{"id":136505,"date":"2024-10-04T11:25:45","date_gmt":"2024-10-04T01:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=136505"},"modified":"2024-10-04T11:25:45","modified_gmt":"2024-10-04T01:25:45","slug":"welcome-to-country-at-the-abc-three-times-in-90-seconds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=136505","title":{"rendered":"Welcome to Country at the ABC: three times in 90 seconds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Take a moment to view this video and you can understand why people are turning off the ABC in droves.  The Managing Director sitting at a desk listening to this left wing virtue signalling.  Is he a part of the problem?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-video\"><video height=\"360\" style=\"aspect-ratio: 640 \/ 360;\" width=\"640\" controls src=\"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/msCX4YW1faaZnEtB.mp4\"><\/video><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote is-layout-flow wp-block-quote-is-layout-flow\">\n<p>As an Aboriginal man, I&#8217;m fed up with the charade at ABC with their excessive &#8216;Welcome to Country.&#8217; Three times in a minute and a half?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This isn&#8217;t respect; it&#8217;s a mockery, turning our sacred tradition into a spectacle for virtue signaling! Our culture isn&#8217;t your political prop. This repetitive act does nothing for reconciliation; it only serves to belittle our traditions, making them seem like an overplayed record for those seeking moral high ground. It&#8217;s not about acknowledgment anymore; it&#8217;s about using our heritage to fill airtime. Enough with the performative gestures. Treat our rituals with the dignity they deserve or don&#8217;t do it at all. (https:\/\/x.com\/TheCentPost)<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>Why does the ABC act like this and when and how will it stop?  is there no one they are not prepared to offend with this virtue signalling?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ABC is only just above the AFL for this garbage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a moment to view this video and you can understand why people are turning off the ABC in droves. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":22,"featured_media":136507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[471,32],"tags":[8053,13721,8728],"class_list":["post-136505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-news-and-opinion","tag-abc","tag-virtue-signalling","tag-welcome-to-country"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/22"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=136505"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":136508,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/136505\/revisions\/136508"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/136507"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=136505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=136505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=136505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}