Hi Lance,
Great! A heartfelt and passionate letter!
Trudy
Bushranger Ned wrote:
> Dear Ministers, Senators and Political Parties,
> I emplor you to respect the dignity of the UN council and deliver what the
> First Australian people have been trying to obtain for so long. Recognition
> of prior ownership and a constitutional per-amble that acknowledges the
> Aboriginal people of this land as the Traditional First Owners.
> In a time when you aspise that we are the one of the highest growing nations
> in the world, the aboriginal people of this country suffer the worst
> indignities that we as white people can inflict on another human being.
> Aboriginal people die of curable diseases that white society take for
> granted. Aboriginal people live in squalor and have to trade off land for
> simple things like a kidney machine. Surely you can with your power
> subject yourselves to a level of humbleness where you can deliver decent
> human rights and recognition of prior ownership to this land.
> Until you recognise the traditional prior owners of Australia and respect
> the global communities concern over your discrimination of basic human
> rights it is hard for me as white male to accept my belonging to this
> country, because in denying Aboriginal people their rights you are denying
> my right to live in peace with my neighbors, immigrants and people of
> different nationality who have come to this country in the promise of a more
> compassionate and equal life of prosperity.
>
> Regards,
> Lance Kelly
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