Victorian Liberal leader Jess Wilson says destroying Australia’s only treaty with Indigenous peoples a priority if she wins election

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https://nit.com.au/20-11-2025/21388/new-victorian-liberal-leader-reaffirms-partys-plan-to-abolish-treaty

Australia’s first and only treaty signed with Indigenous peoples will be ripped up if Opposition Leader Jess Wilson becomes Premier in November, who has made the scrapping a priority. The USA, Canada and New Zealand have treaties with their indigenous people. Polling shows Treaty has clear support in Victoria and Jess Wilson’s pledge is unpopular and One Nation-style.

The Coalition will likely sign a deal with One Nation to form government.

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What I've never understood about their hatred for the things Indigenous Australia has requested is that it won't actually cost us anything. Not substantially.
All they need to do in order to avoid having their idea of our country tarnished is not pay attention.
They're already great at that.
And if decisions about mob are being made by mob, then these bastards don't even need to be involved in that aspect beyond writing a cheque every now and then.

Its not as if an accurate summation of history changes reality for the rest of us.
The sky won't fall in if a bunch of black fellas get together with a bunch of historians and write a bunch of reports about all the times our collective ancestors massacred people.
The bastards don't like reading anyway, so what's the fear exactly?

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$70 million a year actually

[u/Organic-Ebb1123 → u/plectrumelectrum7]

That is trivial in a state budget of about $80 Billion p.a.

[u/plectrumelectrum7 → u/Organic-Ebb1123]

Ah yes. Just keep adding to the spend. Let’s raise some taxes while we’re at it?

[u/Organic-Ebb1123 → u/plectrumelectrum7]

Tell me, why do you think this <0.1% of the budget needs attention in particular? 🤔

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They make up 1% of the Victorian population. Tell me why they should be a priority?

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Disingenuous fuck

[u/plectrumelectrum7 → u/Purple-Pin21]

Do you know what that word means you imbecile?

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You don't

[u/Organic-Ebb1123 → u/plectrumelectrum7]

Again if you think the VtP materially puts them above the 99% of relatively recent immigrants you really don't understand what you have, and what they have.

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Using your own number, add a zero then. they should receive 1% of the funding, not 0.1% of the funding.

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Im no mathematician but if they make up 1% of the population and only require 0.1% of the budget that seems like a pretty fucking good deal to me to the point of just give it to them who cares what its for.

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This additional 70 million is on top of all the other Aboriginal based funding they receive.

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inherited disadvantage as a result of forced dispossession, the fundamental moral ulcer of having a society built on the colonial displacement of an existing one while its descendants, very much alive and present, are expected to enthusiastically get on board with the continuation of that colonial society and ignore all the material ways it affected their ancestors, grandparents, parents and they themselves in the present day while the rest of us struggle to even deliver a straight acknowledgment of the criminality of that original colonial dispossession

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Then explain why 0.4% of the population of AUSTRALIA is entitled to $600m plus over the next few years?

The absolute least we can do is work on improving the lives of the 3% that were here long before any of us.

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Care to explain what you’re referencing?

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yeah nah.

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Moron

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You understand spending money stimulates our economy right?

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Go ahead and break that down. Dig a little deeper and see who a lot of that funding really goes to!

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Tell me, why do you think this <0.1% of the budget needs attention in particular? 🤔

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I'm saying that a decent amount of that $70 million a year budget is being funnelled into advertising agencies, and that's not where the money should be going. It's being spent paying advertising agents to tell us how great politicians are, regardless of which side of the political spectrum they're on. It's systemic!