What a brilliant speech. What a courageous, dignified, truthful lady, who really does have the best interests of all Australian citizens at heart - especially the truly voiceless. If all politicians had her qualities, the world would be in a much better state.
You mean, apart from the roads, sanitation, public 'ealth, education, agriculture, and the wine (OK, that mightn't be such a great idea in the circumstances...)?
Pygmies, who knew. Only just recently noted that Tasmanians were considered different than their mainland "cousins". Certainly hasn't been pushed into the mainstream.
No, and there's a reason it hasn't been discussed - it breaks the narrative that there is something exceptional about Australia's earlier inhabitants. The reality is, just like every other group of humans, they engaged in ingroup-outgroup dynamics, competed over resources in a predictably brutal fashion, and violently displaced other lineages.
Yeah lies about in the histories of all countries. Invented by the Ancient Greeks who were running off the steles that the Egyptians & Mesopatamains had put up around the place boasting of their "victories". Lies are especially prevalent in times of war but all countries run on an agreed set of lies. They're like black holes sweeping up all before them.
I got a good laugh out of this (especially the last 10 seconds)
https://open.substack.com/pub/australiasmostunemployablebloke/p/welcome-to-country-the-extended-version?r=9wy0f&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
WTAF?!?!?!
Got a laugh out of that one.
What a brilliant speech. What a courageous, dignified, truthful lady, who really does have the best interests of all Australian citizens at heart - especially the truly voiceless. If all politicians had her qualities, the world would be in a much better state.
I agree 100%. We need honesty, accountability and integrity from our politicians, not posturing and virtue-signalling.
Truth telling is a double edged sword.
That is for sure.
She did not exactly quote the famous Monty Python sketch, but did kinda say the same -
"What did the Romans ever do for us?"
You mean, apart from the roads, sanitation, public 'ealth, education, agriculture, and the wine (OK, that mightn't be such a great idea in the circumstances...)?
That would be her parents at 2:21 I'm guessing.
Yep.
Pygmies, who knew. Only just recently noted that Tasmanians were considered different than their mainland "cousins". Certainly hasn't been pushed into the mainstream.
No, and there's a reason it hasn't been discussed - it breaks the narrative that there is something exceptional about Australia's earlier inhabitants. The reality is, just like every other group of humans, they engaged in ingroup-outgroup dynamics, competed over resources in a predictably brutal fashion, and violently displaced other lineages.
Yeah lies about in the histories of all countries. Invented by the Ancient Greeks who were running off the steles that the Egyptians & Mesopatamains had put up around the place boasting of their "victories". Lies are especially prevalent in times of war but all countries run on an agreed set of lies. They're like black holes sweeping up all before them.