Somehow I doubt a non-abo farmer trying to claim something that crashed or washed up on his land would not get a article with such an understanding tone.
Abandoned during the race, yes. Not abandoned as in “we give up all claim to this object”…
Salvaged boats are generally worth a bit, especially a multi-million dollar yacht, which had only been abandoned for like, a week…
But aside from that, this is simply not how salvage laws work…
A) You don’t own the foreshore, even if you are Aboriginal (high water mark ftw), and B) You can’t just “claim ownership” of something, just because it washed up on a bit of land you “own” (in itself that is dubious, in this case).
As pointed out elsewhere, he wouldn’t be saying this if, hypothetically, a fucking leaking oil tanker washed up there. Because he KNOWS that this isn’t how the law works, but he also knows the yacht may be worth money, still…
It’s total bullshit. If a white person tried to do this, on an island they “owned”, they would be rightly laughed out of the room…
He shouldn’t get a pass just because he is (or claims to be) “blak”, and because he is clearly nuts…
Most people who know who this guy is know that he is a race grifting, perpetually aggrieved nutcase, so… I guess his reputation precedes him?
Even left wing subreddits admit that this is total bullshit, even if the media won’t outright say so…
It's ironic because Mansell is very white, is literally trained as a "white law" lawyer (surprising no one, lol), and may not actually have any native Tasmanian heritage...
Yet because he is a loudmouth from a "powerful" family with Aboriginal roots (possibly from the "big island"), and because no one has to PROVE their heritage, anymore (provided the community "accepts" you as such), he apparently speaks for all of them, even those on Cape Barren Island (where the boat washed up), which, I suspect, he has never even lived on, let alone having direct family there...
Eugh. He's like the race grifter to end all race grifters, though. Hence this...
I mean, they didn't have writing, and obviously there were no yachts, so frankly I'm not sure...
I suspect "might maketh right" and yes, finders keepers...
But, and this is important, they did not live on that island, at that time, anyway...
They were moved there by missionaries, in the mid-1800s. So... Their "law" wouldn't apply anyway, as it was unoccupied...
But yeah, in the hypothetical situation where, say, a bark canoe from a rival tribe washed up on the shore... I guess we'll go with their "law" claiming finders keepers, lol...
Remember also that Tasmanian Aboriginals did not even eat scaled fish, due to their various superstitions...
I don't think they ventured out beyond the estuaries very much at all, so I guess... "Salvage laws", as it were, would barely have even been a consideration, lol...
Just exchange it for some petrol.
Somehow I doubt a non-abo farmer trying to claim something that crashed or washed up on his land would not get a article with such an understanding tone.
Also this: https://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2023/01/four-expressions-to-undermine-the-constitution/
Everything is fucked and I hate it.
"Eye for an eye" but woke.
2023, yippee!
Australia? Oh they're definitely going to let them keep that yacht.
I'm left wondering what the issue is. Was it abandoned or not?
Abandoned during the race, yes. Not abandoned as in “we give up all claim to this object”…
Salvaged boats are generally worth a bit, especially a multi-million dollar yacht, which had only been abandoned for like, a week…
But aside from that, this is simply not how salvage laws work…
A) You don’t own the foreshore, even if you are Aboriginal (high water mark ftw), and B) You can’t just “claim ownership” of something, just because it washed up on a bit of land you “own” (in itself that is dubious, in this case).
As pointed out elsewhere, he wouldn’t be saying this if, hypothetically, a fucking leaking oil tanker washed up there. Because he KNOWS that this isn’t how the law works, but he also knows the yacht may be worth money, still…
It’s total bullshit. If a white person tried to do this, on an island they “owned”, they would be rightly laughed out of the room…
He shouldn’t get a pass just because he is (or claims to be) “blak”, and because he is clearly nuts…
Most people who know who this guy is know that he is a race grifting, perpetually aggrieved nutcase, so… I guess his reputation precedes him?
Even left wing subreddits admit that this is total bullshit, even if the media won’t outright say so…
"Only a week?" Adrift? Unattended? Now I feel even less sorry for whomever owned it!
Yeah, they had to abandon ship and it broke loose and washed ashore.
Your car is still your car even if it breaks down in front of my house.
It's ironic because Mansell is very white, is literally trained as a "white law" lawyer (surprising no one, lol), and may not actually have any native Tasmanian heritage...
Yet because he is a loudmouth from a "powerful" family with Aboriginal roots (possibly from the "big island"), and because no one has to PROVE their heritage, anymore (provided the community "accepts" you as such), he apparently speaks for all of them, even those on Cape Barren Island (where the boat washed up), which, I suspect, he has never even lived on, let alone having direct family there...
Eugh. He's like the race grifter to end all race grifters, though. Hence this...
Hehehehehe.
I mean, they didn't have writing, and obviously there were no yachts, so frankly I'm not sure...
I suspect "might maketh right" and yes, finders keepers...
But, and this is important, they did not live on that island, at that time, anyway...
They were moved there by missionaries, in the mid-1800s. So... Their "law" wouldn't apply anyway, as it was unoccupied...
But yeah, in the hypothetical situation where, say, a bark canoe from a rival tribe washed up on the shore... I guess we'll go with their "law" claiming finders keepers, lol...
Remember also that Tasmanian Aboriginals did not even eat scaled fish, due to their various superstitions...
I don't think they ventured out beyond the estuaries very much at all, so I guess... "Salvage laws", as it were, would barely have even been a consideration, lol...