The nation of Australia came into existance with the arrival of the British fleet and they preceded to create the built infrastructure that now exists in Australia, from nothing. Obviously an investment in built infrastructure and the very lives of the transported British requires the existence of some sort of return on investment. At this point Aboriginals can choose to live as a minority in a society of majority British ancestry which has some biased aspects or not. Obviously there was compromises in the past and into the future. Aboriginals have moved from a paleolithic culture to a more advanced one- they need to choose what they want- and how to maintain their internal integrity on that basis. Note that doesn't mean they can force their ideas externally to their culture. In theory a healthy culture can use internal group cohesion to protect itself against the odd external forces they can have their own culturally internal production of resources (food, housing, etc) and trade with other cultures according to their own interest. The superstructure of Australia provides significant support in this regard. Other "native" peoples have territorial reservations to provide a balance. Aboriginals don't own Australia. "Welcome to country" is an offensive concept and threatens the livelihoods of every person that seeks to own their own home. Aboriginals have a crises due to the expansion of their community beyond the Dunbar limit, this is causing it's fragmentation and it's instability, and sadly their culture is being subverted and "diluted" by Woke Marxist ideology. Everyone wants to party but someone has to pay for the party. Once the party is finished will there be anyone left to clean up? Marxism is a race to the bottom, an opium den of the half conscious and dying

For tens of thousands of years people worked all year to grow crops, when winter came they stored what they could based on the preservation technology of the time, they invented and borrowed new technology, many died, but through stoicism over tens of generations they painfully forged principles, life giving but fallible, and tamed their environment.

It will never be perfect, but it's better, some are better than others.

Native people will need to evolve from Stone Age culture through a similar painful process, they will need to borrow principles from other cultures in gratitude for life itself.

Of course Dutton is not a racist, and Steggall is a person of limited wit who used an abusive word instead of argument.

Also of limited wit are the people who think it is a good idea to bring people from Gaza when Muslim Arab countries will not have a bar of them.

And this question is also witless, when the few posters we have on 0LO all know what each other's answers will be. It's all about Marxist sh.t stirring by a bored housewife.

CM,

This seems apropos...
http://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1d42f670e7f8ad2ac827890ee814dc76cfd99e511f22e2ffa1e89067d1836150.png

Very good mhaze. Kudos

mhaze,

Talking about apropos?

This also is very appropriate to the situation:

http://theguardian.com/commentisfree/picture/2024/aug/15/duttons-rhetoric-on-gaza-is-all-too-familiar