Horrified to see Julia Gillard fall, Australia Day 2012

I was horrified to see our Prime Minister Julia Gillard stumble and fall whilst being lead through an angry group of Indigenous folk protesting against Australia Day celebration yesterday. Whether or not you like her politics she has a right to be safe from possible injury. I support Indigenous rights, but I don't think that any one of us, Indigenous Australian or not, should resort to violence or threatening behavior to get their point across or get their own way. Being a true states person, Gillard shrugged off the whole ordeal, which I think was very generous of her, given the frightened look on her face as she was being assisted by a security guard. When non-Indigenous people behave in this manner they are arrested, as it was, no Indigenous person was arrested for banging loudly on the glass window of the building in which Gillard and others were gathered or shouting remarks. I don't think this kind of behavior does anything for these people or their cause. It just adds to the existing negative stereotype. If we continue to condone this behavior we only promote the divide. I applaud instead those Indigenous Australians, who, like other  individuals from diverse cultural backgrounds who live and work together, joined in the Australia Day march in Melbourne. This IS the future, an Australia populated by peoples of mixed-culture, taking the best from one another and discouraging the worst kind of behavior.