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By Situation Theatre 4/12/2019
Setting aside every statement and action of Liberal Party leaders since it was founded in 1944, where on Earth these disgraceful young racist outliers learnt their racism is anybody’s guess.
Tony Abbott said,
"As we look around this glorious city, as we see the extraordinary development, it’s hard to think that back in 1788 it was nothing but bush."
Scott Morrison said,
"James Cook was a man before his time. He embodied the true spirit of the Enlightenment age."
"Against a backdrop of brutality and ignorance, he displayed an amazing empathy and respect for his own crew and the people and lands he visited. He should be revered as one of the most significant figures in our national history."
John Howard said,
“British settlement was undeniably very good for Australia.”
Tony Abbott said,
"I guess our country owes its existence to a form of foreign investment by the British government in the then-unsettled or scarcely settled great south land."
John Howard said,
"What has happened with Native Title is that the pendulum has swung too far in one direction, particularly after the Wik decision. What I have done with this legislation is bring it back to the middle.”
Tony Abbott said,
"What happened on the 26th of January 1788 was on balance, for everyone - Aboriginal people included - a good thing because it brought Western civilisation to this country, it brought Australia into the modern world.
John Howard said,
"We don’t think it’s appropriate for the current generation of Australians to apologise for the injustices committed by past generations.”
"I didn't accept the conclusion of the Bringing Them Home report that genocide had been practised against the Indigenous people."
“I didn’t believe genocide had taken place, and I still don’t.
Tony Abbott said,
“It was generally assumed that the sooner Aboriginal people disappeared into the rest of the Australian population, the better. It was a mild enough form of racism, but it was enough to justify a formal apology.”
John Howard said,
“In facing the realities of the past, we must not join those who would portray Australia's history since 1788 as little more than a disgraceful record of imperialism. Such an approach will be repudiated by the overwhelming majority of Australians who are proud of what this country has achieved although inevitably acknowledging the blemishes in its past history.
Tony Abbott said,
"What we can’t do is endlessly subsidise lifestyle choices if those lifestyle choices are not conducive to the kind of full participation in Australian society that everyone should have."
Scott Morrison said about the Northern Territory Intervention,
"The Australian community reached the point where there was universal recognition that previous efforts had failed, that it was time to take a new approach to provide an emergency response."
Tony Abbott said,
"A treaty is something that two nations make with each other, and obviously Aboriginal people are the first Australians, but in the end we're all Australians together, so I don't support a treaty."
Malcolm Turnbull, George Brandis and Nigel Scullion said about the Uluru Statement from the Heart,
"The Government does not believe such a radical change to our constitution's representative institutions has any realistic prospect of being supported by a majority of Australians in a majority of states."
“It would inevitably become seen as a third chamber of Parliament.”
Malcolm Turnbull said,
"You don't respect people by telling them what they want to hear or by kicking ideas you think have no merit off into the long grass or into a committee."
"You have got to be fair dinkum, you've got to be forthright.”
"We believe it is important to deliver recognition, but focus on things that are achievable."
John Howard said,
"I’m appalled by talk about a treaty, that will be so divisive and will fail."
"The Australian public will not be attracted to the idea of a country trying to make a treaty with itself. I think we overcomplicate these things."
Malcolm Turnbull said,
"Our view is that is not a model that is desirable and the reason for that is our national representative institutions are based on the proposition that they are open to every Australian."
"To have a national representative assembly — which is what we are talking about here — would be in the Constitution and to which only Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders can be elected."
"This is contrary to principles of equality and of citizenship."
Scott Morrison said,
I do not share the armband view of history, black or otherwise. I like my history in high-definition, widescreen, full, vibrant colour."
"We cannot allow a national obsession with our past failures to overwhelm our national appetite for celebrating our modern stories of nationhood."
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So where did these LNP boys learn their racism and white supremacy?
I guess we’ll never know.
