Posted on 08/27/2022 9:37:42 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Former US basketball star Shaquille O'Neal will help Australia's new government implement reforms for an Indigenous voice to parliament, Prime Minister Anthony Albanese said on Saturday (Aug 27) said, standing alongside NBA Hall of famer.
Albanese’s centre-left Labor Party government is seeking a referendum, needed to change the constitution, on recognising Indigenous people in the constitution and mandating consultation with them on decisions that affect their lives.
Details on the so-called Indigenous voice to parliament will follow the national referendum on the question, which the government wants to hold in the parliament’s current term.
(Excerpt) Read more at asiaone.com ...
.....’It’s a huge problem but the figures are difficult to assess,’ Dr Grieve-Williams said....
It’s a policy for the deplorables.
The Public Service and Academia will never rat out the rule breakers among them
You would not believe the photos...I could not find them. But of lily white Australians with minute abo ancestry getting affirmative action benefits.
https://unz.com/isteve/australian-aboriginal-population-grow-25-in-a-half-decade/
Somewhere out there, there is an interview with Shaq where he's asked about why NBA defenses were having so many problems with the Lakers' offense. He replied something to the effect of, "our offense is like the Pythagorean theorem, there is no answer!"
That said, I've always found him likeable. I once had a brief encounter with him. One night, decades ago, I was the military police duty officer (MPDO) on Yongsan Garrison (at the time, the big US military base in Seoul). I got a call from the MP at the front gate just saying there was a VIP with no access media. I headed over and it was Shaq who was somehow under the illusion that being an American citizen entitled him to access to a US military installation. I kindly explained to him that wasn't the case any more than it would be to a closed post in the US. He was polite and didn't play the, "do you know who I am?" game. I pointed him to the Itaewon entertainment district and told him that he'd likely have no problem finding a GI willing to sign him onto post as a guest. He thanked me, took off and that was that.
Really! Makes you wonder why any of us that do things the “right way”...should continue to do things the “right way”.
Let’s all just cheat.
Don’t need to it’s the token era.
He handled the situation with good listening and good manners. That’s how it should always be, especially in a foreign land.
I don’t think they have been too successful in adapting to twenty-first century life.
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I watched several interviews and live videos from the tribal lands during the Aussie attempts to lock down the Aboriginals during Covid. I saw ubiquitous cell phones and it was obvious they were organized.
There are quite a few mixed Aboriginals. Many of these are in political office. Some are attorneys.
I was only in the Outback of Australia once, in 1976. Went again in 2000, but stuck to the cities due to time constraints. In the cities, I saw Aboriginals mixed in with everyone else. In the touristy areas of the Outback (surrounding Alice Springs), the Aboriginal artwork was a prime attraction. I have one large one and it was done with acrylic paint on bark, still doing great after all this time. Several of the expensive, trendy restaurants use traditional elements in their menus.
The thing is, from what we could tell as tourists, they have a deep connection to their lands. There was a lot of guilt evident when white Australians discussed the treatment of the tribal people in regard to those lands.When we were there, Uluru was still officially Ayers Rock and we were even able to so into some of the important caverns, such as the one for giving birth. DH climbed it. I don’t think either is still allowed by the Tribal Councils.
I believe that while some have adapted and succeeded in white society, many still prefer the traditional life and even more move back and forth between them.
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