i didn't publish this view
on the relevant thread because its hurtful
and there's already been too much hurt.
this thread seems ok.

the Commonwealth of Australia counted Aborigines as fauna
when most of the migrant children were abused.
perhaps the law requires retrospective apologies
to both Australian citizens and fauna?

and the best person for the position
crashed the global economy
so that why we now play
the best person for the gendered position.

Whistler what has happened here? Are my encounters tainted somehow being on OLO? Did I pick the wrong place to learn this country? Racism, sexism, the forgotten and the stolen and add to this that in three years I have experience more pain fostering and witnessed how badly children are treated here than in over 8 years fostering in NZ with three times the number of children and situations.

To my face I have been told by DoCS staff that, given how your average Australian feels in general, an aboriginal child is safer with me as I understand and respect cultures due to my background.

I feel in general that I am swimming with sharks in this country. I am on my own bleating at every opportunity about state wards and getting little back. It feels as though abuse is common place and not worthy of response, the feeling is one of acceptance of the norm.

Peter and OUG have helped a lot and continue to help. But I really don’t understand what this country is doing to people or why everyone appears so helpless.

You cannot name the hurt in a thread where it may be felt, this shows you are to be appreciated. But it also means the ones that can be hurt have no support when a truth is told.

What my culture tells me is that one complains, others support and something is bloody done, it isn’t like that here is it. I am so frustrated by this freedom to complain and the right to be heard. The hearing does not equate to action. No wonder Antonios rages, he also would not understand this acceptance of how things are here.

This country still wears its chains.

Actually, Pynchme, it's Sancho P. Anchovy, fundamentalist rationalist and charity opinionista. My opinions are freely distributed and widely available at no cost.

While I adore dogs, and feel sympathy with the endeavours of one Sancho Panza, I am related to neither.

I see antiwomen has run away. Nice to know he's admitted defeat, after all he's been unable to back up his "assumption" with even one credible word.

But his motivation for posting the topic was of course not the actual narrow confines of the topic itself. He obviously posted it in order to have a 'gereralised' attack against womens' self determination and women who possess any type of power whatsoever over any men. He rambled on and on with his wide ranging attacks, stereotyping and bitter hate towards women who don't fit 'his' mould.

He's been made to look like a fool. But it's a 'tragic' fool. And therein lies the sadness of the situation. He's so consumed by extreme bitterness I doubt that anyone can ever penetrate the defensive, emotional armour he's erected around his feelings and ego. Even he himself probably can't penetrate it, and that's why he'll never, ever admit he's wrong; either to himself or anyone else.

It's extremely sad when one comes across these type of individuals in life, as you know they have little hope of recovery.

The Pied Piper,
a couple of decades ago the Parliament of NSW
passed legislation that wherever possible,
Aboriginal children should be removed into Aboriginal care.
this sparked an ongoing drive
to recruit and train Aboriginal carers.

the legislation was enacted
not in the least to reconcile the perception
within Aboriginal communities
that the removal of Aboriginal children from Aboriginal care
is an act of genocide.

the fear and loathing you read on this forum
is the legacy of the Howard government.