> Of late, Labor is far too focused on Aboriginal Australia, ahead of
> anything else -- other things are there, but the emphasis with every
> major event is to go way over the top for Aborigine people; I think this
> is a huge mistake.
> Australia is much, much more than one group of people.
The "Aboriginal problem" is a tricky one. Back to that in a moment.
I have a younger generation growing up now, and sometimes all that "identity stuff" goes a bit over my head.
Yep, I do not condone violence against woman, or racial discrimination, or against queer people (sorry, cannot remember the LBT.. AOL[abbreviation overload]).
However, I sometimes think: While we are screaming at each other, at men or "white people" or whatever (stereotyping "grumpy old white men" and I guess I am one of them;-)
We do not act together where we need us, e.g. to get our daily bread. Wages stagnating? Who would have thought it would happen when everybody bargains for him/herself only, and have actually next to no tools for support?
That happened while we are otherwise occupied. Who knows why we have a 888 monument in the CBD, and how it happened? Not because Australians were just nice and were obsessed with their mortgages only.
Us&Them is a good way of dividing people. There is always somebody else you can scream at, be mad at, feel they get more than you do, and you are fighting the bikeriders and left-handed people, instead of coming together and work for a better future.
To the "Aboriginal problem".. well, something needs to be done, I am not happy with the state they are in. But there is a bit of hubris when I would suggest white people are the ones solving it.
A national body with real influence is needed, I think. But there you have to deal with the mining lobby, and as you can see with all the coal nonsense, they are powerful. They have most of the money from the boom that the Norwegian put into their future fund instead..
https://www.nbim.no/ ,
Without them, and a bit dreaming;-) I would suggest to have an Aboriginal Electorate and a chamber of parliament, and the head of this chamber is our representing president, custodian of the land and replacing the Queen who shouldn't have a role here (besides of it is okay to pay an old lady some hush money to stay out of politics, this way avoiding stupid presidents;-)
This land could do with some better looking after the country. We white men make a bit of a hash of it.
That would be my preferred way for a republic.
> The other major problem with Labor, as I see it, they are too inclined to support the far
> right's extreme agenda of total surveillance an other machinations of war (against the people of Au and others).
+1.