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Australian senators censured Senator Lidia Thorpe for her outburst against King Charles III during his visit, calling him a colonizer and demanding land and reparations. Thorpe defended her actions, stating she would repeat them if Charles returned.

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[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 6 days ago

You know she can't vote for a king, right?

[-] barsoap@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago)

And the king has no political influence. The gripe of the Aborigines is with the people actually running the country, with (portions of) the prevailing sentiment in the rest of the population, not the king. The king is just a symbol, a mascot, a piece of ceremony, this is like blaming Bugs Bunny that your movie script got refused.

The king didn't make the Voice referendum fail. That was, best I can tell, a mixture of Chinese bot farms and "yep we should do something but this is not it". There's of course also racists around but they would've been drowned out by the rest of the electorate where it not for those factors.

I don't think reconciliation failed, I don't think even the Voice idea failed, but it needs more workshopping, say, having a wider set of established advisory bodies (just spitballing). Over here there's a minority party which is exempt from the electoral threshold, that's another idea. Whether Australia is a monarchy or republic has quite literally nothing to do with that, it's an orthogonal issue.

...and how come I'm the fucking only one in this thread actually talking about aboriginal rights? Why's everyone so fucking focussed on the monarchy thing, at the expense of those issues?

[-] FlyingSquid@lemmy.world 2 points 5 days ago

I don't know. How come you're one of the fucking only ones who doesn't understand colonial symbolism?

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