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Mike Bailey's avatar

Love your work. Thank you.

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Having done a first pass on UNDRIP, I have a bunch of red flags going up . This declaration was adopted in 2007. Australia voted against it then "On April 3, 2009, the Rudd Government formally endorsed the Declaration" Take into account all that has happened these last eight months, this makes sense. "In October 2007 former Australian Prime Minister John Howard pledged to hold a referendum on changing the Australian constitution to recognise Indigenous Australians if re-elected." All we have witnessed is Albo trying to bring to fruition,. little Johnnies plan from 2007 despite voting against UNDRIP the same year. If we look at the Voice, the states renaming places, the Vic government statement to have a treaty, QLD indicating its looking at it as well. This UNDRIP has been getting implemented for a long time. Some of the things I see in my workplace are starting to make more sense. But UNDRIP is definitely the underpinning document for the Uluru statement, no question about that. However when read very carefully one can see the traps that have been laid for all Australians with the main target being the Aboriginal people. The whole thing has a stench of hypocrisy, it claims it is designed to stop racism yet, there is an undertone of racism inherent in its wording and intent. Very dangerous indeed.

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