Best Speech ever! :) People say bad things it's because they have no spiritual feeling in them and are belong to nothing. bunch of floating logs.... float here float everywhere.
I ask you?, when are the abo's having a "Sorry Day" for the ‘ORIGINAL OWNERS’ of the land, the Mungo people or the Negritos and the Pygmies?.
Or what happened to Australia's original MegaFuana, which coincidentally disappeared when the abo's turned up. The Negritos had lived here for upto 20,000 years and managed to not wipeout the ecosystem.
Anyways, you spin your "affirmative action" BS just know that people are becoming aware of Australia Multinational-Issues ;)
I had to laugh at the crack pipe statement :), it shows nothing of your knowledge, and everything about your ignorance. After all the government paid out 10million dollars of tax payers money for 2.7million dollars in funding for Aboriginal home ownership, seems like a fair swap???
Do some research on the matter you ignorant drip fed battery hen.
It fixes nothing that's the point, its just pissing in the wind.
Either way... Fuck off and stop trolling with your pointless "spray and pray" comment, if you are going to reply to someone at least address the issue rather than a silly blanket response.
@Costign It's a complex situation. For the last 30 years WE have tried to reconcile the damage done to Australia's Aboriginals from colonial times. Furthermore I agree it's sickening what's happening in indigenous, rural areas and that something more needs to be done but it is complicated. All u need to do is look up the history of "self determination" policies to find out how hard both aboriginal and non aboriginal Australians have fought over the previous decades for equality and development.
c now y cant america b a man and apologize 4 wat we did to the native americans seems like australia has more ball and take respoisblites 4 its actions than america ever will
@takadi All people are capable of evil. The situation experienced by indigenous Australians is just one the many horrific examples from history of ethnic cleansing and cultural imperialism, perpetrated by one group on another. "White people" certainly do not have anywhere near close to monopoly on this kind of thing.
No race has come even close to the efficiency of the white man when it comes to enslavement, conquest, colonization, and genocide. Just look at the dominance of the white man across the world
2. Without white people, you wouldn't have any awesome technology
Not only is this in retrospect but you have to ask: at what cost?
3. White people are just militarily superior, we won and you lost
@takadi You so racist. Only one of your arguments is relevant to my comment and a terrible argument at that. Define "white people" btw. There are various ethnic groups that could be loosely defined as Caucasian, all without almost any perceptible genetic difference to any other "race", but vast historical cultural differences compared to even some close "white" neighbors.
Yes I am extremely racist and prejudice, if only against the white man. I'm am completely at ease having complete and utter comtempt for the most evil breed of animal, let alone human being, ever to exist on this planet
@takadi . Most ethnic groups have committed horrific acts upon others at sometime throughout their history (see the Mongols conquest of most of the Asian continent plus small parts of Europe, or China's various periods of internal strife, or Japan's actions in WW2, ancient Egypts conquest of neighbors etc).
For recent examples of genocide see Cambodia, Turkish and the Armenians, Iraqis and Kurds, Sri Lanka and Tamils etc. Your logic is beyond specious. People generally suck, regardless of race
Ahh and thus the predictable responses begin. All the examples you point to are of mostly "intraracial" conflicts. The death and destruction the white man has committed against himself, much less the entire world, is a magnitude greater than anything genghis khan could have dreamed of. For every straw you grasp for other races, I can find ten more the white man has done. Yes indeed humans suck, but the white man is the most despicable of all.
0:44 What a remarkable boong! Pure blood aborigines in particuar bear a nobility, perhaps before of the desert, or of isolation from an arbitrary imperative to compete for fractions and per centile sums, one can but stand in awe of.
In seeking to dispell racism, he relies on a biological or national unity that doesn't exist. To say "we" is to belong to the same racism that gives rise to the injustice in the first place.
@JustinFromSydney you're deliberately complicating the issue...with a weak argument in any case.
Its a simple acknowledgement of historical wrongdoing. You don't see Aboriginals declaring Australian law invalid and taking away non-indigenous children as a result now do you?
@emangi1 - On what basis though, does he seek to claim that he is part of "we", other than by relying on the same racial assumption that gave rise to the injustice in the first place?
@JustinFromSydney mate, seriously, how about "we" = the government if you really care that much about a simple pronoun. I don't understand your accusation of self-racism. That "racial assumption" was that the Aboriginal people would eventually die out as an inferior race. I can't for the life of me see how this speech somehow inverts that kind of thinking onto non-indigenous people. "Paranoid" best describes people who honestly believe that.
@JustinFromSydney sure. Reduce the whole issue into adolescent dodge-ball if you want. "Ignorance is bliss" right? Keating recognised, Rudd apologised and that's fine by me. Build a bridge and get over it.
@emangi1 - Keating recognised in a racist way. Rudd apologised in a highly religious "christian" way. Rudd's motivation was one of religious underpinning. Literally because "jesus believes in saying sorry". Both are flawed. Both are disgusting.
@JustinFromSydney have a cry. I couldn't care less if you found Brussels sprouts disgusting let alone anything else. Must be sad being such a sensitive deadbeat.
You are actually retarded. You've got to have some weak ass insecurities to feel the need to lose your shit over other people that have nothing to do with you. And who you obviously know nothing about. I am so grateful to be born in Australia and that the aboriginal people have suffered for that to happen. I will gladly have all my taxes go to welfare for people that have been shat on by ungrateful cocksuckers like yourself.
If this post don't knock ya fuckin' socks off, it sure as hell should!!! This address alone, in my opinion, was enough to get the Majority to swing further to the right, and ULTIMATELY get Howard elected!!!
Paul Keating, The GREATEST FUCKING Prime Minister this Country's ever had!!!
@tittymumma Because you made them so through your pathetic ignorance, racism and disenfranchisement!!
Are you so stupid to think that people who for over 45.000 years did very well before the illegal european immigrants came suddenly succumb to apathy despair and drug abuse?
ITS UNREAL THAT PATHETIC HUMANS LIKE YOU ARE STILL AROUND YOU UGLY WHITE TRASH PIECE OF SHIT!
I HATE YOU AND I AM SICK OF GARBAGE LIKE YOU! YOU ARE AN INSULT TO THE COMBINED GENE POOL OF HUMANITY!! FUCK YOU AND DIE!!
The Greatest PM ever. During his time we truly could call ourselves an immigrant country. When howard came in we turned into Britons cousins again. He was the only PM that embraced our diversity and spoke of it highly.
It could've been because of his Catholic-Irish background, I don't know. But he represented Australia like no other PM has.
What I like about him is that he put all those Law students and pretentious Uni kids that horde Parliament House to shame, and brought in the voice of an intelligant and decent man, who had a sense of knowing what truly is right and what truly is wrong, real conviction, something that we miss in the poll-driven politics of today.
