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Thread #89754 Message #2263692
Posted By: GUEST,Walkaboutsverse
16-Feb-08 - 06:20 AM
Thread Name: Walkaboutsverse
Subject: RE: Walkaboutsverse
Last week, the new PM of Australia, Kevin Rudd, made a formal apolgy to Aborigines, hence I post this poem...
Poem 76 of 230: LAND RIGHTS
If there is a good thing
From the Second World War
It's that most peoples learnt
To conquer lands no more.
In Africa, Asia,
And the Pacific, too:
Post-war independence -
Steps only bigots rue.
But for some indigenes,
Outnumbered much-too-much,
It has all come too late
For liberty, as such.
So 'tis in Australia,
And America's sites,
Where the best now, I think,
Is to respect land rights.
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