What's in it for the government? What's their agenda/profit from this happening?
I don't ask what's in it for the people because like usual, the people get either fucked or fuck all.
When this whole shemozzle kicked off, I was asking myself what it was really about, and now I think I know.
When the First Fleet arrived, if there had been an aboriginal nation here, they could have negotiated with its leaders and worked out a deal that both sides could live with. What they actually found, though, was about 500 distinct tribes that were at one another's throats more often than not. The doctrine of
terra nulius held sway because there was no sovereign nation, not because the colonists didn't think aborigines were people, as the activists like to claim. The idea of "the voice" is to develop and then anoint a leadership group of aborigines who the other aborigines will recognize as their legitimate spokesmen. This group will then negotiate a
treaty with non-aboriginal Australia. If you don't believe this, google the comments the activists have been making.
What will such a treaty look like? Consider that aborigine groups legally own about 20% of Australia, and also receive truckloads of cash and other resources from the taxpayer. The activists clearly want and expect more. How about all of Australia ceded to them and we pay them rent to remain here?