Keating was a fantastic PM. He had brains, vision, courage, and a thorough knowledge of how the country runs. Without him, Australia would not be where it is today, it is a shame that people don't pay him more respect and acknowledge his amazing work in Parliament over the years.
John Howard saw red when he heard this. Is it so hard to say sorry? For him, yes. Who had greater room in his heart, Keating or Howard? Says it all!!!
Wish he was still PM....had vision and a sharp tongue which kept politics interesting in it self as opposed to the "interest" the media now pushes. It was he who had the fore thought and policy for which we are reaping now.
@InformationMinister Who said I was a white South African WTF? Abos are such a sad case they want us to pity them nad feel sorry ofr them then they say they're a strong people who can stand on their own two feet. Which is it?
@koorja1 I don't recall seeing Indigenous elders suggesting they can bring back all the customs, history and language that was destroyed. And yes as far as i'm concerned you're south African, you don't deserve to be called an Aussie you backward wanker!
@InformationMinister lol well I'm not South African, and this whole issue of reconciliation is about a bunch of half-caste pretenders trying to cash in on the suffering of passed generations solely based on racial grounds.
@koorja1 "a bunch of half-caste pretenders trying to cash in on the suffering of passed generations solely based on racial grounds" Last time i checked you dense bastard, many of the stolen generation are still alive. So no, not past, but present generations.
@InformationMinister I was talking about the younger generations douchebag, that aren't part of the stolen generation but still base their problems on the suffering of other people decades ago
@koorja1 Yeah younger generations? Who do you think their parents and grandparents are? And if their father was one of the stolen generation, then thats their fathers family history they know nothing of. So yes, like it or not they are victims of the same event. Wanker! get a fuckin clue seriously.
@InformationMinister lol So a race of people should pin their problems on the happenings of their grandparents, that's just pathetic. If that was the case, every race would need compensation from at least 1 government in this world
@koorja1 I never said they should now did I? But nevertheless they were directly affected by what happened to their parents and grandparents. Now stop being such a docile little bitch and smarten the fuck up you dense bastard. And whoever said anything about compensation??? I didn't so why the fuck are you bringing it up? Stay on topic you stupid bastard.
@koorja1 You're an ignorant fool. Saying there's not one full blooded Aborigine there is just plain stupid. Being Aboriginal is not a matter of fractions, you either are or you aren't. Acts in our shared past may not have actually been our own fault, or that of our ancestors, but in my opinion the true mark of an honourable person is one who is able to empathise and understand.
@phillipcanham Actually being a fraction white is important as its hypocritical to go on blaming whites when their own ancestors were no different and they wouldn't exist without white people. You either are or your aren't? Have you ever heard of mixed-race?
We also built the buildings, We made the law, We developed the hospitals, We brought in the welfare system & aboriginal services aimed at helping them. At what point do people help themselves? You can lead a horse to water but cant make them drink. Im sick of this white guilt business that Keating perpetuates and results in reverse racism. No wonder this guy was turfed so quickly. Its not my fault other people did wrongs
@AlienBusDriver 'We' built the buildings, but it's not 'your' fault. Don't accept responsibility for one side then deny it for the other. If it's not your fault that wrongdoings were committed, it is also not your acts that brought forward welfare, roads and hospitals. Funny that Aboriginal people managed to survive more than 50 000 years without roads, hospitals and welfare agencies.
@phillipcanham Yepppppp white people built the buildings, that does not make me personally at fault for what happen to the abos. Wrongdoings? WTF if they weren't so fucking hopeless and bad parents there would be no wrongdoings u leftist dog. 'managed to survive' being the keypoint. Managed to survive in a society of no hospitals, no law and no rights, incest was legal then and you're trying to tell me this was good, your a joke and I can tell by your name your at least 40
@AlienBusDriver lol, I'm 26 you tool. But I'm not the kind of person to hide behind some fake name either, I make my comments under a real name because I stand by them. Hopeless parents? If you look into how Aboriginal children were brought up before whitefella's came to Australia you'd probably find it better than what is currently happening. There were laws, rights and traditions, but you're probably the kind of narrow-minded redneck that thinks your way of life is the only way. Try learning.
@phillipcanham Oh thats right Perceive yourself to have a higher intelligence than someone because they dont agree with your point of view what an ENLIGHTENED conclusion. And further evidence of your genius using YOUR REAL NAME ON THE INTERNET LOL if you even understood the very medium you were on you would realize why you are a fool but alas. OK il trade you redneck for bleeding nigger lover. fair deal I say. So being brought up without basic medical care is 'better' than now, another LOL
@koorja1 Well that negates your political opinion anyway, get some political correctness and maybe then I'll actually respect your opinion. Howard didn't tell it like it was, his government lied to the australian public about the children overboard scandel. If anything, keating told it like it was.
@koorja1 It's not apologising for something he didn't do, it's what it represents. To have government acknowledging their past mistakes and wrongs. You have no political correctness or factual information to give, and thus I don't respect your opinion.
@koorja1 Stolen land, genocidal acts, destruction of a culture, the reduction of its indigenous people to the status of refugees in their own country, ---
None of this warrants some form of compensation? Do you honestly think any kind of compensation could repair the damage that mighty whitey has done to this land and its people? You think that fucking money undwer-writes everything?? Are you and people like you so fucking shallow???
@koorja1 No amount of money could ever properly compensate for the damage done to the Indigenous people of this country at the hands of Mighty Whitey. Stolen and despoiled land, barbaric genocidal acts, near-destroyed culture, families torn apart, denigrated and insulted - so what's this fucking "millions in compensation" you apparently don't believe appropriate?
Given the choice I'd imagine that, instead of money, our Indigenous people would prefer everyone else just fuck off from their land.
@Blackgeoff1 If no amount of money is possibly enough, then why bother paying it, they're only going to spend it on grog and piss the rest down the drain
@Blackgeoff1 Dude, it was 200 years ago... None of the people involved on either side are still alive. Get over it & lets try and fix the current mess the aboriginal people are in rather then playing into there blameless "victim culture." By right of conquest, they have no claim to the land. That is the way of the world.
@Alucardthedeadone if that was better than why did the aborigines want to hear a pm say sorry so badly? its funny isnt it how keating didnt care to give an apology until AFTER he lost the election
@AussiePolitics Well what is a sorry really going to do? The PM is going to say sorry and then say hay we said but we want ur land because you guys have copper and gold. If the aborigines and all people want a better more free australia we need a big over run of our government and I don't mean a republic.
Great prime Minister who gets no credit for reforming the australian economy. The U.S.A need someone like Paul Keating, but, it won't happen for a long term. They will just continue with band aid politics.
so so so true. A politician who spoke the truth. But allot of us only vote for people who say things we like to hear, only to find out words ofen count for nothing.
Like our 'ol mate Krudd.... Why do we do as politicans say? WE ARE THE PEOPLE!! so few rule over so many. I wish we would all come together and fight back!! Revolution Time!
