Vic Lidia Thorpe: Not the subject for every thread!

[Gethelred]

Seeing as Lidia discussion is cropping up across multiple threads, let's have us a thread for people who want to discuss her contribution to Australian politics.

It should go without saying but seeing as she's a bit of a beacon for controversy - for a variety of reasons - let's just remind ourselves what the board rules are around racism and sexism, shall we?

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Go nuts.

 

[HairyO]

Gotta love Bolt, 3AW listeners and all the other conservatives getting all upset and offended on the King's behalf over this. Calling for her to be chucked out and all that. The same people that complain about other people being offended on behalf of others.

I guarantee you Charles could not give a fat frog's arse about her outburst. I mean really.

Play on, it will all be forgotten in a few weeks.

But enjoy your little outrage for now if it makes you feel better.

Given he has had a nutjob rush at him with a gun he probably is quite okay with a few naughty words.

Fahey did a pretty good job that day.

The big pity is instead of serious issues being discussed we are instead focussing on a "WHATABOUTME" individual.

 

[Sphynx]

Hypotheticals don't count tho. This is a real situation we need to deal with. Or at least acknowledge.

I know people who won't reveal their grandparents diaries cos of how it makes them look and because they're on multigenerational farm land. They won't even talk about them most of the time. We live in a country with places named Murdering Gully, Murdering Creek, Black Shoot Gully, Poisoned Waterhole Creek and so many more. Talking about how hypothetically it could have been worse misses the point.

Talking about how the crown has an enormous debt is true (not just to blackfellas either, to whitefellas too across the last 250 years,) but so do we in modern Australia. Until we acknowledge that and act on it properly we're behaving like colonists and visitors. Not owning who we are, where we live and what we've done.

"We're just here to wreck the place and leave it all behind." That's how the T-Bones described it decades ago. Surely as a nation we should be capable of better.

I just answered your hypothetical with another hypothetical.

In fairness, what does “act on it properly” even mean?

We’ve had a Prime Minister stand up and apologies in Parliament in the last 15 years. We’ve had sweeping reforms to aboriginal land rights over the last 40 years. We’ve had multiple royal commissions into social issues regarding indigenous Australians. We’ve expanded opportunity in the last 10 years to the point it’s never been a better time to be indigenous in this country in terms of access to employment, health, schooling, a home.

We just had a referendum and whether you agree with it or not, not all indigenous Australians were for it (most vocal, the person titled in this thread). But it was an example of the issue being front of mind to the point we’d spend tens of millions of dollars doing a democratic process to discuss it.

So act on properly is simply, Treaty? That nobody knows what it even means other than a from a philosophical point of view?

And in regards to the other point, I’m sorry, “we’ve” not done anything. It’s completely unfair to call the rest of Australians colonizers and hold them directly responsible for those deeds 250 years ago.

 

[Ghost Patrol]

We just had a referendum and whether you agree with it or not, not all indigenous Australians were for it (most vocal, the person titled in this thread). But it was an example of the issue being front of mind to the point we’d spend tens of millions of dollars doing a democratic process to discuss it.

Pretty sure Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine were more vocal than Lidia Thorpe.

But don't let that ruin your narrative.