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 a OzScot, alongside Colin Lillie, Jimmy Barnes, Alistair Pope, Ian Frazer and Colin Hay.

After completing profession training, national service, building a company from scratch, exporting to 47 countries, winning 10 awards, and having a great extended family of Aussie born kids and grandkids, it absolutely gives me the screaming irrits to hear the pathetic, ill founded, vomit inducing "welcome to country" message.

It is one of the 6 good reasons not to fly Qantas. Landing in any Australian airport with Singapore Air, you don't hear such crap.

Consulting for DAA (Dept of Aboriginal Affairs) rebadged ATSIC (Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission), over a 20 year period, 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 round, 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 misdemeanors:

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 country, thanking the previous owner of that block of land, the Commonwealth Bank of Australia- TRUE, 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 in starting my business, it was against tall people, union members, Catholics, obnoxious Poms, and potential misfits. Don't even start me on Collingwood supporters !

On this list were the Dutch and Kiwis until I discovered that Dutch people made the Scots look generous. Compared to the Kiwis, the Scots are real philanthropic legends, so the Dutch and Kiwis were taken off the list, and indeed 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, they 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 and 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 into 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 behavior, then after Irwin tragically died in 2006, the Bleater read the public mood, did a U turn and suggested a posthumous 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 to Pellowe not doing the welcome to country message at a church event. In my extensive travel and as a church goer, I have never heard, nor do I ever want to hear a Welcome to Country message in any church service or event. This would absolutely be the same case with Muslim, Jewish, Hindu or other religious events.

I learnt in my 7 years at sea on beautiful passenger-cargo ships, that there was always 2-3% of the passengers very unhappy about the ship, the music, the food, the carpet colour or anything. Malcontents are always there, but do we need to fund a Government department to cater for their miserable perspectives on life?

How pathetic is that bunch in Queensland's HRC office in 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, 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.