Dearest Foxy,

While justice may prevail eventually, so will the obligation for somebody to pay all associated costs. And sometimes the price of greed and stupidity can be very high: Cindy Prior now has a bill for $ 200,000 for one trial, and by launching an appeal to the decision in that one, has opened herself up to another few hundred grand.

One interesting, if appalling, facet of how many people live their lives is that, no matter what happens or what chaos they may cause, they are never in the wrong. They externalise all problems, including those that they have caused: it's always somebody else's fault - in this case, usually some white fella's.

Hence, as many people see it, the current Aboriginal situation - after all, how else do you explain how things got this say, but by white bastardry ? Drunkenness in remote Aboriginal settlements ? Whites supplied it, as part of a colonialist plot. Sexual abuse and domestic violence ? Colonialism, obviously. Suicide ? Colonialism. Unemployment and lack of skills ? Colonialism. Poor health through lousy diet and no exertion ? Colonialism.

I envy people who are always on the side of the angels :)

Dear Joe,

Cindy Prior should have either be given or sought
better legal advice concerning her claims.

Just imagine if a public institution had a rule denying Aborigines access to any of its facilities. Yet a rule denying non-Aborigines access to a QUT facility is what the racist Cindy Prior has been defending against dissent. Good that she's being bankrupted. If law had any relationship to justice QUT could be made to defray some of her costs which arise from its own inclusion of a racist facility on its premises. We have seen enough of "history (or God) made us special by birth" in the Middle East, and should rigorously exclude such racism from Australia.

Cindy Prior had crap legal advice in the form of Gillian Triggs.

Re Foxy: You seem to suggest that the nuclear attacks on Hiroshima and Nagasaki were a US crime of some sort. Both were a direct result of the Jap aggressors' war of conquest against the rest of the world, and their onslaught stopped dead in its tracks following the nuclear attacks. Countless decent soldiers were spared death at Jap hands in future fighting to bring the mongrels to heel. Two nukes and the Japs threw in the towel. Good on Harry Truman. Pity Macarthur's meddling meant Hirohito was not tried and executed or driven to suicide in a bunker as his Nazi counterparts were.

Dear Joe,

As for the Aboriginal situation?

There are so many sides to that story -
and unless you've got the time and the
inclination understanding all the complexities
is not an easy task for anyone. There's always
more than one side to be debated. At the moment
I'm interested in getting hold of a copy of
your book, "Voices From The Past," and also of
Bain Attwood's, "Telling the Truth About
Aboriginal History".

As for being right?

I like the old adage, "I'm right and you can be too." ;-)

Or perhaps you'd prefer JFK's - "Let's not seek to
fix the blame for the past. Let us accept our own
responsibility for the future."