Australians, esp journalists, politicians and commentators maintaining their focus on Lydia Thorpe's swearing-in 'validity' and her right to be in the Senate are willfully missing point.

When they focus on her behaviour and manners at APH rather than what she was communicating, they are willfully missing the point.

Those who opine she disagreed with the Voice and so now its all her fault the referendum did not get up must also pretend there was not an LNP fronted, billionaire funded campaign against the Voice, and are willfully missing the point.

The point is that over two centuries of colonialism, dispossession and injustice have profound, ongoing consequences, and these need to be acknowledged. And owned.

And this ownership has an unbroken chain of custody dating back to 1788. So the choice to retain that family as our Head of State means non-FN folk must accept the bad with the anodyne kitch 'good', and own this too.

Why are we so willfully blind to this? Why is this so difficult to understand and communicate?

#auspol #LydiaThorpe #colonialism #aboriginal #justice #Truth #Treaty #Voice #Australia

"The departure of DjabWurrung Gunnai Gunditjmara Senator Lidia Thorpe to the crossbench—a development that is hardly unprecedented—brings into focus, once again, an abiding problem of contemporary politics, namely, the limitations of the whole idea of a political party."
#VoiceToParliament #LydiaThorpe #TheGreens #AusPol #democracy

https://tdunlop.substack.com/p/voice