tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post6948474863673933631..comments2023-11-03T00:06:36.875+11:00Comments on Bunyipitude: Stolen, or just having a lend?Bunyiphttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14668398379654771814noreply@blogger.comBlogger17125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-15879049082606957852013-06-10T00:10:41.632+10:002013-06-10T00:10:41.632+10:00One of my proudest possessions -- One earned and b...One of my proudest possessions -- One earned and bloody-well deserved! <br /><br />(As by every other mature, thinking, American and/or Australian I've ever known!) <br /><br />CERTIFICATE OF ABSOLUTION <br /> <br />Hereby Issued to <br /><br />BRIAN RICHARD ALLEN <br /><br />This certificate, in perpetuity releases the above named individual from <br /><br />White Guilt <br /><br />Being either self-inflicted or by association with American tradition, culture, institution or opinion. <br /><br />Further, the certificate bearer is forthwith authorized to exclusively judge every person not by the color of his skin, but rather by the content of his character. <br /><br />[ORIGINAL SIGNED BY KEN HAMBLIN] <br /><br />Made valid upon due endorsement by Ken Hamblin, a.k.a "The Black Avenger" or any other other thinking black American<br />Brian Richard Allenhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01201975347377165938noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-19869232802585804072013-06-09T17:51:15.946+10:002013-06-09T17:51:15.946+10:00I note too, that lately Burney's previous some...I note too, that lately Burney's previous somewhat more ethnic attire has been ditched in favour of a much smarter, dare I say more cosmopolitan look.blogstropnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-73226956595694641822013-06-08T20:04:25.727+10:002013-06-08T20:04:25.727+10:00Any man who gets a look like the one Yvonne gives ...Any man who gets a look like the one Yvonne gives Roger in the NY Times article would have to be one of the luckiest people on the planet.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-38969913259474210942013-06-08T18:56:45.219+10:002013-06-08T18:56:45.219+10:00What I'm curious about is this: If it is so un...What I'm curious about is this: If it is so unconscionable and against culture to rescue the neglected petrol-sniffing young kids by sending them to white families too eager to adopt them, where are the well-to-do Aboriginal families leaoing to adopt them and give them a chance?<br />Why isn't the indigenous cultural conclave hastening to protect their own from the sad degradation and misery of their brothers' children?<br />If the "culture" matters so much, why aren't they rescuing the children of that culture? Or are they *gasp* as sincere as Arabs who keep Palestinians in refugee camps rather than assimilating them into Lewbanon, Saudi Arabia, Kuawit, Jordan etc?<br />Cos it looks like it!<br /><br />This is no way meant to disparage those Aboriginal women in the NT who do labour to do something about their towns and kids, but they can only do so much. (I refer to many town leaders who endeavour to keep alcohol and other posions out of their townships.)Jillnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-18547681657690704392013-06-07T14:09:05.756+10:002013-06-07T14:09:05.756+10:00Her scripted question-avoiding answer, and act of ...Her scripted question-avoiding answer, and act of law which happened to be in her back pocket, give us a clue as to how impromptu the questions are i.e. not at all.<br /><br />I recall another episode where an answer didn't align with the question and allusion was made to the run-down sheet.DaveAnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-40800337048545459552013-06-07T11:18:46.531+10:002013-06-07T11:18:46.531+10:00Met plenty of kooris.
About the only tradition th...Met plenty of kooris.<br /><br />About the only tradition they had about naming the dead was to make sure you toasted them with a frosty cold refreshing beverage whilst doing so.<br /><br />I like this tradition. I demand that the ABC/SBS promote it.Jamesnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-9176154292395438272013-06-06T17:57:56.452+10:002013-06-06T17:57:56.452+10:00Yes, 'casual racism' does sound a bit vagu...Yes, 'casual racism' does sound a bit vague. Am I wrong to think of it as paying a compliment to Australia? At least it doesn't sound nearly as bad as 'formal racism'.<br /><br />Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-70091094904998944922013-06-06T15:59:12.652+10:002013-06-06T15:59:12.652+10:00I lived vfor some years at an Aboriginal settlemen...I lived vfor some years at an Aboriginal settlement on the Murray here in South Australia. Funerals were very common, I went to probably a hundred or so. I used to be very careful not to mention the names of those who had passed away, but the old ladies seemed to have no trouble, even with their own late husbands' names. So, maybe like the racist rubbish about Aboriginal people not looking you in the eye, etc., this is not much more than, at best, a garbled remembrance of something that might have been the case a long time ago and, at worst, rubbish.<br /><br />Certainly back in the 1800s, on one Mission, names were not spoken and even words which were similar had to be changed - say if 'James' had died, then people would get upset if words like 'flames' or 'blame' were used. But that was then, a long time ago, and this is now. It may still be the case up in Arnhem land but let's not pretend that it is a dominant notion in settled areas.