Trudy wrote on 27 January 1999 4:24: >Daryl Melham, since he became Shadow spokesperson for Aboriginal Affairs has done exactly what >Bruce, in the past, has called on Liberal party MPs to do - stand up for their principles in the >face of the racism of their own party. > >When an individual MP does that, I think they deserve the credit for it. It takes courage to do >that and unless we recognise their actions, they will eventually become discouraged and we go >backward. The way forward is incremental - mostly in minute amounts. Let's not rubbish those who >try to help us forward. Here here! When our delegation asked our local Labor candidate, now MP, at the last election whether the Minister for Aboriginal Affairs in a Labor government would be a senior member of cabinet, he basically avoided the question. His answer was that, No-one wants to be minister. It is interesting to see what has happened to former ministers for Aboriginal Affairs. Their futures have suffered for holding the position. This knowledge makes Daryl Melham's position on Aboriginal Affairs, at the fore-front of his party and often at odds, even more courageous, and perhaps he is worthy of our support, even if his party is not. Peter *********************************************** Peter Yager Maitland NSW Australia E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Paterson Electorate Australians for Native Title & Reconciliation: http://www.users.fl.net.au/~pkyager/patersonantar.htm ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
