In a Democracy every voice must be given equal weight otherwise it ceases to be. No culture should be given precedence over another, each individual must have equal opportunity to affect the direction their society takes
No culture should be given precedence over another, each individual must have equal opportunity to affect the direction their society takes, by granting or demanding one culture privilege over the rest ignores the reality each of us came into the space that is Australia which determined our origins, all of us including aborigines as originating genetically from elsewhere, to claim just because your ancestors came to Australia 40,000 years ago rather than last week is ridiculous - for there were even different waves of what now constitutes Australian aborigines - are we to claim it is only the earliest wave which must be given privilege. One vote one value. I was born on Australian soil as any aboriginal as of the same date and yet it is demanded I have less of a say. What makes an aboriginal more worthy of determining the direction of our nation, simply it is claimed date of arrival- We were here first, well Australia is not disconnected from the rest of the world from whence we are