Results 1 to 26 of 26

Thread: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

  1. #1
    Old Town Road Senior Member Strike For The South's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2005
    Location
    Between Louis' sheets
    Posts
    10,369

    Default Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

    I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.

  2. #2
    Amphibious Trebuchet Salesman Member Whacker's Avatar
    Join Date
    Nov 2006
    Location
    in ur city killin ur militias
    Posts
    2,934

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Beat me to posting this. I'd really like some perspective and clarification from our Aussie friends on what exactly is going on here. It would seem that this is stemming from child abuse, but it has deeper roots and there may be other motivating factors at work?

    "Justice is the firm and continuous desire to render to everyone
    that which is his due."
    - Justinian I

  3. #3

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    And Australians aren't natives?

    Besides, it hasn't actually happened yet.

    And I fail to see how this

    the plan's requirement that at least half of area Aborigines' welfare checks be spent on food and other necessities -- a measure aimed to cut spending on gambling and alcohol
    would be a bad thing.
    Last edited by Grey_Fox; 06-21-2007 at 16:22.

  4. #4
    Poll Smoker Senior Member CountArach's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
    Posts
    9,029

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    First I'll start with some Australian articles:
    http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/21/1957945.htm - This covers most of the Legislation
    http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2...23/1959754.htm
    http://abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/06/21/1958547.htm - This is several negative reactions
    http://www.nt.gov.au/dcm/inquirysaac...nal_report.pdf - The Government's report in pdf format (320 Pages)

    Alright, essentially Howard has officially done this primarily to stop huge levels of Child Abuse and Rape in the Aboriginal communities, largely caused by 3 things:
    1) Lack of good educational facilities
    2) Alcohol and Drug Abuse (Very deep rooted since we brought it to them).
    3) Everything so far that has been tried to fix 1 and 2 has failed.

    So Howard, has decided to do 3 main things about it:
    1) Ban alcohol and Pornography sales for 6 months
    2) Reserve the right to freeze welfare payments
    3) Take control of local townships - They are currently fairly autonomous
    4) Medical examinations of all Aborginial Children under the age of 16 for free
    5) More police in Aboriginal areas

    Alright, now begins the opinions:

    The Alcohol and Pornography sales (Not that I understand why Pornography should be banned, but I'll go along with it) will fix the Alcohol Abuse, that is true, but only for 6 months. What needs to be done is to educate these people about what alcohol can do to them. We need to educate them into what Drugs can do to them. Then we shoulod educate them in just how wrong Child abuse is. The Government can afford it.

    As it is, banning these people from buying them sets up two problems for me.1) It restricts their freedoms and 2) It sets a horrible double standard. Alcohol and Pornography are still widely available for general consumption for the rest of the population.

    Freezing Welfare payments is a horrible idea. It will still be spent on alcohol, only it will be smuggled to them (Or bootlegged) and be sold at high prices. This will just perpetuate the relative poverty these people live in compared to the rest of society. Linking welfare payments to their child's education will help, I can see that, but at the same time it doesn't adress the root problem.

    Taking control of Local Townships is a return to a policy of Paternalism, which we dumped years ago. It essentially meant that Western Culture was far superior to theirs and as such we should try to civilize and cultrue them, and treat them as if they were children. What this aims to do is to restrict their freedoms in the name of protecting them. That is an idea that strikes me as so profoundly stupid that I just can't even express it.

    Howard has also stated he will remove one of the ways that Aboriginal can prove they have associsation with their land and hence, be given it as theirs. This means that he will be ignoring the past 15 years worth of High Court rulings in regards to Aboriginals Australians. This comes down to Howard's deep rooted conservatism and refusal to admit that White Man commited Genocide on Aboriginal Australians ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_Wars ). He has opennly admitted to this, and refuses to apologise to Aboriginal Australia.

    I actually support the Medical Examinations of Aboriginal Children for free, it is good legislation. The same goes for the increased police in Aboriginal areas, though I would prefer if that was everywhere.

    Now, why has Howard done this?

