Jewely once again you nailed the issue.

"It is not easy to define Aboriginal identity. People who identify themselves as 'Aboriginal' range from dark-skinned, broad-nosed to blonde-haired, blue-eyed people, very much to the surprise of non-Indigenous people.

Aboriginal people define Aboriginality not by skin colour but by relationships."

http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/people/aboriginal-identity.html

It doesn't make a scrap of difference whether Aboriginal people still live in Tasmania (of course they do!), or how pale they might be now - from this article, it seems that this site is incredibly valuable for the study of paleolithic societies and their technologies - 100 artifacts per sq. metre works out to a million per hectare, and there are probably many hectares at least as rich in history as the few that have been excavated.

If thorough excavations can be carried out, who knows how much we can learn about how the technology changed, and over forty or fifty thousand years ? This is relevant to all of us, since we all have paleolithic ancestors: how did they/we have to live, how did they/we get by in harsh environments ?

Keep digging !

Where in Great Britain do we hear the descendants of the Jutes, Celts, Angles, Romans and Franks bemoaning their destiny as "victim nation"? Massacres have occurred all along the road of history. But that sadly enough is history. Ever hear of conquest? An ugly word? Yes ofcourse. No one disagrees but that is the reality of history which is something you dear old bleaters have forgotten...if you ever understood your history.

All this talk about aboriginal rights and how badly they are treated.
I for one would like researchers to come up with a verifiable figure of how much "conscience money" has been doled out to this victim nation and to what use it has been put and what it may have actually achieved.
It has created an industry of mainly white Anglo-Saxon and blue eyed indigenous dole bludgers who have acquired a facility in making politically designed banners and artifacts.

socratease

Soc:“Where in Great Britain do we hear the descendants of the Jutes, Celts, Angles, Romans and Franks bemoaning their destiny as "victim nation"?”

I don’t know – were they still having their babies taken in the 1970’s?

“All this talk about aboriginal rights and how badly they are treated.”

Because they have rights and were treated badly maybe?

“It has created an industry of mainly white Anglo-Saxon and blue eyed indigenous dole bludgers who have acquired a facility in making politically designed banners and artifacts.”

Yes yes because they were stolen to breed with whites you ninny. After fighting in WWII attempting to destroy a race just cruised along like normal back here.

Interesting link Ammonite, and sad. Soc didn't look at it I guess.

Sorry, Jewely, your comment that many Aboriginal people are pale " .... because they were stolen to breed with whites ... " is complete rubbish, and denigrates all those freely chosen marriages and partnerships that thousands of Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people have entered into quite happily, especially over the past thirty years.

With inter-marriage, completely free and happy inter-marriage, of course the kids might be paler than their Aboriginal parents. That's how it goes. What's the "solution" ? Not to allow inter-marriage at all ? Re-segregate ? Bar white men from associating with Aboriginal women, as they did in most states from the late thirties until the early sixties (the notorious 'assimilation' years - how to explain that, I wonder) ?

How would that go down in New Zealand ?

And I thought that the Stolen Generation myth only applied UP TO the seventies ......

“And I thought that the Stolen Generation myth only applied UP TO the seventies ......”

You believe it is a myth? How comforting for you.