Firstly, your opening analogy sucks - Aboriginals are not horses, they are human beings.
If you want a mature debate, you might want to start by not dehumanising Aboriginals and using blatantly disrespectful terminology like “second nations”. You’re only signposting your own agenda. You’re making it clear you don’t like or have respect for Aboriginal people given the reductionist language you’re using. People who are sincere about wanting to help other groups of humans don’t talk down about them like you are. They speak with compassion. Compassion is a big part of the equation when it comes to trying to rebuild the collective self esteem of a people who have been dispossessed of their land and culture and treated like/ spoken about as if they were second class citizens for more than two centuries.
You might also want to read up more on the stolen generation and the history behind it, because the narrative that most of those children were “saved” from abusive homes is inaccurate.
You have still not given one compelling argument as to how the Voice would harm the rest of the population. I mean, you’re comparing an advisory board to the wider population footing the bill so the richest people in society can get tax breaks? Seriously?
Thanks Captain Obvious.
Without you, no one would have realised Aboriginal Australians are not horses! FFS Ute, really? :/
How about addressing the point and not the medium utilised to try and convey said point in a manner someone who's widely acknowledged as stubborn and argumentative, might actually comprehend?
That unfortunately is a perceived side effect when seeking to simplify concepts most adults and even a wide range of kids comprehend.
You can assert whatever you like though, as most, inclusive myself, see Aboriginals as humans, as equals, so kindly shove that false argument where it belongs.
Can you absolutely disprove there was a human race here before the Aboriginal people we know, see as equals, and own as a part of what makes us all Australian?
Are you willing to go out on a limb and discriminate against the original people of this land by disowning them from it?
Have you forgotten there was a time when the land masses were largely a single continent, so there was no requirement for land bridges for immigration?
Talking possibilities, is talking down?
Yet talking fantasy land made-up bullshit is not?
People who are sincere call a spade, a spade!
They refuse to buy into bullshit talk to appease emotional garbage.
You are making assumptions and utilising them to attack/discredit the messenger, as the points made are beyond your ability to discount.
I have listened to the stories of my people who have experienced outback communities and left angered at the wastage by both the government and the aboriginal people's own tribal leaders.
The manner tribal leaders and once again the government have addressed behavioural issues in this modern society also leaves me to this day at a point I wish for the ability to ring heads together until they get it, their selfish approaches are not working for the people or the country.
We vs you and I.
To move forward, there can not be you and I, only we!
You have no idea from the looks of your reply, where I stand and why I stand here.
You might want to get your head out of a book and actually get out into these communities and talk to their people, seeing first-hand the hardship they face daily
Hardships that spawn from evolutionary differences and the resources needed to enable a race to evolve from a tribal, into a modern global society.
Blaming a current generation for the actions of previous generations is not a productive mechanism towards greater compassion and support towards building the esteem of a race's people.
You still fail to comprehend how the current approach only ensures further division between 97% of the population and the Aboriginal people?
