From 2GB: One Nation has staged a protest against Welcome to Country. Party members turned their backs during the ceremony.
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Ben Fordham: There’s been some tense scenes on the first day of federal parliament. One Nation has staged a silent protest during a welcome/acknowledgement in the Senate involving Indigenous Australians. Pauline Hanson and three of her party colleagues turned their backs and the One Nation leader says – our whole team has made it clear, we’ve had enough of being told we don’t belong in our own country. Now it’s not the first time Pauline has done this but it is the first time her long time colleague Malcolm Roberts has decided to take part and he’s on the line right now. Malcolm Roberts, good morning to you.
Malcolm ROBERTS: Good morning Ben. How are things?
Ben Fordham: Pretty good. Thank you so much for joining us. So, why did you join in with the protest yesterday?
Malcolm ROBERTS: Well our constituents Ben, across Australia have had a gutful. They’ve had enough of being welcomed to their own country and secondly and very importantly, we care for Aboriginals and what’s happening with these token services, token ceremonies is that they’re ignoring the real plight of Aboriginals which is real and we care about that. And we just listen to our constituents and our constituents have said both those messages.
Ben Fordham: Any reactions from some of your parliamentary colleagues in there? From the other parties?
Malcolm ROBERTS: No. No, not at all. They probably didn’t even realise it had happened.
Ben Fordham: I reckon there is a time and a place for these things and if there was a time and if there was a place it would be on the opening day of parliament, but you’ve obviously got a stronger view than me. You don’t think there’s any time, any place to have an Indigenous acknowledgement?
Malcolm ROBERTS: Not an acknowledgement of country Ben. I went to Yarralumba, the Governor-General’s residence on Sunday for a family day and we got a lecture, the Governor-General handed it over to the Indigenous – the aboriginal person and we got a lecture for ten minutes and the fact is that our sovereignty, there was never any sovereignty that had to be ceded. And then on Tuesday, we got four times a welcome to country or acknowledgement of country. The Ecumenical Church Service in the church started with that acknowledgement of country and then we had a welcome to country event and then we had the Governor-General opening parliament giving a welcoming ceremony and then we had the start of the Senate and that’s when we said “that’s enough, that’s it, we’ve had enough” and the President was appointed and she started the Senate with a welcome to country or acknowledgement of country. And Ben it gets ridiculous. I was at a conference in Mackay in Central Queensland and we had a speaker on a video tele-conference – she gave an acknowledge to the people of Canberra and to the people of Mackay. I mean this is crazy!
Ben Fordham: We revealed just on Monday that a daycare centre in Sydney where toddlers are being told they have to do a acknowledgement or a welcome at the start of the day.
Malcolm ROBERTS: Yeah it’s just – it perpetuates division and diverts the real care away from needy and deserving aboriginals Ben. But it also fractures and indoctrinates people. There’s plenty to celebrate in every culture but we don’t have to be welcomed to our own country every day and especially in Kindy. Come on!
Ben Fordham: Is this something that you’re going to be doing again in the future?
Malcolm ROBERTS: Yes. Every day.
Ben Fordham: What, do they do it every day though? Is there a welcome or acknowledgement at the start of every day?
Malcolm ROBERTS: Yes, there is. In the Senate …
Ben Fordham: Every day?
Malcolm ROBERTS: Every day, mate. That’s what I’m talking about. Every day. It start with an acknowledgement to country and then we go onto the prayers. And then we get on with business. So, it’s not needed. We’ve got three flags in the Senate …
Ben Fordham: So there were calls about a year or so ago for people to boo during welcome to country ceremonies at the AFL and I came out at the time and said absolutely not. I mean you’ve got to think about the poor person whose been given the responsibility of getting up there and doing the welcome. It’s not their call that they’re doing it and it’s not fair to do that to people so this is a silent protest and Malcolm Roberts is saying that they do the acknowledgment at the start of every single sitting day and that’s what we’re talking about when we’re saying this is overdone, it’s an overload, which is why some people are saying “enough is enough”.
