• Nonameuser678@aussie.zone
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    1 year ago

    In their defence the moment an Indigenous leader engages in anything other than peace, love, and harmony rhetoric they are treated as an ‘angry black’ and taken less seriously. It’s a damned if you do, damned if you don’t type situation.

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      1 year ago

      Yeah, you’re right. It’s easy for me to type it on a keyboard, and totally different living it.

      I’m half frustrated and half in despair that I just can’t see a way forward. With the way the Voice campaign went, my god, just imagining the level of FUD around a treaty hurts.

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        Honestly I’m a pretty cynical person but even I overestimated how ready Australia was to discuss these issues. Misinformation certainly played a role in how things played out but I can’t help but think there wasn’t already quite fertile ground within our culture for it to grow. I personally think if people couldn’t really get behind the voice then treaty is going to be very tough.