VICTORIA’S neo-Marxist Labor Premier Jacinta Allen has announced the creation of an Aboriginal bureaucratic elite – a virtual separate parliament – who will take over the administration of Aboriginal services in addition to requiring all government agencies to “consult” with them.
Victoria’s first “Treaty Agreement” is contained in the Statewide Treaty Bill, in other words an official “Voice” system for the Aboriginal bureaucratic elite, the very idea that was rejected by a national referendum of the Australian people. It will be called “Gulungurul” and takes over from the current so-called First People’s Assembly, the prototype of Victoria’s Voice.
“It puts the decision-making powers about initiatives, about policies, about services that impact Aboriginal Victorians into the hands of the First People’s Assembly through Gulungurul,” the femo-socialist clown announced.
There already exists a peak body for Victoria’s Aboriginal-run health organisations, called VACCHO, but apparently this is not enough “self determination” for the so-called indigenous community.
The Premier went on to explain as an example of how “Gulungural” will work, is that “the Bill will require government agencies, government departments, statutory authorities to consult with Gulungurul on the policies and programs that they are designing that directly impact and affect, and that are also designed to support Aboriginal Victorians.
“It (Gulunguru) will also too, be the driver of an ongoing accountability mechanism across government and also have that ongoing really important role around truth-telling and healing that needs to continue beyond the conclusion of the Yoorrook Justice Commission,” she said.
So can Victorian bureaucrats and politicians expect to be hauled before indigenous inquisition panels citing “colonialist crimes” against the first nations peoples and demanding reparations?
Will these so-called “accountability mechanisms” cite instances of “institutional racism and genocide” and demand grovelling public apologies by officials and others in the manner of Chinese Communist-style “sorry sessions”?
And will the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples be cited by this indigenous bureaucracy in order to futher subvert and bypass the state’s political processes?
But of course it will be the money, the reparations, that will shut up this well-heeled indigenous elite living off the public purse on top level corporate public service salaries.
The Victorian Opposition has shown some gonads and withdrew its support for the state-based treaty last year, ending years of bipartisan support for the process.
The Shadow Aboriginal Affairs Minister and Victorian Nationals leader, Peter Walsh, said the Coalition made the decision because of mounting concerns over delays being caused by cultural heritage processes.
He said property developers had raised concerns with him that the current cultural heritage system was resulting in higher construction costs for Victorian homes, which is now entrenched under the Treaty Bill.
“The traditional owner groups have a monopoly under government legislation,” Mr Walsh told ABC Radio Melbourne. “There’s no compulsion on timelines, there’s no real set fee structure, there’s no appeal process.”
Mr Walsh said the shadow cabinet had agreed it would not support a treaty until there had been changes to the Traditional Owner Settlement Act and Cultural Heritage Act to reduce the burden of compliance on landowners.
“I’ve got example after example where people have been held up for not very good reasons at all,” he said.
This sort of harrassment of property-owning “whitey Victorians” is a dream come true for chip-on-the-shoulder blacktivists, the latest generation groomed by the Victorian Communist Party land rights activists for the past half century and longer.
In the 2023 Voice Referendum, 54% of Victorians voted no, not an entirely convincing majority and indicative of the rusted on Labor vote in the state.
An example of the privilege of the elite Aboriginal bureaucracy is the co-chair of the Victorian First Peoples Assembly, Reuben Berg, a so-called “proud Gunditjmara man”.
Berg is not only co-chair of the Victorian First People’s Assembly but represents the Eastern Maar Aboriginal Corporation, a “traditional owner group” of south-western Victoria.
Berg’s other bureaucratic appointments are: DFPrevious member of the Heritage Council of Victoria, which advises the government and others on how to protect historically important places and objects; founder and director of Indigenous Architecture and Design Victoria; Managing Director of RJHB Consulting and chairman of Westernport Water – the first Aboriginal person appointed to chair a water corporation in Victoria. He was also a Commissioner for the Victorian Environmental Water Holder.
Dare we say Mr Berg is doing quite nicely, thank you. And he’s not alone in the privileged Aboriginal bureaucracy who inhabit dozens of corporate health and welfare delivery agencies in addition to indigenous consultancies to help the white fellas negotiate the complex web of state and federal indigenous laws.
