Toni, WTF, if you don't have a real and tangible response or argument to contra my comments, sorry, your not contributing, therefore you must be talking to yourself.
If you take a moment to gather your thoughts, throw away any emotion, then come back with clear, reasonable and factual comments in response, and not like some who come back with this crap about 'I feel aboriginal' or 'I relate to being aboriginal', and they keep coming up with more.
DON'T CARE!
Irrelevant what some moron 'thinks' they are and 'where' they think they come from.
Bloody con-men the lot of em'.
As I said before and I will say again and again, nobody cares who 'you think you are'.
To all those self indulgent morons, abusing the system, I say grow up and stop rorting the system at the expense of the rest of us Aussies.
The amount of money and aid, grants, you name it, that they are getting, is absolutely disgusting.
And all in the knowledge that they are not entitled to anywhere near the benefits they enjoy, and all because of the moronic simple minded people and also the mentally deficient greedy politicians.

Loudmouth, yes we have been through this before, and I'll say it again, because 'both' my parents were Italian, and the blood line was never broken from as far back as the records allow, I have always called myself Australian, by law and by personal belief, because even though I am Italian by blood, I adopted a title given me by a foreign newspaper when I lived abroad, and that was; I was tagged 'an Australian born Italian Designer'.
Now out of respect, I did not say anything and I did not benefit from it anyway.
But whether here in Australia or abroad, when asked, I have always answered 'AUSTRALIAN'.
Now that, by my own admission is incorrect, but for the sake of PC and expediency I choose to go with 'Aussie'.
If pushed I explain that, yes I am Italian by blood, but just happen to be born in Australia.
Why I am not a good example is unlike abo's, I am a pure blood, so we cannot use me as a typical comparison.
So I hope you see my point through logical and emotion free eyes and not by way of the examples you have given in the past.
They are too abstract and prone to abusive forms of interpretations, of which we have already seen, there are many.
No, one of my traits is that I am a pragmatist.
The other is, I am a realist.
Together with my ever searching quest for truth and not bloody PC crap, does not allow me to accept that which is not real or truthful.
I'm afraid the abo plight negatively displays too many of these traits I speak of.
So to finish with the point of this article;
I have given my reasons already why, those who are not full blood abo's, must not call themselves, abo's.
They are lying, or at the very least, being untruthful or dishonest, irrespective of the attempted arguments presented in mitigation.

So here's how it works in the Wizarding World of Harry Potter:

Either you can do magic (in which case you're a Witch or Wizard) or you can't, in which case you're a Muggle or a Squib.

Sensible people don't care about the ancestry of a Wizard/Witch. Ron Weasley is pure-blood, born of a Witch and Wizard, from a wizarding family, and is a bit crap when it comes to actual magic. Hermione is Muggle-born - both parents dentists - and outshines Ron and Harry when it comes to magic. Harry is descended from a long line of magic on the paternal side, but his mother was Muggle-born like Hermione. But all that really matters is whether you can do magic, or you can't.

Lord Voldemort and his Death Eater followers adhere to a different philosophy: they believe ancestry is important. They believe that unless you are born of a Witch and Wizard, you don't really count, regardless of your ability. Half-bloods and Muggle-borns have their wands snapped in half and are banished (or worse) under the rule of the Dark Lord. Voldemort and the Death Eaters are basically allegories for Nazis, complete with their own version of the Nuremberg Laws.

ALTRAV is obsessed with the idea of blood purity - Pure-bloods only, and the rest can f&*k off. He's a Death Eater, through and through. Those of us who have read Harry Potter - and by crikey, there's a lot of us - know better: we know that Harry isn't pure-blood thanks to his Muggle-containing maternal ancestry. And we also know that he defeats the most powerful Dark Wizard ever in spite of that: ancestry doesn't matter.

The only pricks that do think it matters are those will happily murder, torture and enslave those who have the temerity to disagree.

I like to think of ALTRAV as a Crabbe or Goyle.... one of the stupider goon-type Death Eaters, without the curiosity or widsom to question their Dark Lord. But still a wrong'un, without question.

//If you take a moment to gather your thoughts, throw away any emotion, then come back with clear, reasonable and factual comments in response//

OK, you're clearly not a Harry Potter fan:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuremberg_Laws

Now, you tell me what is different between your criteria for determining the 'blood status' of Aboriginals, and the Nazi's criteria for determining the 'blood status' of a Reich citizen.

Toni, YAWN,ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Oh, I'm sorry, did you say something?
I was expecting some intelligent, emotionless response, so imagine my surprise when I read this meaningless drivel.
No seriously, I thought you were having a stroke when you wrote it.
Or is it that you're about to have a stroke, no I think it goes something like;
You feel the urge to do a poo, and that's why so many people die on the toilet.
Did you feel the need to go to the toilet, before you wrote your second last posting?

Are there any happy people out there?

Just wondering.....