The only thing that will soften peoples attitude towards many aboriginals is when they stop being racist, start working and stop the hand out mentality. Then they will earn respect like many other aboriginal people who have come here from afar for a better life have done. I have spoken to Islanders, Asians, South Americans, coloured (white and black) South Africans and most of them can't believe what they see especially after reading the propaganda before they get here.

odo odo odo, there is only one word for what you said but I cannot use it so I will say this instead.
Male Bovine Excrement.
loudmouth: Here here, and there is an increase in the numbers of them interested in reinheriting there culture.
Simpson: I agree, but the others have big mouths unfortunately.
Leigh, runner, : Not worthy of a comment, oops I just made one.

wybong: Oh that's me, here is my view.
Firstly, he should have put a full stop after the third word. Then if paragraph 1 and 2 are his opinion then I am confused.
If paragraph 2 is correct then they are aboriginal. Actualy, the words both really mean the same thing, although indigenous can have a wider target. Two examples would be.

feelings indigenous to human beings.
the indigenous people of Tahiti (Just to show this is not unique to Australia)

The indigenous culture of Australia is that of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultures.

So go ahead, call yourself an Aboriginal of Scotland. Call yourself an alien if you like, because if your an Aboriginal of Scotland, then you have to be an alien here.

The second paragraph is mostly garbage, I think it needs rethinking because in my opinion the author has made some really racist statements.

This though pales in significance to the assumptions that are made.

As others have said, I believe that Australian Indiginal Cultures are generaly held in high respect, and I know that there is a high level of "shadow" predudice against the people.

I believe that a whole lot of attitudes are going to have to before we can even contemplate any changes.

Let me say just this.

It up to us to make the first move in re-conciliation, when we arrived, one of the most successful cultures was in place, what happened from then on, was by our (whites) hands.

Before when I said we need to re-think attitudes, maybe it should apply to the way we look at things too, like my use of the word successful.

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Says runner, the parody christian, who openly criticises aboriginals for not joining his precious little church. Jews don't join it for the same reason. They have a religious tradition inseparable from their culture, so they say, which is much older than his. Runner changed denominations years ago, and thinks others regard their religion just as cheaply.

Who's racist, Runner?

Bronx cheer.

Aboriginal, Aborigine, Indigenous, Murri, Koori, Palawa, Wiradjuri, Pitjantjatjara, Kamilaroi, Gurnai, Aranda. Yolgu all have a specific history and attachment to land and sea and people and languages/ dialects.

But the poltical history of Aboriginal & Aboriginal is much more facinating than many realise because it was a history of denial and thus legal and social obscurification.

See Gardiner Garden's excellent article http://www.aph.gov.au/library/Pubs/CIB/2002-03/03cib10.pdf which explains some the legal and social complexities that have arisen because there was never any real resolution / agreement / treaty between the Crown and the people whose land the Crown stole.

Had a treaty been struck, I'm sure we would have declared that we should be called first nation peoples or something similar...from then which acknowledgement would also flow of the hundreds of individual 'Aboriginal' estates/ clans / langauge groups / conglomerations of "Aboriginality".

You may also be interested to know that we have names for non-Aboriginal people as well...most of them respectful :)

Cheers