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The politics of apology and the laws of compensation : Comments

By Nilay Patel, published 14/2/2008

Many international conventions binding on Australia recognise a right to an effective remedy for the stolen generations: but what are the legal issues?

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Let me give a quote from Mal Brough's budget speech as minister.

“The Australian Bureau of Statistics recently found that the Indigenous housing stock had increased by only 2 per cent since 2001 and in the Northern Territory there are 271 fewer houses than there were five years ago. This is despite well over $1 billion spent since 2001,”

Mr Brough said.“The PricewaterhouseCoopers review of CHIP found in some cases houses in remote communities were costing in excess of $600,000. And yet many of these houses are lasting only ten years."

The houses were not just falling down by themselves were they. If they were, we are sorry that were not built stronger.

David
Posted by VK3AUU, Monday, 18 February 2008 10:19:08 PM
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CROUGE, the pseudo Australian! ("dearest Margaret Thatcher". Yeccchhh!!)

You don't seriously believe for a split nanosecond that I give a Gnu's gonad's for your opinion do you?

Of course you don't!!..Though I have to concede that you are THE expert on mindless drivel!

As to what I did today; you don't know what that was do you? DO YOU??

(I must confess my sins however. I forgot about that nice little symbol by each post which allows consideration for its deletion. It is the courteous thing to do, and frankly I forgot the thing was there. Silly me. OLO is the ONLY site of the three that has not deleted what creatures like you would see as Gospel).

However, for OLO, I'm not surprised.

What a lot of little girly men you are!! Vacuous endorses Looders, Crouge endorses Looders. Sweetykins!!
Posted by Ginx, Monday, 18 February 2008 11:34:10 PM
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GINX
Instead of always setting out to ridicule other posters why not focuss your attention to the real facts and stay on task as being a reader of below average standards myself, I can tell you it become quite frustrating to read this type of stuff only to realise it is just another shot at someone or an attact on thier credabillity.

By all means put your case forward but use real data to back your claims as I can tell you that most Australians think the the aborigines get a preety good deal when it comes to the bennifits they receive in comparison to the whites. Nobody puts a drink or a smoke in thier hand, just money and they choose when, what or who to spend it on. It is just that simple.
Posted by rehctub, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 8:13:33 PM
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Hey anyone heard from frank gol
Maybe I hit a nerve and he's attending tech colledge so he can up his living standards hey!
Posted by rehctub, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 8:31:19 PM
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Rectum, I might just have managed a tiny awwwwwwww to the difficulty you have trying to read posts that you don't like ( no problem reading the ones that spout your kind of rubbish eh?),- then you went and ruined it with your next post referring to someone else needing an education..!

Let me make this very clear. I have been VERY,VERY restrained with people like you, who dish out your intolerant bile in spades, and then take the moral high ground when others stand up to that.

You are hypocrites of the first order.
Posted by Ginx, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 11:11:05 PM
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FrankGol to butcher, Saturday, 16 February:
"By the way, what government was in power when you went to school? On the evidence of your own writing and thinking, I reckon you could sue them and the education system for dereliction of duty."

Butcher to Frank Gol Saturday, 16 February:
"And as for your dig at my education level, it is normally the better educated who target the less educated like myself and I can only assume that this is driven by the knoledge that people like me, who work hard with thier hands usually pay more tax in any one year than the brainy ones of yesteryear earn. You see, times have changed and it is the (un-educated) who get the big bucks now not the lawyers, doctors or accountants. Must suck given the years of studdy put in to a career that earns what amounts to sweet #$@*all in comparison."

Butcher, Tuesday, 19 February:
"Hey anyone heard from frank gol
Maybe I hit a nerve and he's attending tech colledge so he can up his living standards hey!"

Frank Gol, Tuesday, 19 February:
Some people are perfectly capable of making a fool of themselves without any help from me.
Posted by FrankGol, Tuesday, 19 February 2008 11:30:44 PM
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