Australia

[bossy]

Another country where racists seem to be the majority. The fuckers are everywhere. A sad day for the Aboriginal people.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/14/indigenous-australians-grapple-with-gut-wrenching-result-but-pledge-to-keep-fighting?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

[Bruce Spanner]

Absolutely bizarre.

[Harry's Lad]

Shameful.

[Creator Supreme]

21st century people, 19th century attitudes!

[Bjornebye]

Saw a lot of it when I went there. Aborigines in the towns treated like absolute shite. Try telling an Aussie that he’s the immigrant …… they don’t like it one bit. Well some, most are sound. The biggest bellends are usually Aussies that come over here. Same with South Africans. They need everyone to know where they’re from. Suppose some bad over exaggerated scousers are the same. The worlds chocker full of cunts 

[Harry Squatter]

Saw the daily mail headline on this story calling the PM "woke" and that he almost caused their Brexit. Whatever the fuck that means. 

[VladimirIlyich]

What lies did they use to disguise their racist intentions? 

[Chip Butty]

Read this earlier. The weighting of how the votes required to carry the motion looked as anti the motion as anything else.

 

we can talk tho, we voted for Brexit ffs! 

[sh#t waffle]

I lived in Sydney 20 years ago and as much as I loved it, I always felt it was the most overtly racist major city I'd ever been to. It was one of the reasons my now wife left, and it was one of the main reasons we never pulled the trigger on moving back (until now).

[Red Shift]

Nothing has changed since The Chant Of Jimmy Blacksmith

[VladimirIlyich]

30 minutes ago, Chip Butty said:

Read this earlier. The weighting of how the votes required to carry the motion looked as anti the motion as anything else.

 

we can talk tho, we voted for Brexit ffs! 

You may have voted for Brexit,I certainly didn't.

[Chip Butty]

5 hours ago, VladimirIlyich said:

You may have voted for Brexit,I certainly didn't.

We the people, voted for it. Whether you or I voted for it individually, is tragically neither here nor there. 

[razor]

In Australia, racism isn't individual or small group actions, it is woven into the cultural fabric of the nation.

 

For such a great nation, it is an eternal shame that they are about 20 years behind countries like New Zealand and, though to a lesser degree, Canada.

 

In that sense, it is certainly more aligned to America.  Interestingly, the race issue in America focuses on the Afro-American and the Hispanic populations much more than it does on First Nation peoples.

[CapeRed]

15 hours ago, bossy said:

Another country where racists seem to be the majority. The fuckers are everywhere. A sad day for the Aboriginal people.

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/oct/14/indigenous-australians-grapple-with-gut-wrenching-result-but-pledge-to-keep-fighting?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

Ah the guardian , that bastion of fair reporting. This was a referendum that many people felt was short on a lot of important detail and they were being asked to vote yes and the details would be sorted out later. I wonder how many of you would vote for something which appeared to be short on some important detail. 

[CapeRed]

12 hours ago, Harry Squatter said:

Saw the daily mail headline on this story calling the PM "woke" and that he almost caused their Brexit. Whatever the fuck that means. 

You expect different wording from the Daily Mail ?

[Jose Jones]

38 minutes ago, CapeRed said:

Ah the guardian , that bastion of fair reporting. This was a referendum that many people felt was short on a lot of important detail and they were being asked to vote yes and the details would be sorted out later. I wonder how many of you would vote for something which appeared to be short on some important detail. 

Yes the lack of detail allowed the opposition room to fill in the gaps with bespoke lies and fear-mongering for all different types of people.

Pretty naive politics really.

 

Although that being said, I still can’t believe the margin of the result. Will go down as a shameful moment in the country’s history.

 

[CapeRed]

30 minutes ago, Jose Jones said:

Yes the lack of detail allowed the opposition room to fill in the gaps with bespoke lies and fear-mongering for all different types of people.

Pretty naive politics really.

 

Although that being said, I still can’t believe the margin of the result. Will go down as a shameful moment in the country’s history.

 

I don’t believe that people don’t want the gap closed and to see a positive change . A change that was proposed such as this needed a lot more information behind it. I struggle to understand what the gov is doing with the almost $40 billion a year allocated for aboriginal affairs.

[Anubis]

Never ceases to amaze me that, even with the history of the last century and a half, there are still loads of people who will happily keep their foot on the necks of others because of their ethnicity.

[Anubis]

Of course, the real question is how can we blame this on Carvalho Diablo?

[Section_31]

Where did Murdock start his media empire? Oh wait...

[Mudface]

3 hours ago, CapeRed said:

Ah the guardian , that bastion of fair reporting. This was a referendum that many people felt was short on a lot of important detail and they were being asked to vote yes and the details would be sorted out later. I wonder how many of you would vote for something which appeared to be short on some important detail. 

 

About 52% it seems.

[CapeRed]

12 minutes ago, Mudface said:

 

About 52% it seems.

I feel your pain 

[YorkshireRed]

57 minutes ago, Anubis said:

Of course, the real question is how can we blame this on Carvalho Diablo?

It’s all down to the lack of peas. 

[Fugitive]

Criminal immigrants imposing their beliefs and oppressing the native population. 
 

If only they could have stopped the boats.

[Moo]

5 hours ago, CapeRed said:

Ah the guardian , that bastion of fair reporting. This was a referendum that many people felt was short on a lot of important detail and they were being asked to vote yes and the details would be sorted out later. I wonder how many of you would vote for something which appeared to be short on some important detail. 

 

Out of interest what details were missing, in terms of the consequences of a vote in favour?