Australian Prime Minister Escorted From Riot

"Australian Prime Minister Julia Gillard stumbled and was caught by a security guard as riot police helped her force a path through a crowd of rowdy protesters following a ceremony to mark Australia’s national day Thursday."

Opposition leader Tony Abbott stated, "Look, I can understand why the Tent Embassy was established all those years ago. I think a lot has changed for the better since then" it is time to move on.

“What Tony Abbott said was disgraceful. Our people are living in awful third world conditions, they’re dying and this government just continues to turn a blind eye to it.”

"Activist Sean Gordon told the ABC, "We have no economic base for who we are as Aboriginal people. We have title to land we aren't able to do anything with. How have we moved on?"

Aboriginal activists from the embassy are demanding the Prime Minister sign a treaty of sovereignty granting ownership of Australian land to its indigenous peoples.

http://edition.cnn.com/2012/01/26/world/australia-protests/?hpt=ias_c2
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world...y-protesters/2012/01/26/gIQAnOW7RQ_story.html

 

not much of a riot, but anywho-if those self hating whities are so upset, why don't they leave Oz?

 

It wasn't much of a riot - no-one was even charged! Jules actually came out of this looking pretty good:- for a start it was triggered by an insensitive comment from the opposition leader (hello! Next time just hand votes over) and then she was magnanimous in her response

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2012-01-26/gillard-27fine27-after-riot-rescue/3795354

 

I know who started it and why, but is what the "protesters" are asking for is reasonable?

 

It has been about 20 years now since the Mabo decision where native title was granted and there is still vast areas of Australia under dispute with very few areas that have been granted title. The only ones who really won out from the Mabo decision were the lawyers

 

Thank you Bowerbird....I think I will look closer at this issue.

 

No story here, except the Aboriginal gathering turned into a violant harrassment and pursuit. I read they were banging and yelling through windows of the joint where Julia and Tony were attending. Julia gets a taste of how it feels to be the victim of the loony left finally. Abbott's comments were not insensitive, they were merely contrary to the wishes of that particular gathering, and he didnt say it at the gathering - so its just another self-inciting mob rules over-reaction, which is so commonly how riots start - 5% fact 95% incitment.

 

To condone the actions of these grubby protestors, is to try to drag us back into the mob rule of the dark ages. These cowardly low lives desreve long senetences with hard labour.

 

The bullying "in your face" tactics of the protesters did not do their cause any favours...

 

...most peaceful gatherings don't achieve anything anymore in nowadays time, it might well be that this action left more of an impression for their course.
However, the timing and event was wrong imho.
But hey, it was extremly unaccepting for our supreme true blue white Aussie culture, wasn't it? Those Abos can't do that? What is the world thinking about us now? Have we lost credit for our society, which is fault free to say the least?

 

These protesters banged on some glass windows and shouted some abuse and profanities at Abbott and Gillard, but they didn’t really do anything serious or threatening.

Gillard, Abbott and the security mod just panicked like a bunch of scared and frightened little school girls.

Gillard & Abbott were in NO immediate danger, and this had been another really bad media concocted “beat-up” to sell a story and papers.

You would think that Australians would understand by now how manipulative and untruthful politicians and the media can be, especially when they want the public to feel empathy for politicians they don’t like or trust.

FFS Aussies, wake up and smell the roses.

I have no sympathy or empathy for Gillard or Abbott.

 

I didnt see any "panic", sounds like you are the one attempting to manipulate this story.

 

It sounds like the golden age has arrived for the heroic high lives to build Soviet-style labour camps for the "cowardly low lives" in Australia.

 

So to compare this where the sole adverse outcome was a lost shoe, with say the Cronulla riots - well, obviously they are in the same league!!!

 

The position of PM should be respected. To compare a reaction by people sick of being on the receiving of intimidation and thuggery from muslim imigrants and their offspring, to harrasing the PM, is a long stretch at best.

 

Bad behaviour is bad behaviour end of story

No one was even charged, so how "violent" were they?

 

Bad behaviour is bad behaviour end of story

No one was even charged, so how "violent" were they?

 

How would you like people on your property bashing at your windows and trying to get in doors - you'd ring the Police, and if it was a couple of individuals they'd be booked, but riots are different. The reason Police usually do not lay charges in riots is because its an escalation they try to avoid. It does not mean the riot was low key or peaceful necassarily. the easiest and quickest way to de-escalate (is that a word!?) the riot was to remove the targets of the riot - and it worked.

 

They`re Aborigines.

 

Try and charge them and watch them all jump up and down and cry racism.
If this happened in the US, they would have been shot.

 

Which sums it up and explains the overreaction.

That said, tear down their silly humpies, its about time they got the hell over the events of the past.

 

As much as i loathe Gillard this was not the way to go about it.

Save it for the next election at least for Abbott in this case.

FAIL

 

The way forward for Aborigines, is to drop the howling victim mentality, and face up to life. Many Aborigines have done this, and are doing it now, but we only see the losers on news items, they make the most noise.

 

PMSL, @ the leak revealing MRabbott`s whereabouts came from MZZZ Lizzard`s office. Guess that little trick backfired.

Hey , did you see where whoever found julia`s lost shoe put it on eBay & didn`t get a bid? Who`d want THAT??????????????

 

Show's how the ALP think. They learn that sort of stuff in the union movement.

Perhaps it should be the ALLP, the Australian Lie and Line Party - they lie to people with one hand, and with the other line their own pockets.

So is it that basically the ALP incited the riot to confront Mr Abbott at the venue? Gee that sounds rotten if its true.

Then of course being the hopeless morons the ALP are, they even did that badly and they had to be evacuated by the under prepared security arrangements at the venue. LOL

I agree with Mr Pyne;
"The AFP needs to establish to whom the Leader of the Opposition's schedule was released and to what purpose, and who else knew before that happened,"

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