A majority of Australians say Welcome to Country ceremonies are divisive and should be abandoned at public events

Senator McCarthy and the other members of the First Nations caucus, as you call yourselves, I do understand and respect that you are asking for respect as Australians. All One Nation, and the rest of the Australian people, wants is the same respect back—that is, that we are still part of this nation, that we are people who are born here and people who have migrated here. We also want acknowledgement and respect of this nation. To be constantly told, ‘This is not your land,’ or ‘Always was, always will be Aboriginal land,’ you are disenfranchising me and many other Australians.

The welcome to country was not culture or tradition; it was actually introduced into Australia by Ernie Dingo in the seventies in relation to New Zealand having the haka. Welcome to country has not been a tradition of this parliament and was only introduced in the last few years. This is not a stunt that I’ve pulled just this week. I have turned my back on it for the past three years. I am acknowledging the Australian people who voted against the Voice. They don’t want the division that is happening in our country. They are fed up with welcome to country. They want to see an end to it. People don’t want to arrive on a plane in every state across this nation and get a welcome to country. They don’t want this division.

We have seen land handed back. We’ve seen Australians stopped from going to certain places in this country because they are not welcome there. This is their land. They can’t go to Mount Warning or the Grampians. They can’t go to certain parts. They can’t do the things that every Australian should be entitled to. We are treated totally differently in many areas.

I understand the demise of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people. I’ve visited their communities. I’ve spoken to them. You haven’t got the support of every Aboriginal for welcome to country. A lot of them out there have contacted me and said: ‘We are over it as well. We don’t want this division in our nation.’ It’s a stance that I’ve taken to speak up on behalf of those Australian people who don’t want this division.

I don’t want to have to do this, but the fact is that I am actually speaking up on behalf of the people who don’t know how else to protest this. It’s dividing us as a nation and as a people. I’ve said this right from the very beginning, when I came into parliament in 1996. My first statement was on equality for all Australians. But we’re being treated totally differently. It doesn’t matter whether it’s education, jobs, welfare—whatever it is. There is no definition of Aboriginality. A lot of people claim to be an Aboriginal of this nation when they’re not, because they can just say it. That needs to change.

As I’ve said before, and I will say it again, when you recognise and respect us and say that we accept you as our equals in this nation, that we are all Australians together—I never hear it. What protest do you hear when the Australian flag is burnt in protest? Why should that be allowed? That is not right. I’ve seen protests from Aboriginal people. I’ve seen the racism that has been thrown at me. I dare to raise issues and call for equality—so I’m supposedly the racist in this nation because I question things. That’s not racism. Racism means that you believe your race to be superior to another. I have never ever indicated that at all. I question. All I have ever questioned is equality for all Australians, and I will stand by that.

I am the one who has gone to these communities and come back to see the minister for aboriginal affairs. I have advocated for jobs for the people at Uluru, Ayers Rock. I have advocated for housing up in North Queensland, at Bamaga. I have advocated for a lot of issues to do with Aboriginal people and the corruption that is going on within these communities—land councils and everything like that. I’ve advocated for these people. A lot of Aboriginals come to me— (Time expired)

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  1. Hi Old Bloke Pauline and Malcolm Roberts are angling more towards the 75 per cent of Australia under claim or granted. Ed

  2. Commenter puffin billy is on the right track ( pun unavoidable )
    There are big mobs of frauds around now, this was most famously globalised by joos who are not Hebrew and not even Judaist, what is a joo, in some cases it’s just something you want to identify with, perhaps for business or social advantage.
    If you are only 1/4 Hebrew it’s time for your kids to let it go. Our ruling elite bluebloods don’t care much about race, they are all obsessed with marrying cousins or marrying up. “Joo” and “Anti-semite” are phoney words, deliberately misconstrued by manipulators such as politicians. The latest on board are fake aborigines and fake women, ie. men who like to dress as women, aka impostors. Words have always been stolen and repurposed but it’s happening faster these days I think. Look how they are trying to convert BC to BCE and Anno Domini to Christian Era. What’s wrong with Anno Domini and learning a bit of Latin here and there. Commoners are not allowed Latin they are to remain stoopid. In Asia it is Buddha Era (BE), year 2500 something. The end result is that the search engine only finds the newly crafted material and will overlook the old authentic material if you use their new “BCE” notation. Repurposing of words is often a deliberate fraud coming out of various think tanks. It starts off as a joke and it ends up very successfully mutilating logic. Now we have a bunch of people who may think they will “find themselves” by changing from a white male loser to an aborigine woman and getting a government office job. They said 17% of jobs now are government jobs and these are generally full-time while non-government employment is calculated by the new (2000 AD) Globalist Standard of 1 hour per week = employed. Perhaps government jobs calculated by hours is more like 25% or 30%. [ Can’t include compliance hours because off topic ]

