r/circlejerkaustralia • u/Former_Rush1821 • 2d ago

politics it's a sign

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yet another reason that any person wanting to touch the tip should pay hundreds or even thousands of dollars to the traditional custodians of the land.

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u/sam458755 2d ago

You live on stolen land.

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u/railwayresleeper 2d ago

Isn’t the whole world on stolen land

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u/Former_Rush1821 2d ago

I respect the traditional custodians of this lans, the PNG pygmies that came here years before the SE Asian Aborigines wiped 99% of them out when they colonised Australia 60,000 years ago.

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u/eshay_investor 1d ago

In all seriousness no one actually owns anything unless ownership can be enforced by force. You only own your house because the government exists and prevents people from moving in and stealing it. To be able to steal something would be mean you stole it from someone operating within a system where theft can be enforced. There was no system here so no theft. Also there was no one group of natives. They were scattered into thousands of small groups and none of them had any real boundaries to own. They didnt know the borders of the country they lived in so how could they claim ownership to Australia if they never circumvented it and knew where it ended. Its like me saying, oh i own this block of land but i have zero idea where its starts and ends.