March 25, 1999
It worked a charm!
With the hasty release of a draft preamble that obviously needs a lot more work,
John Howard distracted us completely from the UN judgement on his racially
discriminatory Native Title Amendment Act.
What patsies we are!
Trudy Bray
13 Cunningham Pl.,
Camden
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South China Morning Post
Wednesday March 24,1999
Poetic preamble rhymes poorly for Aborigines
"It should start, 'God save the black fellow and pray for
our natives' welfare
Friends,
The day Howard announced his support for a preamble question I said to my
partner this is the deathnell of the Republic vote. The rest of the time leading
up to the referendum will be filled with argument about what should, or should
not be included.
This has turned out to be so - so
SMH Stay in touch column
On ya, cobber
An early draft of the John Howard-Les Murray love-in preamble has been leaked to
SIT, via e-mail and the Canberra press gallery.
Some may prefer it to the finished product. It goes (rather inevitably) like
this:
We are all Aussie blokes and sheilas, and we
Hi everyone,
Following on from the example that Trudy sent around, this version of
Howard's preamble was published in the Australian a couple of weeks ago.
PRESS RELEASE
From the Prime Minister's Office
I BELIEVE the attached preamble to be an inspirational and aspirational
document that will
This is wonderful! One could swear Howard wrote it...
Trudy
td wrote:
Hi everyone,
Following on from the example that Trudy sent around, this version of
Howard's preamble was published in the Australian a couple of weeks ago.
PRESS RELEASE
From the Prime Minister's Office
I BELIEVE
