• Art35ian
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    -591 year ago

    I’m voting ‘no’.

    If you want a job in politics with a $200K salary, earn it. I don’t care what colour your skin is.

    • @kaitco
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      441 year ago

      Why is the assumption that the individuals who will receive these jobs won’t be qualified for them?

      • @[email protected]
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        381 year ago

        He’s just repackaging the usual “hiring quotas” idiocy where they pretend that there’s people in board rooms saying “well this man has every degree that Harvard offers but unfortunately we need to hire a woman so we’re giving the job to this high school drop out that was visibly drunk in the interview”.

        The reality is that any job opening ends up with a pool of candidates, all of which are qualified for the job and it won’t be any different here.

        But they can’t say the truth, so they say shit like this instead.

      • @niemcycle
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        21 year ago

        Methinks somehow they do care what colour their skin is…

    • Skua
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      141 year ago

      Surely this is more like adding a couple extra constituencies that are a bit geographically splintered? I know the powers and structure aren’t identical to MPs, but it’s not like you’re voting to just give three specific guys jobs for life

      • Art35ian
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        -321 year ago

        It’s likely 100s of jobs for life, with government pension added at retirement. Math that out over 25 years and it’s somewhere around $500 million dollars.

        If my tax dollars are contributing to $500M in my lifetime, I want it going to people with degrees and a fuckton of experience.

        The last time we let someone into politics with no experience and no degree, we got Pauline Hanson. I’m not voting yes to 100 more Pauline Hansons.

        • @doublejay1999
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          241 year ago

          You dig up 200 billion dollars of minerals out of their back yard EACH YEAR and you don’t feel like kicking back literally a couple of quid ?

          Nice

        • Skua
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          About a quarter of the MPs in parliament haven’t got degrees. Plenty of their staff won’t have either.

          $500,000,000 over 25 years is less than a dollar per person per year. Let’s not pretend that the number you’ve come up with there is some bank-breaking extravagance for a large economy over the course of decades.

        • @grue
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          101 year ago

          So why do you believe non-white people couldn’t possibly have “degrees and a fuckton of experience?”

          • Art35ian
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            Because the people put into these Voice positions will be Elders of Indigenous communities.

            And since I personally worked on the 2013-16, $10M Indigenous communities research project for utilities connection and communication strategy, I know that 11% of the people in those communities are literate and the data point for tertiary-level education was so low it was rounded to 0.

            To communicate the process of utilities connection, it was determined to best use pictures, which is still the strategy today.

            Any more questions, hero?

            • @grue
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              221 year ago

              Ah, so it’s not that you’re racist because you believe indigenous people are inherently less capable, but instead that you’re racist because you see nothing wrong with perpetuating institutional racism. “Disadvantage must be maintained!” is your credo.

              • Art35ian
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                -171 year ago

                You got me.

                Now don’t forget to downvote me (you can keep your upvote).

                • @metallic_substance
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                  91 year ago

                  Good to know. I’ve tagged you as “Racist Aussie” so I don’t forget in the future

                  • @hangonasecond
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                    41 year ago

                    The terminology we might use down under is wanker

                • livus
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                  91 year ago

                  @Art3sian

                  you can keep your upvote

                  Just FYI those of us on kbin can see if you actually upvoted someone or not.

                  • Art35ian
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                    -141 year ago

                    ”Those of us on KBIN are…” Haha, shut the fuck up.

                    You get an auto upvote when you post. I didn’t downvote him. Think before you speak, you Magic the Gathering-playing dickhead.