on โ02-01-2015 10:05 AM
A crowd of more than 50 people has attacked WA police and their vehicle after a man was arrested for attacking a female officer.
The man had been kicked out of the Pingelly Hotel, in Pingelly, in regional WA, at 1.10am on New Year's Day when he yelled at police officers and was arrested.
He grabbed a female officer by the hair, hitting her head against the ground, and punching her in the head.
Officers tried using a stun gun on the man but when it had no effect, they sprayed him with capsicum spray before putting him in the back of a police van.
As they did so, a crowd of 50-60 people attacked the van and officers from Brookton Police Station, who had come to help, with rocks.
The man was taken to Narrogin Police Station and will be interviewed once he has sobered up.
At least three police officers were hurt, with the female police officer taken to Narrogin Hospital.
The police van was badly dented and its windows smashed.
on โ04-01-2015 11:17 AM
โ04-01-2015 11:29 AM - edited โ04-01-2015 11:30 AM
Someone up there mentioned the Aboriginal would not like to be called Australian - WRONG
My ex and my son are aboriginal and they equate themselves as Australian - they are indeed the first (and in reality only TRUE) Australians here.
The rest of us (immigrants aside) are all born of British stock obvioulsy.
on โ04-01-2015 11:39 AM
on โ04-01-2015 11:40 AM
@2106greencat wrote:Someone up there mentioned the Aboriginal would not like to be called Australian - WRONG
My ex and my son are aboriginal and they equate themselves as Australian - they are indeed the first (and in reality only TRUE) Australians here.
The rest of us (immigrants aside) are all born of British stock obvioulsy.
Good morning GC..
It seems we are all immigrants when it boils down to it.
New research in the journal Science presents a number of firsts for Aboriginal Australians.
The first genome analysis of an Aborigine reveals that these early Australians took part in the first human migration out of Africa. They were the first to arrive in Asia some 70,000 years ago, roaming the area at least 24,000 years before the ancestors of present-day Europeans and Asians. They were also the first to live in Australia, according to DNA results of a 90-year-old hair sample of a young man that link Aborigines to the first inhabitants of this part of the world about 50,000 years ago.
on โ04-01-2015 11:44 AM
@2106greencat wrote:Someone up there mentioned the Aboriginal would not like to be called Australian - WRONG
My ex and my son are aboriginal and they equate themselves as Australian - they are indeed the first (and in reality only TRUE) Australians here.
The rest of us (immigrants aside) are all born of British stock obvioulsy.
It was the resident racist.
I doubt that anyone else here would make such a despicable statement.
on โ04-01-2015 11:45 AM
on โ04-01-2015 11:46 AM
on โ04-01-2015 03:59 PM
on โ04-01-2015 04:01 PM
on โ05-01-2015 02:07 PM
@channys_mum wrote:Just curious. Not knowing your ex's full heritage I shall only refer to your son.
How can he be as you say a 'true australian' any more than any other Aussie citizen.
I never said he could channy, that was just my take on it.
When it all boils down to it, all non indiginous people are imports so can not possibly be considered the first Australian's, the aborigine was here first, so they are the FIRST
'my take on it is' - unless you have the blood of the original (first) Australian people running through your veins how can you be a true Australian?? But of course, way back then it was not called AUstralia, so who knows?
All I know is if I went to live in China and had a child there, that would not make me, nor the child Chinese.
All a matter of perspective.
and to aps -
I am unsure why you are so concerned about the flags, and realise Freeman may have been the cause of your reasoning, but the Australian flag depicts the Union Jack and a few stars from the sky - the Aborignal flag depicts the earth, the sun and the blood of the people, I know which one would mean more to me if I were indiginous.