Taxpayers may be forced to pay “reparations” under a proposed treaty, with suggestions that “a fixed percentage” of GDP be handed over.
Our Alboriginal in Command is fixing the message. All good now.
Taxpayers may be forced to pay “reparations” to Indigenous Australians for “past, present and future criminal acts” under a proposed treaty, with suggestions that “a fixed percentage” of GDP be handed over through “rates, land tax and royalties”, documents released under freedom of information reveal.
Prime Minister Anthony Albanese has previously committed to implementing “in full” all the elements of the Uluru Statement from the Heart, which calls for “Voice, Treaty, Truth”.
If the Indigenous Voice to Parliament passes at the upcoming referendum, the next step would be the Makarrata Commission, which would lead the process of treaty-making between First Nations people and federal, state and local governments.
The PM has likened the Uluru Statement to the Gettysburg Address, calling it “a short document long in the making” that is a “master class in spare eloquence”.
But according to Sky News host Peta Credlin, FOI documents released by the National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) earlier this year reveal that, contrary to Mr Albanese’s characterisation of the Uluru Statement as a “two-minute” read that can “fit on one A4 page”, the 2017 declaration is actually 26 pages.
The “full” Uluru Statement was included in a lengthy batch of NIAA documents, which also contains minutes from 13 “regional dialogue” consultation events with around 1200 Indigenous people that informed the final wording.
Credlin told viewers on Thursday that the tenor of the full statement was actually one “of anger, grievance, separatism, and the need to undo, as far as possible, the last 240 years of Australian history”. Continue reading Who Owns Australia?