Pauline Hanson refuses to 'acknowledge country' in Australian parliament

@Abstraction or people who really don't like being talked down to by people who think condescension, mockery and contempt is the same as virtue

And this is ok, and not itself bigotry if its directed at a group of "redneck, I'm-not-racist-but, small-minded, fearfully aggressive little people" which you know they are because you've personally met them all and talked to them in a respectful way to understand their viewpoints and not, certainly not because you're acting as part of a pack that gets a feeling of pleasure by demeaning them this way.

@ninalanyon It is an Australian thing that is about a decade old where there will be an acknowledgment that the land any talk, event, speech or opening that the land it is being held on is traditionally owned by to whichever Aboroginal tribe was believed to have been in the area and that the leaders of the tribe are acknowledged past and present. A variant is a person of indigenous descent will be hired to welcome and invite everyone to "country" - so we then have a symbolic right to be on the land as their guests

@SW-User Thanks, that makes it clearer. I can imagine it might be a contentious idea in some quarters.

@ninalanyon yeah it is. There is also the issue that it has become a bit tired. The first time is novel the 234,567th time not so much. It is also only meaningful when genuine, not formulaic and certainly not if compelled speech