of entitlement cultivated by a legacy of imperialism. Indigenous people were doing just fine without "colonialisation" and yet everyone here is acting like Australia was built by their own hands. LOL. But what can you expect from the cesspool of people who watch Sky news.

[@ClintGutho]

Don't read too much into it. Sky News viewers have either room temperature IQs or are very old, or are a combination of both.

[@gregmatthies8128]

No thanks I was born here and go back 4 gen so I don’t need to be greeted like I am an outsider. Smoking stuff is nothing to me and have no respect for that stuff. PS will be voting NO along with family too.

[@jeffrey5952]

@@gregmatthies8128 well your 4 gens weren’t the first people here

[@maddiewelsh2182]

well said! couldn't agree more

[@paulbartolo1009]

I’ve left australia after being born in Australia and living in Australia for 55 years. I was no longer felt welcome in my country and felt like an outsider. I feel more inclusive in a foreign country than I do in my home country

[@benjijarman]

You sound like a whinger. You'll fit right into the UK.

[@raymarsh5455]

You are not alone.

[@elizabeth-ot1iv]

Know exactly what you mean. A kind of insanity and fervour is taking hold, when folks should be so grateful for all that we have and can cherish. I LOVE being Australian, such a privilege to have been born on this soil. Will always be my country, I don't need welcoming to it. 🇭🇲

[@davidwarren8659]

A Voice to Parliment,no matter how benign its intentions,must have absolutely no obligatory power over any AUTHOURITY( Federal,State, or Local ) elected by our citizens at any level!! If there is obligation on a duly elected AUTHOURITY, we will be headed for the gradual decline of DEMOCRACY, and into a rise of faster rise of TOTAL STATE CONTROL OF OUR LIVES!!!🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

[@p8196]

I hated the welcome to country for years. It’s dressed up as something nice, but it’s just a passive aggressive way to make a point to non aboriginal people they don’t belong here. It’s a terrible thing.

[@adamgarner7956]

Jesus fucking Christ don’t be so fragile

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

I'm an immigrant, I came here through correct channels.. You are a illegal

[@bidensaidthenwordwithahard4838]

That's a blanket opinion. I could call you a passive aggressive racist for your comment. Neither is true it's purely speculation based on our perceived bias. Fact is, welcome to country has been around longer than civilisation itself. Hence why they do it, it's less of a "oh hey you're not from here let us introduce you to our land" than purely a chance to share a part of Aboriginal culture seeing as y'know they only have a fragment of their culture left after they were genocided.

[@chrish4681]

@@bidensaidthenwordwithahard4838 it hadn’t been used by the Aboriginals it was introduced by Ernie Dingo as a joke

[@p8196]

@@bidensaidthenwordwithahard4838it’s not culture sharing and it’s not welcoming. It’s a forced declaration of homage to ‘elders past, present and emerging’. Here are the words directly from indigenous.gov.Au. Where is the word ‘welcome’ and where is the culture being shared? No blessings or anything. It’s a straight up declaration of fielty to the aboriginal heirachy and I don’t do that. Im from the Middle East, I only bow to God. “I begin today by acknowledging the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we today, and pay my respects to their Elders past and present. I extend that respect to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples here today.”

[@jiol-fk5ws]

those big war memorials are our welcome to the country. LEST WE FORGET. shame on Australias politicians trying to divide us.

[@chrish4681]

I’m one of those that audibly groan, roll my eyes and study my phone as soon as they start that crap, once was a novelty but it’s just being forced on us now. No better than the crowd that describe themselves via a pronoun, might be a he/she today or a lamp post tomorrow Voting No, 100%

[@rhettcorbett3346]

100% correct. I turn it off. Just like the drug ad. Just say NO.

[@juliastewart741]

Youre voting no because you are a racist, Chris. Transgender rights dont even have any relevancy to the Voice to Parliament. You are a working class idiot.

[@pisces89]

Hahaha same!

[@juliastewart741]

@@paper601 Most Australians aren’t offended or insulted by a Welcome to Country or an Acknowledgment of country. Only racists get offended by harmless First Nations’ cultural practices. Can’t believe you’re offended over people who had their land stolen from them, wanting recognition of their ancestors’s traditional land. White people are still scary to Indigenous people cause racists like yourself still exist. Also, white people committed genocide against First Nations people. White people aren’t the hero in the story of colonisation, we tried to wipe out the world’s oldest culture on Earth. If you think welcome to country or an Indigenous voice to parliament is harmful to your way of life then you need to grow up. If you dont want to respect First Nations people then get off their land and move to another continent hun.

