Indonesians kicked the Dutch out the Dutch didn’t cede. It’s Time – Australia recognized the First Nation people’s 65000 years of presence here in our Constitution and said YES to their voice. They were the first multicultural populace on this land. We never even bothered to recognize them and only convert them until late 1900s.
The LNP doesn’t even approve of multiculturalism today let alone Race, Religion the Separation of Powers or even that Australia is an Asian Nation. Less than 10 years ago Abbott dreamed of Aussie Knights and Dames and wanted us to join NATO however we were being absorbed by America. When will we kick them out?
Over two weeks after our visit to the monument, on 14 June 2023, the Dutch prime minister Mark Rutte stated on behalf of his government that 17 August 1945 will henceforth be acknowledged as the date on which the Republic of Indonesia came into being, and hence as the end of Dutch colonial rule over the archipelago – hereby abandoning the government’s previous position that the republic did not come into being until 27 December 1949, the day on which the Netherlands transferred sovereignty to Indonesia. In the four intervening years the Netherlands had waged a bloody war against the Indonesian inhabitants who were fighting for their country’s independence.
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