<br /><br />Old Yobbo Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17491730069762271895noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-80770751026598865492013-06-06T08:31:51.131+10:002013-06-06T08:31:51.131+10:00My thoughts exactly, Bill. Well 'obiturised...My thoughts exactly, Bill. Well 'obiturised'. <br />Or, maybe, no public mention/recognition at all.Ian Georgenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-25972732546773980512013-06-06T08:22:33.275+10:002013-06-06T08:22:33.275+10:00I have been to many aboriginal funerals,the last t...I have been to many aboriginal funerals,the last two years ago,some go for the no name approach, most don't,the traditional aboriginals however have sorry business which requires the women to hit themselves violently on the head with a jagged rock they do real damage and lots of blood and scarring result,I have never seen anyone other than a fullblood participate, indeed in my area the aborigines refer to the part aborigines as yella fellows.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-47882277675923526772013-06-06T07:27:29.490+10:002013-06-06T07:27:29.490+10:00The Aboriginal Industry wants but two things-reven...The Aboriginal Industry wants but two things-revenge and money and will not stop until they have both. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-73686735617624548462013-06-05T23:40:33.095+10:002013-06-05T23:40:33.095+10:00A biting piece of Bunyip, Professor, displaying an...A biting piece of Bunyip, Professor, displaying an anthropological flair for genealogical analysis and its historical social concomitants, as well as providing your useful Notes and Queries submission on totemism as Art in an Age of Mechanical Reproduction. Surely Professor this N & Q piece alludes gently to the seminal semiotic work of the luvvies' fave thirties theorist Walter Benjamin? Your distinguished academic field of Etruscan Semiotics, fully turgid as your exemplar images certainly demonstrated, were very nearly seminal too, as I recall. Thus how pleasing it is to see that have not lost your scholarly touch and can inflect and allude in their own referential circles with the best of our ARC winners.<br /><br />Ah Professor, if, due to our shared pallid comprehension, we should ever end up in an enforced and re-educational stroll together along the byways of lambent shame due to an interlocutor's unfortunately ambient capacity for indignation (see how easy it is for your words to become mine!), we should share a Thesaurus under the arc of a bough, scattering synonyms and antonyms playfully at each other with an abandon that in another age would have been gay, but let us now just agree on cheerful.<br /><br />Cheers, Prof.<br /><br /><br /><br />Elizabeth (Lizzie) B.noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-37900489936623505362013-06-05T19:55:27.406+10:002013-06-05T19:55:27.406+10:00Culturally sensitive obituary:
That bloke died th...Culturally sensitive obituary:<br /><br />That bloke died the other day. You know - that music bloke. Looked like - well, some bloke. He was 56.Bill Thompsonnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-80159194557729490302013-06-05T16:01:01.995+10:002013-06-05T16:01:01.995+10:00Here's a question from a probable casual racis...Here's a question from a probable casual racist (well, maybe just casual).<br /><br />What happens when an Anglo/Celtic ancestor dies? Is it permitted to talk about him/her, or does the prohibition just apply to indigenous ancestors?<br /><br />Also, were buynyips here prior to the aborigines? If so, should aborigines say sorry to the bunyips, and give them their land-rights?<br /><br />There's no point in stamping out racism unless we also address the issues of speciesism. Let us acknowledge the bunyips too in the Constitution.old blokenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-70058039880835202122013-06-05T15:45:51.521+10:002013-06-05T15:45:51.521+10:00does the Rainbow Serpent prey on Rainbow Numbats? ...does the Rainbow Serpent prey on Rainbow Numbats? No Bunyip it doesn't but it does like a Rainbow Bilby, especially at Easter.Davidnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-83984398293739664872013-06-05T15:08:06.110+10:002013-06-05T15:08:06.110+10:00Isn't it curious that all our prosperous, inde...Isn't it curious that all our prosperous, indeed thriving, Aboriginal administrators and activists seem to be of the "stolen generation"? It's almost as if those who got stolen did well, very well, and those who weren't stolen have struggled or suffered. Even more perverse, the thriving stolen ones have made a public cultural fetish out of pining for their lost romanticised childhoods while those who weren't stolen despair of their hopeless misery out on the homelands of their childhoods.<br /><br />Pedro of Adelaide Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14457232127152238.post-60862007055934263932013-06-05T13:55:27.155+10:002013-06-05T13:55:27.155+10:00A self-fulfilling prophecy and a great financial i...A self-fulfilling prophecy and a great financial incentive when you think about it.<br /><br />You are white therefore you are racist therefore you are guilty therefore you must pay therefore you cannot question me because that would make you racist.Defence Mattershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15166113509227612529noreply@blogger.com