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What creditably does the Aboriginal flag have:
Is it some how registered, copyrighted, protected, recognized by federal government departments.
If they are Australian why do they have a different flag to us, would they die/fight for their flag.
Who designed it and why can't he/they design some thing better for Australia.
 
Burning the flag treason? Please, I would much rather hang most of the politicians for treason for bending over to countries like USA and letting their lobby groups dictate our legislation.
 
takestock said:
What I believe needs to be done:
4) Legislation to cancel the affects of the Mabo ruling.
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Let me see, if someone took your land, you would just lie down and concede to the oppressor.
takestock said:
7) An official thankyou for the way the present and previous governments have tried to help the aborigines. No offence to the Portuguese or Spanish peoples, but had anyone of those peoples "invaded" Australia they wouldn't be dealing with ANY aboriginal issue because the indigenous race would have been wiped out from every part of Australia.
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I take offence to this redneck comment.

Look up "Aboriginal Tasmanians" to see how thankfull the indigenous people should be to the British white man invasion.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aboriginal_Tasmanians
 
Macquack said:
Let me see, if someone took your land, you would just lie down and concede to the oppressor.
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Britain was invaded four times, last time 1066 by the french, they just moved on. The invaders and inhabitants intergrated.
Australia would have been invaded in WW2, if British colonials and the indigenous Australians had not fought alongside each other under the Australian flag.
I think every country in the world, except Nepal, has been conquered, ruled or occupied by a foriegn power in their history.
 
Just had this come to my email.
 

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Only just recently in this thread has it been alluded to, but in my personal experience with Aboriginal people, quite a significant proportion, in my estimation, do not respect the Australian flag, viewing it as a symbol of invasion, and especially around Australia Day, which many Koori refer to as Invasion Day.

I think they were inflamed at this time by rhetoric, and passion, and this is why they burnt the flag.

I think it hurts the cause for them to be doing that, and if it was me, most certainly could have been prosecuted for various summary acts, ie vandalism, public disorder etc, and given a bill for cleaning up the damage and scorching. The cops probably would have treated me roughly while throwing me in the paddywagon.

I watch my mouth when I hear talk of Invasion day, but I cant help thinking, lucky I aint a re-enactor then.
 
I always think it would have been interesting if only the aboriginals were here in WW2.
I wonder how the aboriginals would have fared, tent embassy in front of the Japanese parliament.LOL
Burning and spitting on the Japanese flag.LOL
Also, it would be interesting to see how the welfare system, would be working out for them.LOL
You don't see many asylum seekers rushing to get to Japan, there's a reason for that.:D
 
sptrawler said:
I always think it would have been interesting if only the aboriginals were here in WW2.
I wonder how the aboriginals would have fared, tent embassy in front of the Japanese parliament.LOL
Burning and spitting on the Japanese flag.LOL
Also, it would be interesting to see how the welfare system, would be working out for them.LOL
You don't see many asylum seekers rushing to get to Japan, there's a reason for that.:D
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Probably better than in Hiroshima:D
 
Time for another nit picking grammar check.

The indigenous are known as Aborigines (noun). They are Aboriginal (adjective).
 
Bill M said:
Just had this come to my email.
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Personally I find that t-shirt as offensive as burning the Australian flag. I'm not prudish, but I think MF is probably the most vile word in the English language. Whereas the F word can add to the power, meaning or effectiveness of a sentence if used correctly, I have yet to hear anyone use the MF without demonstrating themselves to be anything but a vulgar moron.

The wearer of that t-shirt, by displaying the flag above the MF word regardless of who might be offended by the word or the fact that children might be exposed to it, is associating respect for or protection of the Australian flag as the preserve of brain dead bogans.
 
bellenuit said:
Personally I find that t-shirt as offensive as burning the Australian flag. I'm not prudish, but I think MF is probably the most vile word in the English language. Whereas the F word can add to the power, meaning or effectiveness of a sentence if used correctly, I have yet to hear anyone use the MF without demonstrating themselves to be anything but a vulgar moron.

The wearer of that t-shirt, by displaying the flag above the MF word regardless of who might be offended by the word or the fact that children might be exposed to it, is associating respect for or protection of the Australian flag as the preserve of brain dead bogans.
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I agree bellenuit. It is a particularly disgusting Americanism, and anybody displaying the flag on their body or their face is a brain dead bogun.
 
Calliope said:
anybody displaying the flag on their body or their face is a brain dead bogun.
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Or wearing it as a cape and then progressing to bash anybody of Mediterranean appearance over the head with a beer bottle.

I think it's a bit weird to have it on our thongs too, I mean walking on the flag, very disrespectful in some countries. OK here though, funny mob we are.
 
breaker said:
but that was after the fact it might be different if the japs won
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The Japs were too far away to steal the German nuclear scientists, the Poms and Yanks did that.
Then they developed 'instant sunshine' we were just lucky the Germans were the ones who would have designed the first atom bomb, from all accounts I've read.
 
sptrawler said:
The Japs were too far away to steal the German nuclear scientists, the Poms and Yanks did that.
Then they developed 'instant sunshine' we were just lucky the Germans were the ones who would have designed the first atom bomb, from all accounts I've read.
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How would we be if the Germans one,they did'nt do much for the jews
 
Are aboriginal law-breakers untouchable?

Witness the comment of Northern Territory Labor Minister for Young Territorians Rob Knight. "For some little pricks to get there and stomp on our flag and set fire to it -- there should be laws against it." His target was the young, apparently untouchable, Aborigines who burned the Australian flag following the Aboriginal tent embassy imbroglio. The same could be said of the apparently untouchable Aborigines who stormed the Canberra restaurant containing Julia Gillard and Tony Abbott.
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http://www.theaustralian.com.au/new...is-the-new-black/story-fn8v83qk-1226260007432
 
Looks like there could be a repeat in the winds....

ABOUT 150 people, some of them teenagers, have yelled abuse at police outside NSW parliament in protest at the shooting of two youths at Kings Cross.

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Aboriginal elders urged calm, as a crowd of about 150 people began chanting "F*** the police” at the protest.

The crowd, many of them children, held the protest outside NSW Parliament this afternoon, and accused police of "trying to kill black kids".

Some of the teenagers were seen drinking alcohol, and the crowd has blocked off one lane of Macquarie Street.

Police shot at a car driven by juveniles at 4am on Saturday, after they mounted a kerb in Kings Cross and ran down a pedestrian.

The driver of the car was allegedly Troy Taylor, 17, and video footage released after the incident shows he was punched by NSW Police after being pulled out of the stolen car.
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http://www.news.com.au/national/youth-no-stranger-to-police-or-courts-teen-joyriders-long-criminal-history/story-e6frfkvr-1226336629317

What exactly are teenagers doing in a stolen car, at 4am, in Kings Cross????
 
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