Name away, I would be interested in these inhumanities, remembering we have apologised for the so called stolen generations...........Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodwould
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Name away, I would be interested in these inhumanities, remembering we have apologised for the so called stolen generations...........Quote:
Originally Posted by Woodwould
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Originally Posted by corbs
I must admit that I tend to agree. The award is something that should be accepted with humility, dignity and grace and I have not seen that from the humble Professor so far. Leave the activist stuff for other forums.
As a Kiwi who has lived in Australia since 75 ( naturalised) I have watched this whole "sorry" debate with detached interest and must admit to not being a supporter for the big political apology.
I take a very simple view that the people who were invloved were doing their level best to find a way to improve the lives of the people involved and that their intent was genuine and honest. Surely know one believes that there was a deliberate plot to "steal" children. I think the truth has been lost in media and political play making and sensationalism.....
If the indigeneous people were looking after their children properly in the first place then there would not have been a need to do anything...????
I am rather surprised that no-one has called for the Indigenous people to aplogise to the rest of Australia for being such a drain on the social structure both in financial and racist terms for so many years. The reverse racism in this country ( and New Zealand) is just a joke..Sadly as I have travelled around outback Australia I see many instances of abuse of the support the community gives the indigeneous people.
What impresses and pleases me is seeing so many of the younger indigeneous people doing so well in society by using their skills and knowledge and growing within the community like everybody else and in the process NOT relying on race and history to make themselves heard in the community. Well done to them I say.....maybe the last 200 years of joint community growth with so many people from so many lands making up this wonderfull community is starting to pay dividends !!???
Cheers
The whole sorry thing is out of whack. Our head of state is and has been the royal family. That's where the buck stops. If any one should apoligise it's Old Lizzie, not the representative of a generation that had nothing to do with it.
Oh and personally, I reckon Glen McGrath should have got it.
Keep it on topic and be nice to each other.
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I love you willbrook.
Sounds Like dazzler & willbrook are now engaged :D
The issue, I believe, was to breed the "half castes" into society, .. That way they expected aboriginal blood to be bred out over time. (eugenics)Quote:
Originally Posted by Perkz
i dotn see how someone can apologise for sompthing someone he dosent have any connection with did a coula hundred years ago.
aborigionals dont want to be treated fairly they want a free ride. if you go out to any of the big aborigional towns out west qld. they get given houses and cars and what do they do they drive the car till it gets boged or runs outa juice and walk off and leave it. they pull to floors outa the houses and burn them as firewood. they get givven cattle stations and let them go to nothing eat all teh breaders that are close by the homestead and easy to catch.
i spent a wile helping a mate of my fathers who dose chainsaw licencing we were there to teach tehm to use a chainsaw to harvest tehre own timber so tehy could build houses etc. we arived on tuesday to start teh free corse wednesday we sat around till lunch time and no one turned up we went and saw the bloke there to see what was going on and he said we had to go and pick them all up they wernt walking we told him to let tehm know if they wanted to come they could do so themselves. anyway it was to late to start then so we put it off till thursday. again we waited for tehm to turn up and nothing we went and saw the bloke and he said oh its pention day today you wont get anyone sober enought to do anything untill the week end.
the governmet will do what they want cos they need there vote to get in power and untill that changes nothign will.
I have worked with Aboriginals in NSW, Qld and NT, and by no means all of them are drunken wastrels, but unfortunately, the ones with high visibility are the "Town Blacks" who are generally unemployed and unemployable because of their addiction to grog.
We Whities generally do not understand or show any interest in Aboriginal culture.If an elder is a "-artist" who belts his missus and kids, nobody of a lesser status can do ANYTHING to this bloke, so he gets away with it until a white copper intervenes, and gets abused by the "tribe".
There are a lot of very good, diligent, hard working and honest Aboriginals, but they do not get the publicity, and thet frequently have no status in their community and have to move away to protect their women and children.Until this changes, and Prof Dodson,and all the other so called "Coconuts" lead the way here, there is bugger all chance of the disparate tribes, black, white or brindle getting on with each other.More's the pity.:((
Very well put Lignin
Thanks:B:B:2tsup:
Some of the finest men I ever met they were, give you the shirt of their back,always helpful,its those white b...ers I cant stand:p