"Time for an Aboriginal member of parliament in NSW come 2023".

Such a person should put himself/herself up for the job. The federal parliament now has a 10% representation of these people, three times the number of those in the population actually claiming to be aboriginal or part thereof. Why don't those who are half-white talk about that? Senator Price's father was a white Anglo/Celt. She will be an asset for all Australians in parliament, but she is both aboriginal and non-aboriginal.

While it is common for the bleeding hearts to call 'racists' those who dare to call for tests for 'claimed' aboriginality - where its existence is not obvious - it is the bleeding hearts themselves who are the real racists, advocating division and apartheid in Australia’s population.

Mabo is an excellent template for land rights. And keeps the humbug out of land rights. If those who are born here are not native Australians with the same rights as all other Native born Australians, then what we have is reverse apartied.

Yes the destruction of of those caves was inexcusable! And we do need to preserve these areas to save them for all time as we would for Christian Cathedrals etc.

People have migrated here in waves for thousands of years. And only recent arrivals with white skins are singled out as non native! Pacific islanders? Not so much!

Time for truth telling and reconciliation. And an end to the endless humbug and black armband history.

We also need a new definition of black that is resolved by DNA tests that show more than 50%! Not, I feel aboriginal, claims by folk with blue eyes and milk white skin and no devison DNA. If that's the only requirement, then we are all Aboringinal!

That said, my original assertion remains the only real test for all native born Aussies. Be they black white or brindle
Alan B.

Bravo Alan B bravo!

Alan, Mabo was actually a bad template for land rights. It really only has application for coastal dwelling people who are/were not hunter/gatherers, but who lived in well defined area. It would seem that the smart legal eagles at that time really got it all wrong and now it it is impossible to untangle it.

David

ttbn. Senator elect Price is one of the few part aboriginals who is honest about her antecedents. She is also very knowledgeable about how things really are in aboriginal communities in the bush. I hope senators on both sides of the house and on the cross benches listen intently on what she has to say.
David

David

Agreed.

There's been natural heritage disasters on both Labor and Liberal watches. There probably should have been someone with a vested interest in it's preservation on the site at the time of Rio Tinto's activities. As we reach 8 Billion people at the end of this year and 9 Billion people by 2035 it will be lucky if the Earth isn't left as a smooth glass marble. But no one- not the Green's or the Communists or any of the Left and Right Liberals are doing much to stop it. Maybe the Traditionalists might do something to protect cultural heritage but they are labelled as racists.

Not sure Fred Nile's Bill is the way to go though.

I think it is just wonderful that aboriginal people, even those with blue eyes and blond hair, should be able to live within their own culture.

Aboriginal men should be allowed to beat up their partners and even kill them in the old, traditional way. Of course, they already do, aboriginal women are 15 times more likely to be hospitalised as an other ethnic group because of domestic violence, and the murder of an aboriginal woman by her aboriginal spouse is so common that the offenders are more likely to be charged with Manslaughter, rather than Murder. We should make it legal for aboriginal men to beat up and kill their women up and this would help reduce the unacceptable levels of aboriginal incarceration. This might have the effect of shutting up all of those female aboriginal activists who presumably love their own culture and want to continue it.

Old aboriginal men should be allowed to have sex with young aboriginal females who have just reached puberty, in the good old, traditional way. And to keep harems and prevent the young males to socialising with the young females.

Old aboriginal men should be allowed to initiate young boys into the tribe in the old, traditional way, by the use of painful and degrading ceremonies which terrify the young males into absolute obedience to the old men. That this would include forcing the young boys to have sex with the old men would be applauded by the "gay" community, who probably think that such a ceremony is a great idea.

Lego. You are game. You are going to have coals heaped on your head for telling it like it is. But so be it. 'Twas ever thus.
David

What lead to the Mabo case in the very first place ?

Lego. Perhaps the wannabees will decide that "White man's culture" isn't so bad after all.
David

Indyvidual, Eddy Mabo decided that he would challenge the status quo, because his land, which had been in his family forever, had been taken from him illegally.
David

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Before that !

To VKU003.

I was born game.

I just get so sick and tired of these touchy, feely articles by people who are one quarter or less "aboriginal" who write these articles for the Eastern Suburbs Blue Rinse Set, who rather incredibly, now vote for Labor.

FACT. The best thing that ever happened to the real aboriginal people was the coming of the British. Everywhere the British went they set up countries which today are the most desirable places on the planet to live in. Governor Phillip was speared at Manly Beach by an aboriginal, but t=when his marines raised their muskets to return fire, Phillip told them to stop. He knew the aboriginal man (who was not a local) was confused and he wanted to create a nation INCLUSIVE of aboriginal people.

If the Germans or the Japs had got here first, there would be no aborigines. If the Belgians of the Dutch had got here first, all aboriginal people would have been slaves. And if nobody had come to drag the aboriginal people into the modern age, then Australia today would be just another totally dysfunctional, black run country holding out the begging bowl to the European people. Russians, Asians, South Americans, and Indians are not noted for their generosity to the third world. It is always the white guys who foot the bill and get all the criticism.

Stone age aboriginal culture is exactly that, a very primitive old male dominated gerentocracy culture which was very violent towards females, and it still is. Every Feminist should be condemning it to high heaven, but just like Islam, Feminists are missing in action when judging any non European male dominated culture.

As for aboriginal cave paintings. If Notre Dame was as big as France and was sitting on vital resources, you can bet that the French would make a compromise with their culture. Aboriginal welfare is a $60 billion pa industry while our defence budget is $40 billion. It is about time the "aboriginals", even those with dark skin and dark eyes, stopped whining and contributed to their own welfare.