[@michaelholt7994]

What has this ethnic group ever done for Australia ever ?.

[@Factchekka]

Zippo...

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

What have you done besides being spat out by our sister/mums pusci, Anglo-Australians are the most recessive Anglo-Saxons on the planet. So backward and lazy that Australia went into recession and had to change the White Australia policy to let POC in Australia to save it ie. You from starvation! You should be sucking every POC d!ck to thank them

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

What has your ethnic group done besides derange, destroy, distort and be detrimental to every living thing on this planet

[@rob6543]

Be careful what you wish for, It’s nNo for me my family have been there since 1828 , don’t worry it’s my country I give you the mail,as it’s all Australians 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺

[@Stephen-sr2pb]

If you want a Welcome to Country ceremony performed at your event it will cost you as much as $1,000. IF you decide not to have one you could be at risk of attracting a feral mob. Is it a protection racket?

[@jakekabbout6630]

It doesn’t take $1000 to say a few words of acknowledgment, it comes down to respect and the earnest to recognise we are standing on bloodied soil and hope for a better future together

[@adriangallyot4193]

Okay no worries . . how about we also sack the governor general then, who for some reason still needs to sign each piece of legislation in this country on behalf of a British Monarch we dont vote for and are aparently no longer tied to?

[@mdkcynic]

Sure, as long as that funding comes directly out of government salary allocation

[@ZerothAmendment]

@@jakekabbout6630 You mean like the poor White settles who came to Australia to make a new home as immigrants and were attacked by violent Aboriginal tribes?

[@echelon2k8]

@@jakekabbout6630 All soil is bloodied. And for a continent as old as Australia, we all know who was responsible for the most blooding. Maybe they should add that to their few words of acknowledgment.

[@Ed_Downunder]

The Uluru statement appears to be a claim that there presently exists an unextinguished and unlimited claim of ownership of the soil, concurrently with the well-recognised sovereignty of the Commonwealth of Australia over Australian territory. Whatever may have occurred in the past, in 2023 all Australians live in a democracy. Central to that concept is that each person has one vote. Each is free to join such association as he or she wishes, and each person is free either individually, or through some association, to make representations or advocate for such policies as they regard as desirable. It is not clear why either race, or length of forebear’s occupation, should constitute grounds for conferring an additional right to have a further ‘Voice’ in the Parliament or government. And nor should disadvantage. Disadvantaged Australians should be assisted irrespective of race, or period of residence of themselves or their forebears. Attributed to:- Terence Col. He is a former Judge of the NSW Court of Appeal, and later was appointed as Royal Commissioner by the Commonwealth into The Building and Construction Industry in Australia 2001-2003, and the UN Oil -for Food Program (2005-2006). He also conducted an Inquiry under the Defence Act regarding the Loss of HMAS SYDNEY (11) (2008-2009).

[@robertaubrey3571]

When you are in a government department in Perth, and a British immigrant welcomes you to country and there is not one indigenous person employed there, it’s quite ludicrous. Especially when there are about a hundred of them within 1 km outside.

[@I_hate_Vegemite]

We hit rock bottom when the Adelaide City Council encouraged/allowed some local Kaurna people to demonstrate burning for indigenous fire management in the Adelaide City Parklands. Trying to burn the mowed dry kikuyu wasn’t a great success.

[@rooma2444]

I hate the way you say "them" "within" "100km"

[@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied]

@@I_hate_Vegemite what they tryed to burn mowed grass 😂😂🤣🤣😂why

[@Ifyouarehurtnointentwasapplied]

@@rooma2444 they did say indigenous people a few words before that probably more lazy English than anything else ?

[@majorlaff8682]

A hundred of them? But are they sober?

[@John-kl3ue]

Sick of hearing the crap …I was born here in 1965 why isn’t this my country as well !

[@jaybee8148]

Socialism is alive and well ... I will vote NO

[@tiesword3252]

BOLT...INDEED, STAND UP for NO.....WE THE PEOPLE OF AUSTRALIA.....

[@JohnPaulHatterTheSecond]

vote no to racism, vote no to the voice

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

The voice is being racist to who?

[@Whylivere]

@@KingofKings-tx6cm non indigenous ppl

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

@@Whylivere And who are the non-indigenous ppl?

