The Proposing Councillor opened the public batting by getting a letter in the Local Newspaper.
I wrote to the local paper with a lengthy response. The Paper declined to publish my letter. As part of the discussion why not I pointed out to the Editor the very large Editorial and Articles that had been published by her in recent months advocating Changing the date of Australia Day. She denied that failing to publish my response was anything to do with her Political Opinion. So I wrote to each Councillor individually at their Council email address in similar terms:
(I note that the owners of the newspaper have advertised for a new Editor just today 24th February 2021) (connected I hope)
On 10 Feb 2021, at 10:04 am, john bolton <[email protected]> wrote:
Mayor and Councillors.
Council should not only not "change the date" they should take down the Aboriginal Flag from Council buildings.
Keep Australia Day. Keep the Date and certainly do not waste ratepayers money on a futile and racist gesture.
It is hard to know where to begin when it has become so much of a trendy thing for activist politics to decry racism while at the same time being exactly that.
So I will start with a summary:
I oppose changing the date of Australia Day or the National Anthem.
I oppose Constitutional Change.
I propose instead that Council take down the aboriginal flag from Council buildings.
A flag which was once a kind recognition of Aborigines but has now become a symbol of extremist black racist activism.
I have worked in this field for decades including as one of the first few Federal Attorney listed Native Title and Aboriginal Heritage Experts in SA
My C.V. includes more than 25 years of work in native title and aboriginal heritage for both indigenous and non-indigenous parties.
Councillor Tooley (letter the Bunyip 3rd Feb attached) may well feel that he has been transitioning in recent years with respect to racism but 21st Century Racial Theory is going the exact opposite way to Councillor Tooley. Race is the very worst thing to pretend is different about people. Never-the-less he presents his most recent, apparently newly found, racist thoughts as a motion to Council.
It is not inclusive. It is a divisive proposal in which I intend to participate. It is a waste ratepayer's money to pay for an inquiry or report. There is a plethora of material already available. It will boil down to a purely political matter.
I oppose his racist motion and I oppose the Town of Gawler spending ratepayers money on a national issue in which urban extreme Aboriginal activists seek both a race base Constitutional Power and a “Separate Aboriginal State” where only people of some partial aboriginal DNA can ever hold power but to be funded by the rest of us and which “changing the date” is just one more step towards.
Councillor Tooley’s motion is both racist and divisive of Australia on the base of pure and simplistic race activism. If you want to unite us then take down the aboriginal flag from all council buildings. A flag which has become a symbol of black racist extremism in Australia. Let aboriginal people fly it over their activist’s offices and their black racist rallies. Take it down from places which are supposed to represent our unity.
I say no to flying separate ethnic groups and race based flags. They should not have equal status on public buildings with our National and State Flags.
Councillor Tooley fails to properly inform those who may superficially support a sanctimonious virtue signalling feel good feeling that changing the date is going to do anything. It is certainly not going to satisfy black activists. They have already said so. Do some more research Councillor – inform your readers of their real motives.
It is not about recognition. It is about power in Australia being seized on the base of race.
The Federal Parliament of Australia already enacted the “Aboriginal…Recognition Act in 2013” in which Australian Aborigines were recognised as being here prior to settlement and which acknowledged and respected their continuing cultures language and heritage. This event is not even recognised in the Aboriginal Calendar of achievements in the newest public funded AIATSIS building in Canberra. They whitewash over that event. It changed nothing. It merely gave the Gillard Government a good feeling.
There are so many “Aboriginal Special Days”, indeed whole weeks. National Apology Day 13th January. Close the Gap Day 19th March, Harmony Day 21st March, National Sorry Day 26th March, Mabo Day 3rd June, Reconciliation Week 27th May to 3rd June, NAIDOC week 1st week of July, National Aboriginal Children’s Day 4th August. International Day of Worlds Indigenous People 9th August, Indigenous Literary Day 5th September.
