tell it as it is Tony

Oh please give us all a break, we have at last a PM who is not too scared witless of the PC mob to say it as it actually was, which was NOTHING but a piece of bush with not even a building or tent and these cretins want to change history
strewth, bloody pathetic bs !
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Prime Minister Tony Abbott is facing calls to apologise for describing Sydney as "nothing but bush" before the arrival of the First Fleet.
During a breakfast for British prime minister David Cameron in Sydney this morning, Mr Abbott made a speech about infrastructure and noted the "extraordinary partnership" between the two countries since the arrival of the First Fleet.
"As we look around this glorious city, as we see the extraordinary development, it's hard to think that back in 1788 it was nothing but bush," Mr Abbott said.
"The marines and the convicts and the sailors that straggled off those 12 ships, just a few hundred yards from where we are now, must have thought they had come almost to the moon.
"Everything would have been so strange. Everything would have seemed so extraordinarily basic and raw, and now a city which is one of the most spectacular cities on our globe."
Kirstie Parker from the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples said the comments do tremendous damage to the relationship between the Prime Minister and Aboriginal people.
"I'd say they were a blunder except this is becoming a habit for the Prime Minister," she said.
"On several occasions just in the last couple of months, he has made comments that have erased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people from the landscape."
Ms Parker said it was not a case of reading too much into the remarks, or taking them out of context.
"For the Prime Minister to say there was nothing here but bush is incorrect; there were people here with sophisticated systems and societies and rules," she said.
"We were here."
Labor's Indigenous affairs spokesman Shayne Neumann said Mr Abbott should apologise to the Aboriginal community.
"It's a denial of their culture, their language, their heritage and their custom and basically it shows the Prime Minister has a sort of Terra Nullius type approach to the continent," he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2014-11-14/abbot-describes-1778-australia-as-nothing-but-bush/5892608