tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post6481764537717643598..comments2023-10-09T07:04:49.539-07:00Comments on Writing: Sorryfranzyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-11994805492392961092008-02-19T23:08:00.000-08:002008-02-19T23:08:00.000-08:00I guess it's a matter of wait and see and hope for...I guess it's a matter of wait and see and hope for the best.Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-8700296337792201422008-02-18T23:13:00.000-08:002008-02-18T23:13:00.000-08:00I don't know ... putting a question mark over givi...I don't know ... putting a question mark over giving compensation to Aborigines in case some of them rort the system and receive money they don't deserve is like putting a question mark over people asking for unemployment benefits or a disability pension. Are they <B>really</B> disabled?<BR/>Trust me on this one: getting a disability pension isn't just a matter of rolling up to Cennerlink with a limp. You have to supply them with evidence from your own doctors saying you're disabled before you're even allowed to see <B>their</B> doctor who will give you a thorough physical before confirming your disability.<BR/>And that's just to get your seven-hundred bucks a fortnight, which you have to live off because you can't earn any more money because you're disabled.<BR/><BR/>Could you imagine trying to claim compensation from the same system when all the evidence that you were taken away as a child has been falsified or destroyed? <BR/>If and I mean IF compensation happens, it'll be token at best. A few tens of thousands here and there, maybe some kind of complicated fund that you have to apply for and relive your awful, painful lonely childhood in front of a tribal before they give you enough for a new car and not much else.franzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-44136863221748549852008-02-18T22:32:00.000-08:002008-02-18T22:32:00.000-08:00Everything everywhere is a slippery slope. I truly...Everything everywhere is a slippery slope. I truly have mixed feelings about this whole thing. Past removal methods were cruel and families that experienced this do deserve an apology, but I'm concerned that compensations may get out of hand with undeserving people jumping on the bandwagon and all the chaos and recriminations that may ensue.Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-74710497790712742452008-02-17T05:45:00.000-08:002008-02-17T05:45:00.000-08:00River - The kids being removed now because alcohol...River - The kids being removed now because alcoholic parents and child abuse probably won't be looking for an apology because in the future alcoholic parents and abusive families will still be seen as great reasons to remove kids from families.<BR/>The apology was issued to the Stolen Generations because they were removed from their families purely because their families were Aboriginal. Their families weren't abusive, just Aboriginal.<BR/>And what's the big problem with compensation? You'll still pay the same amount of tax and have just as much say as to where it goes at the ballot box every three years.<BR/>I see where you're going and it's a slippery slope, trust me.franzyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02400212989359954521noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-24437909733292162892008-02-16T18:10:00.000-08:002008-02-16T18:10:00.000-08:00What happens in the future I wonder about the chil...What happens in the future I wonder about the children who are still being removed in the current time period because of alcohol and/or incest issues? Will they be requiring a formal apology? will they too have their hands out for compensation? (Money doesn't reverse time and give you your life back.)What about the many white children who were taken from families?Riverhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14794655013673748992noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4696126386168661766.post-21404232062884090412008-02-12T18:07:00.000-08:002008-02-12T18:07:00.000-08:00Great post Franzy, and it's certainly one of the s...Great post Franzy, and it's certainly one of the sunniest days in politics since well before the start of 1996.<BR/><BR/>I was working with an Aboriginal woman whose story formed one of the many in the 'Bringing them home' report and she took me on a tour of the remains of the Retta Dixon Centre in Darwin. <BR/><BR/>All that was left was some cement foundations cracked with heat and weeds, but she pointed to one area and said, "That's where my bunk was. Sometimes I could hear my mother calling to me through the barbed wire fence, but our dorms were always locked."<BR/><BR/>She paused as I stood, vainly trying to imagine how awful it would have been to have been placed in a home for no apparent reason other than due to her mother's choice of partner when she said, very quietly: "I cried a lot of tears in this spot."Kath Locketthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/09677312773827236567noreply@blogger.com