Forced ‘modern-day prayer’ should be updated or zoomed away
Jul 14, 2024 12:31:37 GMT 8
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Post by NFA on Jul 14, 2024 12:31:37 GMT 8
Forced ‘modern-day prayer’ should be updated or zoomed away
Vikki Campion
We have a farce where an acknowledgment of country is a modern-day prayer before parliament, council, radio national and now every Zoom meeting. And one politician is finally calling it out.
Not in the national parliament or even a state parliament, but in a regional city council chamber on the mid-north coast of NSW by an outgoing mayor brave enough to say what so many think.
Mayor Peta Pinson, of Port Macquarie-Hastings, is taking a significant step by proposing an official change to the acknowledgment, aiming to include veterans and migrants in the recognition.
Considering we are now acknowledging people who have not fully emerged, then surely people who fought for our country and defended the nation should feature.
People would be miffed if everyone was forced to hold hands to say the Lord’s Prayer before every Zoom meeting. Yet now we have to be silent as the contrived prattle is issued with a sombre thousand-yard-stare, as a person who has not lived as an Aboriginal, says in English, a statement
conceived in the 1980s.
Since we contrived it, let’s make it totally appropriate for 2024.
Aboriginal ancestors? Tick.
People who have died to protect our nation so we can have this meeting? Tick.
What about people who spent their whole lives volunteering for charity or first responders, such as police, ambulance and fire and rescue?
It’s a pretty short acknowledgment of country when your house is burning down.
Let’s acknowledge the people who pay the most tax, who fund the roads and schools and hospitals.
Authentic representations of Aboriginal Australia should be celebrated and preserved, and NAIDOC Week is a great celebration of this in my area, but these ridiculous new age prayers broadcast from Ultimo only reek of pretence.
Vikki Campion
We have a farce where an acknowledgment of country is a modern-day prayer before parliament, council, radio national and now every Zoom meeting. And one politician is finally calling it out.
Not in the national parliament or even a state parliament, but in a regional city council chamber on the mid-north coast of NSW by an outgoing mayor brave enough to say what so many think.
Mayor Peta Pinson, of Port Macquarie-Hastings, is taking a significant step by proposing an official change to the acknowledgment, aiming to include veterans and migrants in the recognition.
Considering we are now acknowledging people who have not fully emerged, then surely people who fought for our country and defended the nation should feature.
People would be miffed if everyone was forced to hold hands to say the Lord’s Prayer before every Zoom meeting. Yet now we have to be silent as the contrived prattle is issued with a sombre thousand-yard-stare, as a person who has not lived as an Aboriginal, says in English, a statement
conceived in the 1980s.
Since we contrived it, let’s make it totally appropriate for 2024.
Aboriginal ancestors? Tick.
People who have died to protect our nation so we can have this meeting? Tick.
What about people who spent their whole lives volunteering for charity or first responders, such as police, ambulance and fire and rescue?
It’s a pretty short acknowledgment of country when your house is burning down.
Let’s acknowledge the people who pay the most tax, who fund the roads and schools and hospitals.
Authentic representations of Aboriginal Australia should be celebrated and preserved, and NAIDOC Week is a great celebration of this in my area, but these ridiculous new age prayers broadcast from Ultimo only reek of pretence.