funny how rights, duties and pleasures get confused and disintegrate instead of
boosting and buoying each other.
When our rights to self-determination and tradition are overruled by
neighbours/invaders, the old duties/pleasures of passing on some secure knowledge
erode at an equal pace.
Now, if your rights are interpreted by a hybrid and to you alien standard, you don't
smoothly live up and/or into a situation where your soul and spirit find meaning in
the world.
Jewish people have an ossified branch which hold tradition sacred at an all cost
peril. Fanaticism comes from the desire to restore stuff, long memories and devaluing
perceptions.
In an international court of law with any sort of clout, all whities would have to
repatriate before and if they want to earn a right to push back the fundamentalislamic
front at their rapidly fraying edges the way they think they are allowed to; and that
goes for both russia (chechenia) and the states (Yugoslavia).
Hanging garden fanaticism is not a feudal society's thing I guess. I once had a job
surveying for a desalinated water pipeline system in Saudi Arabia, but it's been
decades and I hear of no forests having been planted, nor do I hear much good news on
this issue from Oceania.
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On Fri, 30 Apr 1999 15:15:35 tim dunlop wrote:
>Thanks to Graham for this response. Seems to me that this issue (as raised by Noel
>Pearson) should be occupying the list, more so than arguments about who said what to
>whom in a chance meeting and what they might have meant. Which is not to say the
>discussion re Karyn's bio is not important. Incidentally, as a non-Aboriginal
>person, I related to Lance's response and would like to thank him for it. I just
>can't accept Irene's assertion that "you might be 6th generation here but you are in
>your place aboriginal somewhere else." Maybe I misunderstood what she meant. I
>lived overseas for a number years, including England, and the one thing I found out
>was that I wasn't "of" those places, no matter what my genes were made of. I was
>"of" Australia, and that "ofness" is no doubt quite different to that of First
>People's but it is still real. But maybe Irene thinks there shouldn't be any
>non-Aboriginal people on the list either, expressing a point of view.
>
>Anyway, I hope we get some comments on the Pearson piece because it seems to me he
>has really taken a risk here. But I guess we all do, everytime we open our mouths.
>
>Tim
>
> Rosemary Neill's articles seem to express a similar sentiment to a report in this
>morning's CM about a paper that Noel Pearson has written.- Our Right to Take
>Responsibility.
> Full text follows from the CM's web site:
>
> Pearson hits welfare "poison"
>
> 30apr99
> PROMINENT Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson has appealed to governments to help
> break the welfare dependency of indigenous people so they can live more healthy,
> dignified lives.
>
> Speaking in Cairns this week, Mr Pearson said welfare was "a poison" that had
>turned
> many Aboriginal people into "drunken parasites" and was destroying family and
> community life.
>
> He also challenged Aborigi nal leaders to cease disempowering their own people
> through continually depicting them as "victims".
>
> But most of all, Mr Pearson wants Aboriginal people to accept that, along with
>the
> rights comes responsibility to themselves, their wives, husbands, children,
>elders
> and the general community.
>
> "The whole Aboriginal policy debate has been about rights human rights, legal
> rights, land rights, individual rights against government and so on," he said.
>
> "There has been no discussion about our responsibility. There is a
>defensiveness."
>
> Mr Pearson has written a 42-page discussion paper for Cape York Aboriginal
>leaders,
> titled Our Right to Take Responsibility.
>
> "We have to get rid of the welfare system from Aboriginal community governance in
> Cape York Peninsula, and get rid of the welfare mentality that has taken over our
> people," the document says.
>
> It states the two key problems affecting Aboriginal people are racism and welfare
> dependency.
>
> "It is time we analysed our condition as a people without being defeated and
> paralysed by the racial issues. This is not to say we should forget about racism,
>or
> pretend that it doesn't exist," Mr Pearson wrote.
>
> "By addressing the concrete social and economic circumstances of our welfare
> dependency, we can find the power necessary to prevail against racism."
>
> Mr Pearson advocates a changed system in which money coming into communities
> there are 13 on the Cape which are home for about 12,000 indigenous people is
> controlled by "a new interface" between the federal and state governments and
> ATSIC.
>
> He said the new administration needed to be "holistic and de-welfared" and he is
> seeking support for Cape York to be the pilot model for the changed system.
>
> "Welfare is a resource that is laced with poison and the poison present is the
>money-
> for-nothing principle," Mr Pearson said.
>
> "In the 1950s and 60s, our people worked hard in the hot sun for red-necked
> pastoralists, and people placed value on every penny earned. It is only the
>welfare
> system that has devalued money because it is not earned."
>
> Mr Pearson said the "welfare poison" was progressively breaking down Aboriginal
> society a society that put tremendous pressure on community members to "provide
> resources to a parasitic drink-and-gamble coterie".
>
> "Since the 1967 referendum, Aboriginal people have believed their right earned
>was
> the right to drink," he said. "What about the responsibility to your children?
>The
> rights that are acknowledged are the rights of people to party, drink, use money
>in
> their own destruction. No talk of rights of children or old people.
>
> "And why has there been this collapse in responsibility? In my view, it is
>related to
> the nature of the economy under which Aboriginal people are forced to exist the
> poisonous welfare economy.
>
> "Aboriginal people should participate in the real economy where you don't get
> money for nothing, you have to work. Aboriginal people lived at the lowest, most
> miserable end of the market economy for most of colonial history and the time has
> come to change all that. Welfare is a parasitic exploiter.
>
> "The Government is paying these people to sit around the canteen to drink and
> destroy the prospects of their children destroy society. The madness of that
>system
> has to stop."
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
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