NorthOfNorth wrote on Nov 16
th, 2009 at 6:54pm:
athos wrote on Nov 16
th, 2009 at 6:34pm:
NorthOfNorth wrote on Nov 16
th, 2009 at 9:14am:
Quote:The Federal Government says today's national apology to the Forgotten Australians and former child migrants marks a significant step forward in the healing process.
Children were sent to Australia, Canada and New Zealand. Many were taken from their families with the promise of a better life, only to end up in orphanages and institutions.
They were physically and sexually abused, or made to work as farm labourers.
Maybe slavery persisted in the West after the American Civil War.
Apology for 500,000 Forgotten Australians Just curiosity;
Why Australians should always apologize for the crimes done by British? The Queen hasn't Apologized to anyone, neither to Aborigines nor to British children who were sent by her government as slaves in Australia.
As I understand this is suppose to be strictly Pome business, what does it have to do with Kevin Rudd and Australian tax payers?
Let British tax payers to pay compensation for the crimes done by their Queen and her governments.
The Australian Governments of the day between 1920 and the 1960s conspired with British Governments to populate the empire with white stock. They did so by abducting children from poor parts of working class Britain and sending them as 'orphans' to Australia where many were used as slave labour and phsyically and sexually abused.
Gordon Brown, the British Prime Minister plans to make a formal apology on behalf of the British Government early in the new year.
You know what. What you’ve just said is just another Pome deceit. When it happened Australia was British colony (with British Queen as a head of Australian state) and Australian people didn’t have any say in that matter.
Those people were simply adolescent refugees expelled from Britain by their non democratic authoritarian monarch Queen of England who was and still is head of Australian state.
Does it mean that Australians should pay compensation and apologise to refugee’s children from Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan and other countries who were also forcefully expelled by their non democratic regimes.
This was a crime of Queen of England and her government and she should apologise and pay for what she and her government did to those poor kids and Australian Aborigines.
By the way she also in the same way expelled Maltese children and non talks and apologies to them http://www.timesofmalta.com/articles/view/20090901/local/maltese-child-migrants-to-get-australian-apology.
Finally why Poms always have to have special privileged status in Australia?