Welcome to Ngunnawal, Ngamberri or Wiradjuri Country/Nation? (Now with added Ngambri Kamberri)

saraphine said :

gosh…i am new to canberra (or is it kamberri?) and i know the posts i read are from 2008 (response to “welcome to ngunnawal, ngamberri or wiradjuri country?)…but….i am ashamed to be a white fella. with all the disrespect, belittling and ignorance shown toward our “first australians”. ACT whiteys really are sanitized…i feared this when i arrived and noticed their dress, their haircuts (all the same like a uniform)..but it is as i get to know their attitudes i see that our “capital” is frighteningly colonialist and parochial. goddess help our country…(the pollies thinking the same!)…although it actually isn’t our (whiteys) country is it. “think global act local” is my motto…so i am attending “survival day” at the tent embassy. out of respect for aboriginal peoples ongoing, mostly non-violent protest at their country being written in to the constitution as “terra nullius”.
no treaty-no sovereignty i suspect. again…i am ashamed.

Troll???

Haha I like the mostly part.

What a bizarre thing to say “ACT whiteys really are sanitized…i feared this when i arrived and noticed their dress, their haircuts (all the same like a uniform)..”

saraphine said :

gosh…i am new to canberra (or is it kamberri?) and i know the posts i read are from 2008 (response to “welcome to ngunnawal, ngamberri or wiradjuri country?)…but….i am ashamed to be a white fella. with all the disrespect, belittling and ignorance shown toward our “first australians”. ACT whiteys really are sanitized…i feared this when i arrived and noticed their dress, their haircuts (all the same like a uniform)..but it is as i get to know their attitudes i see that our “capital” is frighteningly colonialist and parochial. goddess help our country…(the pollies thinking the same!)…although it actually isn’t our (whiteys) country is it. “think global act local” is my motto…so i am attending “survival day” at the tent embassy. out of respect for aboriginal peoples ongoing, mostly non-violent protest at their country being written in to the constitution as “terra nullius”.
no treaty-no sovereignty i suspect. again…i am ashamed.

Yawn.

If Canberrans are so horrid, why don’t you leave and go somewhere much more open-minded, accepting and tolerant, like Sydney, Darwin, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth or Brisbane? No ‘sanitised whitey’ issues in any of those places, no sireee!

gosh…i am new to canberra (or is it kamberri?) and i know the posts i read are from 2008 (response to “welcome to ngunnawal, ngamberri or wiradjuri country?)…but….i am ashamed to be a white fella. with all the disrespect, belittling and ignorance shown toward our “first australians”. ACT whiteys really are sanitized…i feared this when i arrived and noticed their dress, their haircuts (all the same like a uniform)..but it is as i get to know their attitudes i see that our “capital” is frighteningly colonialist and parochial. goddess help our country…(the pollies thinking the same!)…although it actually isn’t our (whiteys) country is it. “think global act local” is my motto…so i am attending “survival day” at the tent embassy. out of respect for aboriginal peoples ongoing, mostly non-violent protest at their country being written in to the constitution as “terra nullius”.
no treaty-no sovereignty i suspect. again…i am ashamed.

Well, you see, Aborigines don’t own the land. They belong to it. It’s like their mother. See those rocks? Been standing there for 600 million years. Still be there when you and I are gone. So arguing over who owns them is like two fleas arguing over who owns the dog they live on.

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

Isn’t the indigenous culture based around all things coming from the land and no one actually owning it.

You’re wrong (and somehow appear to have missed the whole native title / vested rights and interests thing as well). Perhaps you could try learning about Indigenous affairs from a source other than reruns of Crocodile Dundee.

woody, my mate would love to meet you, next time he is down, I am sure. you sound like you know enough about the culture to fit right in.

bit like Maoris – 6-pack and a guitar – 3-day party….

except both he and i drink sparingly these days…

Isn’t the indigenous culture based around all things coming from the land and no one actually owning it.

You’re wrong (and somehow appear to have missed the whole native title / vested rights and interests thing as well). Perhaps you could try learning about Indigenous affairs from a source other than reruns of Crocodile Dundee.

It’s all getting rather silly isn’t it.

thumper, it is.

most aboriginals that I know just want to be able to be known as australians. as do the malays, vietnamese, ugandan, sth african, german, french, etc,etc…

they may be able to speak another language, but they have accepted australia as their home.

they all have different cultural heritage, but they all chose to live here.

How much time have you spent in the indigenous communities of the NT, and not the one’s who live in Darwin? They shudder when they hear about crap like this.

13 years, and no, ‘they’ don’t. I also did a couple of years in the Torres Strait if that helps my cred. How about you?

bigfeet said :

Woody Mann-Caruso said :

Genuine aboriginals who embrace their culture daily are ashamed by these idiots

I’m sure you’d know, what with all your ‘genuine aboriginal’ acquaintances.

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Gotta agree with vg on this one. After living in Aboriginal communities on Cape York for seven years, two years in the Torres Straits and two years in the Pilbara I agree that most really have no time for this crap. I spoke to a couple of mates in Aurukun after the “apology” and they thought the “welcome to country” was the funniest thing they had ever seen, until I told them it was meant to be taken seriously, then they just thought it was an embarrasment.

mate of mine couldn’t stop laughing. every time we took him out on the touristy thing, and he saw a sign or suburb name, he’d crack up.

we had to leave him in the car whilst his wife checked out the Old Parliament house, the tent embassy was far too much. he roared with laughter when they called him “brother”, and to join them at the fire.

Nhulunbuy isn’t a small place, anymore. but he just couldn’t believe the song and dance these people were making about an embassy. we had to leave after he told one of the people at the tent embassy to “grow up and get a life, you loser” (the guy he was speaking to was whiter than me).