Converting 60 day Visa to Retirement

[webfact]

Thousands march demanding change to Australia Day, citing aboriginal injustices

 

Aboriginal protesters hold signs as they demonstrate outside the Victorian State Parliament on Australia Day in Melbourne, Australia, January 26, 2017. AAP/Alex Murray/via REUTERS

 

SYDNEY (Reuters) - Thousands of Australians staged protest marches on Thursday demanding the date of Australia Day, Jan. 26, be changed as it celebrates the arrival of white settlement and the beginning of injustices suffered by the country's disadvantaged Aborigines.

 

Tens of thousands of people - many wearing the black, yellow and red colors of the aboriginal flag - gathered in Melbourne, The Age newspaper reported, while thousands more took to the streets of Sydney, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth.

 

For many Aborigines, who trace their lineage on the island continent back 50,000 years, Jan. 26 is "Invasion Day", the anniversary of the beginning of British colonisation of their lands and their brutal subjugation.

 

"I'm here to commemorate all the aboriginal people who were murdered during the first stage of settlement," protester Neville Scarlett told The Age.

 

While the rallies were mostly peaceful, in Sydney a 20-year-old man was arrested and a police officer and protester were injured, New South Wales state police said.

 

Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull said he did not support changing the date of Australia Day, which is celebrated as a public holiday with festivities from fireworks over Sydney Harbour and citizenship events to ancient aboriginal ceremonies.

 

"Everyone is entitled to a point of view but I think most Australians accept January 26 as Australia Day,” Turnbull told reporters in the national capital Canberra.

 

The protests come at a time when right-wing nationalist politics is on the rise in Australia, similar to the United States and Europe, and there is little political appetite to tackle aboriginal rights issue.

 

Aborigines only gained citizenship in 1967 and a vote on whether to recognise Aborigines in the constitution as the country's first people has been on hold for years.

 

Australia's 700,000 or so indigenous Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people still struggle with the impacts of colonisation and track near the bottom of the country's 23 million citizens in almost every economic and social indicator.

 

Aborigines face a 10-year gap in life expectancy compared with other Australians and make up 27 percent of the prison population, but are just three percent of the population.

 

(Reporting by Harry Pearl; Editing by Michael Perry)

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2017-01-26

[Katipo]

Even by colonial standards, Aborigines have suffered an unusual amount of hardship and degradation. I hope their grievances are sincerely addressed sooner rather than later.

[Ace of Pop]

Scotland wants recompense from those bloody Vikings ,Oh Dear ,How Sad ,Never Mind.


Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect

[Baerboxer]

4 hours ago, Ace of Pop said:

Scotland wants recompense from those bloody Vikings ,Oh Dear ,How Sad ,Never Mind.


Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect

 

Did those Vikings stay, kick the Scots of their land. Murder and rape, cull their children? Did those Vikings deny Scots citizenship in their own country until 1967? 

 

Your understanding is, er well, very sad, but you're not affected so never mind. Off to your bar stool now.

[Seismic]

Australia day is celebrating the nation. Without white settlement it would still not be a nation.

[Thechook]

They are whiter than me.  Anyway it was the fault of the British so why are modern day Australians still be harassed and blamed?  I don't have any English blood in me.  Those in the photo look like they have a fair amount of British ancestry.

[Ace of Pop]

Have any of you ever mixed woot th Black Fellas ,or are you just passing Lefty wind. Some do rather well ,some just get pissed all day.Same as Whites !!.


Sent from my iPhone using Thaivisa Connect

[thaibeachlovers]

If it was suggested that all those thousands could recompense the Aborigines by giving them their bit of land, I doubt we would be getting many takers. 

As usual, it's all about getting someone else to to the paying.