dear nvda,
this is great. do you have more details on this european wire servise..Ie
whioch one...when published...I just need to source it before I hand over
to PA, because I'm sure he would enjoy this one.
asap pls.
wendy carlisle
producer
late night live
At 16:25 03/10/2000 +0800, you wrote:
>
> I just say many a true word spoken in jest. .........
> there part time and have shared the Monsieur Phililippe
>story with other Indigenous staff members.
> Cheers,
> Nvda
>
> At 12:24 3/10/00 +0000, you wrote:
> From a European Wire Service:
>
> The European Minister for Indigenous Affairs, Monsieur Phillipe Ruudeocker,
>"" because they
> "This is not a moral judgement, merely a
>" "Sure they invented the wheel at some stage,
> How could they
>" He also noted that none of the famous cave-paintings
> "What
>" he asked speculatively.
> The Minister was also distressed to find that no ancient European people's
> had used eucalypts as anti-septics, invented a spear throwing device, or
> "The fact that there were no
>" the Minister said
> "" he added
> again for some reason.
>
>
>
>& Rod Bray wrote:
>
>> This man is beneath contempt! And still he hides behind the Amnesty
>> International pin and membership....
>>
>> Trudy
>>
>> ABC News
>> 02/10/00
>> Ruddock attacked over indigenous
>> comments
>>
>> The Federal Reconciliation Minister, Philip Ruddock, has been
>> criticised for linking Aboriginal disadvantage with relatively recent
>> contact with developed civilisations.
>>
>> Mr Ruddock told the French newspaper Le Monde, that
>> Aborigines came into contact with developed civilisations later
>> than Canadian or North American Indians.
>>
>> He said at the time Aborigines were hunter collectors, not familiar
>> with the wheel.
>>
>
> Remember this people, just a few years ago, the following comments were
> made by the following people:
>
> Hugh Morgan of Western Mining Corp (The Courier-Mail 2.7.93, page 2): ...Mr
> Morgan told the Victorian RSL conference that Aboriginal culture was doomed
> because it was inferior to European culture...
>
> Tim Fisher (The Australian 22.6.93, page 8):
>
>" 'At no stage did Aboriginal civilisation develop substantial buildings,
> roadways or even a wheeled cart.' Dispossession was bound to happen, he
> said. 'Those in the guilt industry have to consider that developing
>"
>
> BOTH were defended against accusations of bigotry and racism by none other
> than John Howard (The Courier-Mail; 9.7.93, page 2).
>
>> Patrick Dodson, the former chairman of the Reconciliation
>> Council, says the remarks are derogatory, divisive and not
>> constructive towards reconciliation.
>>
>> Mr Ruddock has defended his comments
>>
>>"Contact between indigenous people in Australia and others
>> really only developed in the last two centuries, and if you were
>> looking at for instance North America, contact was over a period
>>" he said.
>>
>>""
>
> Not only did Australians
> Further, remember that Greek
> guy Archie somebugger, he overflowed the bath as I recall, well long before
> he made Mum mop the floor, the Indigenous Australian put a lever to a
> spear!
>
> Ruddock is the worst kind of racist, a follower and an ethnocentric
> pliagiarist.
>
> Necessity precipitates invention, and what has the wheel got to do with
> intellect?
>
> These racist bastards get an old soldier very angry.
>
> And I've not yet begun to discuss productive contacts with Australians,
> before the european invasion, by northern neighbours over perhaps thousands
> of years.
>
> Amnesty, eject this racist unlearned and ignorant fool...
>
> QED
>
>
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