I am glad to see that most people (even Runner) here are on the same page as Jacinta Price and that she isn't a voice crying in the wilderness. I agree with you Jack, that she got a pretty rum deal on QANDA. Reasoned argument trumps abuse any time and the moderator failed badly. The debate needs to be led by more people like you and her and less by urban aboriginal wanabees and their supporters who don't know what it is like in the real world out in the sticks.
David

I don't have a problem with a treaty and indigenous Australians mentioned the preamble of a reworded constitution. Always providing a bill of irrevocable rights that apply equally to every citizen regardless of race or ethnicity, is also mandatory.

With that done, let the chips fall where they may and folk given equal opportunity to succeed, in every sense of the word.

What this country needs are unifying policies, not even more division and the revision of history. If what happed, happened and where it happed!? Then let the historical record show it, warts and all!

But don't expect folk who weren't there to shoulder any responsibility for what occurred based on the colour of their skin!

That ain't justice, just racial discrimination and some from of racially motivated, reverse apartheid/professional victimhood, replete with dollar signs writ large?
Alan B.

It must also be said that those colonists who wrought such savagery on the native inhabitants back in the 1800s were also the ancestors of a large percentage of those people who currently claim aboriginality. So who is this treaty going to be between? That is something of a paradox. Once again, at the risk of repeating myself, aboriginals already have a voice in the federal parliament and if that is not enough, well get out and vote for people like Jack Wilkie-Jans, Jacinta Price and Warren Mundine.
David

VK3AUU,
I have drawn attention many times to the decendents of the perpetrators bleating victim !
Those people could so easily apologise to themselves, accept the apology & move on.
The only drawback is that there's no funding for that scenario.

That is an interesting scenario. The stupid Victorian government is currently negotiating a treaty. It will be interesting to look at the antecedents of the aboriginals who put their signatures to it. If they are not full bloods they can hardly qualify to be legal representatives. Evan those who are doing the negotiations should also be full bloods, not just the usual wanabees who make the most noise.
David

VK3AUU and Indy,

finally I see comments like yours bearing sense and logic based on what I have been saying for as long as I can remember.
You've both hit the nail on the head.
"FULL BLOODS", not wannabees.
Only full bloods can claim aboriginality.
And further still as has also been pointed out in an earlier post, we must stop "classifying" different groups, nationalities, and races, based on their ancestral origins.
If you're born in Australia, you're Australian, so when it comes to govt, it should think in terms of one people one country, to do otherwise is divisive and results in an unpleasant and unsociable society and intolerance and derision towards each other, as is the current state of affairs.