  3. The sad thing is, this division in our country has never been about race, it’s about money, and the money is Not going where it is needed. The money is only feeding corporate agitators. The land supposedly given back to the aboriginal people has actually been stolen from them and us. It is now under government control.
    Local Councils are stealing from their communities by charging a minimum of $5000 to have an “aboriginal ” person check your yard for oyster shells or artefacts before you can put in a pool or renovate. They are also reluctant to touch our kerb drains for the same reason. I guess they are working on how they can charge for that inspection!
    Pauline has always called for a fair go for all Australians. I agree with her and Barnaby that dual citizens should Not be in our parliament. I would also like to see, that if a person is in Parliament, “calling themselves aboriginal”, they should have to prove that they have at least 50% of that dna. And if they are claiming they belong to a particular tribe, prove it!
    What I have said is not racist. I’m just sick and tired of the lies we are being fed and all those self-serving people jumping on the gravy-train.

  4. As per my last comment on ‘Uncle Colin’, Greeks have distinct noses, so do Aboriginals though I admit that they vary, usually to do with racial mixing…after what I have written about Colin, it should not be hard to pull up a video or picture of him…Is that nose of his more Greek like or Aboriginal like? Very Greek IMO. With a Scottish father what are the odds?

    I might be wrong but my memory is adamant I am right. How often do Aboriginals run a plastering business? I mean no disrespect but I saw only one Aboriginal carpenter during my work life, great bloke, good carpenter he was too, was my boss for few weeks, none as stonemasons, forklift drivers, truck drivers, none in the event/party hire industry, none working emptying containers. Honestly it was very rare to come across one but I have to mention my Aboriginal mate George, by a country mile too, was the hardest worker I ever came across. Is the only bloke I couldn’t work as hard as or harder than in my whole life but I was working at it, the fitness for it (We had incentive, we made more money the harder we worked after reaching a quota for our minimum wage, was good money for shitty job but also physically hardest job that I did).

    If Colin really is aboriginal then he is the first plasterer and the very first business owner in any of the trades that I have known in my life that was Aboriginal…what are the odds?

    Around here the aboriginal kids role models are the older jailbirds…or their ‘elders’ hanging around the Bus stop/Train station area every day, drinking/on drugs, starting fights and generally running amok, and that is at just 10am. These are not kids mind you!

    In my eight years here I have seen two young kids, they were 11 then, turn into monstrous young men involved in stabbings in car jackings, raping an elderly lady in front of her husband, arson…This all started when they were 11! Everyone failed those kids EXPECIALLY THE COURTS. LOCK THEM UP FOR GOOD! These kids were at the cop station just about every day being charged and let go, only to face court and get another slap on the wrist!

    ORDO-AB-CHAO! It is on purpose.

  5. When I watch the AFL Grand Final on the Tel-Lie-Vision I start yelling and swearing before the game even begins…It is quite bloody personal for me watching that heroin addicted clown who used to run his own plastering business to fund his habit, who used to live next door when I was a teenager/in my early 20’s, scam the entire nation with his bullshit! We were friends the entire time but I don’t think so so much now. If he reads this, he knows EXACTLY who I am. G’day Colin! (Never calling you uncle).

