Oh, I thought Paul was supportive of immigrants who arrive in Australia by boat. We are constantly told that immigrants enhance our multicultural society and diversity and that they significantly improve our economic performance. I'd have thought that the refugees who arrived in Sydney in 1788 are great examples of how immigration benefits society,

After many years and many billions of dollars plus cushy quangos for city aborigines, the lot of aboriginals and some part aboriginals who are missing out on the benefits of modern society has not changed one iota; they are still at the bottom of the heap.

Not a thing has been said or done - or proposed - recently has Buckley's Chance of making life better for about 20% of aboriginal identifiers who, in the past and now, have not in given any indication that they want their lives to change through their own efforts or with the help of others.

People who think that aboriginals are so DIFFERENT from the rest of us and therefore need help from our despised white Anglo culture, stubbornly refuse to accept that it is the ancient aboriginal CULTURE that is still holding back the 20% or so people who have never caught up with modern times. Eighty percent of aboriginal identifiers themselves know this and they have adapted - assimilated, to use a 'taboo' word. They don't need help; and the very few who are still talking about serpents, refusing to work, get educated, speak English, and who are living in prehistory, are not going to be helped, particularly by interfering with a Constitution that represents modern civilisation that they have rejected, with the aid of people posing as their saviours. People who, hypocritically, call themselves "progressives".

Yup I too am heartedly sick of it.

We have wrung most of our significant rivers dry in this country.

Flow stressed waterways are now a feature in all our states. Most rivers can wear some diversions but there are some now with over 80% of their flows removed.

Put simply Twiggy wanted to put 10 weirs on the river where it ran through his property so he could strip more water from it. This not only serves to decrease flows but also creates barriers to stop fish species moving up and down the river to breed.

This is just well understood basic science. The fact that local indigenous people are telling of the same intuitive understanding but in mythical form does not negate the obvious.

The continued un-critical support from many on this forum for the actions of our billionaire class is just sickening.

Wake up.

Thanks Steele, the thumbs up sign from me. I am sick and tied of this bunch of Old Farts, and their fawning over the mega rich. Most of them are Old Aged Pensioners with the arse out of their trousers Twiggy Moneybags couldn't give a toss about them.

SR,

If the weir proposal had been rejected because of the damage to the ecosystem that it may cause which you claim is "obvious" then you might have a case. But it wasn't so you don't.

It was rejected because some stone age people made up a story to try to explain what was inexplicable to them. All stone age people did that. But some of us have moved on since then.

In the modern world, compromises have to be made between the environment and producing the wherewithal to enable modern life. Actually, come to think of it, its not just the modern world. Even in the ancient world such compromises were required which explains extinction of the American horse and the Australian mega-fauna.

Not so long ago you were swooning over stories of weirs being built by stone age folk in Victoria to capture eels. I bet you feel really repentant know that you know the obvious...that it "not only serves to decrease flows but also creates barriers to stop fish species moving up and down the river to breed."

So true mhaze, but it wasn't only stone age people who made up stories to try to explain, the to them, inexplicable.

Computer age folk are even dumber. They don't manage to develop their own myths, they have to have lefty academics do it for them.

Having been given their ridiculous myths, such as CO2 will heat up the earth, like their stone age brethren, they then cling to their them, no matter how often they are proved ridiculous.