It's a curse app-on us colonialist who deny the past and do nothing in apathy, shame and guilt.
It time to ask for forgiveness from the land and or the people and forgive yourselves and fight racism and genocide and assimilation.we are one, one love
@nikpixie I've done nothing wron so theres nothing to forgive, many of my ancestors didn't have much choice in the matter coming out here...bloody hippy
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Yes many bad things happened. History is littered with atrocities. But when will aboriginal people get on with things and stop looking at the past. The sad part is if you ask a full blooded aboriginal about this he shrugs and gets on with his traditional life. It is the part bloods who are almost white, blaming the past on there misfortunes. Even when they get more rights and handouts than the average white bloke.
Credit where its due, but I dont think any of us can genuinely view, in retrospect, what 18th 19th 20th & 21st century Australia was/is like through the eyes of indiginous Australians. History is what it is, especially hitherto, white and black Australians are still far from reaching a true and lasting commonality.
i don't really see that with KEating. his economic policies weren't as so concerned with being 'egalitarian' but rather realistic. so i don't think it's as black and white as you make it out to be, he doesn't hold those socio-economical hierarchy attitudes that most Liberals do, the man grew up in Bankstown and was a school drop out, hardly what makes a Liberal. same thing could be said for Brendan Nelson in reverse
It is obviously not a black and white issue politics rarely is, but if we where to list alot of the policies of Hawke and Keating on a piece of paper then alot of them are anti-union and they copped alot of flack for them within their own party.
Labor succeded where the Liberals probably never could, in the culling of the far left and the slow drift towards the center. If a liberal tried to pass these policies they would be viewed much like Howard is today.
i suppose that's true, i'm watching Q&A right now and Hockey is taking a load of crap. i guess you're right that people often overlook the nature of these kind of policies just because someone like Keating has the historical capacity to empaphise with those core demographics
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what damage? The best thing that ever happened to the aboroginal peoples was the stolen generations....which figures now stand up for aboriginal peoples? Stolen Generations and their descendants
A great speech from a great Prime Minister, the best since Whitlam.
However, I don't appreciate trying to prop up the speech with music in this video. It destroys the rhetoric and the cadence when you try and give it a soundtrack.
What a legend. I constantly quote this speech to people. We had so much potential at providing some REAL reconciliation before that Howard c*nt came along.
I am disgusted and ashamed of not only our disgraceful past, but our STILL disgraceful present.
What is wrong with this damn country? Let's wake up to ourselves Australia!
Just magnificent. P J Keating was the greatest Prime Minister of this nation. He was a visionary, he was ahead of this time. However the very qualities that made him great were his downfall. The average Aussie just didn't get it. I miss him.
Here here!! WOW I've never seen this before, it gave me chills! You say Paul Keating was the greatest Prime Minister of this nation...you may be right!
we deserved howard for being a nation composed of trash like you. and it is a testament to that he was a brilliant politician - with a crowd of fools to play to - for being able to sit in office for 11 years without doing, well, anything much (okay, gst was a big reform. what else? tax cuts? wow, good work johnny) and be proclaimed a great leader. while keating reforms our economy, makes us strong, and looks to the future... and gets discarded for being "unaustralian"
SS, all cultures on earth apart from australian aborigines and the maoris in NZ have been exposed to alcohol for 7,000 years. that it is such a deeply ingrained cultural icon makes it, i guess, less immediately devastating - though white people still behave disgracefully on alcohol all the time.
anyhow, your comments show why australia gets the govt's it does. if our populace is made up of people like you, we don't deserve visionary leaders like keating.
im sorry if i offended your fascist views of the world but you have to face the fact that your a fucking moron and its because of people like you that there are so many things wrong with our world, and maybe you should get your facts right first and realise that im definitely not a liberal, but far from it, so just return to your neo nazis cult and piss off
how dare you say such racist things when it is clearly apparent that a great injustice has been done to the aboriginal people and that it is the fault of the ignorance of people just like you that caused this injustice, so fu** you
You clearly know nothing of European politics and history and less of life in Australia.
Your attitude is not popular in this country, where most people of European origin want to form stronger bonds and mutual understanding with indigenous Australians. In friendship, we can move forward together in a way that respects culture and country so that everyone has a chance to live to their full potential. This is for the betterment of all.
Your view is shallow, thoughtless and good for no one.
Australians need to wake up , there is no treaty or contract signed with or for the Australian originals . As a matter of fact this land they call Australia is still being governed by British law . Watch Mark Mcmurtrie lessons in law 1,2,3 and British legal scam 1,2,3 there is colourful language used but the topic and Marks passion is proof enough for it to be taken very seriously.
nice speech but keating never said sorry. he had plenty of time after this speech too.
it took a long time for aboriginals to gain equal rights, but it also took a long struggle for gender equality and anti discrimination. we are an evolving world still learning. people need to be forgiven for past events and we should look towards a fair and equal society where no one is disadvantaged indigenous or not. we are lucky to be a democracy.
Aboriginals are known for having a good heart, but they are so naive when it comes to complex concepts.
They are so easily swayed, and always toward something that offers them more for nothing.
They have a right to work on gaining a political edge but not at cost of society. They survived 40,000-50,000 years on their own they will be here a long time coming. So will we all, but perhaps they will learn to appreciate the benefits we have brought them and stop obeying propoganda.
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Look at Rudd and Swans forecasts from 6 months ago..totally wrong! Who said we are facing a Tsunami in November 2007 and not to vote for tried and true failures and fuckers of economies, that being the ALP..Peter Costello predicted this! Who left us with a set of KPI's the envy of the Western World in 2007..the Liberals..get down on your ungrateful fucking knee's Labor hacks and thank the Great John Howard for this brilliant position we are in to face this crisis! Will the ALP pay the Piper? NO.
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For failed Governments that lie, that pork barrel hard earned surplus. That Bullshit the Australian people that Howards inflation Genie "was out of the bottle" and gave Glenn Stevens the big thumbs up to raise rates three times last year to spin theIr anti Howard story .thank KEV, the legend in his own lunchtime..insecure KEV, ALL ABOUT STROKING HIS OWN EGO Time to tlk UP our position Kev,forget about Howards greatness, put Australia first! For failed Governments look no further than the ALP
What happened to traditional Conservative values like fiscal responsibility? Preserving the Constitution? Opposing big government? What happened to social conservatism?
What really conservatives still stand for? Opposing abortion, opposing gun control, opposing the environment, opposing civil rights, opposing homosexuality, opposing people with Islamic beliefs. You support religion in politics, support school prayer, support creationism and support military spending... But never serve.
Howard and Costello's 11-year tenure saw us squander the benefits of a mining boom in favour of electoral advantage through corporate and middle class welfare at the expense of much needed infrastructure to secure our economic prosperity. Now thanks to those morons we have inflationary pressures, lowered productivity levels, and are facing a recession in the near future.
