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An Anglican theologian has suggested non-Aboriginal Australians should be ready to leave the continent should the indigenous community demand it.
Chief among Reverend Peter Adam’s demands was a lift to the nearest airport.
Dr Adam believes that those who arrived in Australia after 1788 should leave. If heeded, such a call could cripple Australia’s tourism industry, overturn decades of openness to immigrants and require the deportation of all Aborigines less than 221½ years old.
Of course, given the parlous state of indigenous health, few Aboriginal Australians could hope to get to even half that age.
Given the legal ambiguity surrounding British colonisation of New South Wales, Dr Adam felt himself able to declare that “our sport grounds, our parks, our courts, our parliaments, our prisons, our hospitals, our roads, our reservoirs are stolen property.”
If the allegation is true, these stolen assets would be seized by the NSW Crime Commission and – in a nightmare scenario almost too terrible to contemplate – placed in state ownership.
For their part, Dr Adam’s audience was overjoyed to be getting a history lesson from Bible dude.
