Australian The government puts pressure privately Tony Blair Not to meet in 1999 indigenous The delegation led by Patrick Dodson labeled him “troubleshooter”, according to the newly released government files.
Mr. Dodson, one of the yavuru big and one of one AustraliaLater the most influential indigenous leaders selected as one Australian Labor senator, is widely considered as “father of reconciliation”.
Australian Officials feared that the delegation would apologize to Rani and “would increase the historical failure British Government to consult Australia’s indigenous population during government Settle downAccording to a report in Guardian Based on the newly released UK National Archives Papers.
Mr. Blair’s Foreign Affairs Advisor, a memorandum from John Sovel, allegedly reveals that Australian The High Commissioner, Philip Flood, urged Mr. Blair not to visit the indigenous delegation.
The UK government was uncomfortable about optics and was feared diplomatic consequences, Mr. Sowers referred to “Diary problems” to avoid the meeting, an idea to agree with Mr. Blair.
The outlet stated, “Australians have wounded a lot about the idea of seeing tribals,” Mr. Sowers has allegedly written Blair in a note. “His High Commissioner asked me to suppress him to see: They were troubleshooters – this would happen [the then Australian prime minister] John Howard Seeing people from Northern Ireland who were trying to overcome problems for the UK. ,
Mr. Dodson has served as an assistant professor at the Notre Dame University at Broom, and was recognized as a “national living treasure” in 2008. He has also received the Sydney Peace Prize.
In 2022, Mr. Dodson was visually taken into tears because he said while remembering the queen. Elizabeth II Two decades ago.
Indigenous Australians are still struggling with permanent effects of British colonies, spread and systemic discrimination. Earlier this month, Australia’s first factual investigation revealed that British Committed Massacre of Aboriginal people In Victoria During his colonization of the country.
Meanwhile, the same memorandum also noted that meeting the delegation could complicate the position of Blair at the upcoming request to meet Chinese dissatisfied Wei Jingesheng. “If you are looking at Australian dissidents next week, it will be difficult to avoid seeing Wei.”
The newly released National Archives files have also revealed that Blair’s government quietly changed the rules of laying a wreath in Senyotaf in 2004 to appeal to the unionist sensitivity during the peace process of Northern Ireland. After a change in party standing, the shift allegedly reduced the Democratic Unionist Party (DUP) from eligibility under the current rules, inspiring complaints and changing a rule to maintain political balance.
New-proven national collection papers also revealed that Mr. Blair was advised to pay thousands of pounds in exemption Which he found on designer clothes.
Papers issued to National Archives suggest that any 10 officials recommended that they should pay more than £ 7,600 on items purchased from designers Nicole Furhi and Paul Smith.
The discount was interacted by his wife Cherry’s controversial friend and style advisor, Carroll Caplen, who bought clothes for Mrs. Blair.
The papers also revealed that Mr. Blair accused bitter French President Jacques Chirak Trying to reduce Britain’s efforts to pressurize the dictatorial leader of Zimbabwe Robert Mugabe,
The papers issued by the National Archives suggest that Mr. Blair erupted angry when he learned that Mr. Chirak had insisted that the President of Zimbabwe had been allowed to attend the European Union-Africa Summit in 2003.
“But it is contrary to me what I said,” he is scattered in a handwritten note when some officials told him that Mr. Chirk feared South African President Thabo Mabeki, stating that he would stay away from the meeting until Mr. Mugabe was invited.
“France finally if France wants to take heat on it, they can and perhaps they are used to harm Britain’s standing in this belief (wrong) that Mugabe maintains credibility.
“But we must be seen to protest.”
This line came as Zimbabwe was caught in a spiral, deteriorating the deteriorating spiral of violence and economic collapse, when Mr. Mugabe launched a violent campaign to run the rest of the white farmers of the country from his land.