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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2016 8:10:32 GMT 7
From former pm Kevin Rudd: The Apology and Beyond. How We Must Confront Racism in Australia www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kevin-rudd/the-apology-and-beyond-ho_b_9221102.html?utm_hp_ref=australiaOn this day, eight years ago, on behalf of the Australian Parliament and nation, I apologised formally for the indignities white Australians had inflicted on our Indigenous peoples since the earliest days of European settlement 220 years before. Our first Australians had been treated disgracefully since white settlement in Australia. A treatment, which has created a significant life-divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. And while the Apology has set the foundations for reconciliation, we have a long, long way to go. As we reflect today on the state of Indigenous Australia, it is impossible to ignore the current debate about racism in our country. This is a difficult subject. It is a sensitive subject. But it has now become unavoidable. Five years ago, as Prime Minister I said I did not believe that racism was at work in Australia. Perhaps I was just naive back then. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2016 10:14:28 GMT 7
From former pm Kevin Rudd: The Apology and Beyond. How We Must Confront Racism in Australia www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kevin-rudd/the-apology-and-beyond-ho_b_9221102.html?utm_hp_ref=australiaOn this day, eight years ago, on behalf of the Australian Parliament and nation, I apologised formally for the indignities white Australians had inflicted on our Indigenous peoples since the earliest days of European settlement 220 years before. Our first Australians had been treated disgracefully since white settlement in Australia. A treatment, which has created a significant life-divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. And while the Apology has set the foundations for reconciliation, we have a long, long way to go. As we reflect today on the state of Indigenous Australia, it is impossible to ignore the current debate about racism in our country. This is a difficult subject. It is a sensitive subject. But it has now become unavoidable. Five years ago, as Prime Minister I said I did not believe that racism was at work in Australia. Perhaps I was just naive back then. I read that Bernie Sanders is being harassed in the US in regards to reperations for US slavery. I'm dumfounded - who pays? who gets the money? |
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Post by me on Feb 15, 2016 10:22:09 GMT 7
From former pm Kevin Rudd: The Apology and Beyond. How We Must Confront Racism in Australia www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kevin-rudd/the-apology-and-beyond-ho_b_9221102.html?utm_hp_ref=australiaOn this day, eight years ago, on behalf of the Australian Parliament and nation, I apologised formally for the indignities white Australians had inflicted on our Indigenous peoples since the earliest days of European settlement 220 years before. Our first Australians had been treated disgracefully since white settlement in Australia. A treatment, which has created a significant life-divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. And while the Apology has set the foundations for reconciliation, we have a long, long way to go. As we reflect today on the state of Indigenous Australia, it is impossible to ignore the current debate about racism in our country. This is a difficult subject. It is a sensitive subject. But it has now become unavoidable. Five years ago, as Prime Minister I said I did not believe that racism was at work in Australia. Perhaps I was just naive back then. A 16 year old can blame his crime on the poor upbringing by his parents A 30 year old should have learnt better a 220 year old has no bloody excuse. |
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Post by Mérovingien on Feb 15, 2016 13:53:18 GMT 7
From former pm Kevin Rudd: The Apology and Beyond. How We Must Confront Racism in Australia www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/kevin-rudd/the-apology-and-beyond-ho_b_9221102.html?utm_hp_ref=australiaOn this day, eight years ago, on behalf of the Australian Parliament and nation, I apologised formally for the indignities white Australians had inflicted on our Indigenous peoples since the earliest days of European settlement 220 years before. Our first Australians had been treated disgracefully since white settlement in Australia. A treatment, which has created a significant life-divide between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australians. And while the Apology has set the foundations for reconciliation, we have a long, long way to go. As we reflect today on the state of Indigenous Australia, it is impossible to ignore the current debate about racism in our country. This is a difficult subject. It is a sensitive subject. But it has now become unavoidable. Five years ago, as Prime Minister I said I did not believe that racism was at work in Australia. Perhaps I was just naive back then. Few would doubt that the settlors didnt treat the indigenous people well. Its somewhat raciste though to say that they have been treated disgracefully since "white settlement". Not everyone who has settled in Australia and treated indigenous people badly is and was white. Nor are all non-indigenous people today white today. No way he would be allowed to say that if he was talking about blacks or Asians and so on... |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2016 17:47:12 GMT 7
..............."I apologised formally for the indignities white Australians had inflicted on our Indigenous peoples since the earliest days of European settlement 220 years before.".................
He could have phrased that better, makes it sound like every white Australian in the past 200+ years has in some way "inflicted indignities" on the Aboriginal people, which is not true.
I lived and worked with them for many years in the earthmoving industry in QLD, WA, and the NT and count many of them as long time friends, and have never had any issues with them.
I do have issues with racists though and if I had my way they would all be stacked 10 foot high at the dump. They have contributed nothing to this world except for hatred, pain and sorrow.
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Post by rgs2001uk on Feb 15, 2016 21:18:56 GMT 7
Please take your cross elsewhere Mr Rudd, its not ours to bare. After watching the telly and looking at the so called Fist Nation (jeez who dreams up this PC crap) types, the majority of them look like Byron Bay dole bludgers. Luk Kreungs with a effin chip on their shoulder, lets seek refuge under the PC umbrella rather than admit our own short comings. Worked in construction,  , thank your lucky stars you didnt work in SA. Have to have "an elder" and his "trainee elder" with them at all times, roads etc held up, it may be an ancesteral burial ground, a place of "historical interest" Brother geeting heaps off his boss, why is this project behind schedule and over budget? Sorry Boss, cant do anything, waiting for Big Boss to come back from walkabout and give his say so as to whether road can go ahead.. Brothers boss shakes his head and walks off, wondering how he can explain this to his boss. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 15, 2016 22:27:20 GMT 7
Byron Bay dole bludgers  back when, had a few surfie type friends who moved there, dole bludgers and beach, surfing and weed all day. |
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Post by rgs2001uk on Feb 15, 2016 22:34:56 GMT 7
Watch out Rudd will be on your back, yeah effin surfie types.
Nice to know your taxes were going to a good cause.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 16, 2016 5:15:36 GMT 7
I lived in Byron Bay from 74 - 78, worked in the surf-ski and surfboard industry, pinstriping and finish coating. Back in those days it was not that easy to get the dole in Byron, but that did not worry me as I wanted to work anyway.
There were a lot of Aboriginal people in that area who were overrun by the trendies and finally moved away.
I can understand why, after doing a trip around Australia for a year and returning to BB in 1979 I could not believe what development had done to the place. Girlfriend and I drove into town, went up Johnson Street to the top pub, did a u-turn and drove out again. Have not been back there since.
A lot of those weed smoking, bludging surfies I knew back then went on to become very wealthy people.
Back to the Aboriginal people, unfortunately many whites judge the entire race on the drunks they see hanging around the pubs and Centrelink offices. I worked and lived with the ones from the other side of the spectrum, guys who worked hard all their lives and owned their own homes and were in many cases more respectable than some of the drunken white Aussies I worked with.
Maybe I see the glass half full but when I think of Aboriginal people I think of the honest hardworking people I knew from the Kimberleys and the NT.
I would be hurt and offended if people from overseas judged me as a drunken bum who lived my whole life bleeding the government of benefits while doing nothing to contribute to the economy, as some other Australians do.
People from other countries are not qualified to judge Aboriginal people on what they read in newspapers or hear in a bar.
(When the Romans first went to Britain they were far more advanced than the people they found there and described them as savages who lived in caves.)
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, thank your lucky stars you didnt work in SA.
back when, had a few surfie type friends who moved there, dole bludgers and beach, surfing and weed all day.
