The jury is out.
Shadowminister,
My money is on him getting into politics !

GY,

"More contentless abuse Paul1405. I assume you are aiming at me" You assume wrong, I said; "there are racists still, some are posting on this forum", the ones who come here and post anecdotal negative examples of Aboriginals behaving badly, 100% of the time, are in my opinion racists. I have said not all racists in Australia are knuckle dragging Neanderthals, hateful of others simply based on the fact they are different in ways, real or perceived, and therefore need to be violently opposed, those racists are in a minority. There are racists who are fairly benign, people who harbour resentment, without justifiable reason, believing the vast majority of Aboriginals are undeserving, the cause of their own misfortune, lazy and worthless, believing they get too much from white society, and should show more appreciation for all the European has done for them.

cont

There is strong evidence of colonial government policy involving murder and genocide, be it an unwritten policy, it was used to acquire Aboriginal land, though the direct action of clearing of natives to facilitate European settlement. You tell me, what was the primary function of the Native Police Force set up by the NSW government in 1848, the force was under white command and operated mainly in what is now southern Queensland. The Boarder Police Force set up in 1836 by the ‘Squatting Act’, and drawn mostly from the ranks of military convicts, that force proved ineffective and was replaced by a Native Police Force in 1848. The NPF was under the command of one Frederick Walker. "Walker and his men immediately launched punitive ambushes and actions against marauding Aboriginal groups. With their superior arms, and their willingness to pursue their opponents into broken country, which had seemed too dangerous to the settlers, Walker and his men met with immediate success." A government inquiry into Walkers actions in 1854, led to his dismissal, not for the countless murders committed under his command, but for the "crime" of drunkenness.

As for angles and devils they are simply figments of peoples imagination, like the sanitised version of colonial history of Australia presented by those who refuse to accept reality.

I wonder how things could have turned out if the Aborigines had held a welcome to country ceremony for Cook instead of chucking spears at his lot ?
Sadly, they invented that 250 years to late !

Paul,

GY has your number. You are a vacuous and abusive bigot in desperate need of a dictionary and education.

I can only guess that your claimed tiny fraction of Aboriginal ancestry makes believe that you deserve special status and can't wait to board the gravy train and can sneer at everyone else.

And Graham,

You claim there is no racism on this Forum? Read the previous comment posted by SM. and tell me its not racists. This irrational notion that there is some unjustified Aboriginal "gravy train" and I will be on board simply because I have "claimed tiny fraction of Aboriginal ancestry" demonstrates his racism to me.