Councillor Tooley is, perhaps un-wittingly, on the same page as those who have formed the “Aboriginal Provisional Government” in which to vest all essential control to Aborigines. The same page as those who seek separate sovereignty within Australia for one race only. He is on the same page as those who seek “a State of their Own” separate from other Australian States but supported financially by them.
These are mainstream demands of the Urban Aboriginal Political Class. Those whose activists claim “Australia” is not their “point of reference in any shape or form”
He is on the same page as those proto-nationalist aboriginal racists who burn the Australian Flag. They do not want a change of date. They want no date. They have already said there is no suitable date for Australia Day because “white Australia” has nothing to celebrate.
These people want political power not based on their numbers in the population – even though there are 42 Aboriginal People in various elected State Federal and Local Governments including the Deputy Mayor of Alice Springs. But instead they want power based on race, a racial priority.
They seek a separate Black State. It is not me saying that. They say it constantly and repeatedly. See for instance records of the National Aboriginal Conference, 22nd June 1982.
While Aboriginal ‘nations’ may not be granted full sovereignty immediately, they should be vested with certain legal rights which they are entitled to enjoy against the State within whose borders they live. The status thus created would be an interim remedy for as long as the Aboriginal “nation’ needed to evolve to the point of being able to exercise the right of self-determination.
They seek a separate Black’s Only State and it is time to say no.
Of course we care about Aboriginal Issues. We freely spend billions of dollars a year trying to close the gap. No one knows actually how much we spend and progress went backwards during the self determination period of ATSIC which was disbanded for corruption. No matter how much we spend it is not getting any better. The Closing the Gap reports, (I have read every one of them) simply change the measures when they are not met.
I am, like many Australians desperate to close the gap and I still work towards that goal.
The Centre for Independent Studies Report Jan 2021 (just last month) https://www.cis.org.au/app/uploads/2021/01/pp34.pdf by Jacinta Nampijnpa Price, also the Deputy Mayor of Alice Springs shows how bad it really is and also decries futile political gesturing of the nature of changing the date.
The Australian Nation has bent over backwards to accommodate Aboriginal needs but it is never enough for some.
This is why I oppose Constitutional Change. I oppose changing the date of Australia Day or the National Anthem. I say take down the flag which was once a kind recognition of Aborigines but has now become a symbol of extremist black racist activism.
The move to change these things is not about the date of Australia Day , or the words of the Anthem. It is about Power.
It is about a racist minority exercising power.
Keep Australia Day. Keep the Date and certainly Do not waste ratepayers money on a futile and racist gesture.
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I also wrote to a number of leading conservative think tanks and lobby groups and to the State and Federal Governments requesting that they intervene and advise Council of the consequences - deathly silence so far.
I had two responses from Councillors, one from the proposer and one from an opponent of the proposition.
I had hoped to be back from Cairns in time for the Council Meeting but flights via Melbourne were cancelled and all I could get was one through Sydney which got me to town well after the meeting had commenced and Public Forum opportunity lost. What to do? I quickly edited my speech from Freemantle on Australia Day a few years ago when the extreme left wing Mayor Brad Pettit had led that Council to de-fund Australia Day Fireworks. I Printed it out with enough copies for each Councillor, the local news reporters. (7 pages each plus flyer cover.)
I took the opportunity to promote "Rite On" A conservative political action group. You will see from the close up that I stapled the bundle together with a quote from Aboriginal Elder Dr.Isaacs advising Councils not to be playing around with white and black politics as the headline.
Contact www.riteon.org.au or Phone 0403 934 440 for their details.
The text of my submission to Council was:
Councillors of the Town of Gawler.
We have to be frank and honest in our political dialogue.
Aboriginal elder Dr Isaacs, a former head of the Australia Day Council, says councils "should not be playing around with white politics and black politics".
"That's not in the spirit of the Australia way and to just listen to a small group of people and to change it from the 26th to the 28th doesn't stand up with me and it doesn't stand up with the community," he said.
