Slick Tony's Indigenous insincerity

[boris1gary]

Slick Tony's Indigenous insincerity

“There is no country on Earth where people are made more welcome. There is no country on Earth whose people have more innate generosity to others. Yet for two centuries – with fragrant [sic] exceptions, of course – Australians had collectively failed to show to Aboriginal people the personal generosity and warmth of welcome that we have habitually extended to the stranger in our midst.”

These words are chilling, for their shameless, delued deception.

The Prime Minister’s speech requires a fierce riposte, on two grounds.

Firstly, Australia cannot currently claim to be a generous welcoming country.

We are not showing warmth to the stranger, as Prime Minister Abbott claims. In fact, in our name, Abbott’s Government is treating men women and children fleeing persecution with appalling cruelty. Australia does not welcome refugees or offer them safety. We push them back into the sea. We send them back to the horrors from which they have fled. We incarcerate, injure, threaten and destroy them.

Secondly, Abbott speaks of our failure to offer warmth and welcome to Indigenous people.

By this Abbott claims that it is white Australia welcoming a stranger to these shores. That’s right — a stranger?

Indigenous people have lived in this land for at least 60,000 years — to suggest they are strangers in this country is beyond idiotic and embarrassing and strays into being downright offensive.

It is white settlers who became the strangers in another people’s land. It is the white people who stole the land and committed the murders and took the children from their mothers. It is us, white people, who are the violent invaders — who did not deserve to be welcomed.

http://www.independentaustralia.net/politics/politics-display/slick-tonys-indigenous-insincerity,619...

[darksideofthemoon]

On top of all that boris.. he really should learn to speak English....

Slick Tony's Indigenous insincerity

“There is no country on Earth where people are made more welcome. There is no country on Earth whose people have more innate generosity to others. Yet for two centuries – with fragrant [sic] exceptions, of course – Australians had collectively failed to show to Aboriginal people the personal generosity and warmth of welcome that we have habitually extended to the stranger in our midst.”

Fragrant:  smelling lovely, like roses.

He should have said Flagrant:  exposed actions contrary to decency.

As for the dreadful mistakes he is making, it makes me want to cringe.  How can he be Prime Minister with so little real education?

At least people like Bob Menzies and Bob Hawke had a real education that fitted them for the position, but the Prime Ministers we seem to be landed with at present... Kevin Rudd, Julia Gillard and now Tony Abbott... really they leave me ashamed to be Australian.

When are we going to be able to vote in educated people again?

As for how the indigenous people of Australia were treated.... he could try reading a bit of REAL history before he tries to hood wink us again...  He could even come down to Tasmania and talk to some of the survivors of those dreadful days.

BAH!  

[bluecat*dancing]

The only thing, so far, that Abbott has done that I agree with,is his stance on Recognising the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders in the Constitution with a referendum expected in September.[I'm certain that Gillard had promised the same]. However, I hope that the wording is appropriate.

http://www.recognise.org.au/

[spotweldersfriend]

Tony has been caught out in fragrante delicto 😄

[lakeland27]

the first thing i'm going to do the first thing i'm going to do.

[boris1gary]

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@lakeland27 wrote:

the first thing i'm going to do the first thing i'm going to do.

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is lie about the 1st, 2nd and 3rd thing I wasn't going to do.

[languidlady49]

he didn't call Aboriginal people strangers, he said we treat strangers better than Aboriginal people.

[colic2bullsgirlore]

[boris1gary]

Firstly, Australia cannot currently claim to be a generous welcoming country.

We are not showing warmth to the stranger, as Prime Minister Abbott claims. In fact, in our name, Abbott’s Government is treating men women and children fleeing persecution with appalling cruelty. Australia does not welcome refugees or offer them safety. We push them back into the sea. We send them back to the horrors from which they have fled. We incarcerate, injure, threaten and destroy them.

Secondly, Abbott speaks of our failure to offer warmth and welcome to Indigenous people.

By this Abbott claims that it is white Australia welcoming a stranger to these shores. That’s right — a stranger?

Indigenous people have lived in this land for at least 60,000 years — to suggest they are strangers in this country is beyond idiotic and embarrassing and strays into being downright offensive.

It is white settlers who became the strangers in another people’s land. It is the white people who stole the land and committed the murders and took the children from their mothers. It is us, white people, who are the violent invaders — who did not deserve to be welcomed.

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@languidlady49 wrote:

he didn't call Aboriginal people strangers, he said we treat strangers better than Aboriginal people.

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maybe have misread and/or misunderstood the article.

[freakiness]

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@languidlady49 wrote:

he didn't call Aboriginal people strangers, he said we treat strangers better than Aboriginal people.

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No, he said we extend our welcome more to strangers than we welcome aboriginal people.