Windschuttle may make give Col,redneck and the rest of the quadrant readers a warm feeling but I believe he is a fraud .

Aboriginal people certainly had inter tribal conflict after settlement but this was often a result of Aboriginals being dispossesed by white squatters and forced onto someone else's country.

Whites knew this would happen.

Alcohol ,disease and dispossession were a genocidal mix .

In my younger days I asked my old Station Head Stockman who had lived in Central and Northern Australia and was Head stockman for a famous pastoral family later in life, if he had killed any blacks - he said he hadn't but he had "buried Them".

In an interview I did a few years ago with a local, now deceased land owner , she said that her uncle who worked in Queensland around the start of the 20th century had come back to Victoria with stories of massacres of Aboriginal People but he had not participated .

In our area there is a story about one station that had the reputation for being a place that murders were committed in the 1800's.

Governments in Australia knew what was going on , they were complicit by not stopping what was going on.

If you were sitting with your friends at "home" and a band of wild white people galloped into your back yard you might try to defend your family .

Big mistake in the 19th century . If you touched your boomerang or club this allowed the squatters and their motley crews to open fire in "self defence".

Chief Protector G A Robinson's Victorian Diarys are a good read if you really want to know what life was like for Aboriginal people in Victoria when the invasion was in full swing . I D Clark of Monash University and others have reproduced his diaries.

They are the books that students should have access to and all fair minded Australians must read to counteract the garbage produced by Windschuttle and his white armband history re writers.

They will fail .

Passy “The Australian state does not treate all equally.”

“Muslim are dragged before the courts.”

Because their behaviour is suspect, not because they are muslims.

“Life expectancy among aborginal men is 17 years lower than the life expectancy of non-indigenous men.”

I have a heart condition. My brother has the same problem, so too my father. I expect to die because of it.

If you are of negro origin, you may well suffer sickle–cell anaemia, if you are Caucasian, you will not, unless someone in your past was negro.

Life expectancy of aboriginals may well be a direct function of their genetic makeup.

Government is not responsible for my genetic heart condition, genetically inherited sickle-cell anaemia or the genetic composition of aboriginals.

However, if that is insufficient to explain a shorter life expectancy, I might suggest the occurrence of excessive substance abuse, from an early age, being more prevalent among aboriginal men than non-aboriginal men, could well provide a similar mortality differential.

I see you believe we can function without a defence force. I heard Krudd declaring on radio this a.m. that whilst his government razor gang would look for cuts form every other function of government; “Defence”, because of its nature, was not going to be touched.

“And some of that wasted $80 bn could be used for compensation.”

Self-abuse does not qualify for “compensation” . What you are suggesting is a greed, for a bigger share from the public trough.

The sooner aboriginals and those who “claim” to be aboriginal give up this stupid quest for false reparations and decide to participate as every other Australian is expected to participate, in the processes of work for reward, instead of demanding “Institutionalised Cargo Cult” payments, the sooner they will feel some sense of self worth, self respect and no need for anyone to say sorry for anything

but that also assumes they actually want to feel good about themselves, when they seem to be crippled by their own "victim" mentality.

Col Rouge
103AD-2008
Died of organ failure in his chest
Some say it was his heart
Others say that this was impossible.

Col ,
You have a heart condition . Not Good.

I bet if someone through their actions made your condition worse you would be the first to go for compensation .

Or perhaps you would say it's all my fault and I'm not worthy of compensation .

Fat chance .

Rainier” Col Rouge
103AD-2008
Died of organ failure in his chest
Some say it was his heart
Others say that this was impossible.”

I see, the lowest of posts from the lowest of life forms, lower than that which produces algae blooms.

Like scum, he manages to float to the top, from where, in the ivory tower of academia, he tries to build his own crippled ego up by talking down to the rest of us.

Kartiya jim.” I bet if someone through their actions made your condition worse you would be the first to go for compensation .”

If you were a betting person, you would lose.

For me, I smoked for 25 years before having a heart attack, which aggravated my condition. The damage was my own,

As the old maxim goes - volenti non fit injuria

I always accept responsibility for my own actions Jim, I would recommend it to everyone else who wants to experience life to the full, the “victim mentality” will always cripple those who deploy it.

The federal government and the people who elect them did nothing to prejudice the health of aborigines. The substance and generational child abuse damage has been a self selected choice.

As the old maxim goes - volenti non fit injuri

i have a question that will become more relavent as time goes on ,
"after how much time living on a particular piece of dirt ,does some one become indiginous of that spot ?,will the ancestors of the colonising people of this country have the right to say they are indiginous also in lets say 40,000 years time? or when ?