Letter to the Editor
My wife and I were both born in Australia, as were two children and four grandchildren. Our parents were born in Australia as were all of their parents. And some ancestors go back much further in this land.
I feel rage every time I have to sit through another patronising “welcome to country” charade, designed to make me feel an intruder in my own land. Indigenous history on this continent is the same as our family story – it just goes back a bit further.
The first aboriginals probably walked here over a land bridge and Europeans came later in sailing clippers. All caused displacement of prior inhabitants. They brought dingos which are now “protected” – we brought cattle, sheep, horses and ploughs which are increasingly condemned. They mined ochre, quartzite and basalt, which are now heritage sites – but our coal mines are widely condemned. They brought spears and boomerangs – we brought guns and swords.
Racial referenda, indigenous “Welcomes”, talk of Treaties and special land rights for some Australians just create and maintain division. How long before we are one people with the same rights and responsibilities?
Two centuries is surely time enough?
Viv Forbes
Washpool Qld 4306 Australia
Editor:
That’s correct Viv, but wait until you have to sit through a phony ‘smoking ceremony.’ Our northern blackfellas shudder every time they see one. It’s only for tourists and has no traditional basis but the silly Prime Minister allowed hours of it at Parliament House for the opening ceremony. What a laugh!
Hey my murri mate you would not be here if it wasn’t for the Yanks and Aussie soldiers with a few brave murris in the ranks. Your cousins, aunties, uncles and tribes would have been the first ones the Japs took out after the entered the north. Go away to the dodgy Land Council and learn some history brudder. Ed
Eh brudder what tribe u longa to?
Cairnnews are like I’ve heard for many years…racist pigs claiming false narratives to suit their terroristic minds
Eat a fat Uno whaaaa
And if ya don’t like it…then go back to where your really from and stop complaining and embarrassingly spreading misinformation to suit your greedy selfish agenda. Look mate it’s ALL OUR COUNTRY IF YOU SHOW THE LAND RESPECT..AND YES WE INDIGENOUS AUSSIES ARE A PART OF NOT APART FROM
Nothing involving the Deep State surprises us anymore.Editor
Also, the real reason they are shutting down Ayers Rock I think is because there is something underneath there, like a deep military underground base that they want to use… the sacred aboriginal cultural thing is only a superficial excuse.
Reading all the available info out there on the internet suggests that those things are all over the planet, not only in the US and they are all connected like train stations or a spider web, so the rock must be just one of them.
What do you guys think?
Spot on and they didn’t even invent the boomerang, they had no understanding of aerodynamics, the boomerang was introduced to them by the Egyptian traders who, along with the Columbians, Micronesians, Arabs, Dutch and many other traders from many lands who traded items for children and young virgin lubras long before the British even heard about this land….
Race terrorists are targeting whites and have been trying to make us look bad.
And hired liars say anything for money, they are liars!
Always watch out for “hypocrites and false prophets.”
Remember this article?:
https://www.bibliotecapleyades.net/esp_australia09.htm