Part One

Aborigine Academia?
Aboriginals thankfully are gradually gaining the benefits of a standard white Western education, but which unfortunately is still leaving the majority of our Aboriginals behind, including part-coloureds who mostly have done poorly at primary school level.

As regards our OLO discussion on the above subject, there seems to be ridiculous rivalry between left and right, the so-called left opinions regarded by certain members of our OLO’s as only fit for the trash-can.

Furthermore one’s experience as a farmer and grazier in Dalwallinu district when it took in a large pastoral area as well as farmlands now seems also to be placed in the looney left category by some who admittedly appear to have a sound argument but could be said to be picking out naturally bright Aborigines who have done so well in academia.

It seems also that these naturally learned Aborigines, apart from the odd one who has become an academic type stirrer, have mostly tended to have developed a Western white existence as if possibly ashamed of their dusky inheritance?

BB Part Two

It is interesting that the above topic has not been at a loss as far as most bush white families are concerned especially in earlier times, more modern young farm families having far less to do with the
countryside’s previous occupiers.

But earlier in our district some Aboriginals became as successful as whites, especially the females who married whites.

Aborigines have also proven themselves in sport as well as in music and acting, both men and women proving inspirational to the more faint-hearted.

But what was sometimes talked about by more serious white families, was that white educators should be encouraged to develop themes based on the nicer natural aspects of the Aborigines, especially concerning Aboriginal history, and about that extra-pleasing and special look fullbloods can get in their eyes when given adequate and genuine praise.

With a proven 60,000 years of existence this alone should give them special favour to us Western whites, even allowing permanent seats in our Senate, as with the Maories in New Zealand.

Finally, we Western whites must lose some of our ridiculous pride by somehow admitting the truth about white settlement not being always a pleasant existence
for the original dark-skinned owners.

Regards, BB, WA

Paul, your ideas were floated around 20 years ago and i have no interest in debating them with you here.

And you vote Labor! Even worse!

What is the the point of this thread anyway ? Of course the girls would feel like strangers. Anyone would at 4 or 5000 km from home.
Any living breathing creature feels that when away from it's comfort zone.
It's this kind of pointless "studying" by those academics who can't get through life without some idiotic bureaucrat wasting public funding on them which I object to.

A much more fascinating study would be to place Helen Hughes in a community in remote Australia, without a mobile phone or credit cards with her objective being to
1. Learning the local language(s)
2. Finding a job and housing
3. Earning the respect of locals.

I would gladly VOLUNTEER TO observe and take notes.

A much more fascinating study would be to place Helen Hughes in a community in remote Australia, without a mobile phone or credit cards with her objective being to
1. Learning the local language(s)
2. Find a job and housing
3. Earning the respect of locals.

I would gladly VOLUNTEER TO observe and take notes.