In the hands of the ALP Government the apology has become a substitue for action. It's more like "We've said sorry. Now bugger off."

The fight for justice for Aboriginal people will have to continue after Rudd delivers the apology - which is but the smallest step on the road to reconciliation.

Withdraw the troops from the Northern Territory. Re-introduce land rights. Apply the Racial Discrimination Act. Take immediate action to cut the 17 year life expectancy gap. Negotiate with the communities.

It appears that Rusted-on- Col (Rusty) is running out of steam and now finds himself retrieving his previous excretions and throwing them around a frenzied state of confusion. Someone call the nurse!

The other sign that he’s lost the plot is that he starts citing the most imbecilic thinker of our time. Margaret Thatcher. It’s a clear indicator of when Rusty reaches the bottom of his very shallow intellectual pool.

Despite millions of scientists around the world (from hundreds of ethnic backgrounds) all agreeing without equivocation that race has no genetic basis – Rusty clings tightly to those old anthropological myths. Without them he is nothing (well less, less than he already is).

He provides no evidence that the English were better colonisers or the qualitative instrument he utilises to make this claim. He just makes this claim because that is what he believes. What Australian historian does he cite? Nobody, no-one, zilch!

It Rusty's world you need nothing more than good old rugged individualism sprinkled with the kind of anglophilic buffoonery that even Tory's in England have long abandoned.

Too common to be gentry, too proud to be working class!

In this bubble, Rusty Col is his own historian, anthropologist, pedicurist, scientist, zoologist, epidemiologist, poet, economist and pscho therapist. You name the discipline or profession and old Rusty knows it bettet than most- just ask him!.

What a guy!

According to Keith Windshuttle in to-days Australian we could be saying soory for past state labour governments. If this is true, suddenly saying soory ceases to be a problem.

col ,
I see no difference between fruit pickers that go from property to property, often camping and the hunter gathers of old .They eventually make it back to their home water-hole for important social and family reasons for a limited time .

They are flash hunter gatherers in my book.

I don't know why International Land and property law is such a problem to you.

No doubt the concept of Bill of Human Rights is a concern to you also .

Rainier said ,
"And what the hell would you know about our cause anyway ,if you have never lived it".

I don't have to live it to know what is going on concerning Aboriginal people .

There are plenty to tell me what's going on.

Since you "ask"??!
I am lucky enough to have blood from many different races including a touch of the tar brush from the West Indies.

I also have an Aboriginal family in Northern Australia who have seen many of the ills of present Aboriginal life in Australia made all to familiar to them and to me .

Thanks for the inquiry .

The rate of removal of Aboriginal children today is 50% higher than at the height of the Stolen Generations removals. We even use the same "they'll be better off" argument.

Are we by our present removal and invasion policies continuing the cycle of dispossession and genocide in the name of caring for kids?