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Where of where do you pull this diatribe? Staright from fabian society newsletters handed out down at the Balmain basket weaving convention on Darling St by any chance? Thank God for the great Howard government, we may not even go into recession..you want to talk about failed Governments that lie.that promise infrastructure. Corrupt Goverments that speak with forked toungues,beholden to Union hacks and secret caucus deals that stack branches.spare us the spew from the Student Union hall Belmore
Thank God for the forward-thinking Rudd government, you're right we may not going into recession because of the course of action the PM has chosen to take. Remember Nudenuts, it does not matter how long it has taken to build a surplus a recession can wipe it out very quickly. It does not matter which party is in government at present either would have to adapt to the global economic downturn. The downturn did not originate here, but it will hurt us.
thumbs up if you are watching this on Australia Day :D
iDJMIXTRESS 1 day ago
Best Speech ever! :) People say bad things it's because they have no spiritual feeling in them and are belong to nothing. bunch of floating logs.... float here float everywhere.
Boxfox22222 1 month ago
G'day Mate....Paul Keating was one of the best prime Minister, Australia ever had.
Aussie...Aussie...Aussie....ohi...ohi...ohi. Go labour party.....long live Australia. love you.
MrDeanuddin 4 months ago in playlist Australia
Piss off all you bloody trolls, go back to worshipping your hero Abbott at the altar.
accadacca007 4 months ago in playlist accadacca007's Favorited Videos
fuck labour and it's junkies,welfare bludgers,abo's,boaties,uni wankers
russ9356 5 months ago
More empty words from those self righteous knobs in the Labor Party, from arguably the biggest knob of all.
Enricom23 5 months ago
Ahhhh Keating, You mean none of what you say and laugh at most of what you hear.
BorsBaledwyr 5 months ago in playlist ABORIGINAL RIGHTS AUSTRALIA
& you brought the jesus
billygundum 6 months ago
I'm sure there are a few poor fools that felt good for A COUPLE OF MINUTES over there in the land of OZ.
Australia's "Sorry Day" is a grotesque fucking joke.
"Sorry, I'm just going to continue raping you"
"Sorry, we're just going to carry on as usual. you are un-people. Sorry"
Costign 7 months ago 17
@Costign
Ok smart ass,
I ask you?, when are the abo's having a "Sorry Day" for the ‘ORIGINAL OWNERS’ of the land, the Mungo people or the Negritos and the Pygmies?.
Or what happened to Australia's original MegaFuana, which coincidentally disappeared when the abo's turned up. The Negritos had lived here for upto 20,000 years and managed to not wipeout the ecosystem.
Anyways, you spin your "affirmative action" BS just know that people are becoming aware of Australia Multinational-Issues ;)
ReapTheRippers1 7 months ago
@ReapTheRippers1
Try putting the crack-pipe down before you write something, you daft racist.
Costign 7 months ago
@Costign
I had to laugh at the crack pipe statement :), it shows nothing of your knowledge, and everything about your ignorance. After all the government paid out 10million dollars of tax payers money for 2.7million dollars in funding for Aboriginal home ownership, seems like a fair swap???
Do some research on the matter you ignorant drip fed battery hen.
ReapTheRippers1 7 months ago
@ReapTheRippers1 And you think that fixes everything?
Neenuvra 6 months ago
@Neenuvra
Sad troll is sad....
It fixes nothing that's the point, its just pissing in the wind.
Either way... Fuck off and stop trolling with your pointless "spray and pray" comment, if you are going to reply to someone at least address the issue rather than a silly blanket response.
ReapTheRippers1 6 months ago
@Costign It's a complex situation. For the last 30 years WE have tried to reconcile the damage done to Australia's Aboriginals from colonial times. Furthermore I agree it's sickening what's happening in indigenous, rural areas and that something more needs to be done but it is complicated. All u need to do is look up the history of "self determination" policies to find out how hard both aboriginal and non aboriginal Australians have fought over the previous decades for equality and development.
ajrnagy1 6 months ago
c now y cant america b a man and apologize 4 wat we did to the native americans seems like australia has more ball and take respoisblites 4 its actions than america ever will
MidnightKobra123 7 months ago
White people are evil
takadi 7 months ago
@takadi All people are capable of evil. The situation experienced by indigenous Australians is just one the many horrific examples from history of ethnic cleansing and cultural imperialism, perpetrated by one group on another. "White people" certainly do not have anywhere near close to monopoly on this kind of thing.
divideandmultiply 2 months ago
Top three cop outs white people use
1. Every race has committed acts of evil
No race has come even close to the efficiency of the white man when it comes to enslavement, conquest, colonization, and genocide. Just look at the dominance of the white man across the world
2. Without white people, you wouldn't have any awesome technology
Not only is this in retrospect but you have to ask: at what cost?
3. White people are just militarily superior, we won and you lost
At least this one is honest
takadi 2 months ago
@takadi You so racist. Only one of your arguments is relevant to my comment and a terrible argument at that. Define "white people" btw. There are various ethnic groups that could be loosely defined as Caucasian, all without almost any perceptible genetic difference to any other "race", but vast historical cultural differences compared to even some close "white" neighbors.
divideandmultiply 1 month ago
@divideandmultiply
Yes I am extremely racist and prejudice, if only against the white man. I'm am completely at ease having complete and utter comtempt for the most evil breed of animal, let alone human being, ever to exist on this planet
takadi 1 month ago
@takadi . Most ethnic groups have committed horrific acts upon others at sometime throughout their history (see the Mongols conquest of most of the Asian continent plus small parts of Europe, or China's various periods of internal strife, or Japan's actions in WW2, ancient Egypts conquest of neighbors etc).
For recent examples of genocide see Cambodia, Turkish and the Armenians, Iraqis and Kurds, Sri Lanka and Tamils etc. Your logic is beyond specious. People generally suck, regardless of race
divideandmultiply 1 month ago
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takadi 1 month ago
Ahh and thus the predictable responses begin. All the examples you point to are of mostly "intraracial" conflicts. The death and destruction the white man has committed against himself, much less the entire world, is a magnitude greater than anything genghis khan could have dreamed of. For every straw you grasp for other races, I can find ten more the white man has done. Yes indeed humans suck, but the white man is the most despicable of all.
takadi 1 month ago
@takadi How are they "interracial"? Regardless, race is an arbitrary man made concept with commonly held definitions having little scientific merit.
I hope you are a troll, if not you have my sympathy.
divideandmultiply 3 weeks ago
0:44 What a remarkable boong! Pure blood aborigines in particuar bear a nobility, perhaps before of the desert, or of isolation from an arbitrary imperative to compete for fractions and per centile sums, one can but stand in awe of.
Lieu3C4 7 months ago
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Do you want to make things right? pack up and leave. go back to where you came from.
Tonyokay87 7 months ago
The moron below me will someday vote.
emangi1 8 months ago
Paul Keating was a smart guy, shit prime minister.
sydneymassive 9 months ago
When Keating says "We", who is he referring to?
