Opinion
Australians might have voted overwhelmingly to reject the “Indigenous Voice”, but we’re getting all its worst outcomes, anyway. Mostly courtesy of Labor state governments who are going behind voter’s backs and colluding with dodgy “indigenous” groups.
Remember when they lied to our faces that the “Voice” wouldn’t constitute an apartheid system, where Australians are legally separated by race? Well, even without the “Voice”, we’re getting the apartheid anyway.
Visitors will no longer be able to set foot on one of Australia’s premier tourist destinations under a proposed plan to protect its cultural significance for traditional owners.
That’s not entirely true: some visitors will be allowed. They’ve just got to be of the right, magic race.
Under a proposed management plan, all recreational access to the lake bed will be banned out of respect for Arabana culture.
Their lore considers it dangerous to visit the lake without the guidance of cultural authority.
Which is odd, because thousands of people have visited the lake, for decades, and not one has been swallowed by the rainbow serpent, or even so much as mildly threatened by a wandjina.
Yet, we’re somehow expected to treat these Stone Age fairy stories with anything but the mild derision they deserve.
Arabana Aboriginal Corporation chairwoman Bronwyn Dodd said her people were proud to share Kati Thanda-Lake Eyre.
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Yes: they’re “sharing” it so much that they’re locking everyone else out.
Just as “Aboriginal activists” are doing across the country, from Uluru, to Koonalda Caves in the Nullarbor, Sacred Canyon in Ikara-Flinders Ranges, Ngaut Ngaut Conservation Park, and Mt. Warning in NSW.
Expect the list of “No Whites Allowed” areas to keep growing.
If our biggest lake can be declared a sacred site, off limits to non-Aborigines, how long before activists declare the whole continent sacred, too? […]
This seems part of a new power flex that’s already seen non-Aborigines banned from climbing Uluru, Mt Disappointment, parts of the Grampians and Mt Arapiles, and from visiting the Gunlom Falls in the Kakadu National Park.
Remember when John Howard was castigated by the chattering classes for showing, on live television, the vast swathes of Australia potentially open to “Native Title” claims. Howard seems like a sunny optimist in retrospect.
How can the South Australian government consider this racial ban, when the Federal Court, in granting the Arabana native title over the lake in 2012, ruled this did “not confer possession, occupation, use and enjoyment of the determination area to the exclusion of others”? Give an inch, take a mile.
The Herald-Sun
And if there’s a dollar in it, you bet a “sacred site” will suddenly appear. More of that dreamtime magic, I guess.