Graham Young wrote:
> With respect to the stolen generation and the holocaust my point is that
> there is an extreme difference of degree. In most cases of wrong doing we
> recognise a range of culpability. It is wrong to jail a person for
> stealing a biscuit and some cordial, but entirely justifiable if they knock
> off a couple of banks at gun point. Hitler committed mass murder as a
> means of destroying a culture. We assimilated them into another population.
> Both wrong, but a long way apart on the scale. There were murders, but
> these were contrary to the laws at the time. As I understand it, part of
> the basis of the original Native Title cases was work done by Henry Reynolds
> showing that land had been alienated from the original inhabitants against
> the law as laid down by the British authorities.
Graham,
How do you dismiss 10,000 Aboriginal people shot off their land in
Queensland alone as 'there were some murders'? The genocide committed
against Indigenous Australians was against British law but only in *one*
case were people held responsible and that was in NSW!
Trudy
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