Rainer has some misconceptions about the origins of wealth.Not all wealth comes from land tenure.The Aborigines currently own huge tracts of land,get billions from mining energy rights,billions in Aboriginal social security,yet remain the poorest people in our country.

Real wealth exists in the minds of all our citizens and when you debilitate them with a victim mentality they will inevitability will live in poverty.

There is a price for affluence and that is hours of hard work,dedication and sacrifice.The Aborigional philosophy of the productive sharing all that they have laboured for with all those who do nothing,just kills incentive.This ia why socialism has failed.Kill incentive and there is no surplus productivity that can be taxed.

Just look at countries like Japan and Ireland with little land,fuel or natural resources.They invested in Education and in the real wealth of the intelligence of their people.They have suceeded!

There is a lot wrong with the capitalist system and the multi-nationals need something to balance their power,however rabid socialism will only take us back to the dark ages of poverty in both creature comforts and the mind.

It is about time that people like yourself stopped seeing yourself apart from mainstream Australia as some sort of aloof nobility that sees no need to add to the general productivity that sustains you.

Time to grow up Rainer.

Its a silly peice of material with colours and designs on it... get a grip folks.

Silly peices of coloured material like flags are symbols of DIVISION. They are not symbols of unity, contrary to the propaganda. My country versus yours.

You dont need divisory symbols to feel a sense of pride for the place of your origin or where you live. But they certainly do render practical assistance on the battle feild in the evasion of 'f(r)iendly' fire. Silly me, still thinking back to the gulf war, l meant, in the present day newspeak, 'collateral damage.' Oh that's right, knowing your team colours doesnt stop you blowing up your team mates.

As for invoking war mongering patriotism.... ah well these war dogs will latch onto any bit of self serving rhetoric and appeals to emotion (patriotism is love of country) to justify their blood lust.

And those that call for war are seldom the ones who go off and fight for their ideals. Like politicians... someone has to stay back and lead. And SOME of the old guard, who may have been to war... they "did their bit" and now "they're too old". They use words like 'coward' to disguise the cowardice of one who emplores OTHERS to go off and do THEIR dirty work.

Fancy invoking murder thy neighbour (pre-emtive self defence otherwise known as agression and invasion) and 'liberation' by death on the back of coloured peices of cloth... BIZARRE.

rainier, the only privileges enjoyed by any of my family, past and present, were those that they had WORKED and fought for. For them, there was no sitting with their hand out, it was toil, toil and more toil.
If there was any land tenure or economic development, it was simply the result of sheer hard work.
Nothing else.

Arjay,

If I thought for one minute that anything you have written was worth taking seriously I'd respond accordingly.

As I've advised you in other posts, you must read much more broadly than Pauline Hanson's maiden speech to become better engaged in these issues - both here and in terms of world history.

Why?

Well you might be surprised to discover how much you really don't know. (the universal objective of learning).

And finally may I suggest you take this little bit of advice along to your next branch meeting. Perhaps you could announce it the interval between the line dancing and goat riding session?

Howard is Right at last- flag burning should not be an offence .

He knows how corrupt and abusive Power hungry governments can be .
To him it is a Democratic Right .

Aboriginal people show considerable politeness to Government when one thinks of their dissadvantaged position .