AN UNLIKELY APOLOGY
Jun 30, 2011 6:04:55 GMT -5
Post by douglaslam on Jun 30, 2011 6:04:55 GMT -5
This morning, I heard an interview on radio on the subject of an official apology to the Chinese in Australia for past discrimination and wrong doing. The interviewee was Daphne Lowe-Kelley. Daphne is a friend of our member and regular contributor Geoff. Geoff, together with Henry, I have had the pleasure of meeting in December last year. Click on the following link or Google Daphne Lowe-Kelley
www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/chinese-australians-owed-apology-for-discrimination-against-forebears-20110629-1gr05.html
What is the likelihood of an apology ever coming to fruition? Buckley's, or in Aussies speak, bugger all . I am a keen follower of the national political scene. I can't see the case being prosecuted with any vigour. The ascendancy of right-wing politics and politicians, the shock jocks who rule talk-back radio, and the populist extreme biased newspaper columnists would ensure the apology is just a pipe dream.
There is no ground-swell movement to demand an apology as did in 2008 for the Stolen Generation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generation Or the 2009 apology to the Forgotten Generations. www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/16/2743381.htm I can't detect signs that the Chinese community is taking a proactive role. Least of all the large number of non-Cantonese speakers from outside of the Pearl River Delta who arrived in the last ten or fifteen years. They can't relate to or have scant knowledge of social history which the Chinese featured prominently in the White Australia Policy era.
www.smh.com.au/opinion/society-and-culture/chinese-australians-owed-apology-for-discrimination-against-forebears-20110629-1gr05.html
What is the likelihood of an apology ever coming to fruition? Buckley's, or in Aussies speak, bugger all . I am a keen follower of the national political scene. I can't see the case being prosecuted with any vigour. The ascendancy of right-wing politics and politicians, the shock jocks who rule talk-back radio, and the populist extreme biased newspaper columnists would ensure the apology is just a pipe dream.
There is no ground-swell movement to demand an apology as did in 2008 for the Stolen Generation. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stolen_Generation Or the 2009 apology to the Forgotten Generations. www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2009/11/16/2743381.htm I can't detect signs that the Chinese community is taking a proactive role. Least of all the large number of non-Cantonese speakers from outside of the Pearl River Delta who arrived in the last ten or fifteen years. They can't relate to or have scant knowledge of social history which the Chinese featured prominently in the White Australia Policy era.