Welcome to Country MELTDOWN: Aussies Say 'Enough!'

[Hol]

From the Senate to the suburbs, the tide is turning against forced identity politics.

In this episode of The Opposition Podcast, Avi Yemini and Rukshan Fernando break down the culture war clash that’s dominating headlines ... and striking a chord with Aussies everywhere.

Pauline Hanson has had enough. She and her One Nation team turned their backs on the Senate’s Acknowledgement of Country in a bold move that’s sparked woke outrage and growing public support. Her message? “Australians are sick of being lectured.” The boys unpack the public reaction, and why more Aussies are quietly (and not so quietly) agreeing.

Meanwhile, Anthony Albanese tried to score points with his Welcome to Country video but instead got roasted for what many called cringey, hollow virtue signalling. Is this the final straw in the culture war fatigue sweeping the country?

https://www.rebelnews.com/the_opposition_july_24_2025

 

[dwb]

I always thought it strange that Australia, with its history of rugged citizens, would allow the wokeness and immigration that has happened in the last decade. I guess they have finally had enough.

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

She's absolutely right, it's a copout and highly insulting to be "Welcomed" to a countey your born in!!!

The Aborigines want constant apologies and payouts and always play victim when in fact it' their drug use, alcohol abuse and lack of wanting to actually go to school and learn something that is the failure of their culture.

Really p's me off!!!!

 

[Margery]

She's absolutely right, it's a copout and highly insulting to be "Welcomed" to a countey your born in!!!

The Aborigines want constant apologies and payouts and always play victim when in fact it' their drug use, alcohol abuse and lack of wanting to actually go to school and learn something that is the failure of their culture.

Really p's me off!!!!

Similar to here.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

I like some of what's happened and happening here with regard to the Native Americans/First Nations and the land. Acknowledgment of and respect for what was here before, not burying history or heritage, and not destroying what's been since built. So plaques and Native American/First Nation art in public buildings, ensuring history and culture taught in the schools, keeping, or sometimes reverting to, Native American/First Nation names for places, ensuring Ojibwe and a few other Native American/First Nation languages are available for conducting official business, etc. An example is renaming Lake Calhoun back to the previous Dakota name of Lake Bde Maka Ska. (pronounced b'DAY mi'kas-kah)

At least one very well-off Tribe/Band is helping poor Reservations and promoting education, health, etc. with casino and business profits from one of its Reservations . . . Another is plowing the profits from its recreational marijuana business into substance abuse and health programs for multiple Tribes and non-indigenous people. I don't know about other Tribes/Reservations. Living on "the Res" doesn't carry stigma like it used to, and at least some of the houses are every bit as nice as what's off the Reservation. Infrastructure is lagging, though.

Not to say there hasn't been a LOT of substance abuse, domestic violence, poverty, drop-out rates, etc. disproportionate to percentage of the population, discrimination/prejudice (both ways), and generally messed up policies, social norms, etc. Things are getting better, though, in part because of the economic power accrued from Reservation businesses, and the much better cooperation between local, State, and Reservation law enforcement and social programs.

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

Similar to here.

Ours is so extreme that for an online Microsoft team meeeting they do the acknowledgement ?

Last time i checked, the Aborigines didn't own digital land as well, it's gone way too far sadly

 

[Hol]

Things are getting better, though, in part because of the economic power accrued from Reservation businesses, and the much better cooperation between local, State, and Reservation law enforcement and social programs.

Here is the struggle, ‘better’ in a white worldview.

I used to write articles for a nationwide American Indian newspaper and decried these money sources. Dollars from casinos and the fed only degraded indigenous family and property values. Natives lost cultural ties and dignity. The “better cooperation” with white bureaucrats does gain benefits for white culture, but trust me, it’s not good for natives.

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

Here is the struggle, ‘better’ in a white worldview.

I used to write articles for a nationwide American Indian newspaper and decried these money sources. Dollars from casinos and the fed only degraded indigenous family and property values. Natives lost cultural ties and dignity. The “better cooperation” with white bureaucrats does gain benefits for white culture, but trust me, it’s not good for natives.

That's what is happening in Australia, the millions of dollars that goes to these people to create better lifestyle's etc is stolen from their "leaders" and not distributed to where the money legit needs to go to

 

[Hol]

That's what is happening in Australia, the millions of dollars that goes to these people to created better lifestyle's etc is stolen from their "leaders" and not distributed to where the money legit needs to to go

Indigenous people are never helped by

Indigenous = connected to our land.

My grandma’s government allotment on my Rez cut her off from trading with farmers of vegetables nearby. We had fresh fish, but gov regulations kept us from trading for vegetables & dairy

Indigenous leaders are easily bought off

 

[Spartan Sprinter]

Indigenous people are never helped by

Indigenous = connected to our land.

My grandma’s government allotment on my Rez cut her off from trading with farmers of vegetables nearby. We had fresh fish, but gov regulations kept us from trading for vegetables & dairy

Indigenous leaders are easily bought off

The sad thing is , these same people also happy to joijn the other rent a crowd causes like Free palestine, LBGT stuff etc.

Yeah the government rarely likes to help the people who legit want a way or have way of helping their people

 

[Hol]

The sad thing is , these same people also happy to joijn the other rent a crowd causes like Free palestine, LBGT stuff etc.

Yeah the government rarely likes to help the people who legit want a way or have way of helping their people

Definite fact: rent a crowds love to add indigenous causes.

But, as a quote that I can’t recall who said it…still true: “Sympathy is the worst aberration to which the human spirit is prone.”

