Rainer, I have just been going through the last dozen or so of your postings on OLO.

How is it that without exception there is nothing constructive therein. All you have to contribute is a seemingly endless diatribe against those who make suggestions for the betterment of the race to which you claim to belong. All you seem to have is an excellent command of the English language which unfortunately seems to be the only thing that I can say in your favour.

Get the rest of your brain into gear mate and come up with some constructive solutions and then people will start to listen to you and perhaps take heed of what you might have to say.

David

Rainier,

I do not have an opinion on the state of rugby league in Australia, except that Matthew Bowen rules in genius stakes; but then again, I'm prejudiced.

I do not necessarily have an opinion on who would make the better PM, but you can be assured that my bias will most certainly be exacted at the pooling booth, come election day.

A great many Australian's have opinions on the outstanding matter of indigenous affairs, without a skerrick of involvement beyond the currency of public opinion.

Obviously, this a compounding difficulty, just as surely as it is a frustration, particularly for persons such as yourself.

The challenge, as I see it, is to turn this national propensity for opinion introspectively and to the extent that the individual might ask of themselves, "what would I hope for if freehold title was made redundant and 'unindigenousness' was relegated to the bottom rung of the social order?"

Neil

The challenge, as I see it, is to ask ourselves what we would do if 95% of us were told that, because we are living in houses on land that has long been the domain of the other 5%, that we can't start a business, buy the house we live in, talk to the media about the state of the roads, or invite the visitors of our choice to come and stay with us, without unreasonable delays, arbitrary decisions, and /or exorbitant fees before we get permission of the other 5% to go ahead.

This was the flaw in the Aboriginal Lands Right Act (NT) 1976: no provision for the common good or democracy prevailing in the towns on the inalienable freehold land.

Neil,

Agree with some points you raise there.
My previous post identified those who feel they have a right to have an opinion over and above both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal people who have dedicated their lives to the cause.
The 67 referendum was unanimous not because of intimate knowledge of Aboriginal people, quite the opposite really. Many didn't think people lived here before white people. they still don't. It was a formal equality, not substantive.

VKU3,

I thought you knew everything and what solutions we should adopt?

Rainier,

The world is full of people who've dedicated themselves to causes. As far as I'm concerned they're entitled to do that. Everyone has experiences and the point I've made is that everyone is therefore entitled to a view however "off topic" it may seem to you. You are not the wellspring of all wisdom - no one is.

Your attitude reminds me of the disdainful way truckies in the 1970s used to look down on the rest of the population because they "didn't run the country".

Rainier, very few of us here profess to be as superior, intellectual,brilliant as you seemingly regard yourself. But we live in a democracy where we are entitled to express our views-whether they get up your nose or not.
Forums like this are popular because we can read what others are thinking, if you feel that any forum caters to the dumb or dumber, feel free to exercise your mind elsewhere. We won't mind.