Tent embassy fires deliberately lit - coroner

In my opinion it doesn’t support their cause; just makes them look like a bunch of tossers with chips on their shoulders.

D9 the whole place!

I’ll probably get flamed here, but stuff it. I think the Aboriginal tent embassy is a national disgrace. If they want to play this game, then they can play by the same rules as the rest of us. Why don’t they get themselves a proper building, and get themselves on the tourist attraction map to show the world about their culture and plight? The Victorians have got the right idea: douse the fires and put canturf straight over the top. I just don’t see how having a shack and a few campfires around the place supports their cause.

Thumper – I was pondering on just why the tent residence was thinning in numbers. I thought it may have had something to do with the required ‘clean up’ in preparation for the next phase of development into a ‘recognised’ embassy with education programs delivered by representatives…of course, my oversight was that it was a touch too cold for the so called committed was an oversight.

Maybe the Israelis can be convinced to help remove this ’embassy’ from Canberra?

I’m sure I’ve seen some Muslim terrorists down there……..

Sort of like weeds in bushland … needs a controlled burn every now and then.

Anyone else notice how it’s s p r e a d i n g? What was an small ‘Embassy’ is now a small ‘compound’ and will soon be a small enclave but the gutless Pollies won’t act….

Unfortunately, or fortunately, the legal systems prefers to operate on the basis of investigations and findings of fact, rather than what “any idiot” tells you.

Stir the pot time….

What I love is: “…result of poor camp discipline”

I didn’t realise that I could pitch a tent and camp there as well 🙂

Wonder how far I would get before some sort of Govt official (police or parks ranger?) asked me to move along – be it in front of old parliament house, next to the High Court or somewhere along the lake….

I’ve always been disappointed that the town hoons haven’t torched this tip on a regular basis.

What’s wrong wiv the yoof of today!!

Thanks jb.. I couldn’t conceive how they would but by using this misnomer, the suggestion that that are or they have “extra” rights is being validated.

They have an unrecognized claim to sovereignty over “ever inch” of Australia.

No formal recognition at all, but after all these years they’d have to have some sort of claim to squatter’s rights.

Out of curiosity, does that place have legal “embassy” status or has it just been labelled that for the last upteen decades ?