THE corporate/government funded Indigenous elite of Victoria are preparing for a virtual takeover of the state, following the handing down of the Yoorrook Justice Commission report, welcomed of course by Labor Socialist Left Premier Jacinta Allan.
The prime mover of the report is academic “Professor Aunty” Eleanor A Bourke AM, a full-time Indigenous affairs bureaucrat who was Co-Chair of Reconciliation Victoria for three years, board member of the Victorian Aboriginal Heritage Council for 12 years and a board member of Native Title Services Victoria.
She was also a Professor of Aboriginal and Islander Studies and Director of Aboriginal Programs at Monash University, a hotbed of neo-Marxist Indigenous activism. She was also previously an Associate Professor and Director of the Aboriginal Research Institute in the University of South Australia
Prof. Aunty Bourke is well schooled in all of the principles and action plans of the UN-based Indigenous separatist campaigns under the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP) to fracture modern nation states and establish a global indigenous network exercising all sorts of UN-backed powers over those same nation states.
The commission concluded, surprise, surprise, that colonisation in Victoria involved “widespread massacres, cultural destruction, forced child removals and economic exclusion”. Cruel, barbarous, greedy white people, of course, were at the centre of this – or so we would be led to believe.
Yes, settlers and Aborigines fought each other over territory. They misunderstood each other’s culture, and there were no apologies for resorting to violence if the situation demanded it. The outnumbered Aborigines eventually had to accept that they had been invaded by a technologically superior civilization.
However, efforts were made by the establishment of the day, namely the Royal Society of Victoria, to understand the language and culture, as A.C. Stone’s work reveals. Aboriginal Protection Boards were also an effort by the government to provide a level of recognition for the Indigenous inhabitants.
And contrary to what the Yoorrook Report suggests, many Aborigines were willing to adapt to European life, customs and religion.
The terms “self-determination” and “treaty” are frequently used in the Yoorrook Report in regard to the aspirations of today’s Indigenous elite. They are clearly separatist in ideology and seek to divide Victoria into two groups – regular Victorians and the specially privileged class of Indigenous people.
Prof. Bourke writes in the report: “To begin its public hearings, Yoorrook returned to Portland on Gunditjmara Country where colonisation began in this state. It was there, in 1834, that the first permanent European settlement was illegally established in Victoria. What followed was massacres, disease, sexual violence, child removal, cultural erasure and linguicide — which amounted to the
near destruction of First Peoples across the state.
“During hearings, Yoorrook heard painful truths — and honest admissions. Ministers and public servants acknowledged they had not been taught the full and true history of Victoria in school. In fact, many had never heard it at all.
“Throughout Yoorrook’s lifetime, Commissioners received at least 16 formal apologies from government ministers and state representatives for the harms committed by the State. These apologies alone are not enough.”
No, the craven, misplaced confessions of guilt by white liberals is not enough for a movement set on “self determination” and “treaty” – a virtual separate state within a state – a system of reverse racism apartheid as put in place by New Zealand’s radical Maori elite.
In league with the World Economic Forum and decades of various guilt campaigns against the descendants of colonists, this same indigenous movement has captured the support of the global corporate sector whose woke boardrooms pushing DEI policy hand out millions to various indigenous causes and campaigns.
For instance, both Woolworths and Coles supermarkets in Australia actively support indigenous products and employment programs such as Woolies Reconciliation Action Plan launched in 2023.
The main beneficiaries of this corporate virtue signalling are the indigenous corporate bureaucrats like Sam Muir (see above), who administer the various programs on corporate-style salaries and benefits.
But Muir is just a small fish in a big sea teeming with a well-paid indigenous bureaucracy inhabiting not only the federal Aboriginal bureaucracy, but also the Victorian (and other state) sectors. Victoria is already divided into indigenous regional bureaucracies called land councils that have lodged native title claims covering most of the state.
The Aboriginal bureaucracy is also armed with a barrage of lawyers ready to take on any person or organisation who gets in the way of various Indigenous claims, whether that be renaming public places, roads and rivers, access to land or decision making at government and council level.
The Yoorrook Report involved a Counsel Assisting team of Tony McAvoy SC, Fiona McLeod AO SC, Timothy Goodwin, Sarala Fitzgerald and Sarah Weinberg. You can be assured that the evidence they collected in the various hearings will be part of future prosecutorial processes.
“They expertly exposed the evidence that shows the urgent need for reform and how it can be brought about,” Prof. Bourke writes in the report.
Yoorrook’s Solicitors Assisting also included King & Wood Mallesons, led by Emily Heffernan, Ben Kiely and Chris Holland, and through a core team of Esther Faine-Vallantin, Jacqui Dinsdale and Jacob Kairouz.
Beware any ordinary Victorian person or organisation that dares stand in the way of the new Indigenous Machine. Non-Aboriginal Victorians are now “fair game”.