    Ultimately, I have a feeling that this comes down the fact that this is going to be the closest run election Howard has ever had. (Just to clarify, we have Compulsory Voting for everyone) No Aboriginal Australian is going to vote for Howard for any reason. Ever. Therefore, if he upsets some of their spokespeople and the Aboriginals themselves, he will not lose votes from them. However, Howard will win votes from the rest of Australia, because we have such a deep rooted Xenophobia. Howard can just feed off of this.

    There is also a problem that runs a long way back in these rural Aboriginal communities. For all I know, Howard may feel that this is the best, or perhaps only, way of dealing with these problems. Indeed, they might be and everything I have bothered to type here may just be waffle, but I think there is a better way.
    Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
    Quote Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
    Nothing established by violence and maintained by force, nothing that degrades humanity and is based on contempt for human personality, can endure.

  5. #5
    Poll Smoker Senior Member CountArach's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
    Posts
    9,029

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Quote Originally Posted by Whacker
    It would seem that this is stemming from child abuse, but it has deeper roots and there may be other motivating factors at work?
    It is stemming from Child abuse, but the Child abuse is stemming from Alcohol abuse.

    And Australians aren't natives?
    Defining an Australian "Native" is very hard (excluding the Aboriginals of course). We have no national identity, most of it is just left over from the British. I personally come from a long line of Australian-born people, however, I have no cultural identity with any part of this country. Though that just may be my cinicism.

    Anyway, there is no definition of what it is to be Australian. There used to be, up until the 1970s, but now there isn't.
    Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
    Quote Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
    Nothing established by violence and maintained by force, nothing that degrades humanity and is based on contempt for human personality, can endure.

  6. #6
    Senior Member Senior Member naut's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Posts
    9,103

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Well at least he's trying something. What's needed is education. Yet I don't know if they'd actually appreciate and take the stuff they learn with them. But it's worth a shot.

    Howard not apologising is something that may not be morally correct, but I think in his defence it is based on solid economic grounds. Because if he apologises it will allow the aboriginal people to sue the government, much like what happened in Canada. And also if you've ever interacted with aboriginal people I'd have to say they are some of the most racist people out there. Being called a "white devil" and getting told it's your fault their poor is not my cup of tea, especially since I only arrived here 7 years ago so I have nothing to do with their poverty and loss of land.

    Also if alcohol is banned I'm certain they'll resort to petrol sniffing, a harsh but true reality. It really is sad.
    #Hillary4prism

    BD:TW

    Some piously affirm: "The truth is such and such. I know! I see!"
    And hold that everything depends upon having the “right” religion.
    But when one really knows, one has no need of religion. - Mahavyuha Sutra

    Freedom necessarily involves risk. - Alan Watts

  7. #7
    Poll Smoker Senior Member CountArach's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
    Posts
    9,029

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Well at least he's trying something. What's needed is education. Yet I don't know if they'd actually appreciate and take the stuff they learn with them. But it's worth a shot.
    It is indeed exactly what is needed.

    Howard not apologising is something that may not be morally correct, but I think in his defence it is based on solid economic grounds. Because if he apologises it will allow the aboriginal people to sue the government, much like what happened in Canada.
    Don't they deserve it?

    And also if you've ever interacted with aboriginal people I'd have to say they are some of the most racist people out there.
    Okay, didn't know that.

    especially since I only arrived here 7 years ago so I have nothing to do with their poverty and loss of land.
    I agree, you shouldn't be victimised. The only people who should be blamed are those with the power to change their situation, but not the will. OUt of interest, where did you come from?

    Also if alcohol is banned I'm certain they'll resort to petrol sniffing, a harsh but true reality. It really is sad.
    Something else I forgot to mention.
    Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
    Quote Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
    Nothing established by violence and maintained by force, nothing that degrades humanity and is based on contempt for human personality, can endure.

  8. #8

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    I, for one, applaud the civilized Australians for taking an active interest in their natives.

  9. #9
    Old Town Road Senior Member Strike For The South's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2005
    Location
    Between Louis' sheets
    Posts
    10,369

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    This stinks of parentilism. Let them ruin there lives just dont interfere.
    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

    I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.

