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I refer to the news today about attacks on the new member for Hasluck in Western Australia, Mr Ken Wyatt. He is being claimed to be the first indigenous or aboriginal member of the House of Representatives.
He has allegedly received ‘hate mail’ from people who said they would never have voted for him had they known he was indigenous.
I remember years ago hearing Dr Martin Luther King, one of the giant figures of the last century, saying we should judge a man ‘not by the colour of his skin, but by the content of his character’. I have always enthusiastically embraced this principle.
Having said that, I worry sometimes about the number of people running around claiming to be ‘indigenous’ when they are no more indigenous than I am. I also worry about people making this claim, or having it made on their behalf, as though it were relevant to their ambition to enter parliament. It’s not relevant, or it shouldn’t be.
The correct approach would be to say, this is Ken Wyatt, he is an Australian citizen, here are his personal qualities that would make him a good member of parliament, or minister, or potentially leader of this country. His ethnic make-up has got nothing to do with it.
Are you kidding me? You don’t think that at a time when the United Nations has just condemned the Australian government for enacting legislation that has embedded racism into everyday Australian life that an individual’s ethnic background is relevant?
Do you really think, with the stark differences in health and education outcomes between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians we shouldn’t be celebrating the fact achievements of Indigenous Australians.
Questioning an individual’s identity as Aboriginal is just as inappropriate and crass as questioning an individual’s identify as gay or lesbian. Don’t do it.
yes?
begs the question though.
how many generations are we all away from our family of origin and which family line do we lay claim to?
no-one with more than one point of origin can claim cultural purity.how can we? we are left with scraps and shreds of what came before and what was brought here from afar.
we make the best of it.
even those who say they are being true to the culture of their ancestors(where-ever they are from) can claim only to be honouring memory.
and good on them.
but we are Australian,hard to define,easy to recognise(ay)and related to the world.
So you oppose “affirmative action” ?
The “look at me, I’m an aboriginal” promotion has been encouraged by the left for a long, long time.
I have no problem with a politician being black or white or even Welsh, as this ain’t the point. But Neville Bonner was the first aboriginal senator (neither his race nor his role could be contended), and our girl Julia was the first female PM in Australia. Ignore at your peril.
Similarly Ken Wyatt, who is no doubt an indigenous person based on the clearly loose criteria of both left & right sides of government.
He did at least achieve an electorate’s mandate that will not be apparent from the beneficiaries of the drunkard’s “affirmative action”.
they are whinging cos they voted for him without knowing he had some noongar ancestry.
serves them right,next time they will pay more attention to where they place their vote.
Hasluck was in the fortunate position of having two very good people in the lab/lib equation.
could it be that the whingers votes were the ones that got him over the line?
i think that’s poetic justice.
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