It's certainly a shame to see Howard using Pearson's speech in the way he
has, but it wasn't unexpected. If Hanson was still in the news, she would
also be throwing her support behind it. I haven't read Pearson's full
document, so am not sure if he suggested something to replace the welfare,
but I assume the media has picked up on the "newsworthy" angle of welfare
dependency and forgotten about the rest.
I spoke to Murrandoo Yanner the other day for an article I was writing for
the Koori Mail, and he said he agreed with Pearson but would take the extra
step of saying: fine, take away the welfare, we never wanted it anyway, give
us back all the Crown land and all unoccupied land and we'll look after our own.
This shows the primary difference between the approach of Howard/Hanson, and
people like Pearson and Yanner -- the solutions.
Regards to all.
At 03:32 PM 5/12/99 +0200, you wrote:
>Seeing the PM make political hay out of Noel Pearson's speech makes me
wonder if Pearson thought this
>through before giving his speech. Did he not expect that this government
would use his words as weapons to
>attack Aboriginal people?
>I can understand how he sees it, but wonder about his emphasis on the
symptoms instead of the cause.
>How do you turn a person in despair away from alcohol if you do nothing
about his despair?
>How does a person without self-esteem run a small business?
>One does not change a people's dependency on welfare and alcohol by
attacking their dependency but by
>changing the underlying need for the dependency.
>I think Irene's article described it most succinctly as 'self-colonisation'
(not negating the reality of
>outside colonisation, of course). Until a sense of pride and self-worth is
formed, the dependency will
>remain and the government will continue to use it as a form of attack.
>
>Trudy
>
Susan Forde
School of Film, Media and Cultural Studies
Griffith University
Nathan QLD 4111
jph 07.3875 7229
fax 07.3875 7730
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