  10. #10

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    The problem is they're ruining their lives with taxpayers' money.

  11. #11
    Old Town Road Senior Member Strike For The South's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jul 2005
    Location
    Between Louis' sheets
    Posts
    10,369

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Quote Originally Posted by Grey_Fox
    The problem is they're ruining their lives with taxpayers' money.
    Well stop the aid. Dont tell them what to do there people
    There, but for the grace of God, goes John Bradford

    My aim, then, was to whip the rebels, to humble their pride, to follow them to their inmost recesses, and make them fear and dread us. Fear is the beginning of wisdom.

    I am tired and sick of war. Its glory is all moonshine. It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood, for vengeance, for desolation.

  12. #12
    Member Member Tuuvi's Avatar
    Join Date
    Apr 2006
    Location
    The wild west
    Posts
    1,418

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    It seems like alchohol is a problem with native populations in a lot of countries. However I do not think that banning it from them is the answer. They need to be treated as equal citizens and not discriminated against.

  13. #13
    Medical Welshman in London. Senior Member Big King Sanctaphrax's Avatar
    Join Date
    Jan 2003
    Location
    Cardiff in the summer, London during term time.
    Posts
    7,988

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Aside from the discrimination issues, this will never work. Alcohol bans are unenforcable, let alone ones which only apply to one section of the population.
    Co-Lord of BKS and Beirut's Kingdom of Peace and Love.

    "Handsome features, rugged exteriors, intellectual chick magnets, we're pretty much twins."-Beirut

    "Rhy, where's your helicopter now? Where's your ******* helicopter now?"-Mephistopheles.



  14. #14
    Jillian & Allison's Daddy Senior Member Don Corleone's Avatar
    Join Date
    Mar 2004
    Location
    Athens, GA
    Posts
    7,588

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Strike, if it was just the people boozing it up themselves, you might have a point. But apparently there is rampant child abuse (physical and sexual) in these aborignal communities and everyone seems to agree that alcohol abuse plays a big role in that.

    I don't see how this can work. If you folks have any sort of equal protection clause like our 14th ammendment, there's only 2 ways to go: banning alcohol to everyone, or banning it for noone. You can't say "Well, you Abos can't hold your liquor so no more for you".

    I personally don't see what's wrong with requiring that at least 50% of a welfare check go towards food and utilities. I just don't see how Howard intends to enforce that portion of it.

    As for the porn, send all the Abo's porn over here to the States. We could use some new stuff, ours is too formulated. (Just kidding. Something about having a daughter changes your whole way of thinking about porn).
    "A man who doesn't spend time with his family can never be a real man."
    Don Vito Corleone: The Godfather, Part 1.

    "Then wait for them and swear to God in heaven that if they spew that bull to you or your family again you will cave there heads in with a sledgehammer"
    Strike for the South

  15. #15
    The Black Senior Member Papewaio's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2001
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
    Posts
    15,677

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Considering an aboriginal community will be by itself in an area larger then Wales except for maybe a local mine and a farm at max, the ban is easily enforceable... the remoteness is part of the problem, lack of police, opportunities etc

    When working at the mines there is a ban on selling alcohol to the aborigines and also petrol as a lot of them sniff it and spray paints and toluene and other solvents. Its not a pretty thing to see a kid whose mouth and nose is chromed from the spray paint they sniff.

    So removing alcohol is only part of the solution, the root causes need to be addressed too.

    Now the biggest issue is that this may seem to hark back to the lost children generation and some of the overly extreme measures taken.

    =][=

    BTW aborigine is one step further then native, it means that they are the original or earliest inhabitants of a land.

    On the other hand Maori's are natives as they wiped out the prior inhabitants.
    Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
    Pape for global overlord!!
    Quote Originally Posted by English assassin
    Squid sources report that scientists taste "sort of like chicken"
    Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
    The rest is either as average as advertised or, in the case of the missionary, disappointing.

