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The Forum > General Discussion > Are we going to talk about Australia day and the 26th ?

Are we going to talk about Australia day and the 26th ?

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We rejected Apartheid, always will,
Belly,
But you're the one who keeps pushing the Us vs Them barrow !
Posted by individual, Monday, 21 January 2019 3:04:45 PM
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Belly: Our country strives to be one, we, the best of us, KNOW past crimes against our first nation took place.

Yes we do. & Aboriginal Crimes against early Settlers as well. That never seems to get a mention.

Belly: We KNOW past efforts to make a better life for them have failed more often than not

How many Billions have been spent in trying to integrate & upgrade the living standards of Aboriginal people of Australia?

How many schemes have been put into effect, only to see them fail time & time again? Not because of the White Man, but because of the Aboriginals running the schemes.

How many inner-city Aboriginals, who have been inner City Aboriginals for 100 years or more, are crying poor & hard done by, yet are living on Welfare because they refused to get an Education & join in the Workforce? Claiming that White fella’s owe me. The trouble makers that have never been out of Redfern, etc.

How many Aboriginal people live in Government Housing that they’ve turned into Hovels because they have no idea about Hygiene or cleanliness? Well they do, but they don’t clean. They blame the White Man for their Low Standards of Housing.

How many Aboriginal CEO’s & Committees are living it up on the Grants. Great houses, New car every two years, Great Parties (I’ve been to a few) put on by the CEO’s & Committees to explain to their fellow Aboriginals how badly the White Man is treating them & laughing all the way to the Bank?

How many Aboriginal Organizations have been shut down for Fraud & when another Organization is started it’s run by the same people who ran the previous one?

How many Aboriginals are in Prison because “they” committed a Crime? but, it was the White Mans fault they committed a crime?

How many little kids have been Raped on Aboriginal lands & Settlements? Syphilis is through the roof. In little kids.

Some people are upset at Australia Day on the 26th. January. WTF?

Big Nana. Could you come into this one please?
Posted by Jayb, Monday, 21 January 2019 4:17:59 PM
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Indie: he recommended a day in May.

Maa… tate. Was that it?

Mhaze: The aboriginals can give thanks that it was the British who turned up. Had it been the French, Spanish, Belgians or Chinese things would have been vastly more difficult and gruesome for their ancestors.

I’ve mentioned this before. The 1300’s to the 1800’s were time of exploration & Colonization by the World Powers of the time.

Treatment of the local Peoples by the British, while not great, was far better than the treatment Aboriginal Peoples any of the other nations received.
Ask the Aztec’s (Spanish). Ask the Inca’s (Portugese). Ask the Indoneasions (Dutch). Ask the Veitnamese (French) Ask the African People of the Congo (Belgian). Ask the Tanzaneians (German) I could go on. Look at where those Countries are to-day compared to anywhere the British Colonized. Especially after they gained independence.

Let’s Look at America, Canadas, Hong Kong, Singapore. Malaysia, Australia, even South Africa although it’s now following Zimbabwe, down-hill fast.

Belly: 80 percent of Australians are not radicals, Far right or far left.

I do believe in the 20/80 rule. The noisy 20% Radicals make 80% of the noise. That’s 15% Left V 5% Right. The 80% are mostly silent.

Belly? We rejected Apartheid, always will,

It pay’s to remember the reason Apartheid was introduced into South Africa. It was to keep the Warring Local Tribes apart & to stop them from tearing one another to pieces. Not to separate the White from the Blacks. It was the Dutch Boars started that.
Posted by Jayb, Monday, 21 January 2019 4:54:05 PM
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Just make it the last Friday or Monday in January, so we get a guaranteed long weekend with the date occasionally falling on the 26th and being pretty close the rest of the time.

There we go, sorted.
Posted by Toni Lavis, Monday, 21 January 2019 5:48:43 PM
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What was the biggest victory over Europeans by Aborigines ? They could celebrate that day to make things even.
Posted by individual, Monday, 21 January 2019 6:16:55 PM
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jaybit was not my intention to make this a thread about what some see is wrong with our first nation
Again want to highlight inclusiveness
And oppose separatism
We must be aware minority's use any chance to make their wants get the spotlight
It is a minority view we should change the day
Posted by Belly, Tuesday, 22 January 2019 4:21:30 AM
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