[@ACDZ123]

​@Kingof Kings the voice gives more power to one group over another. That's racist

[@Whylivere]

@@KingofKings-tx6cm immigrant tossers like you

[@kevinrudd9257]

I have always felt offended listening to the welcome to country.

[@thh4584]

It sounds like something a drunkard indig would yell at a tourist.

[@paddlesmcbean2366]

Vote no to racism, vote no to the voice.

[@lexxel01]

kzbin.info/www/bejne/qXS3fp5uZrBkbrM how about voting for a true constitutionally lawful government GET RID OF ALL THESE SCUM INSIDE PARLIAMENT - BY ACTUAL LAW OF THIS NATION THEY ARE TOO FACE THE DEATH PENALTY

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

Who is the voice being racist to?

[@lexxel01]

@@KingofKings-tx6cm kzbin.info/www/bejne/rpukf4ageLx-gMU

[@Bruce15485]

@@KingofKings-tx6cm The one people of Australia ! Has is not it been forced down our throat, that we are a multicultural nation and we are all equal ?

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

@Bruce15485 Listen ere dumb k.vnþ The whole planet is multicultural, if you don't like it than phahrkoff the planet ya drunk mutt

[@MSIContent]

I totally disagree with the Voice, and the “Thanking the original owners” carry on. This has nothing to do with racism or being uncaring. I just feel this is not the way to fix anything. It perpetuates the “us and them” mentality which is the root of our current issues.

[@joshua7734]

Do your knuckles hurt from dragging them on the ground?

[@MSIContent]

@@joshua7734 Wow, well I guess I won’t bother discussing anything with you. Clearly you have nothing intelligent to add so…

[@arkangelgaming35]

@@joshua7734 Does your asshole hurt from taking all that pro black Dick?

[@harryflashman9495]

@@joshua7734 Yes an ad hominem argument is always the most effective. We’ll done.

[@maxlatias8755]

Welcome to country retails to the local Aboriginal lands council from $150 - as high as $3000. The bigger the organisation the more it costs, smoking ceremony - more money.. dancers more money, you want a eulogy - more money. Welcome to country is literal cashflow and a job to local lands councils, community organisations and Aboriginal enterprises.

[@bernie4268]

I did not know that…

[@maxlatias8755]

Seen and organise a lot of these for events, both big and small… literal hundreds and thousands in these invoices. For some it’s a job or additional income, not that it is a bad thing. Some welcomes go from 2mins - 30mins. Very rare it is a free service.

[@xamaqueen1902]

So what ? That’s nothing compared to the blood_ fireworks every year! NOT Welcoming to country IS INSULTING it’s also INSULTING that children are not taught about the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander culture, the country’s the regions Racis_ mob this channel has turned out to be! 🙄🤔🙈

[@youngbess1]

WTF, the organisation I work for, we always do a welcome to country by the Yolŋu on the land we are on at occasions and show respectful knowledge to the people who’s land we work on. You are racist, so many people that do not work and live with these people have know idea how it really is and calling these people “tribes” is offensive.

[@Kelly-wf5ie]

@@bernie4268 SOOO MUCH HAS BEEN HIDDEN FROM US, U HONESTLY WILL NOT BELIEVE IT !! SO WHATEVER MSM OR “ gov “ SAY / TELL U, THE OPPOSITE IS THE TRUTH, OK !! PERFECT EXAMPLE, ANDREWS GOES 2 CHINA, MCCOWARD IS GOING 2 CHINA, YET IN ANOTHER BREATH, CHINA’S PRETTY MUCH GOING 2 INVADE US , YET AGAIN AUSTRALIA STILL SELLS COAL etc.. 2 CHINA AND WE R GOING TO PAY MORE $$ 2 THE BUSINESSES / COMPANIES etc.. 4 OUR OWN PRODUCT AND CHINA, THE BIGGEST POLLUTER PAYS NOTHING, DOES ANY OF THIS MAKE ANY SENSE ?? OR ALBO BEING INVITED TO NATO CRAP, BS HE WAS ORDERED / TOLD AND ITS BC WE R ALLIES, BS ITS BC THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE HAVE BEEN DECEIVED AND BETRAYED BY THESE VERMON, JUST LIKE MOST EVERY OTHER COUNTRY, HAVE U EVER SEEN SO MY COUNTRIES AROUND THE WORLD PROTESTING SOMETHING THAT THEIR “ governments “ R GOING 2 DO OR HAVE DONE AND COMMON SENSE TELLS U, “ gov / law makers etc..” IS THE COMMON DENOMINATOR !!

