Crickey Sean I would have thought this Voice BS belongs on the furtherest back burner.
Far more important things to squabble about, like medical, housing, jobs, inflation.
Oh, I forgot, they're not important as pollies/bum polishers as aren't affected by the worries that affect the peasants.
Which goes back to the original issue, did Albo run this with a one each way bet?Perhaps a decent comedian could make some mileage out of this BS. What hope is there if the "leader" of the country has noidea of what he is pushing.
To me this just strengthens the NO vote even more.
It's only the ones that came from the top of the NT AFAIK.I am watching the Soccer in Sydney and the "welcome to country " bloke said that the didgeredoo that was being played was traditional music of Sydney.
Maybe he should check his facts, they were strictly a norther OZ instrument, not in NSW at all until quite recently.
I asked my suntanned mate could he play the Didge and he said no we never had them at all. (Hunter area)
Funny how traditions are created overnight when it suits
Well NSW is Australia isn't it.It's only the ones that came from the top of the NT AFAIK.
I watched Lidia's speech in full. As expected really.
I didn't bother.
Me neither. I don't need persuading on how to voteI didn't bother.
And to put it simply from me it is a resounding NO I'll be ticking.According to Marcia Langton, “the public square has been flooded with egregious lies about the referendum proposal”........The Yes campaigners’ rage can fairly be described as Homeric: like that of Agamemnon and Achilles, it is the fury of those who fume at not receiving the deference they believe they deserve. Like Shakespeare’s Coriolanus – in what is both the most Homeric and the most political of Shakespeare’s plays – they chafe at having to “beg of Hob and Dick their needless vouches”: that is, at having to win over the plebs by presenting a coherent case that rebuts, rather than merely vilifying, the other side.And like all Homeric rages, they veer from anger into contempt, epitomised by Noel Pearson’s tirades against Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, and sink into incivility.Nor do the Yes camp’s intellectual leaders shy away from that fact: Megan Davis, for example, derides the calls for civility from what she terms “the civility brigade” as simply a cover-up for “marginalising already marginal groups” – a seemingly incongruous description of the lavishly funded and officially backed Yes campaign.What Davis and others forget, however, is what the ancients well knew: that Homeric rage, with its trashing of civic coexistence, is an open invitation to Nemesis, the goddess of retribution against arrogance, who, by blinding the hubristic to reality, leads them into the humiliation of defeat and the agonies of doom.Of course, viewed in contemporary perspective, that blood-soaked denouement seems better suited to the Homeric era than to our own. Fortunately, the modern world offers a milder, but no less devastating, cure to the pretensions of all those who rage at their critics – a cure, worth quoting in full, that Alice, travelling through Wonderland, spells out when she refuses to answer the Queen of Heart’s ridiculous questions.“ ‘How should I know?’ said Alice, surprised at her own courage. ‘It’s no business of mine.’ The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming ‘Off with her head! Off with …’. ‘Nonsense!’ said Alice, very loudly and decidedly – and the Queen was silent.”With outraged cries of “off with their heads!” bellowing across Australia, who could possibly put it better?
According to Marcia Langton, “the public square has been flooded with egregious lies about the referendum proposal”........The Yes campaigners’ rage can fairly be described as Homeric: like that of Agamemnon and Achilles, it is the fury of those who fume at not receiving the deference they believe they deserve. Like Shakespeare’s Coriolanus – in what is both the most Homeric and the most political of Shakespeare’s plays – they chafe at having to “beg of Hob and Dick their needless vouches”: that is, at having to win over the plebs by presenting a coherent case that rebuts, rather than merely vilifying, the other side.And like all Homeric rages, they veer from anger into contempt, epitomised by Noel Pearson’s tirades against Jacinta Nampijinpa Price, and sink into incivility.Nor do the Yes camp’s intellectual leaders shy away from that fact: Megan Davis, for example, derides the calls for civility from what she terms “the civility brigade” as simply a cover-up for “marginalising already marginal groups” – a seemingly incongruous description of the lavishly funded and officially backed Yes campaign.What Davis and others forget, however, is what the ancients well knew: that Homeric rage, with its trashing of civic coexistence, is an open invitation to Nemesis, the goddess of retribution against arrogance, who, by blinding the hubristic to reality, leads them into the humiliation of defeat and the agonies of doom.Of course, viewed in contemporary perspective, that blood-soaked denouement seems better suited to the Homeric era than to our own. Fortunately, the modern world offers a milder, but no less devastating, cure to the pretensions of all those who rage at their critics – a cure, worth quoting in full, that Alice, travelling through Wonderland, spells out when she refuses to answer the Queen of Heart’s ridiculous questions.“ ‘How should I know?’ said Alice, surprised at her own courage. ‘It’s no business of mine.’ The Queen turned crimson with fury, and, after glaring at her for a moment like a wild beast, began screaming ‘Off with her head! Off with …’. ‘Nonsense!’ said Alice, very loudly and decidedly – and the Queen was silent.”With outraged cries of “off with their heads!” bellowing across Australia, who could possibly put it better?
I climbed it, and signed the book at the top.
You'd think they MADE it. Maybe they put a few hand stencils on it??I was lucky to climb up it on a school trip circa 1985.
Do you think Aboriginals ever climbed up it? I don't quite understand why it's off limits. Maybe they never did??
Do you think Aboriginals ever climbed up it? I don't quite understand why it's off limits. Maybe they never did??
They're full of it, I've spent the last 15 years long distance mountain biking and I've barely seen the odd indigenous enjoying the bush. They're trying to go for native title everywhere in Qld, I've never seen them cleaning any rubbish up or doing any traditional ceremonies, how much do they care for this land? The ones that I do see, I seem to know more about the local folk law than they do, nothing has been passed onto the younger generations. It's you're typical when someone has any interest in the land then they see a monetary value in it and want it.I climbed it, and signed the book at the top.
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