Get rid of this welcome to country crap. I was born here 80 years ago. I am as Australian as you can be. I do not need to ever be welcomed to MY country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If a local indigenous group wishes to light a fire and wave their arms through the smoke, I say let them. However, I strongly recommend that the so-called ceremony should not attract any fee at all.
this was a bit of fun when Ernie Dingo invented all this rubbish to sooth the ire of the visiting Cook Island football team, back in the 80's but the BS has to stop. Have the guts to stop paying them and see how long it lasts.
I wonder what would happen if farmers banded together and refused to participate in this ridiculous carryon. Surely they can't jail all of them. They'd have no food.
Apologies for the length of this but I believe it’s worthy of thought.
In an architectural magazine, I read a piece by an indigenous government architect for NSW. He said:
“My Elders taught me that Country is alive, cares for us and shows us how to live our lives respectfully and collaboratively with all other living and non-living things.”
The Uluru statement from the heart says: “ (our)sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty.”
This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown.
With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, they believe this ancient sovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.
If passed, the Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures.
However, the existing Constitution also says:
“The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.”
Given that it is reasonable to claim that aboriginal “spiritualilty” is religious in substance and practice, if the voice referendum is passed, won’t the constitution of Australia be internationally contradictory and therefore unworkable?
When Colonel Nicholson blew up ("his") Bridge on the River Kwai, the movie ended with Major Clipton's epitaph:"Madness, madness." But here, in Australia, another type of madness has imposed itself on the COMPLETION of a building project: compulsory smoking rituals! But this is really a pagan/demonic incantation and an HUMILIATION upon all those involved in construction. And the V.I.Ps attending opening ceremonies have to bow before the smouldering leaves! MADNESS, MADNESS.
"Anyway, the smoking ceremony that Indigenous people have traditionally performed for the opening of multi-lane freeways eventually went ahead."
That tradition can only go back as far as multi-lane highways and I don't think they had one for the German autobahns.
Not my tradition!
My traditions are being self-sufficient, looking after family, paying for things I buy, showing my license when I vote to encourage voter ID, distrust in governments, investigating everything, sharing with everyone what I know, reading the bible, praying to the eternal Creator of all things and giving Him praise and thanks for every breath I take. Not smoking.
I hope that the tin can is used more than once, the entire thing is total Bull S—t. Burning leaves, depriving Koalas of their lunch, adding more smoke into the atmosphere.Keep up the good fight James 😂
Excellent. Thanks for sharing the reality.
Ernie Dingo must be having a huge laugh over this as he was the one who invented the welcome to country ceremony.
Get rid of this welcome to country crap. I was born here 80 years ago. I am as Australian as you can be. I do not need to ever be welcomed to MY country!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
If a local indigenous group wishes to light a fire and wave their arms through the smoke, I say let them. However, I strongly recommend that the so-called ceremony should not attract any fee at all.
this was a bit of fun when Ernie Dingo invented all this rubbish to sooth the ire of the visiting Cook Island football team, back in the 80's but the BS has to stop. Have the guts to stop paying them and see how long it lasts.
it is reported that Ernie Dingo had a few and invented the "SMOKING CEREMONY " around six years ago. just sayin
I wonder what would happen if farmers banded together and refused to participate in this ridiculous carryon. Surely they can't jail all of them. They'd have no food.
100% vote No
Dot Painting versus Michael Jordan!! Thanks for the laughs during this time of insanity James.
Hilarious. Didn’t see any mention of this on local media however …
Apologies for the length of this but I believe it’s worthy of thought.
In an architectural magazine, I read a piece by an indigenous government architect for NSW. He said:
“My Elders taught me that Country is alive, cares for us and shows us how to live our lives respectfully and collaboratively with all other living and non-living things.”
The Uluru statement from the heart says: “ (our)sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty.”
This sovereignty is a spiritual notion: the ancestral tie between the land, or ‘mother nature’, and the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples who were born therefrom, remain attached thereto, and must one day return thither to be united with our ancestors. This link is the basis of the ownership of the soil, or better, of sovereignty. It has never been ceded or extinguished, and co-exists with the sovereignty of the Crown.
With substantive constitutional change and structural reform, they believe this ancient sovereignty can shine through as a fuller expression of Australia’s nationhood.
If passed, the Parliament shall, subject to this Constitution, have power to make laws with respect to matters relating to the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice, including its composition, functions, powers and procedures.
However, the existing Constitution also says:
“The Commonwealth shall not make any law for establishing any religion, or for imposing any religious observance, or for prohibiting the free exercise of any religion, and no religious test shall be required as a qualification for any office or public trust under the Commonwealth.”
Given that it is reasonable to claim that aboriginal “spiritualilty” is religious in substance and practice, if the voice referendum is passed, won’t the constitution of Australia be internationally contradictory and therefore unworkable?
When Colonel Nicholson blew up ("his") Bridge on the River Kwai, the movie ended with Major Clipton's epitaph:"Madness, madness." But here, in Australia, another type of madness has imposed itself on the COMPLETION of a building project: compulsory smoking rituals! But this is really a pagan/demonic incantation and an HUMILIATION upon all those involved in construction. And the V.I.Ps attending opening ceremonies have to bow before the smouldering leaves! MADNESS, MADNESS.
Kk
"Anyway, the smoking ceremony that Indigenous people have traditionally performed for the opening of multi-lane freeways eventually went ahead."
That tradition can only go back as far as multi-lane highways and I don't think they had one for the German autobahns.
Not my tradition!
My traditions are being self-sufficient, looking after family, paying for things I buy, showing my license when I vote to encourage voter ID, distrust in governments, investigating everything, sharing with everyone what I know, reading the bible, praying to the eternal Creator of all things and giving Him praise and thanks for every breath I take. Not smoking.
Well done and well said!!
I hope that the tin can is used more than once, the entire thing is total Bull S—t. Burning leaves, depriving Koalas of their lunch, adding more smoke into the atmosphere.Keep up the good fight James 😂