Downer for Downer
A massive shout out across the ditch to the crew who camped out outside the National Party Conference to protest against Alexander Downer and the Australian Government’s Aboriginal Land Grab oop I mean Intervention… And to those involved in the other protest actions.
It’s been so awesome having such great actions across the Tasman for this issue. It’s sure been making a few Australians sit up and take notice. Of course they’re all used to Aboriginal People protesting about their rights, but that’s just normal isn’t it?
“say what’s that old chap?”
“yes Shane, the neighbours are all up in arms about us being dreadfully racist”
“tally ho? We’re not racist any more are we? We gave our natives the right to vote 40 years ago!”
“I’m not sure Shane, I think it’s got something to do with the fact that since we invaded this country, we still haven’t got around to asking to original owners if it’s actually alright that we live here. And we still haven’t said sorry for stealing all their land and trying to obliterate their culture. And we think it’s alright to continue stealing their land and obliterating their culture as long as we have a few tokenistic dancers at our international sporting events”
“Oh I say, I think I’m starting to understand. That is a bit rough.
But I don’t actually have to… do anything about it, do I Sid?”
“Oh no Shane, someone else will tidy it all up.”
“whew”
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