The sad irony of this piece is that Bolt will get wind of it - he will read the posts - and various parts of his anatomy will swell with pride - he loves the notoriety.

Bolters has number of themes/pet hates and he can find elements of them in almosst any human endeavour. He really is a glass half full kind of guy.

Equally as sad is the fact that with his notoriety based on his pet hates - academics - those sceptical of any foriegn policy other than an alignmnt with the USA - any artist who has reveived a grant - other people seek his opinion on all manner of things; And I'll be buggered if some dont actually listen and agree!

He is a bolt - i mean blot - on the cultural landscape - he writes and argues like a naive first year under graduate his logic is silly and I dont like the way he does his hair.

Andrew Bolt rose to journalistic fame by kicking an old lady in the guts (Lois O'Donaghue) some years back simply because he could. Hip Hip Hooray shouted the multitudes. ‘Who does that old black woman think she is anyway’?

And so Andrew Bolt was born.

How sad that his supporters think that objective journalism is articulated in a Right to kick the most downtrodden whenever it suites.

Here on OLO you will see them hiding in the crevices of racist thinking, their beady little eyes shining in the dark, these ugly little crustaceans who are known to colonise and feed around the sewerage pipes of right wing media, will crawl out momentarily and declare Bolt a national hero, along with the Cronulla beach lynch mobs and anything and anyone that resembles them.

AB is only to willing to feed them the crap they like to eat. It’s all he knows how to do - poor fellow.

Forget black versus white politics and whether or not Graham Ring knows more than Andrew Bolt.

The important issue is the horrible abuse of innocent, voiceless aboriginal children in remote communities. All other aboriginal issues are complete rubbish agaist this. Neither Ring nor Bolt will make any contribution to practical solutions to any aboriginal concerns, so who gives a stuff what either of them says!

Leigh, From an Indigenous perspectives Graham does know more than Bolt and it does matter if one is attempting to influence public opinion about how best to support Indigenous people and communities.

Read GR's piece again and you'll realise that he is not talking so much about black/white politics but rather the white/white fella politics -RE: about knowledge of Aboriginal people and contexts.

Not that I hold out any hope of you understanding this, but at least I tried.

Leigh says, "The important issue is the horrible abuse of innocent, voiceless aboriginal [sic]children in remote communities. All other aboriginal [sic] issues are complete rubbish agaist [sic] this." The use of the phrase "aboriginal issues" is misleading . Abuse of children is morally repugnant, and it's a serious crime, no matter where the child is located and no matter what their racial or ethnic origin. Moreover, as shorthand, the phrase suggests that somehow the causative root of these crimes is to found in the nature of Aboriginal communities when a much sharper analysis is required.

As to Leigh's judgment that "Neither Ring nor Bolt will make any contribution to practical solutions to any aboriginal concerns, so who gives a stuff what either of them says!", three comments. (a) In fairness, the article by Graham Ring was not dealing with child sexual abuse but related to Andrew Bolt's attack on Camp Sovereignty and on Graham Atkinson. (b) To dismiss Ring's complete corpus of writing about Aboriginal "concerns" so comprehensively is arrogant folly. I, for one, am interested in reading what he says and have found his column in the National Indigenous Times and his articles for OLO stimulating and full of positive ideas. (c) Even Bolt's writings may stir indignation sufficient to get good people out of their apathy - though I wouldn't go too far with that argument.

Graham is on the money here , bolta has been left way behind in his understanding of what could actually help heal the souls and bodies of many Aboriginal people.he probably couldn't give a continental anyway .
John Howard has failed us all with his lack of leadership in uplifting Aboriginal Australians ,THIS is his Greatest test .we should remind him of it when he comes back from his holiday . he has had 10 years to do something positive ; we should not let him off the hook - he is the man most responsible and most able to get things moving .
Bolta could gain some respect by lending him some encouragement to engage honourably with the first Australians .