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Re: Correct version of Australia’s history
Reply #495 - Jul 23^rd, 2018 at 9:37am

red baron wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2018 at 9:16am:

I Disapprove of everything you say but I will Defend to the Death your right to say it

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Evelyn Beatrice Hall (28 September 1868 – 13 April 1956),[1][2][3][Note 1] who wrote under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre, was an English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire entitled The Life of Voltaire, first published in 1903. She also wrote The Friends of Voltaire, which she completed in 1906.

In The Friends of Voltaire, Hall wrote the phrase: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"[4] (which is often misattributed to Voltaire himself) as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs.[5][6][7] Hall's quotation is often cited to describe the principle of freedom of speech.

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Re: Correct version of Australia’s history
Reply #496 - Jul 23^rd, 2018 at 10:40am

Aussie wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2018 at 9:37am:

red baron wrote on Jul 23^rd, 2018 at 9:16am:

I Disapprove of everything you say but I will Defend to the Death your right to say it

Voltaire

Wrong.

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Evelyn Beatrice Hall (28 September 1868 – 13 April 1956),[1][2][3][Note 1] who wrote under the pseudonym S. G. Tallentyre, was an English writer best known for her biography of Voltaire entitled The Life of Voltaire, first published in 1903. She also wrote The Friends of Voltaire, which she completed in 1906.

In The Friends of Voltaire, Hall wrote the phrase: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"[4] (which is often misattributed to Voltaire himself) as an illustration of Voltaire's beliefs.[5][6][7] Hall's quotation is often cited to describe the principle of freedom of speech.

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GROW THE bugger UP!..........are you so bloody desperate to counter everything anybody says by correcting all the time?

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Re: Correct version of Australia’s history
Reply #498 - Jul 23^rd, 2018 at 12:45pm

Valkie wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2018 at 9:23am:

Gnads wrote on Jul 22^nd, 2018 at 9:08am:

Fair go Fuzzball

a cyclone/storm had gone through in those shots.

Rubbish.

I have been to several remote communities.
They are let to go to rack and ruin by the aboriginal tennants.
When it gets cold they tear up the floor boards to use as fire wood.
Few houses have functional doors.

We (taxpaying) Australians pay through the nose to build these houses.
Only to see them destroyed in a few years.

And it's not only the remote communities.
Look at any housing estate where our aboriginal brethren live
The places are a mess.
I dare you, I double dare you to go to Purfleet, just outside of Taree.
Or even The Kempsy Aboriginal settlements, that we pay for.

They see these houses as a right, the demand that we build, maintain and repair the damage they do.

There are some who do look after their properties, but these are the few, not the majority.

This mentality of privilege, not charity, is destroying both the Aboriginal culture and the Australian people's opinion of them.

One rule for all, no specialist entitlements just because you are black.
And a requirement to contribute would do far more good than harm to the Aboriginal people.

This happened just last week. I dropped in to see my cuz who lives on the mid north coast. He's an accountant and around tax time donates his time to do free tax returns for disadvantaged people.

One guy brought all his docs in (Centerlink payment forms) and demanded a tax refund for the figure on the top of the form. He politely explained that figure was paid to him in benefits.

The guy went off and told him his 'brudda' told him that's how much the 'gubberment' owed him and accused my cuz of trying to steal his refund. He said if he doesn't get his refund he'd bring his 'brudders' to town and beat him up.

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