Nothing to see here, just a bit of truth-telling for a few
Apr 13, 2024 7:56:42 GMT 8
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Post by NFA on Apr 13, 2024 7:56:42 GMT 8
Nothing to see here, just a bit of truth-telling for a few million
Vikki Campion
When the government tells you not to worry, your ears should prick immediately.
When they tell us not to fear a treaty, we should be on the tip of our toes. A treaty, by nature, comes with concessions and entitlements.
Like the Voice, these will be based on a race you believe you are culturally linked to, delivering two classes of citizens in Australia.
In the wake of Victorian proposals to exempt Aboriginal people from paying interest rates, land tax or stamp duty, NSW Premier Chris Minns has stuck in to join the muddy path to treaty. But social media reveals his lead portfolio minister has been busy assuring his Central Coast constituents that this treaty is “nothing controversial”.
Treaty Minister David Harris is telling worried constituents it’s nothing to worry about.
Promoting his treaty policy on Facebook in January 2023, Mr Harris said in reply to people’s comments: “I’ve been working on this for 8 years. Well before Albo.” And: “This is simply a framework for agreeing on service delivery with the stakeholders at the table. Nothing controversial.”
Mr Harris assured them research shows programs delivered to Aboriginal people by Aboriginal-controlled organisations were more successful and provided better value for taxpayers’ money. If that is the case, and you have eight years of research to back it up, why do you require $5m only to hear from Indigenous voices, and why do you need to hire three commissioners on a combined salary of about $1m a year, for two years, to decide on outcomes?
We are back for another round of the Voice, only this time we don’t get a vote.
The job description for the new Aboriginal Affairs Treaty Commissioners signals it will be anything but chill, with the treaty commissioner’s role description revealing goals such as “the role of truth-telling in relation to the pursuit of a Treaty framework”.
Nothing to see here.
According to the job description, key challenges will include “managing and resolving conflict” and “applying trauma-informed approaches to consultation” as they navigate “a crowded policy, reform, and consultation space”.
After the half-billion-dollar exercise in which metropolitan advertising agencies were the only beneficiaries of a collective colonial shaming of people who ended up here as convicts and refugees, we are back for another wave of taxpayer-funded guilt – where sovereignty was never ceded, you don’t own your land, and the Minns ministry is telling us not to worry, it’s “nothing controversial”
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Vikki Campion
When the government tells you not to worry, your ears should prick immediately.
When they tell us not to fear a treaty, we should be on the tip of our toes. A treaty, by nature, comes with concessions and entitlements.
Like the Voice, these will be based on a race you believe you are culturally linked to, delivering two classes of citizens in Australia.
In the wake of Victorian proposals to exempt Aboriginal people from paying interest rates, land tax or stamp duty, NSW Premier Chris Minns has stuck in to join the muddy path to treaty. But social media reveals his lead portfolio minister has been busy assuring his Central Coast constituents that this treaty is “nothing controversial”.
Treaty Minister David Harris is telling worried constituents it’s nothing to worry about.
Promoting his treaty policy on Facebook in January 2023, Mr Harris said in reply to people’s comments: “I’ve been working on this for 8 years. Well before Albo.” And: “This is simply a framework for agreeing on service delivery with the stakeholders at the table. Nothing controversial.”
Mr Harris assured them research shows programs delivered to Aboriginal people by Aboriginal-controlled organisations were more successful and provided better value for taxpayers’ money. If that is the case, and you have eight years of research to back it up, why do you require $5m only to hear from Indigenous voices, and why do you need to hire three commissioners on a combined salary of about $1m a year, for two years, to decide on outcomes?
We are back for another round of the Voice, only this time we don’t get a vote.
The job description for the new Aboriginal Affairs Treaty Commissioners signals it will be anything but chill, with the treaty commissioner’s role description revealing goals such as “the role of truth-telling in relation to the pursuit of a Treaty framework”.
Nothing to see here.
According to the job description, key challenges will include “managing and resolving conflict” and “applying trauma-informed approaches to consultation” as they navigate “a crowded policy, reform, and consultation space”.
After the half-billion-dollar exercise in which metropolitan advertising agencies were the only beneficiaries of a collective colonial shaming of people who ended up here as convicts and refugees, we are back for another wave of taxpayer-funded guilt – where sovereignty was never ceded, you don’t own your land, and the Minns ministry is telling us not to worry, it’s “nothing controversial”
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