In seeking to dispell racism, he relies on a biological or national unity that doesn't exist. To say "we" is to belong to the same racism that gives rise to the injustice in the first place.
JustinFromSydney 9 months ago
@JustinFromSydney you're deliberately complicating the issue...with a weak argument in any case.
Its a simple acknowledgement of historical wrongdoing. You don't see Aboriginals declaring Australian law invalid and taking away non-indigenous children as a result now do you?
emangi1 8 months ago
@emangi1 - On what basis though, does he seek to claim that he is part of "we", other than by relying on the same racial assumption that gave rise to the injustice in the first place?
JustinFromSydney 8 months ago
@JustinFromSydney mate, seriously, how about "we" = the government if you really care that much about a simple pronoun. I don't understand your accusation of self-racism. That "racial assumption" was that the Aboriginal people would eventually die out as an inferior race. I can't for the life of me see how this speech somehow inverts that kind of thinking onto non-indigenous people. "Paranoid" best describes people who honestly believe that.
emangi1 8 months ago
@emangi1 - How about at 0:15 he says "we non - aboriginal australians". Fail.
JustinFromSydney 8 months ago
@JustinFromSydney sure. Reduce the whole issue into adolescent dodge-ball if you want. "Ignorance is bliss" right? Keating recognised, Rudd apologised and that's fine by me. Build a bridge and get over it.
emangi1 8 months ago
@emangi1 - Keating recognised in a racist way. Rudd apologised in a highly religious "christian" way. Rudd's motivation was one of religious underpinning. Literally because "jesus believes in saying sorry". Both are flawed. Both are disgusting.
JustinFromSydney 8 months ago
@JustinFromSydney have a cry. I couldn't care less if you found Brussels sprouts disgusting let alone anything else. Must be sad being such a sensitive deadbeat.
emangi1 8 months ago
@emangi1 - Trollol lol lol lol
JustinFromSydney 8 months ago
@JustinFromSydney gave up easily eh?
emangi1 8 months ago
@emangi1 - For a troll, yes you did.
JustinFromSydney 8 months ago
@JustinFromSydney how very interesting. I thought you were mature.
emangi1 8 months ago
@emangi1 - Mature troll is mature.
JustinFromSydney 8 months ago
@JustinFromSydney
I don't think that was racist. Could you explain what your saying?
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jamiespinks 10 months ago
Don't hear speeches like that these days!
Walwie001 11 months ago
Paul Keating is a has been....
trueblueaus1488 11 months ago
@trueblueaus1488 you're a never was
n4859 10 months ago
HELLO 9C
LOVEEEE MITCH
Collaw12 11 months ago
Simply the finest speech ever made in this country.
If only we had the empathy, conscience and courage to act upon it.
MrKommodius 1 year ago 28
@MrKommodius 19 years later and we still cant. So sad.
Neenuvra 6 months ago
You are actually retarded. You've got to have some weak ass insecurities to feel the need to lose your shit over other people that have nothing to do with you. And who you obviously know nothing about. I am so grateful to be born in Australia and that the aboriginal people have suffered for that to happen. I will gladly have all my taxes go to welfare for people that have been shat on by ungrateful cocksuckers like yourself.
EVILKIMEVIL 1 year ago 2
Very good speech much better than kevin's
nayungagarr 1 year ago 2
Hallelujah!
MinaVanner 1 year ago
If this post don't knock ya fuckin' socks off, it sure as hell should!!! This address alone, in my opinion, was enough to get the Majority to swing further to the right, and ULTIMATELY get Howard elected!!!
Paul Keating, The GREATEST FUCKING Prime Minister this Country's ever had!!!
Badimayaman77 1 year ago 2
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Aboriginals are an absolute scourge on Australian society. They are totally dependant on welfare and are absolutely ungrateful and demanding.
tittymumma 1 year ago
@tittymumma Because you made them so through your pathetic ignorance, racism and disenfranchisement!!
Are you so stupid to think that people who for over 45.000 years did very well before the illegal european immigrants came suddenly succumb to apathy despair and drug abuse?
ITS UNREAL THAT PATHETIC HUMANS LIKE YOU ARE STILL AROUND YOU UGLY WHITE TRASH PIECE OF SHIT!
I HATE YOU AND I AM SICK OF GARBAGE LIKE YOU! YOU ARE AN INSULT TO THE COMBINED GENE POOL OF HUMANITY!! FUCK YOU AND DIE!!
ReleaseJulianAssange 1 year ago 3
@ReleaseJulianAssange He is Great!!!
Beatiful speach!
MinaVanner 1 year ago
@tittymumma Yeah the guy below is right. You're a dick.
TheFleurieuLA 1 year ago
@tittymumma you are a pig
mikaelacw 10 months ago
Howardisaliar my msn in profile! Paul Keating - The Redfern Address - Australian Labor Party
sexykatie90 1 year ago
*cries*
Keruaran 1 year ago
The Greatest PM ever. During his time we truly could call ourselves an immigrant country. When howard came in we turned into Britons cousins again. He was the only PM that embraced our diversity and spoke of it highly.
It could've been because of his Catholic-Irish background, I don't know. But he represented Australia like no other PM has.
Rafdaganga 1 year ago
What I like about him is that he put all those Law students and pretentious Uni kids that horde Parliament House to shame, and brought in the voice of an intelligant and decent man, who had a sense of knowing what truly is right and what truly is wrong, real conviction, something that we miss in the poll-driven politics of today.
Zaikomgisdabest 1 year ago
Good on you Paul...If he was still PM we might have a treaty by now...and a new flag and republic!!!
Mashbolt 1 year ago
@Mashbolt Hear - hear - the voice is growing. Strength!!
1blindtraveller 1 year ago
Keating was a fantastic PM. He had brains, vision, courage, and a thorough knowledge of how the country runs. Without him, Australia would not be where it is today, it is a shame that people don't pay him more respect and acknowledge his amazing work in Parliament over the years.
SuperLizard74 1 year ago
John Howard saw red when he heard this. Is it so hard to say sorry? For him, yes. Who had greater room in his heart, Keating or Howard? Says it all!!!
customanalogue 1 year ago
Wish he was still PM....had vision and a sharp tongue which kept politics interesting in it self as opposed to the "interest" the media now pushes. It was he who had the fore thought and policy for which we are reaping now.
smaq01 1 year ago
an amazing and powerful speech.
grahampiper1969 1 year ago
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npg68 1 year ago
I wonder if this Koorja is having fun living back in the 19th century. Dopey backward bastard!
InformationMinister 1 year ago
@InformationMinister Who said I was a white South African WTF? Abos are such a sad case they want us to pity them nad feel sorry ofr them then they say they're a strong people who can stand on their own two feet. Which is it?
koorja1 1 year ago
@koorja1 I don't recall seeing Indigenous elders suggesting they can bring back all the customs, history and language that was destroyed. And yes as far as i'm concerned you're south African, you don't deserve to be called an Aussie you backward wanker!
