[recoznettwo] Oh Australia

2001-09-05 Thread Rod Hagen
Have sent a shortened version of this to The Age Cheers Rod _ Wednesday, 5 September 2001 Oh, Australia, what a fearful nation we are! Put to rout by 432 miserable, long suffering men, women and children on a sinking boat in the Indian Ocean! Instead of coping

[recoznettwo] Blood-soaked white settlement

2001-09-05 Thread Diet SIMON
Great comment by Justin Koek, Why Australia is not a true liberal democracy, in the SMH, except for Australia was not born of a blood-soaked conflict. Wherever non-Indigenous Australians live, the ground is soaked with the blood of the Indigenous. Diet Simon.

[recoznettwo] Blood-soaked white settlement

2001-09-05 Thread Diet SIMON
Great comment by Justin Koek, Why Australia is not a true liberal democracy, in the SMH, except for Australia was not born of a blood-soaked conflict. Wherever non-Indigenous Australians live, the ground is soaked with the blood of the Indigenous. Diet Simon.

Re: [recoznettwo] SMH - Letters (extract)

2001-09-05 Thread Liam
These seemed pretty supportive of asylum seekers Trudy. Is this an edited list of letters? Liam on 4/9/01 12:01 AM, Trudy Bray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The Sydney Morning Herald Letters: Skipper heard mayday - so should Australia

Re: [recoznettwo] Aborigines tell forum of 'genocide'

2001-09-05 Thread Naomi Wolfe
I wonder if this conference is going to achieve anything. Anyone else checked out the AGe newspapers comments and articles? Doesnt leave much hope. naomi Trudy Bray [EMAIL PROTECTED] on 06/09/2001 10:25:35 Please respond to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: [recoznettwo] Aborigines tell forum of 'genocide'

2001-09-05 Thread Suze Collette
yeah...sigh, not looking good naomi. usa, and israel, pulled out, with european union ready to go. the working parties have gone back to the drawing board to come up with ammendments that might be agreed upon, but likely will be so watered down to be useless. Suze I wonder if this conference

Re: [recoznettwo] Re Afghan refugees

2001-09-05 Thread Jim Duffield
I'm just bemused by the inherrant theological imperialism in the debate. Jim [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.kultcher.com/ - Jim Duffield __ There is nothing in the World more short lived fleeting than a nations remembrance

[recoznettwo] SMH - Letters (extract)

2001-09-05 Thread Trudy Bray
For those who wonder why migrants would condemn asylum seekers one needs to understand the position in which migrants to Australia find themselves. For a migrant (other than those who are white and speak English) Australia is, on the whole, a very unaccepting place. Differences are not allowed to

Re: [recoznettwo] Oh Australia

2001-09-05 Thread Trudy Bray
Good letter, Rod. Very well put! Trudy Rod Hagen wrote: Have sent a shortened version of this to The Age Cheers Rod _ Wednesday, 5 September 2001 Oh, Australia, what a fearful nation we are! Put to rout by 432 miserable, long suffering men, women and

[recoznettwo] Bogged down in racist past

2001-09-05 Thread Trudy Bray
The West Australian September 6, 2001 Bogged down in racist past By Andre Malan THIS week I was at the receiving end of what some would consider a mild form of racism. On the Web site of a South African newspaper I read that two Aboriginal delegates at the United Nations

Re: [recoznettwo] SMH - Letters (extract)

2001-09-05 Thread Trudy Bray
This particular time it was. I thought it was pretty clear - they don't publish them that way. :-) Trudy Liam wrote: These seemed pretty supportive of asylum seekers Trudy. Is this an edited list of letters? Liam on 4/9/01 12:01 AM, Trudy Bray at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The

[recoznettwo] Why Australia is not a true liberal democracy

2001-09-05 Thread Trudy Bray
The SMH Margo Kingston's Web Diary BIG PICTURE Justin Koek Why Australia is not a true liberal democracy Not-in-my-backyard syndrome has gripped Australia. It is disheartening that in one of the world's vaunted champions of western democracy, compassion and open-mindedness finds no home.

[recoznettwo] Debunking the Myths about Asylum Seekers

2001-09-05 Thread Christine Howes
Debunking the Myths about from the Edmund Rice Centre (via via via *grin*) ... cheers...Christine Asylum Seekers Myth 1 - Boat People are Queue Jumpers Fact: In Iraq and Afghanistan, there are no queues for people to jump. Australia has no diplomatic representation in these countries and

[recoznettwo] Aborigines tell forum of 'genocide'

2001-09-05 Thread Trudy Bray
The Sydney Morning Herald Aborigines tell forum of 'genocide' Date: 06/09/2001 By Mark Klusener in Durban Indigenous Australians have told the World Conference Against Racism that their government has tried to commit genocide against them. Ms Monica Morgan, of the Yorta Yorta Nation