Hi Aries54,

Thank you for your comments.

indyvidual,

You should already have the answer to your questions as to
how our Indigenous people would have lived if colonisation
had not taken place.

They would have retained their culture and traditions, and languages.
Their population would have grown not decreased. They would
have their own land and territories and water resources. They
would have been able to support themsleves. There would not
have been the spread of diseases.

They would have been able to live as distinct societies
each having their own territorial boundaries,
teaching how to live in harmony with the land they inhabited.
Languages, customs and belief systems, including education
systems, governance would have been their own. They would have
had a common identity.

Their customs and culture had survived over the decades - making
them custodians of the world's oldest living culture.

Prior to British settlement more than 500 First Nations groups
inhabited the country speaking over 200 Aboriginal languages.
What a loss that has been - and can't be replaced.

Colonisation has a lot to answer.

Dear oh dear. All the things that were lost to these poor, hard done by people after 1788. Ideally, those of us with no claims to aboriginality could go back from whence we came - after returning the country to what it was 235 years ago; the British Isles and Europe could send all their non-British, non-European citizens back to the countries their ancestors came from, and we could all live happily ever after.

Or alternatively, we could try decolonisation - and give
some of what rightfully belongs to our First Nations people
back to them. That would make sense. Trying to correct some
of the mistakes made that were down right cruel and unfair.

Just a thought.

All those in favour raise your hands.

Hi Foxy

Who needs a Voice when the miraculously growing numbers of increasingly white looking big city "Aborigines" can have a whole island!

I've had my voice with Albo and he reckons Tasmania should be declared a First Nations Socialist Peoples Democratic Republic, with full "BlaK" sovereignty, naturally. A North Korean style government could serve as a model.

Once the revolutionary elections are over, President For Life Lidia, will organize a "BlaK" Parliament to rubber stamp her edicts.

See http://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/audio/2023/feb/14/lidia-thorpe-on-blak-sovereignty-and-leaving-the-greens

Cheers Mavs

Hi again Foxy

Off Topic, how do like me improved rendering of A Bicycle Built for Two?

Daisy, Daisy, give me your answer do.
I’m half crazy, all for the love of you.
You can be My cheap Wenchie
Because I can’t afford a Frenchie.
Then we will sleep
Between the sheets
Of a knocking shop built for two.

Your Umble "poet" :)

WHAT DOES THE ABORIGINAL GUILT COST TAX-PAYERS?
How would you feel if I told you that $39.5’billion is how much Australian taxpayers spend on direct government support for Indigenous communities?
That’s $39.5 billion of direct government expenditure a year1.
That’s more than we spend on the NDIS ($35.5 billion), Medicare ($31.3 billion) or defense ($38 billion).

Now Foxy wants to give them Australia, which believes is theirs.