<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=584850" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>You Tell Me Of Your Australian History</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">You tell me of your Australian history your ancestors were British and Irish pioneers<br>But your history in this Land is not an old history just two centuries and twenty years<br>And in time that may seem quite a long span though the combined life spans of three people nothing more<br>Your ancestors hardly were Aussies they came here from a distant shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The first Australians have lived in this Country for longer than most care to know<br>Their ancestors came here from Asia more than sixty thousand years ago<br>They are indigenous to this Country all others have links to elsewhere<br>Yet they still struggle for recognition and that to me seems quite unfair.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Dispossessed by the Northern invaders they never did get back their Land<br>And that they are now ruled by white people I find that hard to understand<br>You talk of the history of this Land as if it were only two hundred years old<br>But then suppose the history of the ancient Dreamtime by white people will never be told.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I was not even born in this Country which makes you more Aussie than I<br>And though I'm not Nationalistic or Patriotic my heritage I won''t deny<br>You talk of your pioneering ancestors but why talk of Human history at all<br>If the history of the first Australians you do not see fit to recall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You tell me of your pioneering ancestors but one fact you tend to ignore<br>That they were not born in this Country they came here from a foreign shore<br>You''d swear by you the Human history of this Land was only two centuries old<br>But the true history of this great Country by your type will never be told</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=584850" data-title="You Tell Me Of Your Australian History de Francis Duggan" data-description="You tell me of your Australian history your ancestors were British and Irish pioneers But your history in this Land is not an old history just two centuries and twenty years And in time that may seem quite a long span though the combined life span..."></div> </div> </div>

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