Dear Platy,

Thank You.

@foxy

why is the young poiro lady so upset?
tell her to have patience with an old man of 115

tell her sometimes simple lines are clearer than seemingly elegant verbiage ....

btw... the punctuation marks like "..." is part of a very simple communication process

. = full stop
.. = stop but think
... = thinking
.... = must think but be careful not to think like poirot
CAPS = help poirot to focus as she often thinks too deeply

:)

Dear Platy,

Who am I to give advice to anyone - either you
or Poirot?

I am barely capable of correcting my own stuff-ups.

I'm sure that you two will work things out for yourself.

why get so touchy about the aborigines?

isnt that racism?

it is so hypocritical we give them nice names but deep inside we still hold on to our biased views

Dear Platy,

I hope that much has changed regarding our
Indigenous People in many respects. Much
has been achieved. Tolerance and understanding
has broadened out and hopefully bigotry is in
retreat. However, many of us don't really
understand the plight of our Indigenous People
and the problems they have to live with. I certainly
don't fully understand so many things - especially
living in the city as I do. I rarely come into contact
with any Indigenous People. I can only make
summations from what I read. And I guess there's
many Australians in the same boat.

@foxy

i have a fren who is doing a phd on our indigenous people
we have long discussions on this matter
and i must say i have learnt much from this friend
on why white australians and new zealanders treated the natives so differently... one with contempt and the other with uneasy respect

nations conquer foreign lands for various reasons
i do not wish to go into a lengthy poirotic discourse on this (maybe i will learn to do it at the higher tweeter level..hhh)

200 years ago england came to conquer and claiming this land for their king
the first admirals called this land 'terra nullis' because they do not even see the natives fit enough to be called human

never mind about all the wrongs done
it had been done

no one sane enough will want to advocate turning the clock
no amount of apologies will make it right
let us go beyond apologies over and over again... it is so tiring and does not make anything better

the impt lesson to learn is

a. there will continue to be wars
b. there will continue to be the taking over of lands

BUT, let us remember to treat the conquered fairly and humanely as we ourselves will be the conquered one day