Boo-hoo...everything wrong with my life must be the fault of the white man. Ridiculous! Is there no end to the amount of guilt white folks can be made to accept? And, of course, one mustn't be proud of one's heritage...that is, only if you are white.

Some have miss understood me I am not in any way saying whites alone are the problem.
A few are very much the problem but sorry many more Aboriginals stand in the way of progress, in my view we saw one in this thread the upper case post was just anger and nothing of substance.
However I can not ever forgive some on my side of politics clearly left of center, who constantly cry racism every time efforts are made at real improvement.
I have an interest here I'm uncle to some of these people via kids I rared for a sister.
And have many true friends among these folk.
Why is it wrong to propose education for all?
What makes personal accountability for our actions wrong?
Why after 200 plus years are Aboriginal kids stealing and hoping to get sent to prison saying it is a good change?
And why is it wrong to think a job and education is a chance at a better life?
And yes my post yesterday two kids stole the cigarettes from a wheel chair bound busker and ran away.
Well known to me they later shared the spoils with mum, again well known to me.
Tell me I am racist for wanting better from them and for them.
But the answers will not come from those who do not even know these people.
Oh by the way if humanity is one can we hope one day that we will while remembering our history just all be proud to be Australian?
And if this land is not mine too this lefty invites anyone to try to take it from me.

pjean, funny how you mention guilt without any prompting for this kind of emotional reaction being called for at all...but if the shoe fits.

Belly wrote: And if this land is not mine too this lefty invites anyone to try to take it from me.

Show me in international law where this nation was legally acquired...?

Or are your own western laws of property irrelevant?

'A few months after the first Day of Mourning back in 1938, Doug Nicholls, Yorta Yorta man, pastor and black activist, looked around in despair and anger, and said that nothing will change until, "White people learn to think black".'

This is almost a nice point from Doug Nicholls. It would have been better if he had said, "White and black people learn to think in shades of grey."

It is now quite clear that the black 'hunter-gatherer' culture is no longer tenable in the 21st century. We could try and preserve this anachronism, but why should we? Indeed the British culture that existed in the time of Captain Cook is pretty well dead and has moved on, so why shouldn't Aboriginal culture also move on?

It is also clear that a literal and fundamentalist form of Christianity is also an anachronism. It is obviously devisive and incompatible with the world view of other cultures.

Scientific naturalism combined with environmentalism on the other hand maybe a white invention but at least it has the great potential to be cross-cultural. That is, because is does not subscribe to the tribalistic totem of monotheism it reaches out to both black and white people. After all, Australia's unique natural beauty is something that we can all appreciate and love in a very spiritual way

Thank you TR, for your uncommon sense & reasonableness, on this network of undisciplined grumpiness & facile asides, to which I too have contributed. You provide a good example to us all.