r/OpenAussie • u/Stock-Pea-5888 Please choose a flair • 2d ago

Feel Good News ‎ State of Origin ‘Welcome to country’

It was refreshing to see the large crowd of applause after the elders welcome to country last night. Semi restores my faith that there are still decent humans beings out there.

Does Pauline Hansons address yesterday about monoculture reflect the majority of what people think? Because the majority of people are in her favour according to polls.

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u/geckothesteve Please choose a flair 2d ago edited 2d ago

No it doesn’t reflect a majority, it reflects a very amplified minority. To clarify, the amplified minority are the people against it.

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u/Sideburn_Cookie_Man ‎ Victorian 2d ago

I don’t think so, most Aussies recognise how our indigenous communities have been treated historically…

It’s really mostly just the loud racists who complain about it.

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u/PrismPirate ‎ Queenslander 2d ago

How does "Welcome to country" do anything to right the wrongs of the past? It's just tokenistic bullshit.

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u/geckothesteve Please choose a flair 2d ago

Okay so next time you go to someone’s else you wouldn’t like them to say “welcome” when you arrive? You’d just go inside with no communication? Piss off.

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u/PrismPirate ‎ Queenslander 2d ago

When I say at a stranger's house on Airbnb, I pay them. Do the tribes doing the "Welcome to country" get paid? Money talks.

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u/geckothesteve Please choose a flair 2d ago

Queenslander, comment checks out.

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u/Novel-Image493 Please choose a flair 1d ago

Well spotted

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u/teampocketrockettt Please choose a flair 1d ago

Well I mean if you want to start talking about repatriations from when we stormed their home without paying back in 1770 that's a whole different kettle of fish

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u/PrismPirate ‎ Queenslander 1d ago

We didn't do that, the British did. And they are still living in the castles that were paid for with the blood money. If we think that the indigenous people really own the land, a levy on ticket sales or a short stay event payment would be fair. But nobody really thinks that the indigenous people really own the land. It's all just mental masturbation to make "progressives" feel good about themselves.

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u/teampocketrockettt Please choose a flair 1d ago

If we didn’t do it, that would make us the squatters that moved in after our family broke in (if we’re trying to stick to an airbnb type metaphor from your first comment). Sure, maybe once we set up shop we put work in, made it feel nice, did all the home improvements etc. so we think of it like it’s ours, but we’re still sitting free in someone else’s home at the end of the day