InformationMinister 1 year ago 2
@InformationMinister lol well I'm not South African, and this whole issue of reconciliation is about a bunch of half-caste pretenders trying to cash in on the suffering of passed generations solely based on racial grounds.
koorja1 1 year ago
@koorja1 "a bunch of half-caste pretenders trying to cash in on the suffering of passed generations solely based on racial grounds" Last time i checked you dense bastard, many of the stolen generation are still alive. So no, not past, but present generations.
InformationMinister 1 year ago
@InformationMinister I was talking about the younger generations douchebag, that aren't part of the stolen generation but still base their problems on the suffering of other people decades ago
koorja1 1 year ago
@koorja1 Yeah younger generations? Who do you think their parents and grandparents are? And if their father was one of the stolen generation, then thats their fathers family history they know nothing of. So yes, like it or not they are victims of the same event. Wanker! get a fuckin clue seriously.
InformationMinister 1 year ago
@InformationMinister lol So a race of people should pin their problems on the happenings of their grandparents, that's just pathetic. If that was the case, every race would need compensation from at least 1 government in this world
koorja1 1 year ago
@koorja1 I never said they should now did I? But nevertheless they were directly affected by what happened to their parents and grandparents. Now stop being such a docile little bitch and smarten the fuck up you dense bastard. And whoever said anything about compensation??? I didn't so why the fuck are you bringing it up? Stay on topic you stupid bastard.
InformationMinister 1 year ago
dont talk about it keating , bloody do something , your the prime minister for christs sake , another opportunity missed .
isafella1 1 year ago
A true statesmen .. God I wish he was still Prime Minister
Finsgranddaughter 1 year ago
The real apology. Keating was our greatest PM.
djangolad 1 year ago 7
@koorja1 You're an ignorant fool. Saying there's not one full blooded Aborigine there is just plain stupid. Being Aboriginal is not a matter of fractions, you either are or you aren't. Acts in our shared past may not have actually been our own fault, or that of our ancestors, but in my opinion the true mark of an honourable person is one who is able to empathise and understand.
phillipcanham 1 year ago
@phillipcanham Actually being a fraction white is important as its hypocritical to go on blaming whites when their own ancestors were no different and they wouldn't exist without white people. You either are or your aren't? Have you ever heard of mixed-race?
koorja1 1 year ago
Imagine a PM with vision and guts...
Mjainoz 1 year ago
@Mjainoz just imagine......ALP never been the same mate.
Rafdaganga 1 year ago
A massive step forward, thankyou Paul Keating :)
channyjo 1 year ago
I didn't see one full-blooded aborigine in that crowd, bunch of hypocrites
koorja1 1 year ago
@koorja1 if u think ur so tough bad mouthing abbos on u tube try taking a walk through the block and see what they do to u there
Ihatedawannabes 1 year ago
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koorja1 1 year ago
@Ihatedawannabes No I don't think I will walk through the block, I'll come out the other end without a wallet and smelling like petroleum
koorja1 1 year ago
We also built the buildings, We made the law, We developed the hospitals, We brought in the welfare system & aboriginal services aimed at helping them. At what point do people help themselves? You can lead a horse to water but cant make them drink. Im sick of this white guilt business that Keating perpetuates and results in reverse racism. No wonder this guy was turfed so quickly. Its not my fault other people did wrongs
AlienBusDriver 1 year ago
@AlienBusDriver 'We' built the buildings, but it's not 'your' fault. Don't accept responsibility for one side then deny it for the other. If it's not your fault that wrongdoings were committed, it is also not your acts that brought forward welfare, roads and hospitals. Funny that Aboriginal people managed to survive more than 50 000 years without roads, hospitals and welfare agencies.
phillipcanham 1 year ago
@phillipcanham Yepppppp white people built the buildings, that does not make me personally at fault for what happen to the abos. Wrongdoings? WTF if they weren't so fucking hopeless and bad parents there would be no wrongdoings u leftist dog. 'managed to survive' being the keypoint. Managed to survive in a society of no hospitals, no law and no rights, incest was legal then and you're trying to tell me this was good, your a joke and I can tell by your name your at least 40
AlienBusDriver 1 year ago
@AlienBusDriver lol, I'm 26 you tool. But I'm not the kind of person to hide behind some fake name either, I make my comments under a real name because I stand by them. Hopeless parents? If you look into how Aboriginal children were brought up before whitefella's came to Australia you'd probably find it better than what is currently happening. There were laws, rights and traditions, but you're probably the kind of narrow-minded redneck that thinks your way of life is the only way. Try learning.
phillipcanham 1 year ago
@phillipcanham Oh thats right Perceive yourself to have a higher intelligence than someone because they dont agree with your point of view what an ENLIGHTENED conclusion. And further evidence of your genius using YOUR REAL NAME ON THE INTERNET LOL if you even understood the very medium you were on you would realize why you are a fool but alas. OK il trade you redneck for bleeding nigger lover. fair deal I say. So being brought up without basic medical care is 'better' than now, another LOL
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phillipcanham 1 year ago
How did he loose to Howard? What a joke.
sophilianate 1 year ago 2
@sophilianate quite easily, cause he is a twat, Howard's awesome
koorja1 1 year ago
@koorja1 Howard is scum,
sophilianate 1 year ago
@sophilianate Howard had a back bone, didn't bow down to the coons every whim they get enough mony to spend on grog and petrol to sniff
koorja1 1 year ago
@koorja1 You're a racist fuckhead, nobody should listen anything you have to say about politics. Howard was scum, that's it.
sophilianate 1 year ago 3
@sophilianate Howard told it like it was, that's it. And I'm not racist I just don't like political correctness......and abos
koorja1 1 year ago
@koorja1 Well that negates your political opinion anyway, get some political correctness and maybe then I'll actually respect your opinion. Howard didn't tell it like it was, his government lied to the australian public about the children overboard scandel. If anything, keating told it like it was.
sophilianate 1 year ago 2
@sophilianate Keating was a wank sock
koorja1 1 year ago
@sophilianate Howard didn't bow down to a mob demanding an apology for something he didn't do, good on him
koorja1 1 year ago
@koorja1 It's not apologising for something he didn't do, it's what it represents. To have government acknowledging their past mistakes and wrongs. You have no political correctness or factual information to give, and thus I don't respect your opinion.
sophilianate 1 year ago
@sophilianate What it represents? Millions more dollars in compensation is what it represents
koorja1 1 year ago
@koorja1 Stolen land, genocidal acts, destruction of a culture, the reduction of its indigenous people to the status of refugees in their own country, ---
None of this warrants some form of compensation? Do you honestly think any kind of compensation could repair the damage that mighty whitey has done to this land and its people? You think that fucking money undwer-writes everything?? Are you and people like you so fucking shallow???
