"....and ignored the fact that his mother had a white father and grandfather and his father had an Irish father."

Must have been one of the 'black' Irish.

Ygirp
don't know why people keep saying the whites
Don't accept the history of the British Empire
Claiming this land for Britain ,despite there being
Aboriginal people here.

Most whites have heard nothing but this for decades
On documentaries and panel shows with left wing academics
Or 1/2 white Aboriginal stirrers pretending to be totally Aboriginal
On panel talk shows.
They even teach that we invaded this country to
My grandchildren at school.

I think the whites have just got sick of the constant playing the victim
Racist card and have realised no matter how we try to help them
Nothing will change until they accept the equal chances they have today
To get an education and pull themselves up.

Happily this is happening with the latest generation of aborigines.
After all they have the same chances as the fellow from Sudan who had
Absolutely nothing when he came here. Got an education became a lawyer
And isnt complaining about no opportunities or racism
The whites respect him for working hard to make something
Of himself.
Why do the Aborigines expect someone else to do it for them.

It's not that the whites don't acknowledge the history of white settlement
And the effects it had on the Aboriginals,
It's just they have shrugged their shoulders and become indifferent.
After realising the Aboriginals are not making enough effort to
Help themselves and so no matter what you do to help them it won't
Make any difference.

It's indifference this article writer is sensing, certainly not any lack of historical
Knowledge by the whites.

It's all a smokescreen for other problems like unresolved hurt or anger

A.J. Phillips,

The Aborigines like most people a couple of centuries ago
Probably had a short lifespan.

The old cemeteries in Australia and Europe have whole graveyards full of
People who died in childhood or before thirty.

An infected tooth would have been one cause,of death.
The have found human remains where the infection has bored right up into the brain.

A scratch from a stick or rock if infected could also poison your bloodstream
And killed many people before penicillin was discovered.

If you want to romance, the back to nature scenario.
We'll give you a stick to make a spear and you can toddle off into the bush.
Be careful of the snakes..
Back to nature sounds idyllic, but up close at the survival level
Natural is very cruel and totally without pity.

By the way it is the overpopulated nations causing much of
The clearing of the forests, Their populations keep eating
Up any available land and resources at a frightening speed.

The dirt and unfiltered sewerage in Places like India
Pollute the waterways mush worse than modern nations
Who have the means to purify it.
The cheap anything goes,cars, in India pour a continuous
Stream of poisonous fuels into the air.

In the West our petrol is clean of a lot of toxins.

CHERFUL,

I'm off to India again next month and I shall be careful to always only drink boiled water, just as I boil all water from the local supply in NSW, if I don't I get crook and I'm renowned for having a cast iron stomach.
At home I have tank water so no problems.

Mise

Yes some of the water in outback Australia can
Contain some undesirable disease causing bugs.
because it's not treated like the big city water.

Have a wonderful trip.