Letter to the Editor
Many attended the dawn ANZAC Day Memorial Services to honour and remember our fallen heroes, a solemn time for all Australians to reflect and remember those who fought to defend our nation and maintain the democratic freedoms we enjoy this day. Lest We Forget.
Embarrassingly the MC opened with a ‘Welcome to country’, this was totally out of place bringing race into the solemnity of this special day of our remembrance. This adaption from US Indians PR campaigns was an embarrassing and offensive intrusion into the solemnity of our remembrance service.
We will not be welcomed to our own country and we will not tolerate anyone welcoming the memories and souls of our service men and women to their homeland. This was an insulting rude intrusion into the memories of our heroes.
It must not ever happen again. People sharing fellowship at the conclusion were all disgusted at this rubbish insult and sacrilege of this special service on this special day — It must be guaranteed that such will never ever be repeated.
For your record information this phoney ‘Welcome to country’ was invented by Ernie dingo as an adaption from US Indians Public Relations campaign.
Indigenous entertainers Ernie Dingo and Richard Whalley, of the Middar Aboriginal Theatre, invented the “welcome to country” in 1976 because two pairs of Maori visitors from NZ and the Cook Islands wanted an equivalent of their own traditional ceremony before they would dance at the Perth International Arts Festival.
This fact is supported by a press statement from aboriginal Bess Price, Former NT Minister for Community Services.
What a sad reflection upon the integrity of the RSL to have been conned into this stupid façade without doing any forensic anthropology into the matter.
From PR
NSW
Definitely an insult.
I am a fourth generation Australian.
I served in the Australian Army to protect Australia and fellow Australians, same as my killed in action uncles did, and many other relatives did in both world wars, and have since then.
I do not need any person to welcome me to Australia, or a part of it. Or be treated like I am not entitled to be here, unless/until a certain race/group of people give me the okay by blowing smoke in my face.
When on a visit, if someone said to me, welcome to my home, that would be a different story. No smoke in the face, no false ceremony needed, because I already know that I belong here.
The MC at ANZAC Day at Bribie Island did NOT say welcome to Australia – he did state we are all Australians and it will not happen here and the majority of peopole clapped, I also stated a fairly loud YES. There were some total fools like our local councillor and Queensland MP along with a Federal MP to our area that must have understood that we are not happy with the stupidity of their low antics.
same goes for the haka.
virtue signalling needs a kick up the arse
Hey, white fella. Welcome to the land that you servicemen and servicewomen fought to protect so we black fellas can screw you over. Yeah, nice.
All of Australian anthropology is part of the problem, according to a 1992 three-month investigation by five Austrian anthropologists who were representing horrified European anthropologists.
They said that not one Australian anthropologist they surveyed and interviewed could speak an Aboriginal language which, internationally is a violation of the most central ethic of anthropology, a breach deserving of being stripped of their degrees and possibly facing criminal charges.
This pathetically hollow Australian university degree is the reason there are hundreds of faux Aborigines, all of them talking waffle, lumping two utterly disparate cultures together as one (Aborigine and Thursday Island), and acknowledging a pyramidal hierarchy that never existed in pre-contact times.
The outcome is: taxpayer wealth being poured into the pockets of frauds; 20,000 useless white public servants in the black industry; and 35,000 actual Aborigines living in squalor and without hope of deliverance from early death.
The solution to this problem would cost a tiny fraction of current expenditure, and would involve Aborigines being permitted to run their lives effectively and efficiently through their own laws and languages, and on their own land where they live.
couldn’t agree more….an insult