That’s not my opinion, but the opinion of aboriginal activist Lowitja O’Donoghue in the context of the setting up of a replacement ATSIC body:
Ms O’Donoghue said she did not support a directly elected body because Aboriginal people would always want to support their own people. “My view is that we are not a democratic people…”
So I never want to hear again from an aboriginal activist about how they were denied general voting rights by the Federal government (some exceptions were made for military service and previous state voting rights) upon Australia’s Federation.
This whole new body just smacks of entitlement and victimology, with its aim of taking the rights and money off other people. It is also typical of the left, who give token support to democracy and individual rights and liberty. While being funded by tax-payers, the new body also wants:
…a future fund financed via a percentage of mining tax receipts. They also want the body to gain charitable status to receive tax-free donations. The national representative body would play over the next 20 years a leading role in achieving constitutional recognition and a treaty.
In otherwords a seperate government from the Commonwealth, which will be undemocratic, paid for of course by the 56 per cent of families living in the Commonwealth that actually pay tax. Sounds like a great deal for aboriginal self-styled elites.