Paul we spend more per head on every aboriginal in the country, even the extremely well paid ones in the aboriginal industry than we do on the age pensioners you hate.

I wonder how much the aboriginal air taxi service that the royal flying doctor service through most of Queensland costs above the regular "services" has become?

The lesson of history is that any incompetent population will be usurped by a more competent one. It has happened through out the world countless times.

These take overs can be brutal, or benevolent. The take over of Australia has been probably the most benevolent on record, & most aboriginals are today so much better off than they were or would have been today without the British arrival.

The Oz aboriginal was very lucky that it was the British who got here first. Had it been the French or Germans they would have had a very rough time.

I read somewhere recently that you can't graft western institutions into non-western cultures- despite their success in the west. This is probably the underlying reason for the wars. Over thousands of years Christian missionaries and others have given up their lives to explain western cultures to other cultures so that there will be less wars.

Quite a number of times I've read & heard indigenous people say that "no-one" owns land, it belongs to all. So, how is something that doesn't belong to anyone 'stolen' ? Neglected children being taken into care are not 'stolen' , they're saved & cared for. Those who violate against them are not dealt with until much later by those with the authority to do so when it's too late. These offenders are largely members of those authorities.
Another lesson of history is the fact that those who put in the physical effort are invariably exploited by the intellectual elitists, the same ones who perpetually bleat fairness & equal Rights. To sum up the lessons of History, Hypocrisy reigns supreme !