  16. #16
    Member Member Yun Dog's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2004
    Location
    Perth Western Australia
    Posts
    622

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    pfft its such a stunt

    as said by the WA premier - hes been in power for 10 yrs and something HAS to be done NOW

    in that 10 yrs hes been whittling away at funding to social welfare programs that have actually been helping the Aborigines

    yet again Howard is pulling a 'Children Overboard' "WMD" & this time "Aboriginal Child abuse" - to appeal to the Lowest common denominator or "the average Aussie voter' who happens to also be a racist, Xeno, Pseudo-Christian, ignorant, biggot

    Gladiator "He understands the Mob"

    "He will give them blood and they will love him for it"

    He will wave this red herring distractor in front of thier faces as if its been the most critical issue facing this nation and NOW hes riding though on his white horse saving us from ourselves - how did we ever survive without him and his transparently racist agenda


    edit: for the "at least hes doing something" argument - as said by BKS hes not really becasue this wont work (been tried before), but it will make a lot of headlines - the problem is he doesnt have enough power - If we were to crown him KING then he could help us poor unwashed
    Last edited by Yun Dog; 06-25-2007 at 07:45.
    Quote Originally Posted by pevergreen View Post
    its pevergeren.

  17. #17
    The Black Senior Member Papewaio's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2001
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
    Posts
    15,677

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Yun I agree that this is more headlines and probably won't work (although the idea of actually providing more police is one valid point)... what do you think needs to be done to
    a) Stop the current issues in the short term.
    b) In the long term diminish the problems.

    Personally I think rather then looking after the Solomons we should be sending more of our police into these communities and engaging them to help themselves. More education targeting health and more access to health resources... remove all the porn, alcohol and child abuse... you still have a place that is so remote that basic health services are extremely difficult to provide to.

    I don't think throwing more money at the issue via the aboriginal councils will work as they have shown very little progress with what they have done so far. Abstudy and scholarships by all means.
    Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
    Pape for global overlord!!
    Quote Originally Posted by English assassin
    Squid sources report that scientists taste "sort of like chicken"
    Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
    The rest is either as average as advertised or, in the case of the missionary, disappointing.

  18. #18
    Member Member Yun Dog's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2004
    Location
    Perth Western Australia
    Posts
    622

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    To be brutally honest - I dont think there is a solution

    basically they reject western culture but have taken all the bad bits like chronic alcoholism

    we try and help them in the only way we know how - try and make them live like us - a house, a job - but this is all whitemans world - I mean for a start they dont have private ownership - everything anyone owns belongs to everyone else - so there is little motivation to have a house, car, and other white man toys - they just see it all as 'why'. Now weve brought them drugs alcohol and pornography you cant just take it away, because theyll just goto town and steal it (wouldnt you).

    Just seems to me like anything we do will be more of what we did to them to start with. We have constantly meddled with these people because we are unable to grasp the fact that these people dont feel the need for progress or to drastically modify/exploit their environment like we do- and to be honest seeing where 'our way' is leading the planet and its people - Im not so sure they have it that wrong. As a consequence of thier misplacement from the modern western material capitalst world - comes hopelessness, depression , and abuse (in all forms).

    they are the Indian out of Huxleys Brave New World - we've really only left one way for them to go - but like the tigers and other endangered species no doubt we can clone them and keep them in zoos.

    Will they suddenly start living like modern man - some will, the rest will be pushed further to the fringe until the fringe is gone and then so will they be.
    Quote Originally Posted by pevergreen View Post
    its pevergeren.

  19. #19
    Poll Smoker Senior Member CountArach's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
    Posts
    9,029

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    in that 10 yrs hes been whittling away at funding to social welfare programs that have actually been helping the Aborigines
    A very valid point. Howard has been exacerbating the problem for many years now.

    "the average Aussie voter' who happens to also be a racist, Xeno, Pseudo-Christian, ignorant, biggot
    lol, the most accurate comment I have ever read about Australian voters.

