“At the Tulloh property near the Grampians, Robinson [Chief Protector of Aborigines May 1841] ‘saw the corpse of a native on 3 sticks’, apparently used as bait to lure and kill emus. Tulloh told Robinson that he and eight other men had previously gone to the Grampians ‘in a quest of blacks’. They found a child, laid it near the fire ‘and roasted it or, to use his qualified expression, burnt it’. They also found a ‘fine little boy’, who bit one of the men who had abducted him. ‘The ruffian then kicked the child to death’. A week later, following yet another attack on a native camp near Mt Sturgeon, Robinson could only state the obvious: ‘ This would not be allowed in a civilised society’.” Citing the Journals of G.A. Robinson, May to August 1841, extracts of Manuscripts held in the Mitchell Library Sydney (Birch, 2003, p.157).

Rather than helping the parents of the stolen generations the children were taken and taught to be almost white. A servant class to be exploited. How about the sanctimonious posters read some of the reports such as the Bringing them home report.

AKA, good point about reading the report. However from my experience ignorance is a peculiar animal, it refuses to digest anything that may ask it to reconsider, learn and reflect.

When I encounter this animal I always think of those German soldiers who rebelled against Hitler and his genocidal ways. They were men and women of great courage and humanity. So too for many on the 'frontier' in this country who protested against the genocidal ways of 'early settlers'. They were few, but they were there.

Rainier “If this dispossession happened over the last 50 years wouldn't you consider this significant”

That is a purely hypothetical question to which the only answer is

It did not happen in the past 50 years.

You might find some satisfaction from debating "academic hypotheticals" but I am to immersed in the practical issues of "real life" to give time to your “fantasist indulgences”.

“No such application of international law has ever been engaged with here.”

Please enlighten us all to the “International Law” which governed
Battle of the Boyne,
Saxon invasion of Britain
The French defeat at Agincourt
England re Dane-geld paid to Denmark.

The world is a changing place.
The total environment which shapes peoples expectations is never “absolute”, where all laws would be applicable across all time.

Peoples expectations change but are subject to the time in which they live. The laws which govern us today differ from those of 100 years ago and, doubtless, to those of 100 years future.

My only expectation is all Australian laws will be applied blindly and evenly to every Australian, whether their ethnicity be aboriginal or otherwise.

I support the expectations expressed in Dr King's famous speech
“I have a dream that one day this nation will rise up and live out the true meaning of its creed: "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal."

Anything other than that, be it aboriginal exceptions or “affirmative action”, is morally offensive and ultimately, as we saw in the NT, corrupting.

I suspect, it well serves your "historical and moral perspective" to rely upon a mythical fantasy of exceptions to be applied to "aboriginal" Australia.

We have all seen the result when such exceptions are allowed and that is why the previous federal government acted on the lawless and abusive settlements of the northern territory.

The first requirement of any community which believes it is competent to govern itself is to actually “govern” itself.

Those NT settlements prove, through the rape and abuse of their own children, that to “govern” is clearly beyond them.

Many of the comments on his article just prove John's point.

There are an awful lot of aborigines running around today whose sole means of support is the white Aussie taxpayer. So, if it was ever the intention of white people to commit "genocide" on aboriginals, we seen to have made a very poor job of it.

This article is just another example of anti white racism, and it equates to The Eternal Jew as an example of outrageous racist propaganda. The incredible thing about it is, is that those whose attitudes are reflexively anti racist are unable to see it.

They have been so conditioned to think that everything white people do is evil, and so conditioned to think that every foul deed done by non whites is excusable, (because they can always find a way to blame white people for it) that by some application of doublethink, they are unable to recognise a clearly racist article that attacks white people.

Condemning white Australians by grossly exagerating history in order to make that history conform to what some Gucci Socialist wishes it had been, is an act of racism.

Well put, redneck !

Quod Erat Demonstrandum.