$450k on Welcome to Country ceremonies

[Bobby]

Albo and his Labor mates pissing our money against the wall.
Vote him out soon at the next election.



https://www.news.com.au/national/politi ... 73e7314909

January 5, 2025

Coalition reveals government departments have spent $450k on Welcome to Country ceremonies in two years
Documents have revealed the government’s eye-watering spend on Welcome to Country ceremonies,
which has been criticised as a “multi-million-dollar industry”.

Commonwealth government departments have been accused of fuelling a “multi-million-dollar industry” for Welcome to Country ceremonies after tax payers were slugged with a $450,000 bill for the protocols.

Documents obtained from the Opposition under Freedom of Information requests revealed 300 Welcome to Country ceremonies had been performed across 21 government departments over the 2022-23 and 2023-24 financial years, totalling to $452,953.

Cost breakdowns revealed on average $1266 was spent per ceremony, with some of the highest-spending departments the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet ($41,801), the Australian Institute of Sport ($47,003), the National Indigenous Australians Agency ($60,342).

[Bobby]

Whoever is in charge has to understand the: blood, sweat, toil and tears that
went into making taxpayers money available to the Govt -
the sacrifice made against their will -
and so every penny of taxpayers money has to be spent wisely -
not just because it sounds like a good idea -
it has to pass the pub test -
it has to be what a reasonable person would expect.

[Bobby]

Mar 7, 2023

Welcome to country ceremonies do little more than make wealthy city people feel good about themselves.

Memo to the grievance industry, thanks for the virtue theatre, but like the majority of Australians,
I am sick and tired of being welcomed to my own country.

[Bobby]

[mellie]

nicely said

[mellie]

Mar 7, 2023

Welcome to country ceremonies do little more than make wealthy city people feel good about themselves.

Memo to the grievance industry, thanks for the virtue theatre, but like the majority of Australians,
I am sick and tired of being welcomed to my own country.

Exactly, why should we have to continue the indignation of being welcomed and re-welcomed to what is supposed to be our own native country over and over again?

I was born in Australia, when and at what point is an Australian considered an authentic Australian citizen, and when will we be able to stop apologising for crimes that neither ourselves or ancestors were guilty of having committed?

I am sorry this happened however I just don't see the benefit of divisive politics.... unless you are a politician trying to appeal to a minority of cardholders of course.

[Bobby]

Exactly, why should we have to continue the indignation of being welcomed and re-welcomed to what is supposed to be our own native country over and over again?

I was born in Australia, when and at what point is an Australian considered an authentic Australian citizen, and when will we be able to stop apologising for crimes that neither ourselves or ancestors were guilty of having committed?

I am sorry this happened however I just don't see the benefit of divisive politics.... unless you are a politician trying to appeal to a minority of cardholders of course.

Yes - I consider it rude of Abbos.
They are just making beer money from suckers.

[mellie]

Furthermore, how is it that a welcome to country ceremony may be authentic when they still wholeheartedly believe we are thieves who stole their land and should go back to where we came from?
Along with returning their land.

It's more of a " hey, we accept that you guys are here and thanks for the beer but we still see you as the enemy" ceremonies aside.

A false ceremony for the benefit of who again?

Burning a few sticks in a firepit and wafting the smoke around doesn't matter one little bit to them.

January 26th is still regarded as invasion Day to those who are looking towards making $$$$ out of a bogus industry that is based on falsehood and manufacturing votes.

The stolen gen were not ALL taken out of malice or for evil purposes, rather were mostly half-cast children who the British empire felt they had a responsibility towards, civilising them, educating them and teaching them the white man ways.
Often these children appeared to be neglected, ( by white man standards then and still now) and because these children were half casts, they weren't often accepted by their own indigenous mothers indigenous communities.
My grandparents owned a shop ( was an everything store) at Mudjimba in SE Queensland, and back in the 70s and 80s, the local aboriginal people weren't strangers to lobbing their kids off so they could attend appointments *wink* only to return several hours later, drunk, or sometimes not even returning at all. She had to call police to collect them a few times, but in the very beginning when she first moved there with my grandfather, she was simply trying to be a helpful member of the existing community. She was rather naieve to their antics and this included ticking-up at the shop and getting free creche for the day so they could piss-up under a tree somewhere.
Of course there were many occasions where she watched aboriginal kids at her shop along with her two youngest children and their mother's had in fact been to genuine appointments, but the majority were taking her for granted.

But we are talking about different times, a different era, which can't really be guaged by today's social or even cultural norms or standards. Even white kids ran around in no shoes and in bare minimum clothes ( usually bathers) on the QLD coast at Mudjimba so....

A close friend of mine ( a 16th aboriginal) claims he too is part of a stolen generation, yet his biological father left the state the second he knew that he'd impregnated his ( 8th aboriginal) mother , who by the way had left him for dead along with his cousin who she was apparently supposed to be babysitting herself....when at age 17, she decided to leave two young children under 12 months of age at home alone for over 24 hours so she could go out drinking with mates.

