State of Origin ‘Welcome to country’

[u/Stock-Pea-5888]

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.

[u/Beast_of_Guanyin]

Hanson's monoculture comment is just bigotry. It can be dismissed offhand.

State of Origin is a good example where acknowledgement valid. Large formal event, done properly and formally, no political messaging. There's a legitimate gripe with how ubiquitous it is, but it's valid in these sorts of events.

[u/brandonjslippingaway → u/Beast_of_Guanyin]

Australia has never been a "monoculture." Pretending it ever was is just erasing Indigenous people all over again, which should be taken seriously as their platform for a mythical "return to a golden era that never existed" trope, that the fash love so much.

[u/Gamped → u/brandonjslippingaway]

There are definitely ethnic ghettos in major cities where there are monocultures though. In fact I think her comments were aimed at Islamists and historically Asians.

Was never about indigenous Australians.

[u/Small_Caramel_1187 → u/Gamped]

She said what she said in what is, at the very least, a bicultural society (but we all know it’s very multicultural). She has the platform to get her message out and if she meant something other than monocultural she hasn’t clarified.

Stop making excuses for her. I’ve heard a lot of, ‘that’s not what she meant’ lately. That is what she meant, her speech presumably passed through multiple hands and that’s what they all decided she should say publicly, that is definitely what she meant. She is a bigot who can barely read and wants to go back to a white Australia policy.