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Geoff Pike wrote:
> 
> On his first day in the Senate, WA Liberal Ross Lightfoot said -
> "Aboriginals in their native state were the lowest colour on the
> civilisation spectrum."
> 
> Where does the Liberal party find these people? Remember they also found
> Pauline Hanson as well! The newly appointed Senator's remark shows
> breath
> taking arrogance. Here we have a civilisation that lived in Australia
> for 30,000 plus years, in harmony with the environment, without
> pollution, mortgages, stress, or environmental degradation, without loss
> of native fauna species etc etc etc - and this turkey is arrogant enough
> to basically call them the lowest form of life.
> 
> No Senator, it is you that is showing your lack of civilisation and your
> lack of the big picture by making such a biased, insensitive and
> appallingly ethno-centric remark! You should resign immediately.
> 
> And while I'm at it, what about his party's refusal to apologise or
> compensate for the aboriginal kids stolen from their parents over a
> period of some 60 years? Haven't they heard of the concept of collective
> responsibility? If we wrongly jail someone, the community has a
> collective responsibility to compensate that person (even many years
> after the event) - and we do.
> 
> However what the Libs are currently saying is that if we remove children
> from their family, force them into a completely different and alien
> culture, expose some of them to abuse from foster parents etc - then we
> as a community we don't have ANY collective responsibily for the actions
> of our society and for the effect that this horrendous action has on
> them!
> 
> Why don't we have a collective responsibility to compensate for the
> shameful acts that our society has committed on these children? We might
> have thought it was right to send someone to jail if we thought
> (at the time) they were a murderer. However the minute we realise we
> were wrong we compensate them.  Why not the same with aboriginals or any
> other group? This response by the senator I am of the view is because the aborigines are a minority 
group whose votes will not affect the status of the people in power. I think perhaps the 
aborigines should consider filing  civil suit individually against the government and let 
us sit back and watch the circus in progress. In general I am also of the view the true 
colours of the Coalition Party representatives are slowly coming out in the open. Could 
it be there is a grave shortage of representatives there with compassion, sincerity, 
sense of justice and fair play imbued in their souls. There is also a shortage of wisdom 
in the decisions made. How else can one equate the action of imposing on the public to 
pay for the compensation for the gun retrieval and at the same time live with the 
injustice done to a nation without a need to address it and consider rectifying the 
injustice? A section of society were involved with guns and the decision so arrived at 
affected these small group. The Australian aborigines are a nation almost extinquish. 
Should we not change direction now or are we brutes.