I think Australia needs to have an honest national discussion on this topic. My hat is off to Abbott for starting this discussion.
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But Mr Abbott’s outdoor sojourn was no ordinary camping trip. In an unprecedented act by an Australian prime minister, he was trying to remove what he sees as an enduring stain on the national character: the unjust treatment of the Aborigines, that dates back to the earliest British settlers.
Out in the Bush Abbott attacks Britain s Aboriginal sins - Telegraph
YOU SIR ARE AND IDIOT because of your total IGNORANCE.....when the Liberals(Conservative Party) were last in power the Liberals during a meeting on Aboriginal Reconciliaton...........REFUSED TO SAY SORRY TO THE ABORIGINALS for White Australia's past ......... Sitting beside the then Prime Minister was your Hero Tony Abbott......so enraged were the Aboriginals that they turned their collective backs to Howard,Abbott and the rest of the Liberals,and so did other Australians at this meeting...so disgusted they all were.
A true and honest Apology came a couple of years later after the Liberals were thrown out of Government....by the Socialist Labour Government.
So "The Honest and National Discussion on this Topic of Aboriginal Reconciliation" has been done.
You and Vik are merely ignorant Republicans,lounging around in some haze.....you know nothing of Australia or Australians,that is abundantly clear........you should spend time now.......assisting the reconciliation of Native Americans and Afro Americans for your disgraceful treatment,noting you were LYNCHING Black people in the middle 1900's.
As a nation we are well aware of our past and Ironically for you mugs,it was Conservatives more than everyone who completely repressed Aboriginals...only allowing them the VOTE as late as the MID-SIXTIES.
As for Tony Abbott...........Most of the population have no Respect for him and Dislike him....as they should