Hi Andrew,
On Thu, Apr 5, 2018 at 10:58 PM Andrew McGlashan via luv-talk <
luv-talk(a)luv.asn.au> wrote:
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.
Cheers
Peter