Thread: My Favourite Australian Statesman

And people wonder why they don't like us

the au version of the good ole us of a and their sunday picnic and lynchings...

gets a bit hard to fathom the depth of the arrogance involved...

Regrettably, it's hard to understand the thinking of the time. However, it wasn't only aboriginals who were badly treated. One also must remember the inhumanity of the white man to their own who were convicts.

A visit to Norfolk Island or Tasmanian convict settlements would soon make that clear.

I don't find the subject funny as implied by your opening remarks and the thread title.

Ron

This sort of travesty continues today

Afghanistan

Women burning themselves in protest of arrangened marrige
Mother in Laws beating there sons wives because they do not approve of them
Men beating their wives within an inch of their life then taking them to a rundown hospital for treatment then these same woman douse themselves with kerosene and set themselves on fire

Abhorent behaviour that has no place in any society

I once read a historical work detailing the big game hunting in Africa. One English gentleman in late Victorian times whilst hunting in Uganda reported bagging "a biggish chief"!!!

I wonder if he had the head mounted and displayed in the trophy room of his country estate.

The Bushmen people of South Africa were also recorded as being ruthlessly hunted down as vermin rather than game.

I sometimes wonder if we have progressed.

I'm sure that if the Roman Circus was reintroduced, the stadia would be filled.

Ron

Originally Posted by p38arover

I sometimes wonder if we have progressed.

I'm sure that if the Roman Circus was reintroduced, the stadia would be filled.

Ron

most definately

In what way is that story funny? Very poor taste.