Thankyou Trudy and Rod for your unceasing committment to this issue, I won't
take up the offer for copies of speeches as I'm sure they would only serve
to anger me further. This conflagration about words for a preamble, is a
beautiful smokescreen for little Johnnie and his ilk. As we have experienced
too often, the pathetic political grandstanding of politicians speeches
(read :campaign soliloquies), rarely address the heart of the matter, I find
their vacuous words far too tedious to contemplate. For me,The fact that the
preamble is not actually part of the constitution takes the interest out of
this debate. I can't get excited about little Johnnie doing the soft-shoe
shuffle about the preamble, trying desperately not to say anything that
might undermine his next election campaign, when there is no intelligent
political discussion of legislative change that would address SUBSTANTIVE
citizenship for Australia's First peoples. As others have mentioned what is
the point in expressing "personal sorrow" or "sincere regret" for those
abducted from their homes, while simultaneously opposing claims for
compensation from the very people that little Johnnie would have accept this
token of regret, this insincere lie? Dispossession and genocide continue
while we waffle on about little Johnnie and reconciliation. Many consider
reconciliation a sell-out, a sick joke, while sovereignty , land rights and
substantive citizenship are ignored. Where's the fucking treaty? shove your
apologies! An abject apology with little Johnnie laying prostrate before the
nation might be amusing, but would not be worth jack-shit while structural
white priviledge remains as solid and exclusive as ever. Try telling a
young Indigenous boy in an adults jail that little Johnnie is gonna make it
all up to him. Aden Ridgeway has the chance to make some noise , an
opportunity to make little Johnnie listen to an Indigenous voice in
parliament, however I fear that acquiescence to little Johnnie's insulting
bullshit is not the voice I was hoping to hear.
Dave.
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From: Trudy and Rod Bray <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: RecOzNet2 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Friday, 27 August 1999 10:08
Subject: [recoznet2] Speeches on the Motion
>
>I have a copy of all the speeches made on the Motion of regret:
>Howard
>Beazley
>Anderson
>Melham
>Ruddock
>Snowdon
>Andren (reserved the right to speak)
>
>It is very interesting reading and brings home in no uncertain terms that
this
>so-called 'regret' has less to do with regret than it has to do with
Howard's
>political time-table and a notch as another "Howard Achievement"
>Some of the speeches are inspiring and give hope that understanding does
exist.
>
>Contact me for copies of all or parts.
>
>Trudy
>
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