This guy is 100% correct - and this applies to New Zealand too.
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Very well said. Even more so considering his handicap. We should immediately grant him honorary citizenship.
Could be wrong but pretty sure this is Alex Antic, Liberal senator for South Australia
spot on.
If I go to a marae for a wedding or funeral of a friend of Maori descent - I will happily sit through Waiata and Karakia. it is appropriate in these settings and a manifestation of my friends and their families culture.
But the constant bs done at every other event or building opening, or in the case of government at the start of leadership talks to the troops and even at the start of some bog standard meetings is just not appropriate and is basically demeaning to non Maori.
I have courted trouble by not participating, refusing to say karakia at starts of meetings etc. I wont be bullied
I encourage everyone to use the most powerful word in the English language when confronted by cultural and psuedo-religious practices in the workplace where the organisation demands you participate - just say NO.
My response would be: You may have been here first, but you didn't make Australia the great country that it is. Enjoy it, be grateful and thank us.
Where did all the current maori protocal twaddle come from anyway? I seem to recall reading that it was developed in and came from isolated backward maori communities in the norther BOP and East Cape area. Some may be pre Treaty but little pre missionary.
What irks me is the self importance of many of the low acheiver no bodies reciting the incantations.
Superb. This is why, if endorsed, the Voice would be so destructive. My comments on the Voice have been published under the article on This matter.
NZ has become a poster child for grievance and destruction. This is lose/lose. The Australian Aborigines/ Torres Strait Islanders and all other Australians do not need to follow this route. Please may they -each in their own way but all as Australians- make their futures a win/win.
As an aside: in terms of a country with an ugly 20th century past that has and still is working to create a positive future, refer to Germany. It does not deny its 20th century history but it is growing through it, with all the curved balls it gets thrown along the way. ( Fact: Hitter’s pigeon hole in the Reichstag is still there because to remove it would betray history. )
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