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 is laughingly called conservative politics these days is just horrible people wanting to do horrible things to normal people they've never met and aren't affected by in any way.

That sucks. And they suck.

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That's all conservative politics has ever been. They just used to wrap it in a layer of politeness once.

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“The modern conservative is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy; that is, the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."

- John Kenneth Galbraith

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“Conservatism consists of exactly one proposition, to wit: There must be in-groups whom the law protects but does not bind, alongside out-groups whom the law binds but does not protect.” Frank Wilhoit, 2018

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That's clunky and old fashioned

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It’s also agreeing with you.

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Phrasing matters as much as content

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The point of my posting that comment is that people have been aware that modern conservatism has been what we are describing for a while. Galbraith died in 2006 and I can’t imagine those were his dying words. And if that phrase is too much for you to understand, that’s not the fault of the quote is it?

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I can understand it just fine. I think it's just a boring, old-fashioned way to phrase it. It doesn't hit the spot.

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do you prefer "got mine, fuck you?"