    I remember ‘Uncle Colin’, no one ever called him that, he showed me a picture of him at his wedding in a Scottish Kilt. He told me his father was Scottish and his mother…GREEK! I also remember that he spent time in the city, he said he knew the Wurunjeri. My niece’s father is part aboriginal, so this isn’t an issue of racism at all! Colin has a son, Colin Jnr, who is blonde, blue eyed, much like my dark haired, darker skinned Greek mates kid (Who could speak both English and Greek before he was 3! He had a good Dad who wanted him to be able to talk to his grandparents), who’s mother is blonde and blue eyed. Somewhere, somehow, the story has changed to where he is a Wurunjeri Elder.

    All I see is a scamming heroin addict. Scamming the nation. There are too many of these infiltrators pretending aboriginal ancestry, no one makes them prove it.

  6. Hi Rope you must sit by your computer assiduosly every hour of the day to be able to always get first or second cab off the rank for comments. Ed

  7. I don’t follow the legal manipulations closely at all but from what little I’ve seen I can believe all the aboriginie stuff is slanted towards a UN takeover where by means of UNDRIP etc the whole backyard ends up being run from Swissyland, no wonder Glencore is sniffing around everywhere now, what is Swissy expected to do with all the money except generate more

  8. No need to get all fizzed up and furious; the Ricky Wong-Kathy Freeman skit still rules:
    ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uiByMs3i868

  9. I was indirectly listening to one of those welcomes recently and I picked up a maori accent much like a voice I heard in a Gang of Youths song where they played with a NZ orchestra many years ago.

  10. As an economically competant country/nation, Aboriginal Australia cannot compete with anything greater than itself, and cannot financially sustain itself without the education needed and previous experience of the whites that have embedded themselves into Australian culture and economic development. Left to their own devices, without help, they would devolve back into tribal living and customs. ‘Taking back country’ is absurd and will never lead to sustained growth that is useful and competitive in this existing civilized world.
    It is time for the aboriginal people to wake up and realize that what happened was always going to happen, one way or another, and they should enter in and enjoy the opportunities that would come their way if they applauded civilized living to the fullness that it requires.
    Failure to wake up and allowing communist government to run their show will eventually lead to their own demise as greedy government figures rob them of all that they could be having and creating.
    Embracing the future as a civilized race is the way to go to enhance life for your future generations.
    Accepting handouts and living in family violence, not rising up out of needing police and community control, and not entering into desiring civilized education and practices and living as Christians receiving the blessings of God, is holding you all down and destroying your opportunities for better living.
    You should all be already risen up into wealth and prosperity, living very high standards, and enjoying your lives to the full, without needing to constantly be held up as needing support. You could still go on walkabouts and enjoy your ancient culture as part of your lives, but without rising up into the world of civilized countries, you cripple the lives of your future generations.

  11. Gil says…
    ” It is not and never was a tradition issue”
    A traditional “welcome to country” would involve having your skull cracked with a nulla-nulla, or being speared in the back. Strangers coming into some other tribe’s land wouldn’t be greeted by a lady burning gum leaves or a bloke jumping around in his red undies.

  12. Indigenous entertainers Ernie Dingo and Richard Whalley, of the Middar Aboriginal Theatre, invented the “welcome to country” in 1976 because two pairs of Maori visitors from NZ and the Cook Islands wanted an equivalent of their own traditional ceremony before they would dance at the Perth International Arts Festival. (An adaption from the US Indians Public Relations campaign.) It is not and never was a tradition issue, over $145,000 has now been spent by government on this comedy theatrical, which stupid organisations compulsory required staff to accept.

  13. I don’t disagree with Pauline, these “welcome to country” pantomimes are ridiculous, but One Nation should focus on more important matters to win votes.

    What is more important to Australia right now are our oil reserves, why are they kept in the America rather than here in Australia?

    Why are our strategic gold reserves in London rather than here at home?

    Focus on these issues and gain some credibility as a serious contender.

  14. Good. Aussie cattle should be disenfranchised in their own country. They stood by and did nothing as the Jewish lobby led my Leibler weaponised indigenous rights against them. Next white goyim will have their houses seized without compensation and they will pay reparations for the right to rent on indigenous lands. White goyim will own nothing and be happy.
    They deserve it as they voted for it.
    Aussies = bovine.

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