How about you let Professor O'Donohue tell the story herself:
http://www.reportage.uts.edu.au/stories/2001/Jun01/lowitja.html
"am now aware that the interview was part of wider agenda - orchestrated by those who want to deny that any violation occurred to our people. " and
"And therefore of course, he and his ilk deny the legitimacy of any attempt to achieve justice - or any change to the status quo" and
"However, as I have recently experienced - the power of the media cannot be underestimated.It feeds people’s prejudice and in turn, politicians adopt this prejudice as ‘the view of the people’.It is a vicious cycle where ignorance and misinformation become accepted as truth" and
"Andrew Bolt for example, seems to think that the definition of stolen applies only where children were snatched, put on to trucks and driven off — with their distraught Aboriginal mothers screaming and wailing after them. (And even in these circumstances it is still often argued that it was for their own good.)
This was the scenario for many hundreds of people.
And I know that many people here today experienced such trauma. And for all I know, it could even have happened to me.
But it was not the only way that children were taken" and
"You may have noticed that in the last few moments I have used the words: stolen, removed and taken. They are all appropriate words to use, depending on the context." and
"Certainly from the point of view of Aboriginal parents - stolen describes precisely what happened.
"From my own mother’s point of view, she would have had no legal recourse. She would have had no moral support and no understanding that she might never see her children again. And no assurance that her children would all be together" and
"Most of the children had no idea of what was going on, or why their lives were suddenly so drastically changed. As people here know, the trauma and tragedy of this is well reported in the Bringing Them Home Report" and
"Whether the children were forcibly removed by the authorities, or whether parents were harassed or encouraged by force of circumstances to surrender their children, is largely irrelevant" and
"I have consistently argued that we cannot, as many senior politicians attempt to do, simply see these atrocities as something that happened way back in our past." and
Our people live with the consequences of invasion and white fellas’ rules every day of our lives.
It is felt in the day to day racism that we experience.
It is deeply embedded in structural ways within the systems of society.
It is felt in the ongoing assumptions of white superiority.
It is felt in the shattered connections with family and culture and land.
It is felt in the hardship that our people suffer in every sphere — whether in health, housing, education, or employment.
It is felt powerfully in economic disadvantage.
It is demonstrated in the lack of political representation at all levels of government.
And, it continues to be felt in terms of what is currently happening to our young people, many of whom are still being removed in a variety of ways. (my emphasis)
Clearly Professor O'Donohue doesn't share the view of her past that you clowns have managed to put together from your (admittedly limited) resources.
There are some facts and reality for you.
You people cry crocodile tears when you whinge about being called racist. You exult in the term. You revel in the term. You certainly live it and embrace it.
with abuse, trying to get the thread locked.
