Its no wonder very few posters here are from the thousands of learned people who work for the universities that sponsor this website.
Rainier,
Are you referring to those learned people whose "expertise" has always been relied upon by all the other experts when making policy & have proven such a failure. Rainier, there will be a time when the inadequacy of many (not all) learned people will be the subject of threads like these. judges are learned people, as are psychologists, bureaucrats & engineers. I mean these are the people who are in charge of a lot of the mess that you yourself criticizes more than anyone here.

Ranier,

“It would simply be embarrassing for these to engage in debate with the likes of Leigh and other nutters here, a waste of time and effort", you grunted in your charming manner.

Of course “these” would be too embarrassed to “engage in debate” with the me and others whom you call nutters. You would know all about nutters with your raving and ranting.

They – and you - should be very, very embarrassed ,trying to put over the bullswool they and you try to put over us.

The problem is that you don’t have the brains to realise that everything you spout is bullswool. And your academic mates think we non-academics are too silly to be a wake up to their bullswool. Formal education doesn’t stop people from being absolute idiots, and you and many of the academics you slaver to are well up in the top 10 list of idiots on OLO.

It’s a good thing for others of your race that you are just another embittered, white-hating loony and not a public figure spouting your twisted rubbish out in the open. They have enough problems without a dead weight like you.

Liegh,

You can be an academic and an intellectual, but an academic is not necessarily an intellectual.

You are neither!

In fact, I'm not sure there is a science that could classify you.

Zoology?

You can be an academic and an intellectual, but an academic is not necessarily an intellectual.
Rainier,
FYI, Intellectuals are largely ineffectuals. Academics are not necessarily intellectual ? Makes them pretty useless eh !

Yindin,
I thought in your first post you were against the NT intervention and was surprized to see in your next post that you actually support the intervention.

I am supporting the intervention at this stage as policies over many years have been failures.It will be interesting to see when reports come out re the intervention. I note those against it have not proposed any alternate policy that is likely to succeed. To succeed it will mean that many aboriginals will have to change their habits and give up the grog, etc. If I know people they won't want to do that. The health, safety and education of the kids must take precedence.

Also I was critisising the former PMs, that were at the 'sorry' speech, because of their hypocracy and one of them was a Liberal. He was the same as the others and just as culpable for letting the situation worsen. If the need for an apology was so obvious, why did they not do it 15-20 years ago.

I think many opposing the intervention were doing so on political grounds and could not care less about the welfare of the kids.

I will read the book this article promotes, but I do not expect to see anything positive that will help the current situation. I take far more heart from the successes at Windale

Zoology, eh Ranier. Is that the best you can do?

You people are still waffling about thousands of years of history and myths. I would have thought you were still closer to the apes than I am.

Your are obviously getting desperate now, and I feel obliged to save you from making anymore ignorant outbursts by ignoring your ridiculous and tiresome raving, head banging and posing.