"It [Australia Day] brings the community together, it brings the Australian people together and it celebrates the good this country has provided for everyone."
In 2021 if you are a young Australian Aboriginal, specially a girl, there is no doubt that you would be better off leaving your settlement and going in to a city, contacting a support group, and getting an education, able to live daily, unafraid of being bashed robbed or raped, or held back.
Changing the date of Australia Day or having your, almost certainly partial, DNA inheritance enshrined in the constitution in a racially discriminating way won’t help you.
This is our country. Australians have no where else to go. We have no place to run to. This is our home.
Australia – Our Nation was not given to us. It has taken centuries of hard work to build up.
And it is a great Country Number two in the World on the United Nations Human Development Index
And we are not going to give it away.
It did not come free to us. We have a duty to hold on to it and pass it on to our children. Not to other people who want to change us .
Australia is not a country which anyone in the world who wants to can come to.
Proto Nationalist Aboriginal Activists who want a 7th Australian Separate Aboriginal State are crushing the truth about our Nations settlement History.
I claim my right to engaged reasonably and in good faith in the course of discussion and conduct engaged for genuine academic, artistic, religious or scientific purpose; or
(ii) any purpose that is in the public interest;
And I claim the protection of the Australian Constitution to exercise my right to engage in Political Discourse even if some people choose to find what I say offensive or insulting.
Free speech is the absolute centrality of who we are.
When Free Speech goes wrong the ideas go wrong and the politics go wrong.
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If Liberty means anything at all it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.
We must think these things out. There must be nobody, no bureaucrat who can tell us what to do about our own future.
In 2021 White faced people who claim to be Aboriginal must not be allowed to claim that they are racially different to me.
Australians must no longer be permitted to say "I was born white, brought up white. Look white. I have 99% non-aboriginal DNA but I now identify as Aboriginal. Therefore I am aboriginal and you are racist, even though you look the same, because you do not agree."
This is lunatic. Truth is irrelevant. They claim to be a different race to me purely on social construction bordering on complete fabrication.
So that they can claim to be different and they want to divide our country by Race.
By backing these racist political advocates Councillors are being asked to pursue a policy that is racist and is the ground work for dividing Australia on Race.
Gawler Council is being badly misled. It is being misguided and confused.
Why do our politicians, specially the left wingers simply not talk about the truth.
By freezing out reality they are not able to work out the problem or the solution.
The left wing “we are more sympathetic than you” are lying to themselves. Their dream list is just not possible.
To deliberately lie about a political opponent. To prosecute political opponents for telling the truth is to distort our whole political process. Reality is now the enemy. Truth is now the enemy.
As Aboriginal elder Dr Isaacs says "It [Australia Day] brings the community together, it brings the Australian people together and it celebrates the good this country has provided for everyone."
Councils which seek to change the date do not know what they are talking about. They do not know the damage that they are doing by promoting racial division between Australians
Of Course Australia cares about Aboriginal issues. All of them.
$22,000 of tax payers money is spent on the average white man while more than $43,000 is spent on the average Aborigine.
We spend 6 Billion $6,000,000,000 Dollars per year go on these Aboriginal issues? No one knows on what. That is actually true.
In August 2016. Centre for Independent Studies by Sara Henderson confirms the report of the Steering Committee for the Review of Government Service Provision, Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage 2014. that no one, including government can answer how much is spent ? !
No one knows. How much did a specific department spend? ...• How effective is a service? ... • How much money was spent on Closing the Gap? ... • How much expenditure was related to provision as opposed to administration of Indigenous services? ... • How much benefit did Indigenous Australian get from the expenditure ...
We see massive duplication of services but
There no change in students achieving national minimum standards for reading, writing and numeracy.
No change in high rates of family and community violence
There is little change in alcohol and substance use and harm over time.
high rates of disability and chronic disease have not changed.
