Paul Coe (centre)
Aboriginal activist Paul Coe, a disbarred lawyer, said yesterday “Either you respect us as a sovereign people or piss off out of our country.” Then, surrounded by little children, the group ceremoniously burnt the Australian flag, spat on it and a child wiped his feet on the ashes. I felt sorry for the kids, they didn’t have a clue what was going on but those images will remain with us forever, and no amount of back-pedalling or apology from other Aboriginal groups will make any difference, the damage was done.
Tony Hodges
Paul Coe doesn’t know it yet, but he’s only added to the resentment Australians already feel towards Aboriginal people, especially their ability to live out their entire lives on free handouts, never having to work a day in their lives.
“It’s not fair” people say, and it’s not. Why should a 60 year old widow have to keep applying for a certain amount of jobs to qualify for the NewStart benefit, when an Aboriginal person does not? Mr Coe has been knocking around with like-minded people for so long, he’s lost touch with reality and badly needs a wake-up call. This pillar of the community and example to the young was banned from practising law in 1997 for lying about his income, and was later found to have accepted money for offering legal advice.
Now we learn that Tony Hodges, a member of the PM’s staff, rang the tent embassy and told them that Tony Abbott wanted to close them down and that he was attending a function just down the road.
Aboriginal activist and former Greens candidate Barbara Shaw revealed she had been tipped off about Mr Abbott's comments and the location of the function and admitted to whipping up the tent embassy crowd gathered in front of Parliament House to celebrate its 40 year anniversary.
Barbara Shaw
Now the question needs to be asked – did Tony Hodges deliberately try to embarrass Tony Abbott and did the PM know about it?
No comments:
Post a Comment