Bolt’s fear of loss in Indigenous recognition in the Constitution

“Unacknowledged in all of this are those people who created what is “now known as the Australian nation” and Constitution, and their descendants and their culture that turned a harsh continent into a prosperous homeland for 24 million inhabitants.”

Bolt is racist he blames Aboriginal Culture as the root cause for individual and community problems not historical intervention and the fragmentation of culture by white civilization. There was no genocide, no stolen children only a history of unsuccessful attempts at welfare. Since white people arrived in Australia it has always been difficult for them to understand Aboriginal culture. Ignorance led to many thousand Aboriginal people being killed by white settlers, and attempts were made to “breed out” their culture through assimilation. Bolt insists that Assimilation policies are right for  today to breed out cultural differences. Basically he argues for a form of Cultural genocide. Arguing Aboriginal Culture is the problem. It is the equivalent and the same as Rolf Harris saying I was seduced. Or the Mullah that raped a 10 year old saying he was seduced. The victim is to blame.
Aboriginal people continue to feel misunderstood by white Australian politics and do face discrimination. They claim that many legislative acts reflect a white point of view where at least a dual view would be necessary. Racial discrimination is embedded in the Australian Constitution and continues to be enacted in the laws and policies of our states and territories. The current government wants to enact constitutional recognition. However Andrew Bolt disagrees and sees Multiculturalism of any sort an antithesis to social harmony and equality.
 On 3 April 2009 Australia supported the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP). The move came after the declaration was formally adopted by the UN General Assembly on 13 September 2007 with the support of 143 member states and the opposition of just four—Australia, Canada, the United States and New Zealand. The declaration was 20 years in the making and sets out basic standards for the recognition and protection of Indigenous peoples’ rights worldwide, including identity, land and resources, self-determination, freedom from discrimination, culture, traditions and language. You can read more about many of these areas on the website exploring Australian Aboriginal culture
Maybe Bolt needs to address current issues of  ensuring Human Rights for all first rather than  Racism or losing his colonial entitlements. One such right is ensuring cultural identities be recognized in the processes of all institutions. That Aboriginies are treated by them as equal and not because they are Aboriginal that the duality be recognized. That recognition to cultural differences is taken into account when aboriginal communities point out their problems and are given help to address them. One method for all approach to  different communities will never work but that’s what Bolt advocates. His defence “I’m not a Racist because it’s culture not race we need to change doesn’t hold water. Extrapolate and you have “stop anybody that’s not like us”. Aparthied by Immigration policy coupled with Assimilation policies will stop the differences which are such a danger.
According to Bolt race has nothing to do with it
Poffessor Mick Dodeson AM, BJuris, LLB, DLitt, LLD, FASSA is an Indigenous Australian barrister, academic, and member of the Yawuru peoples in the Broome.

 “Human rights do not dispossess people. Human rights do not marginalise people. Human rights do not cause their poverty and they don’t cause the gaps in the life expectancy and other life outcomes. It is the denial of rights that is the largest contributor to these things. The value of human rights is not in their existence; it is in their implementation.”