If you claim that you do not wish to communicate with me, Thomas,OK. But if that is the case, do not make any sneery comments at me. If you attack me, I will retaliate.

There seem to some unchanging traditions. Several groups in NE of NSW have the common Bundjalung language from Grafton to Brisbane and Tenterfield. Gamilaroi language is from Dubbo to Goondiwindi.
A number of different regions went to Jagungal in Snowy mountains for ceremonies.
The codfish legend of Pundu / Ponde belongs to all along the Darling river from Qld and from halfway down the Murray. At Bourke, the river snake lives at Mt' Manarah'. In the Snowy,' manaro' is the high country where 'Munarra' and snake made the river .
Baiame is the deity from Sydney to Goondiwindi to Brewarrina. All these distant people needed to preserve a common memory to retain that.

@Loudmouth, ignoring the grandiose hubris and typical put downs from him, claims:

"So anybody who claims that Aboriginal society was UNCHANGING really hasn't thought it all through."

Great, wonderful, terrific.

Now show me the QUOTES here by anyone who ever said it was UNCHANGING

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Or ADMIT ERROR HERE:->

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The man who attacks bullies insults ridicules rubbishes verbals anyone and everyone who has a different view to him says: "If you attack me, I will retaliate."

Ooooooooooooooooooh, scary

Hi Thomas,

I'm glad to be wrong when I suggest that " .... anybody who claims that Aboriginal society was UNCHANGING really hasn't thought it all through."

So, like every other culture in the world, Aboriginal culture has been changing ? Yes, I'd agree, it's most likely, given that the environment itself has changed drastically over fifty thousand years.

So what is it about Aboriginal culture that is supposed to be unique ? It's changed, people have moved around, droughts have wiped out entire populations and opened up vacant land to other groups, etc.

So you would agree that it's nonsense to claim that Aboriginal culture is the oldest in the world, but that all cultures are equally old by virtue of being human, while Aboriginal culture may well be, or may well have been, the slowest to change by virtue of the poverty of innovations available ?

So let's celebrate the wonderful diversity of human culture around the world, and the amazing creativity with which human groups have incorporated innovations from neighbouring groups. Let's celebrate the fact that Aboriginal people can now join with other human groups from around the world after fifty thousand years of isolation.

Cheers,

Joe

And if you lock your house at night you can celebrate when the neighbours take the lot and let you peer in when they eat.