http://www.smh.com.au/national/prac...ttacks-twofaced-australia-20120130-1qprd.html
Speaking five days after a fracas embroiling the Prime Minister, Julia Gillard, he said: ''I struggle with this hypocrisy, particularly when they seem happy to intervene in the affairs of other countries but become very defensive when criticised for their treatment of the first peoples of this land.''
yep fair point
invade the nt and force democracy upon them?
''I will always condemn bad manners and unnecessarily aggressive behaviour by whomever. But I will always defend people's rights to assert their political position and try to look to the heart of
why people feel so oppressed that they feel violent confrontation is the only recourse to the resolution of their position,'' he said.
this seems to be a trait in indigenous populations though
"Customary laws, which sustained indigenous societies for millenniums, remained subjugated to those of the settler state, while Aborigines remained over-represented in jails and still died on average 10 to 17 years earlier than other Australians, he said.
If there was any parallel with Gandhi's wish to ''get the Empire out of India'', it would be to displace the rule of the public service from Aboriginal people's lives so they could express indigenous values that existed in Australia before the British arrived, he said"
oh so they want 2 sets of laws. one for whites one for blacks
indigenous sharia?