>> give these people their own state to roam in, as long as conflict between tribes can be overcome <<

Un-intelligent, mature - either, neither.

579,

I appreciate any support.

However there are legal, policing and THERMODYNAMIC barriers that make an aboriginal state not only impossible but also just an extension of failed Reservation politics.

There are many advantages to aboriginals, tourism, biodivesity and the Australian economy at large to implement a Corridor system. THERMODYNAMIC considerations are vital. An initial test range that incorporates existing road transport sections as an integral part of the corridor could be established quite happily between Moree and Barrington Tops. It could include tribal influences as far away as Dubbo and Walgett.

I don't rule out that aboriginal elders may have a better THERMODYNAMIC intuition that the best physicists. I expect they may suggest something more beneficial or fine tune the above suggestion.

Malcolm has as much right as anyone else on this forum to voice his views, and I must say I am embarrassed at the very personal slurs against this man.
He may be elderly and an ex-Prime Minister, but I have no doubt that he has more of an idea of the plight of indigenous Australians than many people on this forum.

Are we to ignore the obvious plight of our Indigenous Australians simply because there may be worse off people in the world?
If, as many Australians seem to think, we are throwing heaps of money at Indigenous Australians already, then it does not appear to have helped them in any way.

How can these people get up and 'help themselves' if no one will give them a job?

How would many of the learned posters to this site suggest that our indigenous Australians improve their standard of living and their human rights in their own country?

Suze, this bloke had no idea which way was up, when he was PM, why do you think he would have learned anything since.

In PNG every person, man, woman & child pays a head tax. No welfare there. If they want food to eat, they must grow it, or work for it.

If a village wants a school they must find the cash, & supply the labor to build one.

When they have built the school, they only get a teacher when they have built a house for them, & their family if any, to live in. The house must be to the beast local standard.

If they want alcohol they have to brew it. There is no grog problem, other than in a couple of cities, as they aren't paid sit down money with which to buy grog.

They are better fed & healthier than aboriginals. Do you think it may be because if they don't do something today, & every day, they won't eat next week? Now that gives people some purpose in life.

One day you'll look to see I've gone.

For tomorrow may rain, so I'll follow the sun.

KAEP:

Sorry, but there is little comparison between the American and Australian Native. Fencing was never an inhibitor to the migration of the Australian native that fencing was to the American Native. Different lifestyles and different mentality entirely.

As for your wacky reason for Aboriginal kids sniffing petrol; I can’t hold with that one either.