FOxy, Redneck and Doc Holliday are well known here for their vision impairment. Thanks for trying to guide through the door of enlightment. However I think you'll find they are very very happy being blind and ignorant. "Who else could we be?" if not this they ask us! We tell them and then we realize they are also deaf.

Hey Rainier,

I suggest you read your 1st sentence again. Methinks it could be read the way you did not intend?

Foxy's cool.

Foxy,
”Australia is a country LITTERED with war memorials to its Anzac soldiers”
Now that speaks volumes doesn’t it !

It seems that a many of your sources are out of date:
- Aboriginal cultural studies are a very much part of modern schooling ( & media). [least-ways those Aboriginal cultures whom the ‘Gucci Socialists” have deemed suitable to represented their baby, the “Aboriginal nation”] and
- Aboriginal groups have more land under their authority that any other group of Australians .

There are real issues re Aboriginal health & education.
And govts of both persuasions, labor & liberal, have been addressing them –though not always effectively & not always to everyone’s liking.

Unfortunately much of what passes for Aboriginal advocacy in the popular media is merely the beatings of a minority of misfits & self-seekers . Most of whom wouldn’t be content in any society/culture black, white or brindle .

Interesting you should mention :Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn.
For, it seems that a lot of the historians on the payroll of the politburo of the former Soviet Union have moved into jobs with “reconciliation “ groups in Aust – certainly the versions of history they’re pumping out have a distinct Soviet flavour…

Dear Horus,

I suggest that you read the "Gulag Archipelago" by Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn and familiarise yourself with both the author and his work. He was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1970.

He was arrested and spent eight years in labour camps and three years in exile. Finally in 1974 the Soviet Government revoked Solzhenitsyn's citizenship and deported him. He lived in Switzerland for about two years and then settled in the United States in 1976.

It wasn't until 1990 that his citizenship was restored.

The author was anti a totalitarian regime all of his life. His heroes
always express the triumph of dignity over tyranny and suffering.

You need to fully investigate things before making generalisations.
Because as the saying goes: "It's better to let people think you're a fool, than to speak and confirm it!"

Col, You remind of many I've met in the real world, gutless, pointless and pompous. Lashings of enlightment would not penetrate that thick skull of yours. You've spent a life time cultivating half a man and a quarter of a brain to go with it. All your pretentious word smithing is backed up by nothing much at all. Read some legal history, converse with legal historians man. Do something more than looking up the skirt of Margaret Thatcher every time you find yourself wanting. Not for us, but for you and your poor suffering family.

Foxy,
Wow ! that was a big air-swing …

I wasn’t suggesting Sol. was an employee of the politburo!

Though, I will say this ( and this might ruffle some hero-worshippers!) Old Sol himself, was a bit of misfit .He didn’t fit into the Soviets structure & he couldn’t fit into life in the West .And I seem to remember he ended espousing values that were not too dissimilar from some of the core Soviet values – though of course, bottled under a different label.
But that’s all beside the point…

How about the other scoring punches I landed –any response– or are you still too ruffled?