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No excuses : Comments

By Harry Throssell, published 21/2/2007

Australian Indigenous life expectancy is among the world's poorest.

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Rainier

I am not sure really what you are saying.

The last time I looked it wasn't only the Anglosaxon population numbering the boxes on the ballot papers.

Our own Treasurer says quiet bluntly to the Australian citizens, to "POPULATE OR PERISH".

Should the Australian citizen have someone to blame here?
Posted by Suebdootwo, Sunday, 25 February 2007 8:19:11 PM
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Maybe, a well-known Australia-wide practising notion of demonstrating the national scientific superiority with the plain-English written long assignments based on a “research of literature” instead really developing technologies grounded on locally nurtured applied sciences, sometimes is a reasonable professors’ contribution to local academia as not-at-all university-based writers knew that the very similar fate of a life expectancy had been shared by native minorities in even ex-Soviet Siberia and North America, of which governments cared / care much for tackling a naturally-explainable still regrettable pattern.
Posted by MichaelK., Monday, 26 February 2007 5:41:18 PM
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in a nutshell mike, well put
Posted by Rainier, Monday, 26 February 2007 5:52:07 PM
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Not bad English at all-is it sometimes?

And, please, accuse ME in racism and pro-colonial London-attractive stance.
Posted by MichaelK., Monday, 26 February 2007 5:57:43 PM
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Poor eet,
how do you reconcile your acceptance into an Aboriginal community with your betrayal of what they have been trying to teach you.

How can you take the honour of acceptance, and then betray that with your paternalism, your white superiourity.

I talk of the 'white problem' to demonstrate the fact that there is a historical underpinning of the difficulties that Indigenous Australians face.

If you want to feel guilt then that is up to you, however the 'white problem' is that they seem to think that simply by saying 'ok get over it and lets move on' does not address the intergenerational trauma that continues to affect some Indigenous peoples.

The patronising statement that Aboriginal people should be treated as adults just demonstrates your own limited understanding of adulthood.

Your posts demonstrate that you still have some way before you mature.

You see Indigenous Australians welcome friends and colleagues who will walk beside us, as equals. We do not need the great white bwanas walking in fromt of us bearing the light and leading the poor heathens, nor do we need the people who walk behind us kicking our a**.

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For the record, I am a grandmother, and I know the history and see and live with the impact of the 'white problem'.
Posted by Aka, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 9:17:50 AM
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Aka,

As I said in an earlier post, Aboriginals who have their colour, their land, their language and their culture don't have a chip on their shoulder. They haven't had these things taken from them so why would they.

The fact you have an enormous chip leads me to believe you have lost touch with traditional life. You are one of the fakes.

And another thing, almost every Aboriginal I've heard accuse white people of 'rape', 'sexual abuse' or enslavement has been a half caste. Well, I'm not a half caste; my ancestors weren't rapists. What about yours?

If you feel this is all rather strong and unpleasant, I'd advise you take a look at some of the things you've tarred ALL white people with. Here are some examples:

"no concept of respect"
"Greed is another negative force aflicting the 'white problem'.."
"..'aflicted by vanity.....something to do with paranoia."
"teach them how to share and how to respect..country and fellow humans"
"...used alcohol, disease, violence and death to control, enslave and or eradicate (disperse) us"
"'whites' is that they don't see or admit to the child abuse, alcoholism, drug addiction, mass murderers in thier mob"
"Brutality, violence, alcohol (remember the rum corp that the colonisers set up early in the piece), sexual slavery and abuse of women and children, masacares, land theft - ... "

You are a nasty and intolerant person. You're not in a position to tell anyone anything.
Posted by eet, Tuesday, 27 February 2007 5:48:03 PM
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