colliric wrote:Technically we inherited this culture from the British. So I guess you can blame them.
Actually, most of the Australian population are the great-great-great-children of those who killed the aboriginals for their British masters. So you've got the best killers as your genetic material. Plus lots of recent mercenaries looking to tap into the easy money that can be made swindling killers and coal miners.
Instead of "recognising" Melbourne should seek to flat out increase its Aboriginal population even if we have to draw them from interstate. It's embarrassing to me that this city has the lowest percentage.
It's not just embarassing. The general "culture" of Australia is a living atrocity.
Fires just sent several species into extinction or near-extinction, and the "public voices" of Australia spent all of their effort trying to convince everyone that "this is normal and not freakish" so that Australians don't even think about changing their behavior.
Think about this. If after the next fire, Australia becomes uninhabitable and half the population dies off, our media will probably try to convince us to go back to buying massive vehicles and using all the fossil fuels we can. "It's what all those dead Australians would have wanted us to do."
This kind of "media voice" (which has replaced social conversations about important stuff) demonstrates no hope for change or survival unless there's a major social revolution. Otherwise, it's on to the next callously-lived-through global barbie.