    As a side note, I live about 10 kilometres from Cronulla (The location of those massive riots on the beach) and it is amazing the level of Bigotry and Xenophobia you will encounter around here. Sometimes I confront some of my friends on it and they cannot give me one credible reason why they think that Lebanese and Asians are worse than them. They hate them anyway (As a side note, I don't. Please no one get offended).

    what do you think needs to be done to
    a) Stop the current issues in the short term.
    b) In the long term diminish the problems.
    Well IMO:

    a) Hmmm. I think that the police are probably the best way of dealing with this. Oh wait, no it isn't! They are underfunded!

    b) Education. Just hit them hard with the education. Education will make it better.

    Personally I think rather then looking after the Solomons we should be sending more of our police into these communities and engaging them to help themselves. More education targeting health and more access to health resources... remove all the porn, alcohol and child abuse... you still have a place that is so remote that basic health services are extremely difficult to provide to.
    That is an infringement of these people's rights though. It creates the double standard of "We are so much better, we are allowed to keep our porn and booze, you on the other hand are uncivilised savages who cannot handle them. Hence we are allowed to take them from you."

    I don't think throwing more money at the issue via the aboriginal councils will work as they have shown very little progress with what they have done so far. Abstudy and scholarships by all means.
    I'm not sure, but I would bet that they are underfunded as well.

    basically they reject western culture but have taken all the bad bits like chronic alcoholism
    Rejecting Western Culture isn't a bad thing. There is nothing/noone who should be able to say that our culture is so much better than theirs. Besides, it was us who gave them the alcohol in the first place.

    they are the Indian out of Huxleys Brave New World - we've really only left one way for them to go - but like the tigers and other endangered species no doubt we can clone them and keep them in zoos.
    Hmmm, let me think. John the Savage was the most pure and the best person in the book. He was backwards technologically, but he was better at heart.

    Will they suddenly start living like modern man - some will, the rest will be pushed further to the fringe until the fringe is gone and then so will they be.
    I really hope not. Just another reason I will vote Greens when I am old enough (1...more...year...). They at least have the respect for these people's culture to admit that they may in fact be better than us.
    Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
    Quote Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
    Nothing established by violence and maintained by force, nothing that degrades humanity and is based on contempt for human personality, can endure.

  20. #20
    Member Member Yun Dog's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2004
    Location
    Perth Western Australia
    Posts
    622

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Quote Originally Posted by CountArach
    AHmmm, let me think. John the Savage was the most pure and the best person in the book. He was backwards technologically, but he was better at heart.


    I really hope not. Just another reason I will vote Greens when I am old enough (1...more...year...). They at least have the respect for these people's culture to admit that they may in fact be better than us.

    Yes thats rights, but what happens to him in then end, I seem to remember he hangs himself because he cant cope with the ugly brave new world he finds

    Yes certainly its good to respect other cultures - the unfortunate thing in this case and many others is the swamping of the planets cultures with the 'greed is good' materialistic cosumer culture
    Quote Originally Posted by pevergreen View Post
    its pevergeren.

  21. #21
    Poll Smoker Senior Member CountArach's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
    Posts
    9,029

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Yes thats rights, but what happens to him in then end, I seem to remember he hangs himself because he cant cope with the ugly brave new world he finds
    Yeah, pretty much.

    Yes certainly its good to respect other cultures - the unfortunate thing in this case and many others is the swamping of the planets cultures with the 'greed is good' materialistic cosumer culture
    You have no argument from me here.
    Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
    Quote Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
    Nothing established by violence and maintained by force, nothing that degrades humanity and is based on contempt for human personality, can endure.

  22. #22
    Still warlusting... Member Warluster's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
    Posts
    2,590

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    I was wondering when this was too pop up.

    I agree with Count Arach, the average Aussie these days are racist ( I ain't though)

    These days riots are rumored all over Aus.

    I think it was last year, down at Burliegh Heads, Gold Coast, a massive riot was about to happen, telling people where and when by text message. (Police barely stopped)

    And to be perfectly honest (though I on no account agree its right), I don't think most Australian is gonna stop, as racism is something which is deeply rooted in our history since the 1800's.