Outcomes have got worse in some areas.
High levels of psychological distress increased from 27 per cent in 2004-05 to 30 per cent in 2012-13, and
Aboriginal hospitalisations for intentional self-harm increased by 48 per cent
The adult imprisonment rate increased 57 per cent.
Juvenile detention rates increased sharply at around 24 times the rate for non-Indigenous youth.
Does Council think that they can fix this by having no fireworks on Australia Day? By changing the date?
This is madness. Changing the date is Political proto-aboriginal-nationalism, endorsed by left wing activists designed to split our Nation on the basis of race.
Dividing Australia on the basis of Race is not going to fix Aboriginal issues.
Just as the left wing Prime Minister Julia Gillard who passed a Federal Parliament Law, The Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Recognition Act, in 2013 that clearly stated that Aboriginal People were here first did not fix it.
Competing with each other to be the most or more compassionate is not fixing the issues.
On top of that Australians are told lies.
Back in 1890 Aboriginal People, like many other Australians voted to choose delegates to approve the Australian Constitution. South Australian Women including Aboriginal Women and men had the vote then. Second only after New Zealand.
It is politically deceptive or a lie to say otherwise.
The first nation in Australia was created in 1901 by six separate British Colonies which decided without force of threat or war that Federation would be a mutual good. A single continent with a single united nation.
Until that time in 1901 each British Colony was responsible for itself and its people, including all Aborigines. Only in the wild hinterlands of WA and Qld was it not possible to count how many there actually were. Only in those two remote States did Aboriginal people, men and women have to wait until (1902) to get the vote in the Federal Parliament. Because we did not where or how many there were to enroll.
In the case of women, including Aboriginal Women. Australia was the second country in the world where they got the universal franchise vote.
It is a politically deceptive lie to say that Aborigines were not included in the first Australian Constitution. Like every other Australian their voting rights came from State controlle voter rolls.
There was no ethnic exclusion or property qualification in the NT, SA, Victoria or NSW.
Furthermore the Australian Constitution actually put pressure on WA and QLD to include those Aborigines living in the wild hinterlands by promising an extra Federal Parliamentary seat to each of those new States when they did so.
It is a lie to claim that the Federal Constitution disenfranchised Aborigines.
It is racially divisive and a political lie and deceptive to say that Australia is not a unified nation or that the current constitution is racist. That is simply not true now but proposed amendments will make it racist.
Changing Australia day for self proclaimed “Warriors” who say Australia should burn down and white Australians have nothing to celebrate is the racist thing..
These black race activists are supported by people who have an outright hatred of white people. They deny the benefits brought by the six British Colonies that their ancestors flocked to so readily to become dependent on in their search for an easier way to obtain regular food instead of hunting and gathering.
These racist white haters must not be permitted to divide our unified nation.
They must not be permitted to expand the failure of the last fifty years of self-determination from localized isolated community failure to a whole of Australia in pursuit of a separate Aboriginal State.
Aboriginal self determination has been experimented with and it has been a complete and utter disaster. The only people advantaged have been the leaders who have tapped in as modern day “intelligent parasites” leaving their purported constituents abysmally and tragically behind.
ATSIC was disbanded because of criminal self interest and examples of “bully boy” leadership of local communities abound. They take all their parasitic benefits from, but still hate, white Australia. They say that to criticize their leadership is “racist hate speech” regardless of their record.
These “Warriors of the Aboriginal Resistance” claim that they are oppressed and occupied like Palestine and they do not recognize the Federation of Australia.
They claim that their ancestors offered a unified resistance to the British. This a political lie. Aborigines killed more of each other during early colonization (200 between 1835-1850) than they did British (59) in the same period.
Aborigines flocked to the colonists for the easier life style of rations and stimulants. Whereas Maoris gathered up to 3000 warriors at a time for a single battle to fight the British. Australian Settlers knew they were safe.
