Dear Josephus,

Since you love history so much. In 1938 to celebrate the 150th anniversary of Australia Day a group of Aboriginal men were brought to Sydney under guard, and under the threat of having their rations cut off. They were required to play the part of the "menacing savages" the next day in the reenactment of the landing of Phillip. The men were housed over-night in the Moore Park dogs home! What do you say to that, and you expect Aboriginal people to celebrate your nonsenses, get real mate.

Soap Box, cite your claim. However, in 1938 many aboriginals were preferring to live near a riverbank under the stars with their dingos' cross dogs. Country drovers also camped the same in 1938 with their dogs. You want to make some indignant moral claim about ill treatment when for them it was a preference.

You are placing 2000 values on 1900 values and failing to see the difference. Gold diggers preferred to live in tin sheds near their claims and there were no values put on their living.

Josephus,

Ever heard of Vincent Lingiari?

He was a living legend. Opposed by a society that had
dedicated the best part of two centuries to the brutal
dispossession and oppression of his people. Lingiari
finally stood firm and said that he would not submit.
He changed not only the course of his people's lives
but some of the conditions that our Indigenous people
had to live with.

Yes, there were the times when - Indigenous people on
white properties were treated like dogs. They were lucky
to get paid the measley amounts they were due, they lived
in tin humpies where you had to crawl in and out on your
knees. There was no running water. The food was bad and the
property owners didn't care about blackfellas.

The little government assistance that was given went straight
into the property owner's accounts.

Do your research - check it all out for yourself.
You might learn something.

Until Soap Box provides evidence for his claim that people were accommodated in a dog's home, we can regard it as hearsay only. A Google search has not revealed anything, and it’s not like Google to shy away from a chance to badmouth whitey’s treatment of blacks.

If true, it is disgusting - even for 1938. If it is not true, the unsupported allegation is disgusting, as is the person making it.

Genuine ‘original document’ historians are always disproving wild claims made by mischievous individuals and groups.

A visit to the Australian Museum or National or
State Library would help anyone
doubting history.

What Soap Box claims about Aboriginal men being imprisoned in the Moore Park Dog Home in 1938 is true, it was documented in the 1988 John Pilger's doco on the treatment of Aboriginal people.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AlFskfpkMrI