UNDRIP is dangerous.
UNDRIP has some common sense articles we can agree with (e.g. Article 1 & 2 which says they have equal rights and shouldn't be discriminated against).
However UNDRIP goes a lot further and says Indigenous peoples should have self-determination, autonomy, and separate funding.Article 3
Indigenous peoples have the right of self-determination. By virtue of that right they freely determine their political status and freely pursue their economic, social and cultural development.
Article 4
Indigenous peoples, in exercising their right to self-determination, have the right to autonomy or self-government in matters relating to their internal and local affairs, as well as ways and means for financing their autonomous functions.
Article 5
Indigenous peoples have the right to maintain and strengthen their distinct political, legal, economic, social and cultural institutions, while retaining their rights to participate fully, if they so choose, in the political, economic, social and cultural life of the State.
Article 11 proposes (presumably financial) restitution.
States shall provide redress through effective mechanisms, which may include restitution, developed in conjunction with indigenous peoples, with respect to their cultural, intellectual, religious and spiritual property taken without their free, prior and informed consent or in violation of their laws, traditions and customs.
The Voice was based on UNDRIP and has just been soundly rejected by the Australian voters. Anyone advocating UNDRIP is going against the wishes of the majority. Hopefully that's political suicide.
