Talk:Midnight Oil
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Peter's left the Oils. Gee, I feel like the Michael Douglas character in Romancing the Stone when he learned that the Doobie Brothers had broken up. It's the end of an era, I tells ya.
making a political statement by offering apologies to the Aboriginal people for their alleged suffering during more than 200 years of white settlement.
I don't think there's any dispute concerning the fact that the aboriginals did suffer as a result of colonization. -- Erzengel 13:00 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- I entirely agree. Aboriginals were considered barbarians (see Terra Nullius). Their land (with which they identify to a degree most westerners cannot comprehend) was taken away from them (see Mabo). They were and still are second class citizens in their own country. If that's not suffering, please explain to me what suffering is. D.D. 18:17 17 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- Yeah. It might be possible to dispute how much of the blame for the suffering of Aboriginal people was the fault of white colonisers, but that they have suffered would seem to me indisputable. --Robert Merkel 05:50 20 Jun 2003 (UTC)
- Considering that many of the whites were fleeing Religious persecution I would say there was plenty of "suffering" to go around. Hot showers, plentiful food, 200 horsepower chariots .... Caesar should have it as good as downtrodden U.S. Citizens. --user:Mirwin
Reasonably good article, but doesn't cover their entire career evenly. The earlier albums get anecdotes; the middle and later ones should as well. (Of course, I should contribute, but...) -- Gavin Sinclair