By the way - I do more than just "read books,"
I've actually catalogued various records, films,
newspaper articles,
documents, oral histories and many other references
on the issues involved. I also have listened to various
speakers who have lived and experienced and shared
their experiences. You don't seem inclined to read
or acknowledge anything that does not suit your rigid
and narrow view point.

You are in no position therefore to judge any one else's
opinion when you have such a narrow perspective yourself.

BLACK LIVES MATTER, as tens of thousands of good Australians rallied around the country in solidarity, showing support for our indigenous brothers and sisters. The wife and I made it as far as South Bank in Brisbane on the train, to meet up with our niece who invited us along. I'm told it was the biggest protest seen in Brisbane, and around Australia in years, despite the virus fears. The only news report of an arrest was in Sydney when a white supremacist, was he from this forum, tried to assault a speaker down at the town hall. It good to see decent people of all ages and nationalities come together to protest injustice. Racism is not dead, far from it, but its end will come.

http://7news.com.au/news/health/thousands-at-blm-rally-in-brisbane-c-1082971

So Foxy, you have basically confirmed that nothing is stopping aboriginal people from directing their own lives. There is no government directive that stops them from moving to a place of higher employment if they choose. There is no law that stops them making better choices regard food intake. There is no physical impediment to them practising better hygiene in their homes. There is no barb wire fence around the nearest police station to stop them reporting domestic violence and child abuse.
There is no colour bar at the local school that prevents their children from attending every day.
And not only are they not prevented from travelling to towns and cities to get better education and jobs, they are actually demanding better roads by which to get there.
And before you accuse me of saying people should leave their home country and insist that the government provides every modern facility money can buy for those communities so they don’t have to leave, I would like to point out they they have already been leaving in droves, many just to access alcohol, others because they prefer living in towns, and despite having schools, clinics , stores etc in their communities many still prefer town life, despite having to squeeze into already overcrowded homes there. For the same reasons they don’t bother speaking language any more, or practise proper traditional, they are abandoning their traditional lands because Bush life can never offer the same as town life. And those who prefer bush life aren’t very fussed about kids education or employment or a spotless house.
For those whose families have been in towns and cities for generations, there is no excuse at all why they cannot avail themselves of the multitude of services that now abound for indigenous people.
My husband had a common lament. He used to say that aboriginal people would never be equal with non aboriginals until they are treated equally, in all matters, responsibilities as well as rights.

Paul1405

Then there is this from an indigenous professor
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“ So much has been said this past week in response to the shocking death of a Minnesota man and the hands of a dumb police officer.
All can agree, that this (former) officer’s actions, and that of his colleagues who stood by and watched him, are atrocious.

Sadly, the fallout from this act of stupidity has had a flow on effect in Australia.
Some activists reading that last sentence will reply with “Oh but it’s important, it’s solidarity …”

No, it’s just an excuse to protest for the sake of protesting.
I am all for people fighting for a cause they feel strongly about and taking to the streets if they feel that is the best way to deliver, what they believe, is an important message.
But what we are seeing now is ridiculous. If this was just a comedy show I would be laughing. But the antics of activists, social justice warriors, and their rent-a-crowds only move Australia backwards.

These professional protesters are latching onto the Aboriginal deaths in custody issue to enable them to justify their confected outrage and go out marching with their protest signs that say: ‘Black lives matter’.

For Aboriginal deaths in custody, let’s provide some context here.
Aboriginal Australians in custody are less likely to die than non-Aboriginal Australians in custody...

The ‘outrage’ from protesters for deaths in custody is about as authentic as Australia Day protests.“. Unquote

Go figure eh?

I must admit, I find this claim by Samantha Cooper to be somewhat laughable.

What we have is a pale skinned blue eyed woman whose aboriginality I believe is more about getting free stuff from the government and cushy job than any real attachment.

In the same vein I am English, Irish, German, Dutch, French, Italian and Russian, yet somehow unable to get these passports due to their racism.

Looks more like I have you on the back foot, Bernie Masters. Everything I wrote about this mythical "aboriginal middle class" was supported by Big Nana.

Get it through your head that there is a very significant number of people who are 1/4, 1/8, 1/16, or 1/32 "aboriginal" , at least one that I know who has blue eyes and blond hair, who are legally classified as "indigenous", which allows them to mine the gold of the ever swelling $60 billion p.a. aboriginal welfare budget. Some of these middle class "aborigines" were born of middle class parents and lived in privileged areas of capitol cities. As Trump would say, they are "the swamp."

Bess Price is an aboriginal activist who really does look like an aboriginal. She was born in a humpy and spent her life as a child living in the dirt. But when Bess supported John Howard's "Intervention", which by passed the aboriginal "big men's" stranglehold on aboriginal funding in remote areas, it was the university educated middle class European looking "aboriginal" swamp who attacked her like a bunch of sharks.

Some of her critics had gotten first class treatment all the way because of their legal "aboriginality." Scholarships to Cambridge, and then very well paying directorships and "chairs" to a multitude of state and federal government organisations set up to supposedly alleviate the plight of indigenous Australians, which for all their massive funding, appear to have no effect.

Please note that the European looking "aboriginal" author of this whiny article said that she had three jobs. And I suspect that every one of them is a cushy government job and a nice little earner. For all the feigned moral outrage and claims to be only interested in aboriginal advancement, too many "aboriginal" spokespersons seem to be doing just fine out of the present unacceptable situation, and one suspects that they want it to continue. All they have to do is keep beating the racism drum, keep demanding more money, and wonderful, kind, caring, and completely naive people like Foxy will diligently virtue signal to support them