The Sydney Morning Herald
Letters:
Date: 04/10/2000
Philistine at the wheel
Mr Ruddock, the Minister for Reconciliation, believes that not having
the wheel held back Aboriginal society. Let's just see what the
wheel has done for us.
The wheel gave us transport.
Transport gave us trade.
Trade gave us commerce.
Commerce gave us territorial groupings.
Territorial groupings gave us governments.
Governments gave us expansionism.
Expansionism gave us invasion.
Invasion gave us the need for reconciliation.
Reconciliation gave us the need for a government department.
A government department gave us the need for a reconciliation minister.
Maybe we could not do without the wheel, but we could certainly do
without the minister for reconciliation.
Paul Heywood,
Waverton.
Let's send Mr Ruddock into the desert with a wheel and see if he can
survive. The Aborigines did without one for millions of years.
Eileen Rourke,
West Pennant Hills.
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