shame!

People should stop referring to the settling of Australia as colonisation and use the term invasion instead. That is what it was. The invasion of the Aborigines land by imperial countries. I pity the poor Aborigines.

Very disappointing for Australia. surely it is the governments job to create the awareness for their proposal/ referendum for change to the constitution within communities? Something as important as that should not be ‘shelved.’

wow.In this day and age.Is Austrailia really that backward.I hoped by now things would have changed.Even if bill was passed next week this now shows the resentment still exists.Invaders is right. Look at all the trouble these invaders have caused and left after them all through the ages and continue to do.

I’ve noticed from living and working there that not all but a lot of Australians bare a certain degree of disliking towards other nationals including Australia’s own indigenous people. They fail to recognize that the vast majority of their ancestors originated from round our neck of the woods.

I was once in a bar with a few Australian work colleagues when an old aboriginal lady came over to the group and started mumbling ” are ya gonna say sorry?”. Now she did have a few drinks on her. I stood back cause I didn’t want to get involved. Two of the guys,big lads, rared up on her telling her to f**k of, ushering her away with more expletives. When it calmed down, I leaned in and said “jez lads there was no real need for that”, when one of them simply just turned to me and said “she can f**k of, it’s our country now!!”
I was shocked by his remark.

So they’re saying the average joe in the community doesn’t want the Aborigines to have recognition/rights? That’s pretty damn alarming…

Australians are quite insular in their outlook. I was at a NRL party in a pub in N. Sydney recently where the topic of conversation turned to the horse Black Caviar which was unbeaten in Australia and won a race by a nose at Ascot. Consensus of opinion was that this was the best horse in the world and no horse of any quality should be seen to do anything but sprint. I happened to mention Frankel but only two people were aware of him.
The recent vote on gay marriage, Senator Bernardi’s ‘bestiality’ outburst and their utter disrespect for anything aboriginal is symptomatic of what I call the NRL syndrome.

Our friends down under are quite xenophobic and racist too. I was working there (in an Irish pub-shocker) a few years ago and on two separate occasions I was asked to “f~~k off back to Ireland..”. They are almost as our other friends in America for their skewed world view.
The fact of the matter is they are the descendants or immigrants whether the were forced or chose to go. And they emigrated to a continent that was essentially stolen from the original inhabitants who were then forced to live in horrendous conditions, stolen from their families and treated worse than dogs. I wonder is there some level of shame and guilt about this that makes up a part of the psyche over there, that maybe this racism and xenophobia is because of this?
And you think it’s bad now? Wait til the Australian government come up with a 21st century way of stealing back the land that they returned to the Aboriginal communities so they can get their hands on the resources under it. Australia has big plans for itself in the Asia-Pacific region in the future and they’re going to need everything they can get their hands on.

Gillard is under pressure in Oz. Not all her party are behind her and some of her decisions havent gone down well. A failed referendum would have been the end of her.

I’m a donegal man working in an Irish bar in Australia and to hear every fooker that comes in and says that there Irish and then proceed to tell us the history of our country thinkin they know everything..and the same aul shite “Oh top of the mornin to ya” and diddly dee potatoes..makes my blood boil..the arse will fall out of this country in the next few years and they won’t have a leg to stand on!!

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My mistake-,That should be $24.4 billion. Not 2.4 as I said above.
Xenophobic? Wrong walk down the street of any Australian City,or the arrivals hall of any airport, if Australians are so racist . Why do so many people want to come here to live here with all these “racists”
Homophobic? The Sydney Mardi Gra .
Domestic partner laws .
Just because the majority in parliament voted down for now Gay marriage , does not mean the population is anti Gay or homophobic, most people me included don’t care one way or the other.

24m for Aboriginals u sayin? Rised how? On THEIR land. I guess nothing left for poor white people, who’s prosperity came out of that occupation? Would u call “antisocial” on antinazi resistance across Europe during German occupation/IIWW?

You ‘holier than thou’ hypocrites . I am fed up with drunken Irish backpackers deficating, fighting and vomiting,out side my house, night after night, (I live near a pub),then you have the audacity to speak about aboriginal affairs, to which you know nothing about, for example, 2.4 billion dollars has been spent in just 4 years on aboriginal communities , the lawyers are queuing up to represent and sue for every little issue, there are special Rules and laws for Aboriginals Hunting and fishing in national parks ( with guns I may add) and sold on to foreign markets, special uni seats ,rent allowance health benifits, there are whole towns on benifits the advantages are so big that the population is exploding , people with 1/16th native blood are claiming Aboriginal status, at a recent home auction, some very white looking men came in to the property and halted proceedings claiming a sacred site because they noticed some shells in the grass.(put there by kids who used to live there) . There are huge tracts of land reserved for the exclusive use of aboriginals and continually growing. It is mandatory for construction firms working on government jobs to have affirmative action by hiring Aboriginal workers, we hear about the “stolen generation” a great deal of those kids were taken for their own protection, then the prime minister says ‘sorry’, as a result there is a culpability now they are all suing the tax payer, I could go on and on , there is little wonder the broader population is a little sceptical about placing a race oriented statement in the constitution.

My mistake-,That should be $24.4 billion. Not 2.4 as I said above.
Xenophobic? Wrong walk down the street of any Australian City,or the arrivals hall of any airport, if Australians are so racist . Why do so many people want to come here to live here with all these “racists”
Homophobic? The Sydney Mardi Gra .
Domestic partner laws .
Just because the majority in parliament voted down for now Gay marriage , does not mean the population is anti Gay or homophobic, most people me included don’t care one way or the other.