Gotta love Les Patterson. But our Minister For The Yartz somehow missed an important fact: The Aboriginal word 'moomba' which was no doubt suggested for and then accepted as Melbourne's yearly festival name 'Moomba', probably by some poor put-upon native Australian when queried, actually means "stick it up your arse" (literally "a stick up your arse"). *Really*, I'm not kidding, look it up if you don't believe me! I like to think it's the answer that I, too, would have given to question, "What will we call our yearly festival?", since the recent ancestors of those asking had mass murdered most of the respondee's recent ancestors, and then attempted to finish completely destroying Aust. aboriginal cultures by 'legally' kidnapping black children and putting them into white homes (aka "The Stolen Generation"). [Another fact du jour: There is no single 'Aboriginal language', before they were substantially destroyed by the white invasion there were dozens of tribes, each with their own language. The word 'moomba' has the meaning described a number of these languages.] P.S. I'm sure the well educated and sharp Barry Humphries would have known all this, but the character Les Patterson, though an expert in fleecing the ATP (Australian taxpayers) and in obtaining pussy, is not otherwise all that sharp.
I went to the Moomba thing and was told there was this amazing parade that I should see now I come from Adelaide where we have the biggest parade in the Southern hemisphere and this looked like something a bunch of inbreds would do in a small country town . As for a wiping out the Aborigines well you've never been to South Australia or the northern territory and the only reason they took them was because by white standards what they were doing to their children was absolutely horrific and it's still continues today
