on 04-07-2014 08:09 AM
...according to Tony Abbott.
Another gaffe and another insight into his thinking. This is what he told people at a conference yesterday:
“I guess our country owes its existence to a form of foreign investment by the British government in the then unsettled or, um, scarcely-settled, Great South Land,” he said.
Read more: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/tony-abbott-says-australia-benefited-from-fore...
on 04-07-2014 08:17 AM
That's funny, I don't see where he said the aborigine didn't exist............just like right-wingers in the US claim that the bible, guns, and tough men settled the Americas, even though the indigenous people were already there.
on 04-07-2014 08:24 AM
@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:That's funny, I don't see where he said the aborigine didn't exist............just like right-wingers in the US claim that the bible, guns, and tough men settled the Americas, even though the indigenous people were already there.
Well I suppose its a little like right wingers being blind by everything that is obvious.
His assumption that the country was not settled before the British arrive obliterates millions of years of history of one race that was already here that he seems to have forgotten about.
04-07-2014 08:27 AM - edited 04-07-2014 08:28 AM
Yeah lets just dismiss an entire race.
How rude.
But we wouldnt expect anything less from Tones would we?
He even speaks for Jesus, saying he knew it wasnt everyones place to come to Australia! all the while, he's a 10 pound Pom.
on 04-07-2014 08:28 AM
Yeah, but it was the British that brought civilization to Australia.......if dumping a bunch of convicts into the wild can be considered civilization........
04-07-2014 08:29 AM - edited 04-07-2014 08:29 AM
on 04-07-2014 08:29 AM
Define civilization?
on 04-07-2014 08:30 AM
exactly. let's just forget about our Aboriginals and their ancestors who were one of the first people out of Africa.
on 04-07-2014 08:31 AM
@this-one-time-at-bandcamp wrote:Yeah, but it was the British that brought civilization to Australia.......if dumping a bunch of convicts into the wild can be considered civilization........
That is a truly bizarre statement. Not to mention completely incorrect.
on 04-07-2014 08:34 AM
The stink of horse manure in the streets, harridans dumping chamber pots from second story windows, alcohol and disease.........and the ever-present missionaries bringing the word of the white man's god to the benighted heathens......