So, our child services placed my then 8 month old friend with his own 2nd cousin, who was educated, a nursing sister, had a home of their own, stable employment and had been trying to have a child of her own with her husband without success for several years . The mistake the system made according to him is they didn't place him with an aboriginal family, despite the fact that he was only a 16th aboriginal himself, had White hair, green eyes and was so fair, was nicknamed snowy at school.

He was adopted, adored, bsptised and well cared for, and was even his adopted mother's 2nd cousin , however this doesn't matter, since all this stolen gen garbage.... they are all being used as paid actors, pretending to be disaffected and damaged, displaced people because they get paid to keep this charade going.

This close friend of mine was once the most patriotic Australian, proud to have met a member of the royal family as a child, and would make a huge deal out of Australia Day festivities. Now, it's like he's become a different person, attends smoking ceremonies at dawn on Australia Day and goes along with the official ALP indigenous line of feeling that he's been hard done by, that his land and culture was stolen, that he himself is a member of the stolen gen. He was abandoned by his 8th percent aboriginal white trash mother because she wanted to party, not stolen by white Australians as he now claims.

I am not even sure if he is just milking the gravy train anymore.....I think after attending so many government funded aboriginal rallys and festivals, whereby professional public speakers attend and brain-rot the brown crowd of mostly white Australians into believing that no matter how much milk you add to coffee, it's still coffee, he actually believes this himself now. Believes he's an aboriginal despite looking as white as snow. Like a bloody Viking which he actually decends from.

He wears all the free aboriginal design clothing BADAC gifts him, ( local aboriginal cooperation) cooks with indigenous ingredients, is utterly absorbed in this phony culture that never was, not in this context anyway 200 years ago, and gets paid to tell his fake story of what it feels like to be part of stolen gen and attend smoking ceremonies etc. He's gone from being employed full time ( forman) to being a recipient of an indigenous pension. PTSD due to being stolen now he insists. Of course he now votes Labor too, whereas he wasn't even interested in politics at all when in his 20s, 30s 40s. This is a recent thing for him.

Where does all this merchandise, cultural identity crap, art, and false ideology/identity come from?

Our Labor government, who has been working hard to create yet another card-holding minority vote base.
Not because they genuinely care about them, because collectively, several different minority groups have the numbers required to win government. If they didn't, they would be turning a blind eye, the way they did and continue doing when it comes to rampant child exploitation and abuse occurring within genuinely Aboriginal communities to this very day.

His story isn't unique, and sadly, there are genuine aboriginal families suffering and living on missions who our government doesn't even visit, much less cares about because most of them can't be bothered voting so are no use to them whatsoever, not even for their vote. It's the city dwelling cappuccinos and lattes they want. Not the short blacks with real spears. With the exception of a few who are willing to perform or work in outback tourism for tourist's to pay for an authentic Aboriginal outback experience of course.

Is this the kind of Australia my British grandfather hid under his dead mates in PNG for several days for? Inorder to survive?


My grandfather came back a different person, ( understandably so) was given a pound of tobacco and sent on his way.
Had the British not arrived when we did, Australia would be very different today I think. For one, I doubt that any Indigenous Australians, be they half, quarter, or 100th would still exist, and if they did, I can't see a country like Japan or China paying Aboriginals decendents as paid actors/voters just walking around the world's largest living museum living high on the hog.

Had the British not colonised Australia when it did, what would Australia be like today I wonder?

[mellie]

I come from a middle & working class European background( predominantly British) and always believed both my grandfathers, great grandfathers and even my father had patriotically served our great Australian nation to protect all it's citizens.

Even their 5am dawn services are being gatecrashed by fake abos doing their welcome to country ceremonies wearing war paint equipped with spears.
If we need to be sorry shouldn't they be at least greatful that so many non- Indigenous Australians fought for the country they may still call home too?

I wonder what the next token minority group will be?
Labors rent-a-mob appears to be wearing a little thin these days, given the money has started to dry-up within the cooperatives themselves, so this governments now focused on more lucrative minority groups ie, Africans, Ukrainians, Palestinians, Chinese investors and other nationals with skills suited to join their ranks within the ALP itself or work, invest in our mineral resources or exploit their minority vote base status.

Well at least these minority vote groups work, someone should probably tell the Aboriginals that they are no longer needed, since Labor has slashed their arts & entertainment funding and it will never go back to what it was, because like all of Labors minority vote base, they are forever changing and the abbos are no longer the latest trend.

[mellie]

The true minority is the white Australian.
Let's make what's left of our vote base count, while we still can.
Sounds slightly racist?

Is it anymore racist that other ethnic minority groups vote in accordance to how they are being instructed by their own cultural community leaders/elders?