Thread: Rudds apology

I feel privileged to have been around to see it.
History being made!
Quite indifferent to the meaning but it made a lot of people happy.

now, that wasn't so bad was it ?

cheers

All i'm going to say is . A lot of people are going to get rich and the tax payer is going to have to foot the bill ....... great work kevin rudd ya pair of clown shoes

I just fear the silly compensation claims as a result of the Apology. Can we expect taxation rises to cover them? I am not saying an apology was not needed, I just hope the government realise all of the ramifications of how the apology was worded. What are the costs involved to all communities within Australia, aboriginal or not. (not just monitary)

Originally Posted by dobbo

I just fear the silly compensation claims as a result of the Apology. Can we expect taxation rises to cover them?

It seems the majority didn't think much of the Iraq war.
I hope our taxes haven't risen to cover that.

Sorry ,this is not a hijack.

this is what the apology should have been

AUSTRALIAN APOLOGY TO THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION

We apologise for giving you doctors and free medical care, which allows you to survive and multiply so that you can demand apologies.

We apologise for helping you to read and teaching you the English language and thus we opened up to you the entire European civilisation, thought and enterprise.

We feel that we must apologise for building hundreds of homes for you, which you have vandalised and destroyed.

We apologise for giving you law and order which has helped prevent you from slaughtering one another and using the unfortunate for food purposes.

We apologise for developing large farms and properties, which today feed you people, where before, you had the benefits of living off the land and starving during droughts.

We apologise for providing you with warm clothing made of fabric to replace that animal skins you used before.

We apologise for building roads and railway tracks between cities and building cars so that you no longer have to walk over harsh terrain.

We apologise for paying off your vehicle when you fail to pay the instalments

We apologise for giving you free travel anywhere, whenever.

We apologise for giving each and every member of your family $100.00 and free travel to attend an aboriginal funeral.

We apologise for not charging you rent on any lands when white people have to pay.

We apologise for giving you interest free loans.

We apologise for developing oil wells and minerals, including gold and diamonds which you never used and had no idea of their value.

We apologise for developing Ayers rock and Kakadu, and handing them over to you so that you get all the money.

We apologise for allowing taxpayers money paid towards daughters' wedding ($8,000.00 each daughter)

We apologise for giving you $1.7 billion per year for your 250,000 people, which is $48,000.00 per aboriginal man, woman and child.

We apologise for working hard to pay taxes that finance your welfare, medical care, education, etc to the tune of $1.2 billion each year.

We apologise for you having to approach the aboriginal affairs department to verify the above figures. For the trouble you will have identifying the "uncle toms" in your own community who are getting richer and leaving some of you living in squalor and poverty.

We do apologise. We really do.

We humbly beg your forgiveness for all the above sins.

We are only too happy to take back all the above and return you to the paradise of the "outback", whenever you are ready.

Originally Posted by duncanw

We do apologise. We really do.

We humbly beg your forgiveness for all the above sins.

We are only too happy to take back all the above and return you to the paradise of the "outback", whenever you are ready.

As long as we leave?

I voted for John Howard, since I've been old enough, my family since 1996.

I could not be prouder of him today, for sticking to his guns and not being a part of todays "theatrics".

This is what made him a great leader of our nation, he gave the finger to political correctness and did what he believed to be right for Australia.

KRudd, the elected "leader" of today, gives the finger to our nations needs, and follows the cheap votes.

Well done voters, well done.