@izabsmiling wrote:
@silverfaun wrote:
Here we go again. This is not all about some on here who try to manipulate a perfectly good thread and turn it into a political diatribe.
The insults hurled at our PM, who will be the best friend Indiginous Australians will ever have.
Many on these boards are totally fed up with the angst caused by some and making it all about themselves.
Yes we get that get you feel aggrieved, even after over 200 years, we get it.
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You support a PM and declare him as being the best friend of Indigenous Australians.
that by my posting about the facts past and present of my Country ..you assume I am Indigenous and insinuate that I should not speak about my own Government ,my Country's history and that if I do I must be an agrieved Indigenous Australian who should more or less get over it as it's been 200 years.
Incredible
It's also a little odd that some seem to think that nothing has happened for 200 years, maybe a brush up on our countries history would help....below might help and there is plenty more.
http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/selfdetermination/voting-rights-for-aboriginal-peo...
But voting rights for Aboriginal people were cut back in the first half of the 20th century after Federation and when Australia introduced the ‘White Australia’ policy. Legislation specifically excluded “any aboriginal native of Australia, Asia, Africa, or the islands of the Pacific, except New Zealand” from voting unless they were already on the roll before 1901 [5].
Worse still, electoral officials had the power to decide who was an “aboriginal native” and who was not which led to arbitrary decisions depending if an Aboriginal person lived like a white person or not.
The term “Stolen Generations” is used for Aboriginal people forcefully taken away (stolen) from their families between the 1890s and 1970s, many to never to see their parents, siblings or relatives again. Because the period covers many decades we speak of “generations” (plural) rather than “generation”.
Many Aboriginal people whose wages were stolen were also stolen children, denying them cultural and economic futures.
The majority of Australians have yet to acknowledge the “evident link between settlement life, stolen wages and the lack of education and employment in today’s society” [16]. How are Aboriginal people to become successful workers and businessmen when they are locked into a cycle of poverty?
