"The 2017 Uluru Statement from the Heart, which has been endorsed by hundreds of Indigenous leaders".

Who says that they are "leaders"?

"Hundreds"? What about the 900,000 people identifying as descendants of aborigines? Do they know of these "leaders"? Have they consented to be led by these activists? Have they voted for these "leaders"?

Very few natives resisted; most ran away until they found that they could get free rations. They were not massacred. Some were killed. Some settlers were killed; nothing unusual about that when two vastly different cultures meet. And it has absolutely nothing to do with the here and now.

"The SBS Documentary". The SBS is as bigoted and as anti-white as the ABC. Not to be trusted or relied on for anything.

Whatever problems these people have in the 21st. Century are entirely of their own making. They have had every opportunity to prosper in the same way everyone else has. Many, if not most of them, have done so. Those who have not, will never do so; and no do-gooding, virtue-signalling by cynical politicians and activists will change that.

I think before long any aboriginal parliament will embarrass its proponents. Despite claims to the contrary I expect it to call for vetoes on resource projects that generate wealth while at the same time asking for more money. I wouldn't expect much progress on aboriginal disadvantage. We will hear how problems are all the fault of 'non First Nations' people including recent migrants.

We should turn the tables and ask why aboriginal disadvantage remains after $30bn a year in targeted spending, supposedly 1200 or some other large number of committees, 11 Federal MPs who claim aboriginal ancestry and dozens of State MPs. Without giving names some of them don't look at all aboriginal. Now we want to add more cost and more hangers-on. Isn't what already exists enough?

An ever so slightly better article than the article, written by the author, on "why we should take the vaccine"

We should say yes to the voice as this will for the first time in history, give the average indigenous person some say in outcomes/funding allocations that directly affect them!

And take much of the decision making out of the hands of unelected elder elites/unelected swill.

Who have to some extent been guilty of favouritism and nepotism to the determent of indigenous populations, by and large.

It's time the silent/the gagged/the powerless were heard! Housing funding, medical outcomes and life expectancy.
Alan B.

Possibly 20,000- 60,000 native people died in the wars. ttbn clearly did not read the article. Other comments suggest that he has trouble reading

Peter Bo author of the article

How many died in tribal clashes & due to lack of compassion before invasion !