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Australia Day was yesterday. Still, better late than....Dr Peter Ridd (above) is a heterodox marine biologist. Well-respected until he questioned the orthodoxy of "The Great Barrier Reef is being destroyed by Climate Change" narrative. This is not true, according to Dr Pete. Who goes out to the reef to take actual measurements. And who's shown, backed by independent data, that the reef is now in strong recovery and actually bigger than it was thirty years ago.
You'd think that would be good news for folks. But, no, because it destroys the narrative of "everything to do with climate change is bad" and that "therefore we must Just Stop Oil" and all the rest of those horrid fossil fuels.
In the video above, Dr Pete turns his attention to Australia Day, how it must be a day to celebrate, not to mourn. He says this of a country he's immigrated into, his adopted country.
The late great leader of the Left, our Prime Minister Bob Hawke, said this, in relation to aboriginal land rights and the rights of all Australians:
"In Australia there is no hierarchy of descent. There must be no privilege of origin" — Bob Hawke, PM, 1988
A "privilege of origin" is what is demanded by the "renamers", those who want to rename Australia Day as "Invasion Day“. "Invaded" by the Europeans, you see.
Australia has had waves of immigrants, starting with those we now call the "First Nations". Then the Anglo-British; then the Southern European; then the Asian. Is each one of these to pay obeisance to those before, the second to the First, the third to the second, and so on. Are we all to bow the knee to First?
No. Not if we don't want to return to the Stone Age. Which is the scientifically accurate description of the peoples on Terra Australis when Cook landed.
I've always thought it rather odd that activist First Peoples Folks should boast about a "60,000-year culture". To which is added 10,000 years every couple of years or so. So that some elders now claim an aboriginal culture of 250,000 years! Dr Pete says this shows "how patient" the First Peoples are [heh]. All that time and you didn't manage to break out of the Stone Age to the Copper Age? To the Bronze Age? From the Bronze to the Iron? Weird thing to boast about.
Listen to what our wonderful parliamentarian, Jacinta Nampijimpa Price has to say about this. To give due weight and respect to both the indigenous and the early Europeans, she being a part of both.
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| Jacinta with her parents |
There are plenty, plenty, plenty of aboriginal heritage folks who share Jacinta's views. People like the elder-leader Warren Mundine and the journo Stan Grant. Just that they are not as loud as the minority of "Renamers", the "hate-everything-about-Australia" crowd. Those like Lidia Thorpe, who call for war between aboriginals and the rest of Australians.
No. I join Peter and Jacinta and Warren and Stan in rejecting this minority, these violent anti-Australia radicals. As Australians of all descent did in voting "NO" to the "Voice" referendum in October 2023.
And who support Australia Day, as the day to celebrate the achievements of a nation for all the peoples on this great, red land, irrespective of origin.
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ADDED: at the government's own flag-raising ceremony yesterday, things were very Woke! The Australian flag wasn't even the main one of three. That was the aboriginal flag.... 😒