Exactly ,,,, I’d had a gutfull of this indigenous rubbish years ago . It’s also an excuse cash grad jackpot for indigenous elites . They are a fact of life but have done absolutely nothing in this country to benefit , white man has done and built everything .
This is “the Great Southland of the Holy Spirit”. Folks we have to Pray! Pray ! to stop to break this evil rubbish ! and to help Pauline Hanson to stand up in parliament! and let her voice be heard , for the media to let her have her say, and not block it, because she’s a threat to the government and their corrupt lies, evil decisions ,We need someone who can stand up to China, and tariff them, we don’t need China as a trading , we need someone to stop Chinas economic control, will bring and do good for this Australia, no we need someone like her to stand up and do what is right for this nation, she’s willing to do good for the people ,, and get this country back!! out of CCP control that Albanese and his gutless weakness party are destroying this beautiful country, and it’s resources, who? Owns Australia, let’s storm heaven, in prayer and break smash this evil, control, and to break the power of darkness, and the strong hold where the labor and LNP trying to keep her down, stopping her to speak, the labor has to go! Australia is a laughing stock! We supposed to be allies with ally countries not run to China , if Malcolm Fraser could turf out Whitlam, I “AGREE” greatly, this leftists woke labor and LNP parties have to go, they are ruining Australia down with bad choices,
not good! !God didn’t use indigenous to colonise and build Australia, He sent the white man to colonise the world, to educate and Christianity , to build communities, schools, hospitals, these indigenous are happy living off free, that the government have done, now they want their land and ours we worked hard for! the indigenous had nothing, did nothing , uneducated! using the excuse of burial sites, to take resourceful land, the government want the land and it’s not! for good use either, they failed with the voice and now they are trying again with this welcome rubbish, it is pitiful and discriminatory against Australia and Australians , the government is using this to discriminate against !the people of Australia, it is also the people who stupidly voted them in, giving them control that control is coming from China, to use Australia against America, to keep Australia against America when we need America, and to build their tyranny BRI Folks only the power of prayer will break all of this! nothing is impossible with God, but impossible for man
What’s this really all about ,,, it’s about money ,,,,yes ?
Facts are always so detrimental to woke ideologies.
Reparations ; people who never were slaves wanting money from people who never had slaves ,,,,.
My family and I have broken our backs all our lives in this country we were born in, working hard and very long hours for us in OUR COUNTRY and we’ve all had more than a gutful of this alleged disgraceful farce welcome to a conned country by the Aboriginal Corporations and the further vile insults that have been inflicted upon us when some fools hold up signs saying pay the rent. Welcome to country is a disgrace and DO NOT welcome us to our own country.
Money is a motivator, but it is much more than just that. It is part of a larger program, orchestrated from without (and coerced and bribed from within), designed to weaken the national consciousness and identity. The end result is to make Australia just another cog in the wheel of the coming world government. Australia has huge resources that are coveted from without, so control over the land must not be in the hands (or to the benefit of) of the nation or the people. Nationalism has no place in this order. It seeks to centralise all sovereignty (and wealth) into one ugly “beast”of a world controlling power. All efforts to resist this agenda must be browbeaten down, using deluded insiders (including some aboriginal peoples). Most probably do not even realise the long term implications of their obeisance (that is ultimately, slavery and destruction).
Labor is not!! making good choices, for Australia, nor doing any good, for the nation, and people, they are doing a lot of harm, and hurting the people and making Australia a laughing stock, The Labour Party are not sitting in a good position, because we don’t support or allied speak of good towards Israel , we will be cursed not blessed, when we have a evil government , it makes the people sad, a evil government can be used to turn the hearts of people back to the heart of God, we are living in end times,, we are to pray,!! and only God can put or remove governments
“If my people who are called by my name, will humble themselves, pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wickedness, wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven, and restore their land “
“May their( the labor , Albanese government) days be few, and let others take their place as leader
9For God so loved the world, he gave his only begotten son, that who shall ever believe that Jesus Christ is the son of God, shall not die, but have eternal life “