Comments on: Let’s hope Rudd’s right — it’s a new beginning

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Stafford- Yes the same bureaucrats will be there but with a different mandate, in stead of racial intolerance & indifference, a mandate that will work at integrating your fellow Australian brothers and sisters in the Aboriginal nations together with us

By: Greg

Greg — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Peggy:-
The Anglican Church of Australia issued an apology to the Stolen Generations in 1998. They also released a statement today supporting the Govt’s apology - http://your.sydneyanglicans.net/mediareleases/statement_on_stolen_generations_apology/

By: Peter Gray

Peter Gray — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

I think it is worth considering that the apology was bipartisan - therefore, both Rudd’s and Nelson’s speeches should be taken as two sides of a coin (so to speak). As a whole, they spoke for all Australians (apart from intractable racists).

By: Stafford

Stafford — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Quote “I started out inspired. I left halfway through Brendan Nelson’s speech almost in tears, and white-hot angry. But I’ll get to that.” You did not like the truth Chris? dreamer!

By: karlo

karlo — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Stafford, I wonder if you would be willing to take on the debt to buy back Australia (which white man stole) and return this stolen property to it actual owners? This would be an act that would show that white man does revere thier laws.

By: Stafford

Stafford — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Chris Graham, lefty misguided mediorce journalist. The same bureaucrats will still be in a job, maybe under a different name that Rudd thinks up, giving money to aboriginals. The aboriginals are happy, the free funding/perks is now guaranteed by Labor.

By: Stafford

Stafford — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Worked in Pt Hedland, Wyndham, Kalgoolie building in 60s had an open mind. Saw it all they are more racist then we, the country people know this but the city people are duped by media like you. Whites make money on the race game than the aboriginals do.

By: steve martin

steve martin — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Chris Graham mentions Wilson Tuckey turning up. Maybe he didn’t hear his stupid and petty remarks at a door stop outside parliament. He would be incandescent if he had, I think!

By: Stephen Wong

Stephen Wong — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

If all the aboriginal people, including Chris Graham, decide to take ownership and full responsibility for their own actions and welfare, there is no need to wait for Rudd or others to deliver.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Stafford- If I understand you correctly you are saying that Aboriginal people are resentful and racist against white people - correct. Well why wouldn’t they be, they have only endured invasion, genocide and the very things Rudd was apologising for.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Peggy- good point, but that is what Churches and religious do, its their enterprise, they must have been frothing when the laws gave them cheap plantation labour & filled their ledgers with more souls. Perhaps they should be taxed & retrospectively.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Stafford- Of course you don’t accept a tax refund do you, don’t expect unemployment benefits if you are unemployed or disability pension if you are incapacitated or compensation for being a nuclear test subject or a wounded soldier - of course not.

By: Peggy Balfour

Peggy Balfour — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

When are we going to hear a ‘Sorry’ from the churches and religious groups? The past Governments may have been responsible for ‘stealing’ the children but the churches, recievers of the stolen goods deprived them of their culture and languages.

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Like myriad facets of a diamond this kaleidoscope of reaction reflects brilliant colour and distortion. A measure of truth in every one. Cie la vie. As Giuseppe de Lampedusa wrote - fact does not survive retelling, it’s adapted according to the times.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

Its unrealistic sitting in the 1st world to expect the Indigenous Australians a 3rd world people to just take responsibility for them selves before the support from the government is provided, the social gap that was engineered long ago is too great.

By: John James

John James — Thu, 01 Jan 1970 10:00:00 +0000

If its dog whistling to lament the abuse of Aboriginal kids by aboriginals, then we should whistle LONG and HARD.