[@pennywallace9362]

As a fifth generation Aussie on both my paternal and maternal sides, my forbares having contributed to the care and safety of indigenous communities, the development and welfare of early Queenslanders, and many who were injured or died for the freedoms we THINK we have today, it is appalling to see how a few ELITE, power and money hungry first nations descendants are towing the line of WEF and THE NEW WORLD ORDER. And worse still our elected politicians promoting this SELL OUT. VOTE NO to apartheid and selling off what little remains of our sovereignty....

[@Hilo-]

Ewwww a bri’ish convict descendant? Not a bloodline I’d wanna be part of 🤣🤣🤣 also you watch too much news because FREEDOM IS SLAVERY and IGNORANCE IS STRENGTH 🤩🥳😎

[@0xBasedChang]

you mean through cultural genocide and forcefully diluting their ancestry by forcing them into interracial relationships?

[@Kelly-wf5ie]

NOW Y WOULD “ ELECTED “ POLITICIANS PROMOTE ALL THIS ????? BC THE AUSTRALIAN PEOPLE HAVE NOT ELECTED ANY OF THESE SCABS, THEY HAVE BEEN PLACED THERE OVER THE LAST 50++ YEARS !! Y WOULD THE “ AUSTRALIAN GOVERNMENT “ B REGISTERED AS A “ CORPORATION “ IN DC ????? AWAKE YET !!

[@bananaguard]

The same people who supported apartheid are the people who will vote no. Stop trying to defend your racist behaviour

[@echelon2k8]

@@bananaguard When you say 5th generation, do you mean you're 5th generation Australian born or your ancestors arrived 5 generations ago and you are 4th generation Australian born?

[@spinem4u]

I find it offensive for Qantas to make a welcome to country every time they land a plane For the sake of Australians ! I live here always have and will continue to do so I done require or approve of a welcome to MY bloody country thanks very much

[@bernie4268]

I don’t mind the idea of trying to unite all Australians. I also think white Aussies can do with a reminder about land, nature and a connection to it. Let’s face it. We use and abuse it. Dug for gold like crazy. Polluted the waterways. Introduced feral animals, wiped out the Tassie Tiger etc etc all in search of more and more wealth. Indigenous people and their traditions and connections remind us of other values.

[@ACDZ123]

This won't unite shit. This will cause more division . Vote no to the voice

[@PJRayment]

"Let’s face it. We use and abuse it." Capitalist countries abuse the land less than others. "Dug for gold like crazy." And that's a bad thing? "Polluted the waterways" Not particularly, and not compared to non-capitalist societies. "Indigenous people and their traditions and connections remind us of other values." What traditions and connections are those? Ones where they didn't manage to make much of a go of it, and struggled to survive?

[@johnwoodrow8769]

You really think aboriginal people are still running around the bush dressed in a loin cloth chasing kangaroos and goannas for dinner? How condescending as well as naive. You do realise that in 'traditional culture' a woman has about the same social standing as the camp dingo.

[@arkangelgaming35]

The white man uses and abuses the land and nature while the black man uses and abuses the things the white man's intervention brings them like housing, electricity, clean water, healthcare and education... All the while the black man complains that they're owed and deserve more rights than the white man in Australia and the White man is busy blabbing on about climate change but does nothing to help it. Ironic.

[@lookingfortim]

​@Philip Rayment You must be joking to say that capitalist countries are not the ones abusing land in a wanton manner. There is also so much to learn from the recovered Indigenous culture and wisdom that the imperial colonists had tried so hard to erase and ignore.

[@scottr2279]

Most satisfying vid: the cop leg sweeping the Aboriginal eshay.

[@BBA765]

I find welcome to country insulting and to all my family before me. At best the cermony implies that we are just visitors or at its worse invaders; along with an underlying assumption that any welcome can be withdrawn at any time.

[@rainbowcreative5318]

❤❤❤❤

[@yannn213]

because white people are?

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

You are spawn of illegals

[@Luke-so4hv]

European descended people are invaders.

[@MauriceOfInfiniteAtrocities]

Do you believe that western culture didn’t arrive via an invasion? If you don’t like it so much, just ignore it. Not everything is about you.

