Has anyone read the weekend Australian article reffered to in here? -----Original Message----- From: Brown, Bob (Senator) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Bushranger Ned' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Tuesday, 23 March 1999 12:23 Subject: RE: >Dear Lance, > >We agree with you and Bob has already been making very vocal objections to >Mr Howards, current version of the preamble. He will continue to do so in >the media, the Senate and elsewhere. Bob has also been a vocal opponant of >other attacks on Aboriginal rights such as the Wik legislation and the >Jabiluka uranium mine. > >For your own interest, Philip Adams has written a very good article on this >subject in the the Weekend Australian (March 6-7). If you have not read it >already, you may enjoy it. > >Thanks for writing. > >Regards, > >Stephenie Cahalan >Electorate Officer > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Bushranger Ned [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >> Sent: Monday, 22 March 1999 10:27 PM >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Subject: >> >> 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 >> Home email [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Uni - [EMAIL PROTECTED] >> Personal Website http://www.angelfire.com/la/paradigmatic/index.html >> SW Website http://www.ultra.net.au/~lancekelly/index.html >> Home Phone: 07-47-727540 ------------------------------------------------------- RecOzNet2 has a page @ http://www.green.net.au/recoznet2 To unsubscribe from this list, mail [EMAIL PROTECTED], and in the body of the message, include the words: unsubscribe announce or click here mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?Body=unsubscribe%20announce This posting is provided to the individual members of this group without permission from the copyright owner for purposes of criticism, comment, scholarship and research under the "fair use" provisions of the Federal copyright laws and it may not be distributed further without permission of the copyright owner, except for "fair use."
