Our indigenous people did not exist before British settlement

[i-need-a-martini]

...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...

[durruticolumna]

That harridan is now the speaker in the chamber 🙂

[daydream**believer]

grasping at straws op

[this-one-time-at-bandcamp]

I see that 'sense of humour' is a foreign concept to you.

I didn't see any joke........except for the OP......

[joz*garage]

i see that, i cant believe martini truely thinks tony isnt aware of our indigenous people inhabited australia (not millions of years!? where did you get that figure from?) for approximately 45,000 years before the brits settled here

"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."

[azureline**]

I think he knows they were here...... doesn't he spend time with the indigenous people regularly, doing building and stuff..................

[joz*garage]

mods, can this be merged with some other stoopid thread from the left 

[polksaladallie]

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@azureline** wrote:

I think he knows they were here...... doesn't he spend time with the indigenous people regularly, doing building and stuff..................

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Yes, he lived with them in September, after the election........no wait a minute.......

[azureline**]

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@joz*garage wrote:

mods, can this be merged with some other stoopid thread from the left 

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or from the right?

do you have one in mind?

[cherples]

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@azureline** wrote:

I think he knows they were here...... doesn't he spend time with the indigenous people regularly, doing building and stuff..................

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that's what he wants people to believe...

[Anonymous]

"Yeah lets just dismiss an entire race.

How rude."

do you believe everything you read on this forum lol