[@kenlydon1395]

Good on Andrew Bolt for opposing the madness. And I notice he still says “Aboriginal” not indigenous, this is right because aborigines are not indigenous to this continent , they migrated here the same as ALL humans . Anyway why do the Aboriginal people have such respect and honour for their ancestors? In reality they were seriously let down by these ancestors, by not building a nation strong enough to repel the “invaders” which were the British of the day and not a very strong force by modern standards. They claim to have been here for 40000 years surely that was enough time . The aboriginals now have no choice but to admit defeat and work with the modern age to build a nation for Everybody , united we stand divided we fall.

[@davidcole4229]

Andrew - spot on ! We are treated as visitors in our own country. Am over this wokeness!

[@louisreilly4792]

We are visitors and it isn’t our country.

[@IceBreakBottle]

If you think they're welcoming you to Australia you have no idea what it's all about and your ignorance needs to be educated.

[@yellowjacketyesthewaspbuzz8430]

Woke woke wok, everything I don’t like is WOKE

[@lordpolish2727]

@@louisreilly4792 almost everything that is associated with Australia, Australian culture and being “Australian” was built by those “visitors” It is our country as much as it is their country, im over this aboriginal nationalism

[@louisreilly4792]

@@lordpolish2727 what exactly is this “Australian culture” ? you refer to, we have been here for 200 years? There already exists a beautiful culture of art, music and ceremony which far predates us for 40,000 years. Its a culture that has been neglected and i feel like should be more embraced. This is not “aboriginal nationalism” . Get a grip

[@thejedaru1383]

NO to socialism and NO to divisive front of socialism Voice.

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

Spoken like a true Communist

[@Mevlinous]

I dislike the welcome to country. It is performative. If I want to respect the indigenous people of Australia, I’ll do it on my time when I feel the need to, not as some faux religious ceremony.

[@tedda6171]

It’s funny and hypocritical when the Welcome To Country is done by someone with more colonising British DNA than indigenous.

[@maxt7525]

I agree, I am a person of colour and a proud Australian of migrant parents ❤ I love Australia and agree with you 🇦🇺

[@wyattfamily8997]

It's "divisive" and "insulting" and you forgot....EXPENSIVE.

[@peterbrown4943]

I would like to go on record as saying Lydia Thorpe has made me Rascist. I don’t like her.

[@CultureJammin]

Welcome to country isn't welcoming you to Australia, it's welcoming you to the land from the perspective of those who have been here for a long time and have a deep spiritual connection to it. But cool, your grandparents are special too.

[@TheHealthLife]

who gives a shit, people are fkng sick of it.

[@ian9toes]

There’s nothing more retarded than someone welcoming me to a country that I’ve been living in for 20 years before they were born.

[@kaneidareyue7715]

Deep spiritual connection? yet highest rate of incarceration, child abuse and very low life expectancy. There is nothing spiritual about it when you can't even get those right.

[@slatert1222]

I just believe that cultures should be Cultures. If you try to merge two very different Cultures the Aborigine Culture and lets be quite Frankly honest a most British and Celtic Culture then your just left with contrasting ideals and a Blur cultures need to be separate to the be their own thing. If your mates go for gold if your forced to sit through something it just builds resentment

[@TechnoMinarchist]

As individuals they've been here no longer than anyone else who was born here (excepting actual age differences). And that's all that should matter.

[@tb_fifty3]

im no fan of the welcome to country. Why only acknowledge indigenous people, especially when a very good percentage of us whites or non indigenous people were born here. in my family on my dads side you have to go back 7 generations before you get to family that wasn't born here. If they want to do a welcome to country, then play I still call Australia home. We are one nation under one flag.

[@kristiankleemann6963]

You can welcome me to your home but I will never need to be welcomed to my own country and I won’t take it seriously ever.

[@KingofKings-tx6cm]

Thats because you're stupid and deranged

[@joshlock4627]

I served for 20 years (terribly injured) , and dole bludgers get more than me . I know a man who has never worked over 40 years , he gets paid double than me Im sick of the aboriginal industry. We all belong to this country

[@Coastal603]

Well said Bolt, I absolutely agree. I am fed up with being welcomed to my own country and it Must Stop!! It is insulting, divisive and racist. Vote No to the Apartheid Voice!!

[@bananaguard]

White people complaining about racism and apartheid 🤔

[@ZerothAmendment]

Im born in Australia, no need to welcome me into my own home! They can stick their virtue signalling.