Paul Keating - The Redfern Address - Australian Labor Party

On December 10, 1992. The Hon. Paul Keating Prime Minister of Australia gave the following address to launch the International Year of the World's Indigenous People. This speech was recently voted as the most important speech ever given in Australia.

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[MrKommodius]

Simply the finest speech ever made in this country.

If only we had the empathy, conscience and courage to act upon it.

[Costign]

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"

[iDJMIXTRESS]

thumbs up if you are watching this on Australia Day :D

[divideandmultiply]

@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.

[Boxfox22222]

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.

[takadi]

@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]

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.

[divideandmultiply]

@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]

@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.

[takadi]

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

[divideandmultiply]

@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.