    And with the Stolen generation thing, and the laws we used to have 60 years ago, its no suprise Australia is so rascist today.

  23. #23

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    The reason there's racism is that most immigrants don't assimilate. If you want to live in Australia would should become Australian. Unfortunately, we've lost what it means to be Australian over the last 30 years and that breeds racism between immigrants and locals.

    Ekklesia Mafia: - An exciting new mafia game set in ancient Athens - Sign up NOW!
    ***
    "Oh, how I wish we could have just one Diet session where the Austrians didn't spend the entire time complaining about something." Fredericus von Hamburg

  24. #24
    L'Etranger Senior Member Banquo's Ghost's Avatar
    Join Date
    Dec 2005
    Location
    Hunting the Snark, a long way from Tipperary...
    Posts
    5,604

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ignoramus
    The reason there's racism is that most immigrants don't assimilate. If you want to live in Australia would should become Australian. Unfortunately, we've lost what it means to be Australian over the last 30 years and that breeds racism between immigrants and locals.


    So in the context of the article, you believe all Australians should adopt aboriginal culture and this would eliminate racism?

    Sounds like a plan to me.
    "If there is a sin against life, it consists not so much in despairing as in hoping for another life and in eluding the implacable grandeur of this one."
    Albert Camus "Noces"

  25. #25
    The Black Senior Member Papewaio's Avatar
    Join Date
    Sep 2001
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
    Posts
    15,677

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ignoramus
    The reason there's racism is that most immigrants don't assimilate. If you want to live in Australia would should become Australian. Unfortunately, we've lost what it means to be Australian over the last 30 years and that breeds racism between immigrants and locals.
    30 years ago was 1977.

    So the golden non-racist years were what between the end of the White Australia policy and 1977... considering that the White Australia policy was finally finished in 1974 that leaves a grand total of oh 3 years.

    Quote Originally Posted by White Australia Policy
    describes Australia's approach to immigration, from federation until the latter part of the 20th century, which favoured applicants from certain countries.

    The abolition of the policy took place over a period of 25 years.

    Following the election of a coalition of the Liberal and Country parties in 1949, Immigration Minister Harold Holt allowed 800 non-European refugees to remain in Australia and Japanese war brides to enter Australia.

    Over subsequent years, Australian governments gradually dismantled the policy, with the final vestiges being removed in 1973 by the new Labor government.
    Lets be generous and make it when the Aboriginals were taken off the Parks and Wildlife census and added to the Human census since that must have happened way before the end of the White Australia Policy... so when did they get counted as humans... well it went to referendum and happily 90% of the people said they should be considered in the census. This sterling proposition was passed in 1967.

    So that gives the golden years of non-racist Australia a grand total of ten years. I think I'll channel Elliot Goblet and say 'wow, I am overwhelmed with awe.'
    Our genes maybe in the basement but it does not stop us chosing our point of view from the top.
    Quote Originally Posted by Louis VI the Fat
    Pape for global overlord!!
    Quote Originally Posted by English assassin
    Squid sources report that scientists taste "sort of like chicken"
    Quote Originally Posted by frogbeastegg View Post
    The rest is either as average as advertised or, in the case of the missionary, disappointing.

  26. #26
    Poll Smoker Senior Member CountArach's Avatar
    Join Date
    Aug 2006
    Location
    Sydney, Australia
    Posts
    9,029

    Default Re: Aussie put restrictions on Natives.

    Quote Originally Posted by Ignoramus
    The reason there's racism is that most immigrants don't assimilate. If you want to live in Australia would should become Australian. Unfortunately, we've lost what it means to be Australian over the last 30 years and that breeds racism between immigrants and locals.
    What is Australian? There is no one true meaning for what that is.
    Rest in Peace TosaInu, the Org will be your legacy
    Quote Originally Posted by Leon Blum - For All Mankind
    Nothing established by violence and maintained by force, nothing that degrades humanity and is based on contempt for human personality, can endure.

Bookmarks

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •  
Single Sign On provided by vBSSO