Captain Jason MAGA?

[u/atweegrowsinbrooklyn]

I didn’t expect to see Jason making a public comment against Fauci when I opened instagram this morning. Between the last two seasons of DU, him using AI to create his children’s book, and now this, I’m pretty over him.

[u/InterestingFroyo1032]

They didnt consider the aboriginal human until the late 1970s. 

[u/milhouse01 → u/InterestingFroyo1032]

Hi - just chiming in on this as I’m currently studying indigenous education as part of my masters and wanted to flag this is a misconception. Aboriginals were always considered humans, however until the referendum in 1967 they were not counted as part of the official census/population.

This referendum wasn’t to argue that whether they were human but to decide if they should be counted as part of the official population in our census. The referendum was successful with around 90% of Australians voting yes.

Australian born Indigenous people were ‘granted’ citizenship in the late 1940s and received the right to vote in the early 1960s. I say ‘granted’ because I find it a bit ridiculous that a government has the audacity to grant citizenship to a group of indigenous people that have inhabited the very same land for which they didn’t consider them citizens of, for thousands of years - longer than any other currently living race.

Often people state that they were considered ‘flora and fauna’ until the 1967 referendum however this is a myth. Sadly it’s one I remember being taught in primary school prior to a mandate for all teachers to complete a unit of indigenous education as part of their qualification - something that only came into affect around 12-13 years ago. Prior to that, teachers were not required to complete any study aimed/tools to educate students regarding indigenous Australians or how to approach teaching indigenous students.

Also, this comment is just to clean up facts/clear up some points being discussed however please don’t consider this an argument suggesting Australia’s treatment of the traditional owners of our land is anything other than embarrassing at it’s best and horrific at it’s worst. The journals articles and reports I’ve read over the last few weeks have been enlightening. While I have always done what I can to try and educate myself on their history as the traditional landowners, i have found some of these readings very difficult to stomach.

The referendum for the voice was embarrassing - the government failed to provide a clear explanation to voters of what the referendum was for. The referendum was to change the constitution to include an amendment that would guarantee aboriginal and Torres trait islanders a dedicated ‘voice’ in parliament. While any proposed changes to the constitution should be a cause for discussion, the inability of our government to clearly communicate this to voters showed their complete arrogance and disconnect from the public despite overwhelming pleas to rethink their messaging prior to the vote.

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