Dear Ipso Fatso,

«If they have genuine difficulty adjusting to modern society, then that society should assist them.»

Why should they want to "adjust" to the evils and foolishness of modern society which was forced on them?

Modern society in its laziness of seeking quick comforts, has sacrificed itself and is now being taken over by machines. Soon, possibly in a decade or two, machines will take over completely and disallow any human-to-human interaction, pushing humans into a meaningless existence, that before eventually getting rid of humans altogether. Australia's next king/head-of-state is likely to be a robot, certainly the one after him/her.

The aboriginals could have faced scarcity and hard manual labor, but that way they remained free and survived for some 50-70,000 years, whereas Western/white civilisation will only survive for some 3,000-5,000 years (depending where one starts to count) before destroying itself.

ShadowMinister wrote:

«I suppose when Cook landed, there was no sovereign government to deal with only illiterate nomadic tribes whose administration was non existent.»

And Paul commented:
«That might have been most fortunate for the locals,»

That was indeed their fortune - not just because Cook did not kill them, but in itself, they were free while white-Westerners lived and suffered under the heavy yoke of administration for centuries, at least since Roman times.

White man and his junk civilisation is guilty.
I do hope some aboriginals will be able to survive out in the outback and remain free to tell the tale once both white people and aboriginal traitors who adapted and "adjusted" to their ways are subdued and finished by the monsters they created.