Blackgeoff1 1 year ago
@koorja1 No amount of money could ever properly compensate for the damage done to the Indigenous people of this country at the hands of Mighty Whitey. Stolen and despoiled land, barbaric genocidal acts, near-destroyed culture, families torn apart, denigrated and insulted - so what's this fucking "millions in compensation" you apparently don't believe appropriate?
Given the choice I'd imagine that, instead of money, our Indigenous people would prefer everyone else just fuck off from their land.
Blackgeoff1 1 year ago 2
@Blackgeoff1 If no amount of money is possibly enough, then why bother paying it, they're only going to spend it on grog and piss the rest down the drain
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@Blackgeoff1 Dude, it was 200 years ago... None of the people involved on either side are still alive. Get over it & lets try and fix the current mess the aboriginal people are in rather then playing into there blameless "victim culture." By right of conquest, they have no claim to the land. That is the way of the world.
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imdpower108 1 year ago
how come keating never apologised?
AussiePolitics 1 year ago
@AussiePolitics I think this was much better then a apologiy, it's not like saying sorry ba ba ba. He really putting mean for it.
Alucardthedeadone 1 year ago 2
@Alucardthedeadone if that was better than why did the aborigines want to hear a pm say sorry so badly? its funny isnt it how keating didnt care to give an apology until AFTER he lost the election
AussiePolitics 1 year ago
@AussiePolitics Well what is a sorry really going to do? The PM is going to say sorry and then say hay we said but we want ur land because you guys have copper and gold. If the aborigines and all people want a better more free australia we need a big over run of our government and I don't mean a republic.
Alucardthedeadone 1 year ago
Ah.. ich glaube, ich weiß worum es hier geht... hehe Paul Keatung ist der Premierminister Australiens :-))
HamitVucutcu 1 year ago
I miss PAul Keating Like I miss my trustydog old dog of 16 years.
His vision and brillance was miles ahead of the rest.
Rudd is a wuss. Show some balls man.
williamdixon4 1 year ago
Great prime Minister who gets no credit for reforming the australian economy. The U.S.A need someone like Paul Keating, but, it won't happen for a long term. They will just continue with band aid politics.
banksy35 1 year ago
yeah give back the land and save ur breath
lunafringe10 1 year ago
so so so true. A politician who spoke the truth. But allot of us only vote for people who say things we like to hear, only to find out words ofen count for nothing.
Like our 'ol mate Krudd.... Why do we do as politicans say? WE ARE THE PEOPLE!! so few rule over so many. I wish we would all come together and fight back!! Revolution Time!
Much Respect.
co1088 1 year ago
It's a curse app-on us colonialist who deny the past and do nothing in apathy, shame and guilt.
It time to ask for forgiveness from the land and or the people and forgive yourselves and fight racism and genocide and assimilation.we are one, one love
nikpixie 1 year ago
@nikpixie I've done nothing wron so theres nothing to forgive, many of my ancestors didn't have much choice in the matter coming out here...bloody hippy
koorja1 1 year ago
What happened in the past is worse than most of us could imagine. They're not called the killing times for nothing...
There's NOTHING that can make up for what happened, but we can at least try to make up for what happens today.
Every white Australian should read Henry Reynolds' books 'Why Weren't We Told' and 'This Whispering In Our Hearts'.
harrytrift 2 years ago
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Yes many bad things happened. History is littered with atrocities. But when will aboriginal people get on with things and stop looking at the past. The sad part is if you ask a full blooded aboriginal about this he shrugs and gets on with his traditional life. It is the part bloods who are almost white, blaming the past on there misfortunes. Even when they get more rights and handouts than the average white bloke.
68Trueblue 1 year ago
this guy dropped out of school when he was only 15. he is a fucking genius
chetdog 2 years ago 16
legend
MrTrevorcc 2 years ago 3
yeah i was there the day he done that speech
and its better than Rudds..
kooriland4eva 2 years ago 5
And like Rudds speech purely symbolic and a vote catcher.
More is being spent on housing illegal immigrants than housing aboriginal people.
68Trueblue 1 year ago
Credit where its due, but I dont think any of us can genuinely view, in retrospect, what 18th 19th 20th & 21st century Australia was/is like through the eyes of indiginous Australians. History is what it is, especially hitherto, white and black Australians are still far from reaching a true and lasting commonality.
neilious01 2 years ago
briiliant edit! brilliant speech!
ljwification 2 years ago
Ideologically Keating is the best labor prime minister, because all his best ideas are not left wing ones:
- Floating the Dollar
- Support for GST before changing his mind
- Reducing Tariffs on Imports
- Removing Centralised wage fixing
- Deregulation
- Privatisation (Qantas/Comm-Bank)
As for comments about Keating being so compassionate, he introduced mandatory detention for asylum seekers.
Our best Labor PM - the Liberal pretending to be a Union Heavy.
deathByStupid 2 years ago
i don't really see that with KEating. his economic policies weren't as so concerned with being 'egalitarian' but rather realistic. so i don't think it's as black and white as you make it out to be, he doesn't hold those socio-economical hierarchy attitudes that most Liberals do, the man grew up in Bankstown and was a school drop out, hardly what makes a Liberal. same thing could be said for Brendan Nelson in reverse
philphie 2 years ago 4
It is obviously not a black and white issue politics rarely is, but if we where to list alot of the policies of Hawke and Keating on a piece of paper then alot of them are anti-union and they copped alot of flack for them within their own party.
Labor succeded where the Liberals probably never could, in the culling of the far left and the slow drift towards the center. If a liberal tried to pass these policies they would be viewed much like Howard is today.
deathByStupid 2 years ago
i suppose that's true, i'm watching Q&A right now and Hockey is taking a load of crap. i guess you're right that people often overlook the nature of these kind of policies just because someone like Keating has the historical capacity to empaphise with those core demographics
philphie 2 years ago
Paul said it better than Kevin Rudd.Without all the fanfair and media frenzy
mrsgritoli1 2 years ago 4
Fine and intelligent speech.
ekydami 2 years ago 2
well done - important record of australian history.
cinemakramp 2 years ago 2
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what damage? The best thing that ever happened to the aboroginal peoples was the stolen generations....which figures now stand up for aboriginal peoples? Stolen Generations and their descendants
smallplotofland 2 years ago
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bloobloo777 2 years ago
A great speech from a great Prime Minister, the best since Whitlam.
However, I don't appreciate trying to prop up the speech with music in this video. It destroys the rhetoric and the cadence when you try and give it a soundtrack.
mrsp3aker 2 years ago 3
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you idiots proclaiming Keating as some kid of god are seriously fucked in the head....the only PM worse than him was shitlam
MervynVogt 2 years ago
A brilliant speech given by the great Prime minister, Paul Keating.History will judge him as one of the greats.
darkcide59 2 years ago
Bring Keating back!!!
