Hi Lance,
Welcome to the list, we're glad to have you join us!
It's great to have people with enthusiasm who are committed to justice
for Aboriginal Australians
and we look forward to your contribution - whether in discussions,
lobbying or protests.
Your concern about the best way to fight for Indigenous rights is
understandable - none of us
want to encroach on Indigenous prerogatives and where possible we find
out the most acceptable
way to go. Mistakes are made occasionally, I'm sure, but as long as we
keep talking with each
other - Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal - we will continue to learn about
each other. So long as we
don't let fear of taking a wrong step paralyse our efforts.
Trudy
(list co-manager with Paul Canning whose rather busy right now ploughing
through 1100 messages after computer trouble.)
Bushranger Ned wrote:
> Hi there,
> What a great list serve.!!!!, just read all the emails on Neville Bonner,
> Don Dunstan and the tent embassy in Canberra.
> I've just joined this discussion and advocacy group, Im in my 4rth year of a
> Social Work degree at James Cook Uni..38 male and a whitey of Irish decent.
> I'm writing this email to throw in my support for the rights of the
> indigenous / first Australians to this country and to say to the tent
> embassy congratulations on your wonderful work. I also met Neville Bonner
> when I was working as a Brisbane Cabby and found him to be a most humble man
> and a most honest man. He will be missed in my heart also. As a
> colloquial Queenslander I never knew about Don Dunstans efforts on behalf of
> the first Australians before reading about it on this list. I'm proud there
> are at least some people who have immigrated to this country who have
> developed a respect for the first Australians and have fought for their
> rights.
> As a whitey Im always unsure of just what I should do to support indigenous
> Australians without feeling as though I might be encroaching on endigenous
> turf or in my own whitey way disempowering the cultural ownership and
> traditions of this lands people. So Im always open to suggestions of the
> "how tos" and in "what ways" non indigenous Australians can throw their
> support behind the First Australian movement without taking away the power
> and capacity for indigenous Australians to do what is needed to be done.
> Regards, Lance Kelly. Townsville.
>
> Regards, Lance (Bushrngr)
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