Letter to the editor, Daily Telegraph
“On 26 January 1788 when the First Fleet ships unloaded their c12…00 convicts, Royal Marine guards and officials not a shot was fired.
As they looked around what’s now Circular Quay they saw nothing other than bush.
Not a single building, planted field, domesticated plant or animal – nothing at all. It was the same across the continent.
It was “terra nullius” – a vacant land.
There was no Aboriginal Army to defeat in battle. There was nothing to claim as the spoils of victory.
There was just wild bush. The few Aborigines who came out to have a look at these strange people were completely illiterate and innumerate
and those on the south side of the harbour spoke a language completely unintelligible to those on the north side of the harbour and they’d been constantly at war with each other for as long as anyone can remember.
There was no “invasion”.
Captain Phillip was instructed by the government in London to treat the natives “with amity and kindness” and he did.
No Aborigines were shot; no platoon of Marines fixed their bayonets or loaded their muskets or took a shot at anyone who emerged from the bush
to see what was going on. Instead they offered them gifts and friendship.
Most people now “identified” as “indigenous” – like myself and my children and grandchildren have European – mostly British – ancestry to a greater or lesser extent.
I recently had a DNA test done that shows I’m 48% Irish, 20% English, 30% Scandinavian, 1% Spanish and 1% Aboriginal.
The absurdity is that, in this time of identity politics, I am an “Aborigine” by virtue of the fact that one of my Irish ancestors married an Aboriginal woman 6 generation ago.
There is no reason to change Australia Day. It was the day “Australia” came into being and had it not been for those British coming ashore on 26 January 1788
I wouldn’t exist and neither would Mr Mundine.
The name “Mundine” is as English as a cold pork pie or fish-n-chips wrapped in newspaper.
It’s time for all indigenous people take a spoonful of cement, harden up and to get over what happened 229 years ago and stop playing the victim.”
Editor: If it were not for the Australian, American and New Zealand soldiers, sailors and airmen defending Australia from the swarming Japanese in 1942, there would be no Aborigines living in Australia today. The black power mob should be holding street rallies to thank ordinary Aussies for keeping them alive today in more ways than one. We owe them nothing!
We are all full blooded Aboriginal people of Planet Earth. That means we are Human Beings, Part “Humus” (Earth) and part spiritual being. We must not fight against eachother but against our real enemies the corrupt satanic Globalists and their installed “governments. *
Black “Aboriginals”, Ned Kelly, Christians and every other good Aussie patriot are in the same boat as far as being oppressed and victimized by the truly evil Globalist elite, their Leftard zombies and their Islamic barbarian hoard which they are using to destroy life as we know it.
PS. Yes, too many “Black Aboriginals” these days have become infected with the Leftard or Islam brain virus.
We will ask our Sydney correspondent. Ed
Well this is the most honest argument that I have read in the public domain to date.
As an Aussie “True Blue” I can understand both sides of the coin.
If AUSTRALIA DAY was changed to appease First Nations People would they feel alienated by not being included by this historic event?
Would AUSTRALIA DAY be better celebrated by the 1901 AUSTRALIAN CONSTITUTION ?
This is a tough call as we are REMINDED that First Nations People were here 60.000 years
before the “White Man”.
Whatever is the result I am Proud To be an AUSSIE TRUE BLUE .WE ARE THE ENVY OF
THE WORLD AND WE MUST PROTECT THIS GREAT SOUTHERN LAND.
I believe it was Whitlam when asked the question “how do you define an Aboriginal”
His reply was “Anyone who wishes to call himself one” or near enough to those words. in other words even if you were not an aboriginal you could still define yourself as one. which I find totally stupid in that sense.
Are you able to provide a link to this “Daily Telegraph” article?
Hear! Hear!
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