Silencing First Nations / Indigenous Peoples

I can't believe that in 2025 we still refuse to respect indigenous peoples/First Nation and give them the same human rights as those who stole their land from them. 

A recent news article¹ read today is one of the most dreadful and shocking news items I've read for some time! It's available to read here. 

Politically and ethically this unconscionable. What's the point of calling yourself a democratic country while being undemocratic. Every human being must be given the same human rights. There's no such thing as one person being more important than another. Because then you'd be arguing that some humans are less human than others and that is ethically corrupt.

As for Australia. After Evonne Goolagong became such a successful tennis player you'd thing things would change for the better for the indigenous people in Australia. Well, yes, there have been some feeble attempts with some success. But the 2023 Referendum caused more harm than good. 

Obviously referendums are counterproductive because should the result be disadvantageous to a particular group in society it unleashes chaos, violence and racism. It divides a nation and harms it but it's difficult to do anything about it because the referendum result cannot be reversed without holding another one and they seem to cost a lot of money so that's a disincentive. Referendums don't work because the cost is too high so the debate is curtailed as it was before the Brexit vote. Hence, the British population made uninformed decisions when it came to voting on whether to leave the EU.

In Australia, the 2023 Referendum vote went against giving a Political Voice and a seat at the table in Parliament to the First Nation Aborigines and Torres Strait Islanders. So laws are made about them without them. 

This sounds like the recent 'trans are not women' debate in England. There was no trans Voice allowed in the decision making about their lives. This is undemocratic and, therefore, discriminatory, therefore, should be scrapped on that basis alone. It's a no-brainer unless you fail to understand the term democracy.

We can map this onto Israel. Jews are, without a doubt, the indigenous people/First Nation of the land of Israel and further afield, which could be the problem. Just like the Aborigines suffer racism, discrimination, gaslighting and 'silencing' so do Jews in Israel, and in the diaspora. What happens in Israel has a knock-on effect on Jews elsewhere. It's illogical but people are chronically illogical. Now since the West tries to eradicate indigenous peoples/First Nations it affects any group that has indigenous roots, such as, Jews. And that's before you introduce Westernised interpretation of Christianity which sees itself as superior to indigenous Jews and Judaism.

We can further map this onto LGBTQ+ people who have always had a respected and useful place in indigenous cultures. 

Therefore, it's not that being LGBTQ+ is a recent trend but rather the opposite. It's linked to being indigenous. 

The real 'trend' is this Western, white, Christian, cis, gender binary promotion of heterosexual relationships and their subsequent nuclear families with a biological mother and father. This is what's unnatural. And a relatively recent phenomenon, historically speaking.

¹BBC News. ‘Australia’s Last Vote Was All about Indigenous People - Now They Say It’s “Silence”’, 29 April 2025. 

https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cx2v6zy2nyvo.