Aussie Senator Jacinta Nampijimpa Price on "Welcome to Country" ceremonies.

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A fiery speech. Full of truth bombs. 

Senator Jacinta Nampijimpa Price lambasts the whole concept of an Aboriginal  "Welcome to Country" at the opening of the Federal Australian parliament. 

Aussie Foreign Minister Penny Wong responds with claims that the "Welcome to Country" is "traditional" at opening of parliament. Well, "traditional" only if you mean it's been done for 17 whole years. For the 107 years before that, parliament was opened with a prayer. 

On the "Welcome to Country" issue, Jacinta says (but do watch the vid, it's powerful): 

• It's "virtue signalling". 
• It's NOT a traditional aboriginal ceremony. 
• It diminishes traditional aboriginal culture. 
• It infantilises aboriginal Australians. 
• It objectifies aboriginal Australians.
• It does NOTHING to improve the lives of the average aboriginal Australian...
• ... Who must be seen -- as we must all see each other -- as Australians. Equal under the law. 
• She is proud of her European (father) and Aboriginal (mother) heritage. Most Aboriginals in Australia have a similar mix. They ought be proud of it, rather that playing victim and using it to divide. 
• We are ALL Australians. 
• She notes the phrase "First Nations" is not even an Australian name. It's been copied from America. 

Elsewhere, during the 2023 Voice Referendum campaign, Jacinta Price said that we don't need yet another "voice". We have plenty of voices. What we need to do is LISTEN. Jacinta really is a National Treasure. She won me over as a fan-boy during her "No" campaign. 

Related: 

Bob Hawke, beloved Australian Labor Prime Minister in 1988: 

"In Australian there is no hierarchy of descent. 

There must be no privilege of origin." 

From his speech at the Australia Day Bicentennial celebrations on January 26, 1988, at the Sydney Opera House. Hawke emphasized Australia’s identity as a nation of immigrants and the importance of commitment to Australia as the defining quality of being Australian. Grok. 

Tony Abbott, conservative Aussie PM, said in his Australia Day Speech, January 26, 2015: 

“Modern Australia has an Aboriginal heritage, 

a British foundation and 

a multicultural character.”

I think Hawke's and Abbott's are both good statements. Which we would do well to live by. 

Enough of the divisive, victimhood-promoting, agency-denying, guilt-tripping, and above all, racist nonsense. 

ADDED (i): Michaelia Cash the Shadow Foreign Affairs Minister lets rip in support for Jacinta Price. 

ADDED (ii): Another take.