rpg: << So I'm a moron... >>

You said it.

And I'll agree, at least with respect to your knowledge and understanding of Aboriginal people.

Sadly, those with least knowledge or intent to personally act, are those who are the most judgemental of others.
I'm not moving house from white or black & never have. It's unreasonable to assume 'aboriginality' is obvious...it's financially beneficial to claim aboriginality, however distant, discounting all other ancestry in turn.
My neighbour's 2nd son's forced to live away from family in order to hold a job (which he loves) and keep friends (who don't live in a drug/alcohol-induced stupor/rage)...they're the facts. He returns once-a-year to visit family and tells me why he can't stay here each time. I drove him within an-hour-and-a-half of his workplace after his great-grandmother's funeral (well out of my way), with further four hours travel that night. I'd offered so he saved most of his bus fare as I was travelling to attend my own grandmother's funeral next morning. Arriving at the closest point I could take him, providing food/drinks along the way, he asked me to take him to his destination and for money. I explained again why I couldn't and how far I had to go, in another direction. I left him the remainder of my food/drinks at the relevant depot...and consider his expectation was unreasonable. I still persevere with our friendship because I do care and he's trying...but he still has a lot to learn about gratitude for other's significant efforts...and removing the 'chip' from his shoulder and the 'expectation' that 'whites'-owe-'blacks' that enters his conversations as a given, not a suggestion. His workmates and boss made considerable efforts to help him get to the funeral and told him to stay as long as custom required and his family needed.
My family paid their own way to Australia, they've worked hard and paid their way ever since...I neither owe nor own this country, I work to keep it free and fair and would like to see all who live here live under the same rules, liberties, expectations AND responsibilities. ONLY THEN will there be any understanding or consideration of one another as people, not colours.
(tbc...)

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I'm tired of the 'industry' that feeds off this generation of aboriginals who are the true 'stolen' generation...those who've had their future 'stolen' by those who continue to feed them with myths and propaganda and allow them to live on drugs/alcohol/petrol sniffing and gambling while their children are neglected and fed on hatred and abuse of many kinds, ignored by the wealthy 'industry' spokespersons who write propaganda but do nothing personally to change or contribute.
I've heard blacks who keep a clean house abused for being too 'white' for doing so. Blacks who hold jobs abused for the same reason. My neighbours have recently forced their older son out of their home because they can no longer live in fear of his violence and drug/alcohol/substance induced abuse and damage.
Caring for my neighbours has put my own children at risk when this substance abuse and its consequences take over...articles like these ignore the reality and contribute nothing towards a solution!
These 'industry' elitists are costing generation-after-generation of aboriginal and non-aboriginal Australians any chance of a just, fair or decent life...all to ensure their own employment opportunities and finances are secure in the “cash cow” windfall that Australian taxpayers continue to fund.
2x$5000 baby bonus' on and a $4000 windfall between, no surprises discovering that my neighbour's daughter 'enjoyed' a drug/alcohol bender each payment, until they ran out...and a secure mental ward after the most recent payment was spent. The bruises found on her two babies at that time haven't meant their young lives are any more protected now than they were at birth.
Do the authorities know? Their grandmother tells them again-and-again and lives with the inaction, anguish, frustration and helplessness.
Caring-listening-comforting-acting where possible, is accepting a lifetime of frustration, putting my own family at risk from very real harm, property damage and constant stress.
Man's inhumanity to man is at its worst in the financial beneficiaries of this sordid industry and the clap-trap they promote...not from those of us who tell it like it is and try to pick up the pieces and help mend the lives.

rpg,

Thank you for your explanation. I saw some drunken whites last night and I read about these drunken white fellers who beat their wives. What can you tell me about white Australians culture from that experience?

"Hardly the noble "culture" you're alluding to." Excuse me, but when did I allude to a noble culture?

"Your image of beautiful, caring, graceful custodians of the land is a myth, living in harmony with the earth and each other is a myth." Well, rpg, it's certainly a myth that I ever used any of those words; but I suppose people like you can make up your own myths. You can create your own imagined debating opponent and manufacture some imagined words and have a nice old argument with yourself.

A Great ambasador for Christ who happenes to be an aboriginal preached a sermon on the culture of the cross and told us that this earth BELONGS to GOD and we are only temparory care takers, Here today gone tomorrow so when we get all excited about ownership and rights and wrongs in the past we are in error for the Lord giveth and the Lord taketh away so seek yea first the kingdom of God and ALL else shall be added to you. It is our choice what we do with this life but if we continualy hang on to the past we will never choose to embrace our destiny which belongs to our future. If you always do what you have always done you will always git what you always got.
Happy hunting boys. I have a good friend who tells me he is a Woolworths murray because he prefers to do his hunting with a palm full of money

Spikey - sorry I do apologise, I had attributed some other comments to you for some reason - completely unfair and uncalled for of me.

It won't happen again.

(It was someone else's sacred cow I was offended by.)

cjmorgan .. "a moron", yes you are. Thanks for your interesting contribution .. nothing, again. Oh, sniping IS your contribution, well done, but try harder F-.