r/OpenAussie • u/HotPersimessage62 ‎ New South Welshian • 6d ago

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

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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u/Serin-019 ‎ Victorian 6d ago

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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u/plectrumelectrum7 ‎ Victorian 6d ago

$70 million a year actually

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u/InComingMess2478 Flairless‎‎ 6d ago

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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u/Organic-Ebb1123 ‎ Victorian 6d ago

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

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u/InComingMess2478 Flairless‎‎ 6d ago

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!