that! » politics http://p.teusner.org a blog about life, sex, life, and life after sex Thu, 22 Jul 2010 01:32:03 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Europeans did not settle in Australia http://p.teusner.org/2010/03/16/europeans-did-not-settle-in-australia/ http://p.teusner.org/2010/03/16/europeans-did-not-settle-in-australia/#comments Mon, 15 Mar 2010 18:47:44 +0000 paul http://p.teusner.org/2010/03/16/europeans-did-not-settle-in-australia/ Historians and students of Australian history, riddle me this:

1. When Europeans arrived in Australia, did they take land away from anyone who may have lived on that land before?

2. Did they harm or kill anyone in order to acquire that land, or protect the land in acquisition?

3. Did Europeans enslave anyone to serve them who may have lived on their own before they arrived?

4. Did Europeans ask or force anyone to leave a piece of land so they could use it?

If the answer is yes to but one of these questions, then according to every English dictionary, Europeans did not settle in Australia. They (and by they, I mean we) invaded it.

Tony, teachers, anyone who wants to tell an Australian story. Use the left-side of your brain for a second and realise that words have meanings. Stop telling white people that they weren’t like the Spaniards in South America or the British in India or the Dutch in South Africa. We were exactly the same.

And when you meet in parliament every once in a while, how about a welcome to country?

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Hell YEAH!

I’m considering the following tweets now that I know Kev’s watching…

  1. There must have been an admin error. My stimulus package is $9950. Think I’ll spend it in NZ.
  2. Click here to see my mate Osama’s blooper reel.
  3. Just found Howard’s diary. Man, Rudd would be so cut.
  4. Have seen an online ad for Rudd commemorative plates. Oh, wait, it’s just a face-pic of Rudd.
  5. My mate ObL says it’s the cave with the balloons out front.

Which leads to my third question, will I get famous if my site gets in the new blacklist?

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