Bit rich for we Aussies to complain about ‘foreign invaders’

I FIND it amusing that Debra Gibson ( TB, 5/1) is overly concerned that major Chinese investments and their massive property deals on Aussie soil is a reality.

If it wasn’t the Chinese acquiring large tracts of “once was Aboriginal land” it could have been the Koreans, Russians or any other cashed up Middle Eastern investors who would have done likewise.

One must strike while the iron is hot, Ms Gibson. How do you reckon the First Australians felt when they witnessed “foreign invaders” on their shoreline more than 200 years ago?

Aboriginal Australia was claimed and is being sold under false pretence.

Stealing someone else’s property and then re-selling is a crime.

In fact, foreign investments are the wheels and cogs that make our “lucky country” even luckier ... although not necessarily for the First Australians who are still coming last in relation to most aspects of national progress.

Australia too was “built on the back of slaves” until Aborigines were granted full citizenship rights in their own ancestral country.

Mining magnates are laughing all the way to the jolly bank while Third World conditions for First Australians still exist in remote areas.

“We are one, yet we are many” is a fallacious tune ... but I’m betting that you sing it with gusto, Ms Gibson.

Colonial settlers also saw the massive potential for the monetary value of someone else’s land when they invaded.

They wanted “our” ancestral land and they got it by sheer stealth, armed invasions and countless Aboriginal massacres across “our” country.

Descendants of these early settlers today still practice and possess the very same greed for more money.

Ms Gibson, just where does Advance Australia Fair fit into the “fair go” saying?

The destruction of once pristine land for use by foreign investors is nothing new.

Aussies have been senselessly destroying vegetation for their families’ future security since their unwelcome arrival more than 200 years ago.

When have Aborigines ever been presented with a sound and secure future, Ms Gibson?

“We are one, yet we are many” simply doesn’t have any credence in relation to land ownership.

Selling off “our” country is a bloody international joke because it was never yours or anyone else’s to honestly sell in the very first place. CORALIE CASSIDY

Kirwan