Avoiding accuracy isn’t helpful. Aborigines living in isolated communities hardly spoke English let alone understand the political voting system. The 1967 .. included all as equal citizens & eligible to vote. But equal opportunity is not equity. Equity is “same” level of education , knowledge & values. Wages, economy & accommodation were new concepts. For many Ab people they still are. No racism. A VOICE may not be what all Ab people need or want to be happy.
Great video, thanks; short and to the point with no extraneous information. One minor point - the 1948 Act defined Australian Citizenship for *all* legal residents of Australia (including the indigenous); your video could be interpreted as saying it was a special act targeted at them alone. Everyone was considered a British subject up to that point, including the indigenous - Australian citizenship didn't exist. Once it was promulgated, everyone rightfully entitled to citizenship received it. Of course it would have been a travesty for it to be any different - the simple fact it wasn't represented progress in itself, so it's worthy of a mention.
And while it is tempting to label these old policies as overtly evil, and call our parents and grandparents bad people (thus making ourselves feel more enlightened and superior by comparison) we must understand the world was a very different place 75 years ago, and people of ALL ethnicities thought very differently.
While of course it's important to recognize ‘our’ history, there’s a deeper imperative to contextually, and culturally understand the motivations for such behaviour beyond: Weren't they all horrifying racists, and aren’t we all supremely progressive! A message might even be discerned concerning popular, crowd-pleasing, and overt virtue signalling, encouraging intolerance, narrow-mindedness, dogmatism, and prejudice of other cultures from this very situation.
Work out who is Aboriginal- and stop complaining about everything- People had a very hard time back then. Most people have a positive attitude to Aboriginals and want to do what they can for them. Like I said work out who is ABORIGINAL.
