Re: Sam Newman at it again!
Reply #2 –
“The public have had a gutful of people telling us how to live our lives, particularly footballing organisations. We like to go to the football and watch the game without being told to vote for the gay marriage proposal … without being told to vote for the Voice. Why do they get involved? It is an absolute hoax, it’s a rort, the Welcome to Country. Why do we have to be welcomed to the country we live in? Why is that? It is just a mark of division. The people who welcome you to country get a nice stipend out of it. Why do they charge? It’s just a rort.”
The problem here is that a lot of people are going to side with Newman, even if it's just a tiny bit true that is too much truth to be comfortable for some.
I go back to the flag rorting, local council's were being systematically badgered into flying an Indigenous flag then being sent an invoice for permission to fly an indigenous flag. It was never about signalling and all about income, and that cheapens and dirties the motives, something that should be a good thing is forever sullied.
Even sadder, a few fairly senior indigenous leaders have seemingly become persona-non-grata in their own culture because they called out the unconscionable behaviour on both sides of the debate. Reason it seems is not reasonable in cancel culture.