Australia’s burgeoning aboriginal movement consisting of white people who are wannabe-blacks make yet another bogus claim over the best view at Australia’s Mt Panorama race car circuit at Bathurst. Maybe they want to earn a few more bucks by charging $1000 a seat? Pic- The Australian
From Senator Jacinta Price NT
It has to stop.
I have been sounding the alarm about fringe activist Indigenous groups who don’t represent their communities manipulating the environmental approvals process to get their way.
The latest example might be the worst one yet.
The Wiradyuri Traditional Owners Central West Aboriginal Corporation, the same group who went against the local land council to block the Blayney goldmine, have struck again, this time lodging a bid to make the top of Mount Panorama a sacred site.
Why is it sacred?
Bathurst want to claim the best
view of the race track
Because they held a burial ceremony and scattered the ashes of one of their elders there, who, it’s been reported, wasn’t even born or raised in the area … in 2022!
That’s right: they’re claiming cultural significance based on something they chose to do just over two years ago.
And now they’re trying to use that to close it off to the public.
It’s absurd.
And it makes Minister Tanya Plibersek’s capitulation to the group over the Blaney mine look even worse.
This group – who, again, are not the official land council with authority in the area – have made a mockery of the environmental and cultural planning process.
Worse, they damage the credibility of Aboriginal groups who might have genuine cultural claims to make.
The system is in desperate need of reform and I’m glad that my colleague Senator Jonathon Duniam, the Shadow Minister for the Environment, has pledged that if the Coalition wins the election, sorting out this mess will be a top priority.
After the Voice, Australians are rightly sceptical of these activist groups and the way they sow division in our community.
It’s time to close this loophole and stop handing power over to activists who use culture to manipulate the government for their own purposes.
It’s not acceptable and I’m determined to work with Senator Duniam to fix it.
You can read about it here in The Australian.
Let me tell you, this is not the kind of REAL solution that’s going to fix the disadvantage experienced by marginalised Indigenous Australians.
It’s just pandering to interest groups and I’ve had enough of it.
And I bet you have had enough, too!
Let’s get rid of this Albanese government at the election so we can sort this mess out!
