Heads up, don’t use the word “aboriginees” to describe out first peoples. It’s Aboriginals or first nations for the most part.
But yeah fuck this cunt.
DreamAccountant@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Australia still treats its native population horribly. Nazi style horribly. Every single piece of news about the aborigines has been bad for decades, with little or no social assistance in any way.
When you accuse a human being of being an ‘oxygen theif’ at their trial, nazis are prevalent in society.
Fuck you, Australia.
Taleya@aussie.zone 1 day ago
Steve@startrek.website 1 day ago
Good thing you guys dont have guns
Nath@aussie.zone 13 hours ago
Fair. Though this has been steadily improving and continues to improve.
No. While this was once true, it has not been true for about a century. Even the scandalous Stolen Generations, which was effectively an attempt at cultural genocide, was approached with the intent of improving the lives of Aboriginal peoples. The worst Australian policies of 50 years ago were not about rounding up and mass-murdering aboriginal people. If you throw Nazism around everywhere, you dilute the word. There is plenty of room for criticism of Australia’s treatment of Aboriginal people but don’t go overboard or you weaken your argument.
Nazism is illegal here:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/…/105773522
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-04/…/105732982
www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/pm/…/105727024
But it is also present and we are fighting a war against it:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-01/…/105722068
You probably only see the stuff that makes your feed globally and yes, there is plenty of news that is bad. But there’s lots that isn’t as well. The last piece of news I read before this article was about Cathy Freeman being inducted into Stadium Australia’s inaugural Hall of Fame list. Here: have some news that is nicer:
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-16/…/105777908
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-04/…/104653506
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-28/…/103896464
www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-13/…/103458314
www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-04/…/102810296
Again, let me correct you here:
…gov.au/payments-and-support-for-indigenous-austr…
www.niaa.gov.au/our-work/grants-and-funding
…gov.au/…/indigenous-australians-health-programme
www.indigenous.gov.au/grants
Look, I’m not saying we’re perfect on this front. Hell, I don’t even think I’d go so far as to say we’re good on this front. But we’re trying, ok?
manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 12 hours ago
The stolen generation continues under other names, Indigenous familes are still regularly torn apart in the name of child protection, Grand Mothers Against Removals is a group that works to keep children in community, you can read some more about them here
www.foe.org.au/grandmothers_against_removals
I’m not going to spend the time responding to every one of your points, but you might need to take a step back and think about you were so quick to ardently defend an imperialist settler colony
p.s.
something that is really irking me lately is the implication that the state banning racist hand gestures, and nazi flags is going to solve anything.
Banning nazi symbols only means nazis now march under the australian flag, the australian flag was already a colonial symbol, it comes from a time when the state was explicitly white supremacist. I feel like I’m taking crazy pills.
Nath@aussie.zone 11 hours ago
I have absolutely no idea how you can read the words “scandalous” and “cultural genocide” and think I was defending anything. I was saying that comparing the worst of government policies to literally rounding up every man, woman and child and outright murdering them is damaging to your argument. They are terrible failures in policy, but they are not comparable to Nazi policies.
What exactly do you propose the government do instead? We can’t lock people away for what they think. We can only prosecute them when they do something like hate speech, waving Nazi flags or doing Nazi salutes.
stib@aus.social 11 hours ago
@Nath
Uhh, isn't "literally rounding up every man, woman and child" exactly what went on? What else would you call the hundreds of massacres that occurred up and down the continent? The colonisers lacked the twentieth century mechanised efficiency of the Nazis, but the intent was just as explicitly genocidal.
@manuallybreathing