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Dale61
You can't have manslaughter without laughter.
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... for the first compo claim to be prepared.
http://www.news.com.au/story/0,23599,23216951-2,00.html
| Quote: | | UP to 40 indigenous Australians are preparing compensation claims against the Victorian Government following this week's official apology to the Stolen Generations. |
Will there be enough money to cover all the other claims that will come in?
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Dave The Man 
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Hope He Does Not get it 
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spoljar 
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I actually believe they have the right to sue for compensation. After, all indigenous people are no different to anyone in society in that we would all sue to receive compensation for physical and emotional issues, be it a car accident or getting abused by an employer for example.
My concern is will the money actually make life better or worse for the majority of indigenous people if they each receive it as compensation as a lump sum? |
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Dave The Man
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Location: Someville, Victoria, Australia
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| spoljar wrote: | I actually believe they have the right to sue for compensation. After, all indigenous people are no different to anyone in society in that we would all sue to receive compensation for physical and emotional issues, be it a car accident or getting abused by an employer for example.
My concern is will the money actually make life better or worse for the majority of indigenous people if they each receive it as compensation as a lump sum? |
They will just use it on Boo's
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the hypotenuse, is always a cakewalk
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Tough to make any judgement on this one.
On the one hand I believe they have every right to sue for compensation, just as others have for being wrongly done by.
On the other hand I don't believe any amount of money could compensate for emotional torment.
And Dave, that's a pretty narrowminded and disgraceful comment mate. After all, it's the white man's poison which has destroyed a lot of their lives. They never asked for it.
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| Dave The Man wrote: | | Hope He Does Not get it |
Would you not want money if it were found that you were stolen from your folks and never be allowed to see them again?
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member34258
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Reading the linked article.
| Quote: | | Fellow Victorian Bruce Trevorrow won $775,000 when a South Australian court ruled his removal from his family caused long-term depression. |
So it really is not "the first compo claim" is it? |
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Dale61
You can't have manslaughter without laughter.
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The first for Victoria, then yes it is.
The first since Sorry Day, then yes.
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member34258
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| Dale61 wrote: | The first for Victoria, then yes it is.
The first since Sorry Day, then yes. |
Again, reading from the quoted link.
| Quote: | Aboriginal Affairs minister Richard Wynne said the Victorian Parliament had already apologised to the stolen generations.
"No compensation has flowed from this," spokesman Ben Ruse said. |
There have been plenty of cases up before courts all over Australia on this issue well before the Sorry Day speech.
In all cases the courts have to decide if there is a case to answer. I expect any fair thinking judge would agree that there is.
These cases may now come to a head due to the Sorry Day apology. That is not a bad thing. |
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Alec. J. Hidell
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Idiot
The claim was first prepared over a year ago.
Do you honestly think a claim for compensation can be fully prepared, a senior council briefed and filed in Court all within 2 days?
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nomadjack
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| Are you worried that the compensation claims are going to eat up all the welfare revenue and there won't be enough left over for you, you pair of useless bigoted pissants. |
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HAL
Please don't shout at me - I can't help it.
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| Frank Stone wrote: | Idiot
The claim was first prepared over a year ago.
Do you honestly think a claim for compensation can be fully prepared, a senior council briefed and filed in Court all within 2 days? |
Some of them can. |
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Dale61
You can't have manslaughter without laughter.
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I don't have a problem with the compo claims.
I'm more surprised that it wasn't first reported on Thursday.
BTW, my Grandfather's Great Grandmother was part aboriginal.
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Bucks5 
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This was in Wednesday's paper (The Age)
http://www.theage.com.au/news/national/push-for-sorry-cash/2008/02/13/1202760380240.html
Leaders push for 'sorry' compensation
February 13, 2008 - 5:05PM
Aboriginal leader Patrick Dodson has urged the Federal Government to follow today's apology with compensation for the stolen generations.
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