SORRY...
AUSTRALIAN APOLOGY TO THE ABORIGINAL POPULATION
We apologise for giving you doctors and free medical care, which allows
you to survive and multiply so that you can demand apologies.
We apologise for helping you to read and teaching you the English
language
and thus we opened up to you the entire European civilisation, thought
and enterprise.
We feel that we must apologise for building hundreds of homes for you,
which you have vandalised and destroyed.
We apologise for giving you law and order which has helped prevent you
from slaughtering one another and using the unfortunate for food
purposes.
We apologise for developing large farms and properties, which today feed
you people, where before, you had the benefits of living off the land and
starving during droughts.
We apologise for providing you with warm clothing made of
fabric to replace that animal skins/dogs you used before.
We apologise for building roads and railway tracks between
cities and building cars so that you no longer have to walk over harsh
terrain.
We apologise for paying off your vehicle when you fail to pay
the instalments.
We apologise for giving you free travel anywhere, whenever.
We apologise for giving each and every member of your family
$100.00 and free travel to attend an aboriginal funeral.
We apologise for not charging you rent on any lands when white
people have to pay.
We apologise for giving you interest free loans.
We apologise for developing oil wells and minerals, including
gold and diamonds which you never used and had no idea of their value.
We apologise for developing Ayers rock and Kakadu, and handing
them over to you so that you get all the money.
We apologise for allowing taxpayers money paid towards
daughters' wedding ($8,000.00 each daughter)
We apologise for giving you $1.7 billion per year for your
250,000 people, which is $48,000.00 per aboriginal man, woman and child.
We apologise for working hard to pay taxes that finance your
welfare, medical care, education, etc to the tune of $1.2 billion each
year.
We apologise for you having to approach the aboriginal affairs department
to verify the above figures. For the trouble you will have identifying
the "uncle toms" in your own community who are getting richer
and leaving some of you living in squalor and poverty.
We do apologise. We really do.
We humbly beg your forgiveness for all the above sins.
We are only too happy to take back all the above and return you
to the paradise of the "outback", whenever you are ready.
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