If he had done so it would be promoted to hell and back by the NRL to garner any goodwill they can at the moment.Do you know for a fact he hasn’t visited remote towns? Or doesn’t plan to do so?
He should do this, he should do that..... he doesn’t need you telling him what he should or shouldn’t do
I think I see your point- that this form of protest only exacerbates the low self esteem mentality that leads to self destructive and negative behaviour patterns, but there’s a reverse school of thought that angry people fuming about Indigenous people who are in a position to speak exercising their freedoms and telling those who have found success how they should help their communities exacerbates these behaviour patterns in itself.
He’s not handing anyone a bottle or a crack pipe, he’s expressing his point of view and getting a bee in your bonnet about it is no more constructive than you think his behaviour is.
Nobody is ever going to convince anybody to adopt a more reconciliatory attitude by yelling at them or talking down to them.... it’s high time we had a proper dialogue about this rather than trying to talk over indigenous people who do have a voice.
Wgat eould be the big issue about considering a new anthem that is more representative of Australia today? The vast majority of Australians don’t even know the second verse anyway. It only seems to be precious to a lot of people when others question it.
I don't want to talk over anyone and definitely not yelling at him, my disgust and anger goes way past that from what I've seen in the outback there honestly needs to be a full blown intervention again but the government is to soft to take the route of another stolen generation as it would be seen. Do we just want to keep allowing child rape and prostitution in a first world country? which really is the better option? They have been offered every kind of help and step up in life there is possibly available and that could be created for them and still no positive change.
Sure I shouldn't be telling him what to do he's his own man, but he is in a position to actually do something positive for once and should be out there doing it. That's what annoys me the most, he can affect some actual change in these communities with the young fellas that its not okay to get blind and bash your misses and when we've got their last hero in the public eye doing just that with no repercussions what example does that set? we need the most positive influence we can have.
I surely hope Walker or Mitchell don't end up with alcohol issues or domestic assault charges, it's the most tiring circle.
What's representative of Australia today? Australia is still largely a white British descent population. Do we go with majority rules like a democracy? or try to keep everyone happy? We can't keep everyone happy. We never will, its a pointless and resource wasting exercise personally I don't want the song changed. The media running stories like this instead of continual child rape and neglect shows how twisted this world is and how wrong our priorities are. Changing a song wont change anything, focus on the real issues.
Same people who take offence to Captain Cook, just a world class surveyor. Like he had anything to do with establishment and ruling law of the land.