Tag: aboriginals
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The Growing Menace of Trees
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2025 (Mar. 29, 2025) — Australia is threatened by dangerous trees. They have infested our cities, menace our power lines, invade our grasslands and fuel our worst bushfires. The meander by Cyclone Alfred through south east Queensland illustrated how bad this danger has become. Big tall trees smashed…
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The Sad Story of Failed Voices
9th October 2023 The Hawke Labor government established ATSIC in 1990 “so that aboriginals could be involved in the processes of government affecting their lives”. It failed and was abolished by John Howard with support from Labor in 2005. Canberra also created other voices such as the National Aboriginal Consultative Committee and the National Indigenous…
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Why Australia Should Vote “NO”.
A Media Release by Viv Forbes of Australia’s Saltbush Club2 October 2023 (Oct. 1, 2023) — Australians are being asked to approve a permanent change to our constitution. This change is racist in intent and divisive in effect. No humans evolved here in Australia – our ancestors all came from somewhereelse. The literal meaning of…
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Are We Indigenes Yet?
by Viv Forbes, Executive Director, The Saltbush Club, ©2021 (May 9, 2021) — Reference: “First Voice: Premier gets jump with new Indigenous body”: https://theaustralian.smedia.com.au/HTML5/default.aspx?publication=NCAUS The UK has seen many waves of invaders and colonisers – Neanderthals, Celts, Romans, Angles, Saxons, Jutes, Danes, Norsemen, Normans and more recently Indians and Pakistanis. Only Irish, Welsh and Scottish…
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Most Peoples Fight Each Other
OF SPEARS AND SHIELDS June 10, 2020 Dear Editor, When it comes to reasonable discussions of violence and/or racism between/within various peoples, I often ask young (and not-so-young) impressionable people objecting to white settlement of Australia to view the earliest rock paintings and carvings, along with all the earliest art of Aboriginals depicting themselves and/or…
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Our Sacred Land?
WHOSE COUNTRY? by Viv Forbes, ©2019 (Jul. 16, 2019) — My wife and I were both born in Australia, as were two children and four grandchildren. Our parents were born in Australia as were all of their parents. And some ancestors go back much further in this land. I feel rage every time I have…