"Well You Wrote It!!"

THE LETTER PUBLISHED

"As you can imagine, most of the letters we're receiving are from the other point of view. So we want to include yours" Those were the words of the letters page editor before going on to tell me that the article did not say the elder had said the things I said he had. She also told me, with a disdainful tone, that I'd made up the part about the petrol sniffing! Obviously you can read it for yourself, and see that The Age has it's politically correct head so far up it's left leaning ass that one hand doesn't know what the other is thinking.

In fact it was my reading of the article that the Mulan people were in fact offended by the leftist city apologists who were defending their right not to "wash their children's faces." They appear to be saying that they do these things anyway and are glad of funding for things that are basic human behaviour. It is those who are saying they shouldn't have to be clean (by implication they aren't now and aren't capable) who they see as being unfair, and I happen to agree.

This is a letter that was greatly edited, with my consent because I wanted to see a sane voice published. I have had letters edited by the Herald. But this was the first time by The Age, so I am including the original email I submitted below.

Sir,

Your article is titled “Rules Unfair, Say Proud Mulan
People”. However, onreading the article it is not the people of Mulan who think
they are beingtreated unfairly, but out of touch white apologists in the
cities.

An Aboriginal elder, Mark Sewell, says his people are
mostly adhering tothe requirements already and they are just pleased to have
access tofinally have access to petrol. Mulan residents also like the fact that
thisadvantages a progressive community like themselves ahead of the
apparentlyless respectable town of Balgo.

It is people like the white Greens MP Robin Chapel who are
treating MrSewell’s people unfairly, by referring to them as though they were
notcapable of being clean, as though washing oneself is
somethingunreasonable.