What a legend. I constantly quote this speech to people. We had so much potential at providing some REAL reconciliation before that Howard c*nt came along.
I am disgusted and ashamed of not only our disgraceful past, but our STILL disgraceful present.
What is wrong with this damn country? Let's wake up to ourselves Australia!
dancecommanderrr 2 years ago
Big Paul, riding high across the pages of Australian history. A man with economic intelligence and a conscience...
12inchvertical 2 years ago 41
thanks for the email its good to see many others who think the same, and that I am not the only one
rodhmu 2 years ago 7
Just magnificent. P J Keating was the greatest Prime Minister of this nation. He was a visionary, he was ahead of this time. However the very qualities that made him great were his downfall. The average Aussie just didn't get it. I miss him.
rodhmu 2 years ago 10
Here here!! WOW I've never seen this before, it gave me chills! You say Paul Keating was the greatest Prime Minister of this nation...you may be right!
samthekoalafan1 2 years ago 5
words cannot replace the damage that has been done, only cover it......
maxh92 2 years ago 5
Greatest Prime minister ever.
btbking 2 years ago 44
@btbking Bit of an arsehole really dont you think?
koorja1 1 year ago
@btbking - WTF ? I guess you have been smoking crack cocaine again..............
tittymumma 1 year ago
we deserved howard for being a nation composed of trash like you. and it is a testament to that he was a brilliant politician - with a crowd of fools to play to - for being able to sit in office for 11 years without doing, well, anything much (okay, gst was a big reform. what else? tax cuts? wow, good work johnny) and be proclaimed a great leader. while keating reforms our economy, makes us strong, and looks to the future... and gets discarded for being "unaustralian"
scoobajunky 2 years ago 9
SS, all cultures on earth apart from australian aborigines and the maoris in NZ have been exposed to alcohol for 7,000 years. that it is such a deeply ingrained cultural icon makes it, i guess, less immediately devastating - though white people still behave disgracefully on alcohol all the time.
anyhow, your comments show why australia gets the govt's it does. if our populace is made up of people like you, we don't deserve visionary leaders like keating.
scoobajunky 2 years ago 2
im sorry if i offended your fascist views of the world but you have to face the fact that your a fucking moron and its because of people like you that there are so many things wrong with our world, and maybe you should get your facts right first and realise that im definitely not a liberal, but far from it, so just return to your neo nazis cult and piss off
BurnTheUnionJack 2 years ago
how dare you say such racist things when it is clearly apparent that a great injustice has been done to the aboriginal people and that it is the fault of the ignorance of people just like you that caused this injustice, so fu** you
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EarthRythm 2 years ago
You clearly know nothing of European politics and history and less of life in Australia.
Your attitude is not popular in this country, where most people of European origin want to form stronger bonds and mutual understanding with indigenous Australians. In friendship, we can move forward together in a way that respects culture and country so that everyone has a chance to live to their full potential. This is for the betterment of all.
Your view is shallow, thoughtless and good for no one.
EarthRythm 2 years ago 3
OrbitTime: comprised of 100% fail.
EarthRythm 2 years ago
SSbombout, you fail.
EarthRythm 2 years ago
Australians need to wake up , there is no treaty or contract signed with or for the Australian originals . As a matter of fact this land they call Australia is still being governed by British law . Watch Mark Mcmurtrie lessons in law 1,2,3 and British legal scam 1,2,3 there is colourful language used but the topic and Marks passion is proof enough for it to be taken very seriously.
stoptheshearing 2 years ago
nice speech but keating never said sorry. he had plenty of time after this speech too.
it took a long time for aboriginals to gain equal rights, but it also took a long struggle for gender equality and anti discrimination. we are an evolving world still learning. people need to be forgiven for past events and we should look towards a fair and equal society where no one is disadvantaged indigenous or not. we are lucky to be a democracy.
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Aboriginals are known for having a good heart, but they are so naive when it comes to complex concepts.
They are so easily swayed, and always toward something that offers them more for nothing.
They have a right to work on gaining a political edge but not at cost of society. They survived 40,000-50,000 years on their own they will be here a long time coming. So will we all, but perhaps they will learn to appreciate the benefits we have brought them and stop obeying propoganda.
Logicbeatslies 2 years ago 2
SSbombardment1488 would you say that to a blackfellas face you little motherfucker i wouldnt mind throwin a spear at you ya little racist bastard
triz95 2 years ago
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Look at Rudd and Swans forecasts from 6 months ago..totally wrong! Who said we are facing a Tsunami in November 2007 and not to vote for tried and true failures and fuckers of economies, that being the ALP..Peter Costello predicted this! Who left us with a set of KPI's the envy of the Western World in 2007..the Liberals..get down on your ungrateful fucking knee's Labor hacks and thank the Great John Howard for this brilliant position we are in to face this crisis! Will the ALP pay the Piper? NO.
nudenuts 3 years ago
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EarthRythm 2 years ago
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For failed Governments that lie, that pork barrel hard earned surplus. That Bullshit the Australian people that Howards inflation Genie "was out of the bottle" and gave Glenn Stevens the big thumbs up to raise rates three times last year to spin theIr anti Howard story .thank KEV, the legend in his own lunchtime..insecure KEV, ALL ABOUT STROKING HIS OWN EGO Time to tlk UP our position Kev,forget about Howards greatness, put Australia first! For failed Governments look no further than the ALP
nudenuts 3 years ago
What happened to traditional Conservative values like fiscal responsibility? Preserving the Constitution? Opposing big government? What happened to social conservatism?
What really conservatives still stand for? Opposing abortion, opposing gun control, opposing the environment, opposing civil rights, opposing homosexuality, opposing people with Islamic beliefs. You support religion in politics, support school prayer, support creationism and support military spending... But never serve.
bobhawks 3 years ago 2
Howard and Costello's 11-year tenure saw us squander the benefits of a mining boom in favour of electoral advantage through corporate and middle class welfare at the expense of much needed infrastructure to secure our economic prosperity. Now thanks to those morons we have inflationary pressures, lowered productivity levels, and are facing a recession in the near future.
backtobelmore 3 years ago
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Where of where do you pull this diatribe? Staright from fabian society newsletters handed out down at the Balmain basket weaving convention on Darling St by any chance? Thank God for the great Howard government, we may not even go into recession..you want to talk about failed Governments that lie.that promise infrastructure. Corrupt Goverments that speak with forked toungues,beholden to Union hacks and secret caucus deals that stack branches.spare us the spew from the Student Union hall Belmore
nudenuts 3 years ago
Thank God for the forward-thinking Rudd government, you're right we may not going into recession because of the course of action the PM has chosen to take. Remember Nudenuts, it does not matter how long it has taken to build a surplus a recession can wipe it out very quickly. It does not matter which party is in government at present either would have to adapt to the global economic downturn. The downturn did not originate here, but it will hurt us.