Suze,
Couldn't agree with you more and I'm glad it inspired you to write
'educational' letters. Of course, the view expressed is straight from
Hanson and her cohorts.
Trudy
Suze wrote:
>
> Well of course many of the views in the clips are at odds with my own...but this one
>below 'in
> particular' deserves stomping on bigtime!
>
> I'm damn fed up with 'racists' targetting this debate on our INDIGENOUS rights. I
>wish they'd remove
> the "racist" issues and just squarely take it on the jaw that our ancestors were
>here first! Doesn't
> matter what race ... we deserve compensation as this was our land FIRST!
>
> AND This individual below aims to start the same bullshit again "misrepresenting"
>funding that ATSIC
> is empowered to 'manage'. $2.3 'billion'...crikes, if only we actually had that in
>the ATSIC coffers
> each year we could really see some swift improvements. Of course the next step is to
>threaten our
> funding...damn I get sick of this merry-go-round.
>
> This line of arguement of compensations on the 'basis' of race should be fought
>tooth and nail to
> cut these people off before they waste any more time diverting debate.
>
> The only way to redress the disadvantages is to PAY UP and let the FIRST NATION
>manage its own
> affairs.
>
> Suze (off to vent the steam and write some 'educational' letters...grrrrr)
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Trudy & Rod Bray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "RecOzNet2" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Friday, September 01, 2000 9:27 AM
> Subject: [recoznet2] SMH - Letters (extract)
>
> > The Sydney Morning Herald
> > Letters: Moralists, hypocrites, heroes and the UN
> >
> > Surry Hills, August 30.
> >
> > Bravo to the Government, and especially to Andrew Thomson, for
> > forthright defence of Australia against abuse of the UN human rights
> > system.
> >
> > ATSIC submissions, in particular, to the UN have reached outrageous
> > heights of misrepresentation and abuse of government funding.
> >
> > What makes this worse is that ATSIC is not merely an NGO seeking to
> > circumvent democratic processes--it is a fully taxpayer-funded
> > body.
> >
> > ATSIC's use of taxpayer funds to promote the political agenda of bodies
> > such as chairman Geoff Clark's "Aboriginal Provisional
> > Government" is gross abuse of the generous resources ($2.3 billion this
> > financial year) so ineffectually applied to Aboriginal disadvantage
> > year after year.
> >
> > ATSIC should be disbanded. Racist Aboriginal policy is the last official
> > racism remaining in Australia, is deeply offensive to most
> > Australians, is not working as intended, and should be abolished.
> >
> > The appropriate way to redress disadvantage is to remove this last stain
> > of racist policy, and to target need, not race, in our multiracial,
> > pluralist society.
> >
> > G. A. Thompson
> >
> > Canberra (ACT), August 30.
>
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