Welcome to Country - In Your Dreams

As a 20^th-century Scot arriving in Australia as a migrant teenager, when assimilation was the base criteria for migrants and common sense was pretty common, I was proud to be called an OzScot alongside Colin Lillie, Jimmy Barnes, Alistair Pope, Ian Frazer, and Colin Hay.

After completing professional training, national service, building a company from scratch, exporting to 47 countries, winning ten awards, and having a great extended family of Aussie kids and grandkids, it gives me the screaming spirits to hear the pathetic, ill-founded, vomit-inducing “welcome to country” message.

It is one of the six good reasons not to fly Qantas. Landing in any Australian airport with Singapore Air, you don’t hear such crap.

Consulting for DAA (Department of Aboriginal Affairs) rebadged ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission) over 20 years, this OzScot created more prosperity, jobs, and training than any Aboriginal person I have ever met.

Check for yourself in the Spectator 16^th August 2023 article “And the 2023 Voice Award goes to…the Scots”. This article contains compelling evidence that the Scots did more for the Indigenous people than the other way around, and respect should go both ways.

So Queensland Human Rights Commission, please accept this statement as a complaint if you wish, and come and arrest me for the following misdemeanours:-

-When listening to this welcome-to-country message on domestic flight arrivals, I loudly “BOO !”. I still retain platinum and gold memberships because most flight crews agree with me. You HRC people should get out more often!

When addressing a business forum in Benowa last year, I gave my version of welcome to the country, thanking the previous owner of that block of land, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia—TRUE, and thanking past elders of the early Christian churches that helped develop communities and educate all indigenous regional Australia more than a century ago—TRUE!

As a seasoned DISCRIMINATOR, I continue to discriminate against 4 out of 5 job applicants. In the early days of starting my business, it was against tall people, union members, Catholics, obnoxious Poms, and potential misfits. Don’t even start me on Collingwood supporters!

The Dutch and Kiwis were on this list until I discovered that Dutch people made the Scots look generous.

Compared to the Kiwis, the Scots are absolute philanthropic legends, so the Dutch and Kiwis were taken off the list and now populate my new list of friends.

But now that I am older, wiser and more mature and knowing that tall people, even pommie or catholic ones, no matter how affluent they become, will never fit in an aircraft flatbed seat. Poor souls!

So I now just discriminate against Green voters because they are openly anti-Australian, and all of them seem to have miserable scowls like Sarah Hanson Young.

They would never fit in with the happy bunch in my office, who co-incidentally are much smarter than they look. Yes, it is still about assimilation, whether allowing people into a big country or a small company.

I wrote and reported my discrimination activities when Queensland Premier Peter Beattie was bleating circa 2000-2006, yes, Peter the Bleater, about serial discriminators like me. He ignored my communication.

That same fool berated Steve Irwin for larrikin behaviour. After Irwin tragically died in 2006, the Bleater read the public mood, did a U-turn and suggested a post-mortem award for Irwin.

Every small business, every farmer, every fisherman will discriminate against 4 out of 5 job applicants; yes, 80% could claim they are being discriminated against, even for bad breath and could easily take their offence to HRC offices in our nanny states.

So now the Queensland Human Rights Commission is chasing Dave Pellowe on behalf of a bedwetting complainant who took offence at Pellowe's failure to deliver the Welcome to Country message at a church event.

As a churchgoer, I have never heard, nor do I ever want to hear, a Welcome to Country message in any church service or event.

This would be the same with Muslim, Jewish or Hindu religious rituals.

In my seven years at sea on beautiful passenger-cargo ships, I learned that 2-3% of the passengers were always very unhappy about the boat, the music, the food, the carpet colour, or anything else.

Malcontents are always present, but do we need to fund a government department to accommodate their miserable perspective on life?

How pathetic is that bunch in Queensland’s HRC office at 53 Albert Street, Brisbane? We should name and shame the lot of them; they are wasting taxpayers' money and should be closed down.

Is it that Dave Pellowe, a Christian Pastor, is a softer target than Stuart Ballantyne?

I need every Australian, yes, even you miserable greens, to write, email, and text to their local, state and federal politicians to stop wasting our money with this unnecessary grievance industry.

It makes our country look weak. It dispirits, disheartens, and depresses our young people against starting or retaining a small business, knowing that any bedwetting malcontent can trigger expensive litigation via a team of well-funded, weak bureaucrats who could never survive on their own skills in private enterprise.

Don’t forget to boo loudly next time you hear this pathetic welcome-to-country message, and confirm it as you walk off the plane or leave the event.