Warren Mundine is a shill who swapped camps to line his own pocket when he couldn't get his way on the other side. We've had hundreds of years of white men deciding the fate and trying to be the voice for First Nations people, and that hasn't exactly worked now has it.I don't see Warren Mundine calling for the scrapping of other independent bodies that advise Parliament like the Foreign Review Board or Infrastructure Australia, he is just pissed and rattling his sabre as he was not selected as one of the 800 delegates the community appointed to the council of Ethnic Communities nor was he part of the Uluru statement from the heart delegation in 2017.
Look into any ethnic group that makes up Australian society and you'll find a background of suffering. The British sent here as convicts suffered. Europeans that migrated here suffered as refugees from WWII. The Vietnamese suffered from the Vietnam war. Yet all those ethnic groups have managed to succeed in Australian society.
a background of suffering vs wholesale genocide, massacres and enslavement in their own homes... a bit of a difference, those migrants were also not denied their freedoms, education, or culture. 90% of those migrants also came to population centres where there were services and opportunities not dust bowl camps set up by successive governments to contain them. How many Indian, Middle East or European migrants are in the NT? If you think activists are on the streets living in these conditions to stir them up, you need your head read mate.
Without getting emotionally involved in this discussion, I'd like to add some facts. Diomac, you say "So no I don't think she's had the same rights and opportunities as me", and I know you use the had word. This is changing and I'll show how. Like you, I'm married to an indigenous woman, and can say from day one, with our children, whenever they identified as indigenous, doors opened. Closing the gap is one whereby medications for my wife and children are heavily subsidised, Aboriginal housing loans whereby a reduced interest rate, plus if the person can prove their background, the Government will match their deposit, dollar for dollar, up to $10,000. My eldest child has just been through the process. Also, throughout school my children were invited to many functions with my youngest child receiving an Aboriginal scholarship in her final year of school. Schools loved it when a child identified as Aboriginal as they would receive increased funding for each child identifying. Now, out of school, my children don't have to pay for any studies from TAFE. Mention they are indigenous, no payment required. My eldest child is employed in the financial field and doing very well. My youngest, when unemployed through COVID, had her own social worker type of person assisting my child and helping my child with employment. There are many more assisting (I won't call them benefits) programs to assist indigenous people in their day to day life, that is not offered to any other group.
What the fuck has ANY of the above got to do with Harley Davidson