Paul, in the 1940s we had kerosene heaters, methylated pump-up lanterns, wood stoves and it was my job to dig and empty the latrines on the farm. What the river settlement had was basic housing on the Nambucca riverbank, fresh fish and crabs and oysters, they rarely attended school. Gathering food from the tidal river was their life.

Because you are a member of the Greens who want Marxist racism imposed into our constitution by the Voice. You believe equality means everyone gets the same, by distributing the earnings of those who work hard equally with the loafers.

Paul it is obvious you know nothing of the Great Nelson Mandella who supported the Springbok team.

I'm sure you white folks had many of those comforts in your comfortable houses in town.
Paul1405,
I’m sure that those white folks with money & those whom they employed, worked towards having a roof over their heads as soon as they could. They didn’t wait thousands of years waiting for some invaders to do it all for them !

Jose'

Your ignorance astounds me when you said; "Because you (Paul1405) are a member of the Greens who want Marxist racism imposed into our constitution by the Voice. You believe equality means everyone gets the same, by distributing the earnings of those who work hard equally with the loafers."

The Greens are not Marxist, obviously you are clueless as to what is Marxism, its principles, practices and objectives. Even Marxist don't believe "everyone gets the same etc" they basically believe everyone gets according to their needs, there is a difference.

Your pathetic sanitised version of history, with a false picture of Aboriginals life on the banks of rivers like the Nambucca. Its well documented that Aboriginal people were marginalised and woefully discriminated against by the elite white society of the day. Forced to live in appalling conditions in humpies of rusted iron, on places like river banks, well away from the white community, in what you call "basic housing". With worse than third world living conditions, with the highest infant mortality rate in the world, shortened life expectancy due to early onset of preventable diseases and excessive alcohol abuse, and all you can say is, "fresh fish and crabs and oysters".

You try to intimate with an absurd reference to the Springbok rugby team, that Nelson Mandela in some perverted way supported the 1971 raciest rugby tour of Australia by the white only South Africans. In 1971 Mandela was being falsely incarcerated by the white apartheid regime, hardly a time to sing the praises of the countries racists rugby team. What Mandela did do, was in a speech after South Africa had won the 1995 World Rugby Cup, with a fully integrated team of both black and white, describe rugby as now (post 1991) being a unifying force for the people of South Africa, where as in the past rugby had been a divisive cancer for the country. GET IT RIGHT.

From the Marxist review of the Greens Party.
"The anti-corporate radicalisation in the following years had a further impact on the party. In 1996 Bob Brown’s Tasmanian Greens had propped up a pro-business Liberal minority government. Four years later, Brown and several other Green MPs joined the “Green Bloc” at the S11 anti-corporate protest against the World Economic Forum at Melbourne’s Crown Casino. Thousands of young people were getting involved in politics; a new mood of anti-capitalism was taking hold. The demonstration was a political turning point, with tens of thousands of protesters managing to successfully blockade the event. A new left was being born and the Greens were attempting to relate to it. Where the establishment and the mainstream parties denounced the protesters, the Greens praised them."

Jose'

Trying to rake up what you can, now quoting from the "Socialist Alternative". A self claimed revolutionary organisation, whose stated aim is; "to engage with theoretical and political debates on the Australian and International left." Nothing creditable from that mob.

I already exposed your hog wash about everything from your claims of an idyllic lifestyle for Aboriginal people on the Nambucca River, to your false claims that Nelson Mandela supported racists rugby in South Africa.

As Steele said about you; "You spin these narratives in an attempt to give a modicum of legitimacy to your toxic views. Well it really doesn't work." I must agree!

Paul, I made no claim of an Idyllic lifestyle for aboriginals, it was a life they preferred to live, not by Western standards, as you try to compare. They did not see the need for education and higher standards of living which you believe we have robbed from them.