Yep Issy, and all the Shooters and Hooters members could give a 101 gun salute. You could have the honour of shooting off the Howitzer! Sooooory, no Shooters and Hooters got elected, they went down like dead ducks. Its a shame how Dicko Dickson didn't come good with that 20 squillion from the NRA.

I reckon the Aboriginal people would like to see you "Welcomed to Country".....by the Laplanders to the North Pole. They could do the 'Feed you to the Polar Bears' ceremony.

I still lov ya!

@ Loudmouth,

yes, anyone involved with the remote communities is aware of the practice of spending money, welfare money, to buy Grog and in some cases to hiring private small planes to bring it in.

The amount of money wasted on these festering holes which are remote communities is ridiculous.

A bit of Aboriginal ancestry and you get fully supported in your dysfunction. No Aboriginal ancestry and you have to sort yourself out.

@Paul 1405

you appear that, like many things associated with Aborigines, the Welcome to Country ceremony, an utter disgrace and insult when applied to other Australians, was invented in the Seventies by Ernie Dingo.

Apparently some Maori sportspersons were coming to Oz and wanted a reciprocal ceremony. There was none so Dingo invented one. The rest as they say is history. We now have Australians with less than 10% Aboriginal ancestry and therefore not in the least Aboriginal, milking this ridiculous ceremony for hundreds if not thousands of dollars a time.

All fake. Welcome to country in Aboriginal cultures was generally a spear in the guts. Even corroborrees where everyone agreed to behave usually ended up with spears in some body part. Primitive cultures are like that.

Corrected post.

@Paul 1405

you appear not to know, that, like many things associated with Aborigines, the Welcome to Country ceremony, an utter disgrace and insult when applied to other Australians, was invented. Courtesy of Ernie Dingo, a part Aboriginal comedian, in the Seventies.

Apparently some Maori sportspersons were coming to Oz and wanted a reciprocal ceremony. There was none so Dingo invented one. The rest as they say is history. We now have Australians with less than 10% Aboriginal ancestry and therefore not in the least Aboriginal, milking this ridiculous ceremony for hundreds if not thousands of dollars a time.

All fake. Welcome to country in Aboriginal cultures was generally a spear in the guts. Even corroborrees where everyone agreed to behave usually ended up with spears in some body part. Primitive cultures are like tha

One Aboriginal activist is said to have got a few thousand $$ for performing the ceremony.

Part of the Aboriginal Industry.

The Smoking Ceremony is traditional but not for all Aboriginals, so to incorporate it in a general ceremony is fakery.

//One Aboriginal activist is said to have got a few thousand $$ for performing the ceremony.//

Who told you that Issy, your Granny! Not making up a porky are you? How about a reference to the one who hath said. Bet you can't give it a name.