Australian Aborigines handed over the odd individual Aboriginal bandit to whitefellas on simple threats of the government not letting them “come in” to the colonial settlements. That is how keenly most Aborigines sought to benefit from and be part of the colony.
These “Warriors” now want entrenched constitutional racism to give them power, not based on democratic numbers but based on race. Even as the very concept of race is being attacked as a mere social construction.
We must not permit the risk and potential break up of Australia because of these proposed constitutional racist amendments. The changing of the date of Australia Day being but one more step towards it.
Even simply a recognition of only one race in the Constitution and not all of the other many races and ethnic groups who were here at the creation of our nation in 1901 will entrench racism and become a building block for first and second class Australian Citizens based on their race – no matter how small the DNA difference may be and no matter whether they are not visibly different.
We are not a nation torn apart by race. That is a political lie.
It is certain that the problems that Aboriginal communities have will not be bettered by giving even more power to those in charge of “self determination”. They have already failed repeatedly.
Traditional laws give men the power of life and death, forcing young girls into marriage and beating up or killing law breakers.
Lives have been relentlessly wasted by self determination in segregated aboriginal communities.
Girls in the Anangu PY Lands autonomous region of South Australia do not even bother reporting rape or sexual assaults. The male Aborigines in charge resist change and treat proponents for change with disdain.
There is no “White government” un-willingness to spend money. Every colony of Australia had instructions to treat Aborigines as “fully human beings” with equal rights.
Free schools were set up for Aborigines before poor whites. Free medical services and legal aid were set up for Aborigines before poor whites. Australia was settled and colonized during a time of enlightenment.
Customary Law is bad for all except the strong man. It is unjust and unworkable with different interpretations when it suits them.
It is a political lie to pretend that “recognition” or “self determination” has or will affect or reverse the Indigenous Disadvantage key indicators.
In central Australia the rate of hospitalization for aboriginal women in 95.6% higher than non-aboriginal women.
It is virtually impossible to find a functional Aboriginal community in the Northern Territory. And Queensland and WA aboriginal communities abound with appalling violence and sexual abuse. Towns are described as “one vast rubbish tip”.
Racist Constitutionally entrenched advantages are proposed with no objective test of race.
Social engineers and re-inventors of history to suit political advocacy just hate the democrat idea that ordinary middle class white and other non-aboriginal Australians, but specially white men, have equal votes and freedom of speech.
Aborigines were not the “Nations” first people. They were only wandering the continent. There was no Nation, no unified territory, no government, no national law, no defence force, no economy, no currency, no embassies, no passports , no recognition anywhere as a nation. No flag. Independent family groups are not a nation.
There was no Nation until it was forged by the former British Colonies in 1901 to include all residents regardless of race or country of origin and it included Aborigines.
It is a nation that 80% of aboriginal people have surged from the bush to embrace.
There must be no transfer of constitutionally entrenched racist power to Aboriginal leaders.
Discrimination on the basis of race in Australia must remain illegal and immoral.
Just like Noel Pearson who claims British/Australian Democracy as part of his heritage as an Australian. I too claim, as a white person, Aboriginal pre-colonial occupation and heritage as part of who I am as an Australian.
The Australian Nation has bent over backwards to accommodate Aboriginal activist needs but it is never enough.
Do not change the date. Stand up instead for a unified nation that seeks the way forward regardless of race, colour or creed and leaves the black racist activists as the outlier extremists that they are.
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After the Short break. There was a motion to bring a matter said to be urgent and confidential forwards in the agenda. The motion was carried. The Council Chamber cleared of observers.
I had to leave. So I did. But did not bother going back - wondering if that was the plan. I await the minutes.
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The only thing that I am disappointed with so far is that none of the conservative groups who want to save the date have lobbied this Council with me as requested while there is still an opportunity to head it off before it got too far.
24/02/21
It is not too late: Write your own thing, or cut and paste from mine, or simply say you oppose the motion.
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