Paul,

"..., and then putting everyone, including the babies, to the sward."

Does that mean that they made them lay down on the grass?

Anyone got a definition of 'whites' yet?

It can't be skin colour otherwise many Italians, Spanish and Portugese will have to be left out and many Indians, Turks and Iranians etc., let in.

Scientifically 'white' is the presence of all colour and 'black' is its absence.

Issy, according to accounts a Spanish Conquistador would hold a screaming Indian baby by the arm whilst a Catholic monk would baptise the baby in the name of the Catholic god. Once baptised the child would then be unceremoniously run through by the Conquistador. The belief was the child being without sin would go straight to heaven. Had it lived it would must certainly have become a sinner and ended up in hell.

From a BBC documentary by John Pilger: "They buried our babies with only their heads above the ground - all in a row they were. "Then they had a test to see who could kick the baby's heads off the furtherest. "One man clobbered a baby's head off from horse back." The documentary notes: "No British colony was born under so cruel a star as Australia." This happened. It happened in Australia. To Aboriginal people. To their ancestors. By British colonists. And without any recognition, they are told to 'just get over it'.

Moctezuma II; After the Aztecs paid a kings ransom to the Spanish in silver and gold for the release of their Emperor Moctezuma II the Spanish "did the dirty" and murdered poor old Moctezuma anyway.

My understanding is much of the mistreatment of Aboriginals was done by the Squatters. Queen Victoria had as I understand a fairly enlightened view of "the natives". Australia in many places was fairly lawless. The police were employed by the squatters and they tried to avoid entanglement with the Queens Forces. Even the colonial population was treated fairly harshly.

Sounds a bit like "Lord of the Flies".

Power can be a terrifying thing. To hold onto it they terrify. Who has the power now?

The greater the understanding the greater the tormented perspicacity.

Dear "bonga" Paul.

You've obviously made a decision to whimp off stage on the Chinese issue.
So I will conclude for you.

As in 1911, at the implementation of the white Australia policy by a labor government,
It was concluded that rather than a tribe of bandy legged clones taking control of the financial strings of power, it was prudent to act tough against them as a preference to insurrection of the masses, and the overthrowing of the fledgling Commonwealth government, as such precedents was starkly before their eyes in Darwin, as the example.
That's the same Darwin where the Governor was frogmarched out of town by the angry mob, protesting the negative influence of an overpopulation of Chinese.

With the rising tide of anti-Chinese protest which is unfolding right now on the world stage, I think your perceived need to quietly take your marbles and run home to Mummy on the subject of your pro-Chinese attitude, and plain treachery to your own nation, is wise.

Dan

Do we have rednecks and racists in the Australian military? Hot on the heels of a most protracted, yet to be concluded, investigation into war crimes of murder committed in Afghanistan towards Afghan villages by Australian military personnel, film has come to light of Australian soldiers waving an American Confederate flag! We should cringe in embarrassment.

"Bongs"

You disgusting low life.

Dan