So stop sympathizing with indigenous people.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Indigenous people are never helped by

Indigenous = connected to our land.

My grandma’s government allotment on my Rez cut her off from trading with farmers of vegetables nearby. We had fresh fish, but gov regulations kept us from trading for vegetables & dairy

Indigenous leaders are easily bought off

Here is a link to the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in Scott County, MN

The SMSC is a federally recognized sovereign Dakota tribal government located in Scott County, Minnesota.

shakopeedakota.org

The area is one of the most affluent areas of the State

 

[Hol]

Here is a link to the Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community

Shakopee Mdewakanton Sioux Community in Scott County, MN

The SMSC is a federally recognized sovereign Dakota tribal government located in Scott County, Minnesota.

shakopeedakota.org

The area is one of the most affluent areas of the State

Yes, tribal communities can enjoy a level of success with white sympathy, but they lost their roots.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Indigenous people are never helped by

Indigenous = connected to our land.

My grandma’s government allotment on my Rez cut her off from trading with farmers of vegetables nearby. We had fresh fish, but gov regulations kept us from trading for vegetables & dairy

Indigenous leaders are easily bought off

I am sorry that happened to your family.

Here, trading with farmers for any agricultural products by is very open for everyone. Perhaps here is different than other places, or perhaps the Reservations have different rules, since independent jurisdictions.
Native Americans/First Nation also have certain land and resource rights and protections that aren't available to others.

The reality is that different worldviews and cultures clash, and change is inevitable.

Preserving history, culture, and heritage of everyone involved is important to everyone.

 

[Hol]

I am sorry that happened to your family.

Here, trading with farmers for any agricultural products by is very open for everyone. Perhaps here is different than other places, or perhaps the Reservations have different rules, since independent jurisdictions.
Native Americans/First Nation also have certain land and resource rights and protections that aren't available to others.

The reality is that different worldviews and cultures clash, and change is inevitable.

Preserving history, culture, and heritage of everyone involved is important to everyone.

May I suggest that tribal lands east of the Rockies mountains, circ 1700s were compromised out of recognition. Check out David Brainard & the handful of missionaries to natives.

The only US tribes to preserve authentic values were in Alaska, BC Canada, and the Pacific Northwest. Tribes in California & the SW were compromised in early 1800s.

 

[janeelaine]

From the Senate to the suburbs, the tide is turning against forced identity politics.

In this episode of The Opposition Podcast, Avi Yemini and Rukshan Fernando break down the culture war clash that’s dominating headlines ... and striking a chord with Aussies everywhere.

Pauline Hanson has had enough. She and her One Nation team turned their backs on the Senate’s Acknowledgement of Country in a bold move that’s sparked woke outrage and growing public support. Her message? “Australians are sick of being lectured.” The boys unpack the public reaction, and why more Aussies are quietly (and not so quietly) agreeing.

Meanwhile, Anthony Albanese tried to score points with his Welcome to Country video but instead got roasted for what many called cringey, hollow virtue signalling. Is this the final straw in the culture war fatigue sweeping the country?

https://www.rebelnews.com/the_opposition_july_24_2025

cool to hear. ive been waiting a long time to hear a tide of people saying "enough" SOMEWHERE. finally the time has come.
been seeing MANY good headlines lately.

 

[Hol]

I am sorry that happened to your family.

Not authentic, but honestly a cultural adopted false empathy we fall for.

It’s an ignorant position that snarls many of us in its phony pity. Native Americans do better without govt handouts and when they reject the whites pat on the back. There are still some NW tribes who connect with the land under their feet & old customs that exclude white settlers. We would come into agreements with white settlers, but on a selective basis.

Tribes in the east had been subjected to whites over 100-yrs before they arrived in the PNW. I’ve met and worked with many tribal members from the Midwest & eastern US. None of them understand, but they loudly attach a native identity to their proclamation while none even have a grandparent who lived in a teepee.

In other words, tribal affiliation became popular in the 1970s, but very few tribes east of the Rockies were connected to their roots. That didn’t stop them from monetizing their limited historical roots. The US govt handouts hurt all natives, even those from Alaska’s Point Barrow to the Nez Pearce in Oregon.

 

[Hol]

Back to the OP identity politics.

Her message? “Australians are sick of being lectured.”

When we sympathize with indigenousness populations we deny two things: 1) none of them were God’s chosen (e.g., my tribe’s language was forgotten after a generation in govt boarding schools, as were all others except Hebrew), and 2) incoming white settlers were advancing God’s will to some degree.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

May I suggest that tribal lands east of the Rockies mountains, circ 1700s were compromised out of recognition. Check out David Brainard & the handful of missionaries to natives.

The only US tribes to preserve authentic values were in Alaska, BC Canada, and the Pacific Northwest. Tribes in California & the SW were compromised in early 1800s.

I was taught a long time ago in grade school (public school in Minneapolis) that all the land west of the Mississippi River belonged to Native Americans/First Nations (then called Indians) by treaty with the U.S. The existence of Minneapolis, alone, reflects a failure to abide with such treaty.

I've looked for that treaty online many times without success

I have no idea where and if that line continues north into Canada. However, the retention and change First Nation names for some Provinces provides at least some clue to my little pea-brain: Yukon, Saskatchewan, Nunavut, Manitoba, Ontario, Quebec. Canada is an Iroquois name for village.

 

[Ghoti Ichthus]

Not authentic, but honestly a cultural adopted false empathy we fall for.

You have no idea.


This mostly paleface is out of here.