Comments on: Commonwealth? More like stolen wealth http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/03/10/commonwealth-more-like-stolen-wealth/ hopping along the corridors of power Thu, 04 Dec 2008 17:59:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.3 By: munter http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/03/10/commonwealth-more-like-stolen-wealth/#comment-11832 munter Wed, 15 Mar 2006 22:42:50 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/03/10/commonwealth-more-like-stolen-wealth/#comment-11832 nice articles and links nice articles and links

]]> By: katie http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/03/10/commonwealth-more-like-stolen-wealth/#comment-11831 katie Wed, 15 Mar 2006 19:49:05 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/03/10/commonwealth-more-like-stolen-wealth/#comment-11831 Go Rayna! Great article, and highly synchronistic as my son is doing a project on the Games at school, right this week. Not sure if this will motivate him to add some new info to the "mainstream" slant school is expecting, but I'll offer your POV for him to see. Big hugs from this side of the ditch, KT Go Rayna!
Great article, and highly synchronistic as my son is doing a project on the Games at school, right this week. Not sure if this will motivate him to add some new info to the “mainstream” slant school is expecting, but I’ll offer your POV for him to see.
Big hugs from this side of the ditch, KT

]]> By: niutim http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/03/10/commonwealth-more-like-stolen-wealth/#comment-11761 niutim Thu, 09 Mar 2006 23:13:46 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/03/10/commonwealth-more-like-stolen-wealth/#comment-11761 I once have met an Australian guy that told me how the Aboriginal people reacted to the English settlers arriving on their land. "Imagine a space-ship landing here now: would you just look at it and keep on making your wood carvings and all, like they did?" I asked if that indifferent reaction to the European aliens justified their genocide. I still haven't got any answer. I once have met an Australian guy that told me how the Aboriginal people reacted to the English settlers arriving on their land.
“Imagine a space-ship landing here now: would you just look at it and keep on making your wood carvings and all, like they did?”
I asked if that indifferent reaction to the European aliens justified their genocide.
I still haven’t got any answer.

]]> By: eredwen http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/03/10/commonwealth-more-like-stolen-wealth/#comment-11760 eredwen Thu, 09 Mar 2006 22:10:00 +0000 http://blog.greens.org.nz/2006/03/10/commonwealth-more-like-stolen-wealth/#comment-11760 Great stuff Rayna! I taught in a girls' secondary school in Sydney (1970/1) and was very disturbed by the attitudes towards Aboriginal Australians in the general community then, and by the quiet demenor of the very few Aboriginal girls in the school. These girls were willing to talk privately to a Kiwi teacher who asked questions, but generally said nothing. (In contrast, girls of new-migrant Asian origin were confident and therefore "included".) Having only "passed through" Australia since then I gained the impression that among the current young generation more confidence and pride are evident but there is still a long way to go ... Great stuff Rayna!

I taught in a girls’ secondary school in Sydney (1970/1) and was very disturbed by the attitudes towards Aboriginal Australians in the general community then, and by the quiet demenor of the very few Aboriginal girls in the school. These girls were willing to talk privately to a Kiwi teacher who asked questions, but generally said nothing. (In contrast, girls of new-migrant Asian origin were confident and therefore “included”.)

Having only “passed through” Australia since then I gained the impression that among the current young generation more confidence and pride are evident but there is still a long way to go …

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