Tent Embassy under attack (again)

Oh please, not another Campagner on “how Aust was lost ” brigade , I for one Acknowledge the Aboriginals Lot, and wish we could help better , but the answer is in education not rhetoric . as for A tidy “campsite” i beg to differ , and feel that a Proper Embassy, representative of the Various Aboriginal Nations and of the same feel as other Nations of the earth, already represented should be built on the site. time and again the issue has been brought up only to be quashed either by the Govt or the Tribal Reps,time and again! its getting embarrassing for both sides.

as i have heard that offers are and were on the table to offer a Center to put the Cause across
and educate the international Visitors and School kids in world class environment . comfortable to all, at the moment its not helping to twilight walkers to have that “town” with its intense unwelcome feeling and smell . Ihave picked up Tourists as a Cabbie Complaining that were accosted rudley and unfairly as they walked through the rose gardens, thinking ( and quite rightly so ) that it was public lands with right of thourough fare. And it defeats the cause of the protest if the visitors of the wider world cannot approach and ask questions in a apropriate manner.

Thomas we live in a “modern” age this soapbox ranting is now getting tired and worn out

and for New generations not at all interesting .I tend to flip over the channel nowadays or read the next page because the the “cause” has jaded me so, and its the man in the street like my self you need to reach.

Thomas, you are a tool! All this whinging about an invasion is stupid and isn’t doing the Aboriginal cause any good. You sound just like some of those Aboriginal activists who bang on and on about how oppressive white Australia is, yet at the same time they all seem to like living like a white person with a nice car, house, mobile phone and money. You can’t have it both ways.

Anyway, the ‘Embassy’ is a bloody eyesore and a complete joke. “Beacon of hope” – bullshit!

Time to move on guys. Go and get a job!

(And another thing Thomas, the space bar at the bottom of the keyboard is quite useful sometimes, so please don’t be afraid to use it.)

The camp site seems neat and tidy?????

What planet are you on? Take a walk down there and actually get close to it. It’s a pig sty

I have already written to a media outlet about this tent embassy,and this is what I wrote,this tent embassy must remain,as an eternal beacon,to Australia and the world,that this beacon,is there for unfinished business,which is illegal invasion and occupation by a foreign nation,that is the british monarchy,australia belongs to the Aboriginal nation,and despite 200 years or so of progress,it still is and will remain an illegal occupation,and this tent embassy is there,to protest in the open,and should not be removed,and replaced with brick and morter,to become just another building,in which to hide the cause of the Aboriginal protest,and few people will know or will not be interested of what goes on behind closed doors,and that is what,those that oppose the tent embassy,those across the road in Parliament house will be glad,as their crimes against the real AUSTRALIANS,will no longer be exposed to the rest of the world,so that beacon of hope out in the open,should remain,to shame those across in the chambers of parliament,and for the rest of australians and the world to know,this two hundred years of occupation is illegal and will remain so,until a treaty is signed,and agreements made with the owners of this country Australia.

Personally I don’t find the site of a bunch of people camping on the lawn offensive, from where I’ve stood the campsite seems fairly neat and tidy.

I’m well aware that there are a number of people that do consider it an eyesore or worse, but maybe if it is that’s not such a bad thing anyways.

It’s an undenial fact that the Aboriginal people of Australia still face a number of significant problems, problems that have been noted by the UN, among a range of international organisations.

Surely having something slightly jarring to the eye is a far better way to be reminded of the need for these problems to be addressed than yet another sterile Canberra site of significance in the form of a state sanctioned educational centre.

I drive past probably 5 or 6 places that hold symbolic importance in this country (Parliament, the Lodge, the Mint etc) every day but rarely give two thoughts to what these places mean to me or the country and you just know that some sanitised ed. centre would soon fade into similar backgroundness.

In a city which is at the same time a very clean, fresh, relatively well serviced and livable yet slightly sterile, the tent embassy (in some ways like the Falun Gong protesters) brings a bit of soul.

As for the report, you hire the right consultant and you get the result you want.

An educational centre sounds a bit museum like.
Whereas the current tent embassy is intended as a symbol and a protest. Can’t they have the educational centre, and still retain the Embassy, but just not allow it to take over the whole lawn there.

It’s interesting.

Lloyd has done a better than average job of building a broad coalition for this change.

And the Spokesperson against was citing the divine right of kings (him being one as near as I could tell) as the contra argument.

Which hasn’t done much to advance a cause in a few hundred years.