Ha ha ha - class act

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Russian Imperialism is a greater danger to the World today than AlQueda terrorism

Well he/she did mention about not wanting their "tax dollars" being spent on compensation, and I guess that is where the funds would come from?

I do accept the point that there are disadvantaged people today due to past Governemt policies.

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Russian Imperialism is a greater danger to the World today than AlQueda terrorism

I suppose some people may resent that but I'd be quite happy for my tax dollars to go to such a worthy cause. We are in a $30 billion surplus - it's not like we don't have the money.

Some of our tax money goes to supporting our legal system no matter who makes compensation claims - I have much more of a problem with people making bogus claims for compensation than for people who clearly are deserving of it.

I tell you what - if my child had been physically ripped from my arms because it was decided that my blood was in need of cleansing (luckily for me I was born with white skin but both my parents were European migrants) and then shipped off to probable abuse and / or slavery then you can (*)(*)(*)(*) well bet I'd deserve compensation for it.

The funny thing is, there haven't really been any indigenous calls for compensation since the apology - just a lot of ridiculous hype by selfish, mean-spirited white Australians.

And oh yeah, `disadvantaged' is about the most colossal understatement when it comes to the plight of our indigenous people. The vast majority live in what have been termed as worse than third world conditions. For a progressive first world Western nation that is an unforgivable disgrace.

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins

Of course it would be crass of me to say that the Aboriginal living conditions weren't any better now than before Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay.

Is it true that the Aboriginal people were classed by the Australian State as "flora and forna" upto the 1960's?

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Russian Imperialism is a greater danger to the World today than AlQueda terrorism

And a prime minister engaging in public masochistic mental masturbation - is that a class act?

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Blade: "more educated and literate people than Justabubba"

Justabubba: "that would include everyone"

http://politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=27847

Or what one benefits from, I think. Or aids, or supports, or condones, even by silence.

Or in the case of 99.9% of the people of australia, has nothing to do with.

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Blade: "more educated and literate people than Justabubba"

Justabubba: "that would include everyone"

http://politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=27847

They are much worse off now than when Captain Cook landed at Botany Bay. Back then, they were living as they had always lived for tens of thousands of years in their own country; with freedom, their own land, their own traditions, a rich and diverse culture, an affiliation with their land and each other, several different tribes, communities, languages and boundaries, no abuse or injustice from an oppressive ruling class, alcoholism or substance abuse, deaths in custody, discrimination, sexually transmissable diseases...the list goes on.

The statistics on how they live today are staggering. It's truly a very desperate, tragic situation.

One sentence from the legislation mandating forcible and automatic removal of children from their children illustrates one of the many issues we have to be sorry for:

"this Act is…one of biological as well as cultural assimilation and depends firmly on the control of the breeding habits of those who were ostensibly in the process of becoming ‘more European’"

Breeding habits??? Seriously?

And yes, up until the 1967 referendum when Aboriginals first won the right to be named citizens of their own country, they were classed as Australian native flora and fauna and had a portfolio named as such under the Commonwealth Government.

Are you suggesting that the plight of and responsibility for our indigenous people has nothing to do with any of us? Especially considering that we still have several thousand indigenous people who were part of the Stolen Generations and whose lives and living situations are still directly affected by it?

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins

Haaa haaa! You weren't ignoring me.

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Blade: "more educated and literate people than Justabubba"

Justabubba: "that would include everyone"

http://politicalforum.com/showthread.php?t=27847

No, not on this debate. So it seems your contributions have been nothing more than a ploy to get my attention? Wow. I should be flattered, but somehow I'm not...

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins