I think Hasbeen comes closest to enunciating the dominant sentiment with respect to the invasion and colonisation of Australia by the Brits. Most people wouldn't put it quite so callously, but that is what their attitudes amount to, i.e. 'we won, they lost, they should just cop it sweet, get over it and assimilate where we let them'.

Personally, while I agree that 'invasion' is probably technically correct, I don't see any great value in a city council taking it upon itself to ensure that old sores are continually reopened. Atonement for past injustice is less important than preventing it in the present, in my opinion.

I'm not sure that we do, Arjay.

>>For once we agree Pericles.England was invaded by the Vikings ,Romans and the Spanish.They too should send a letter of apology to us for killing our ancestors.<<

I wasn't looking for an apology. It was just something that tended to happen back then. Quite a lot. Nothing to apologize for at all.

And when did the Spanish invade, by the way? I must have been asleep. Either that, or they were vewwy, vewwy quiet.

I'm not sure what to make of this, skeptic.

>>What strikes me most is that we, the White, have supplanted Australia’s set of cultures, (Civilization), and we are no longer capable of looking at what happened but from the point of our status in the present artificial society.<<

You seem to be suggesting that invading forces should behave like the "natives". Which is a bizarre thought indeed.

I'm pretty sure the Victorian Missionaries didn't think that way either, as they traipsed through darkest Africa, indoctrinating the gullible inhabitants with their fairy stories.

That was a sort of invasion too, wasn't it?

Why not pass a by-law forbidding Genocide within the city of Sydney?
Invasion or not, there has been no official end to hostilities arising from military action against Aboriginals, but as usual the "Left" either don't know or don't want to talk about it.

To the "I'm ashamed to be White" crowd, get over yourselves, this isn't about you.

To the "Whites are ALL Racists" haters, you'd only say that about White people, Anti Racism is just a code word for anti White.

To Ammonite, either learn to read or learn to quote people properly.
I didn't say that Whites were in danger of becoming extinct, I said that there is an ongoing program of Genocide against my race.

To everybody, especially Mr Pilger: Since when is "myth" a dirty word?
Mythology is a group survival strategy.
If you were told you could save your people from certain physical as well as spiritual destruction by perpetuating a Myth would you agree to carry that secret to your grave?
I would, no hesitation.
Exploding Myths is exactly what the Missionaries did in their program of Genocide against Aborigines.
Guess that's the sort of idea that Meathead Leftists can't really compute.

Pericles the Spanish got into Ireland,that's why they joke about the black Irish.

All we're arguing about is words. As Penny Wong pointed out on
"Q and A," last night. We should be talking not about our divisions and words but about what is going to happen from here on in. Words
and restoring history is important but so is the future. And that's something concrete that needs tackling - for future generations. Beginning with the eradication of preventable diseases like trachoma in Aboriginal children.

Since we are making a stand against "intellectual dishonesty" let’s have the full Monty, ay.

It is becoming increasing apparent that the official –and much funded version -- which posits peaceful Aborigines settling an uninhabited land is not accurate.

First, there is this:
“The Bradshaw Paintings differ in style from and, by archaeological evidence, appear to predate the art work of the ancestors of the Australian Aboriginal tribes of the Kimberley region… Some scientists believe the figures were created by a race that populated the area long before the Aborigines migrated to Australia.”
http://www.australiaforeveryone.com.au/aborsites_bradshaw.htm

then, there’s this:
"Thorne has extracted and analysed parts of a single gene from Mungo Man. More stunning still, the researchers claim that what they discovered is that the man's DNA is unlike anything they have ever seen.
http://www.abc.net.au/science/articles/2001/01/01/2813404.htm

And, this:
“The multiregionalists argue that many of the Willandra Lakes people were ‘gracile’– slightly built, with the delicate facial features of modern humans, while the KOW Swamp people were ‘robust’ with tock skull bones, flat receding foreheads and prominent brow ridges. Thorne has argued that the differences testify to two waves of migration into Australia. The Kow Swamp and other robust people, from Cohuna in Victoria, Coobool Creek , Southern NSW, and Cossack, Western Australia, descended from Indonesian Homo erectus” [ p145]

Strangely enough, when some of these bones were put under the guardianship of the local aboriginals –they disappeared!

“Among the first remains held by Australian institutions to go back to an Aboriginal community were the precious Victorian Kow Swamp skeletons, returned to the Echuca Aboriginal Cooperative Society by the Museum of Victoria in 1990. The museum does not know the fate of the skeletons. ‘It is believed they were buried’ a spokesman said” [p206]
Source: The Bone Readers –Claudio Tuniz, Richard Gillespie & Cheryl Jones.

Now, I am sure that all those fair minded persons who were so offended by falsification of early white history will join with me in calling for a full investigation of the earlier invasion(s) ,which might well prove to be more bloody and more genocidal than the white “invasion”.