Let me guess Indy, it was some of those "Jungle Bunnies" you have made reference to in the past on this forum. Would I be correct? You never post anything positive about Aboriginal people, would it have anything to do with the fact you are an out and out racist, who blew in from so unnamed sh!t hole of a country (which you wont name for fear of exposing yourself for what you are)!

Simple question, What country were your born in? Don't want to answer that, do you. I was born in Australia, and proud of it, I'm not ashamed of my country of birth, seems you are.

Perhaps what the indigenous women mean when they say "our men are weak" is that they easily fall into bad habits. They are perhaps subtly implying that domestic violence is a matter of 'virtue'.

Aristotle would be proud.

But any changes need to be owned by themselves. They need to find meaning and purpose and virtue within their own culture. But I don't believe that Aboriginal's had a writing system, hence no detailed recorded history, therefore it could be a tricky problem.

A problem is an opportunity in disguise...

Maybe they can reinterpret virtue, meaning, purpose from cave art and stories.

I bet they can't do it.... ;).

"Australian Aboriginal people have recorded their history
through oral tradition and visual art. They have shared
stories orally for at least 60,000 years. These stories
include accounts of daily life, hunts, battles, and the
Dreamtime".

"Aboriginal people also observed the patterns of celestial
bodies to track time and mark important events".

I was privileged to be asked to catalogue the Aboriginal
oral collection at the State Library of Victoria a few
years ago. It was an educational experience.

The following link is from the National Archives:

http://naa.gov.au/explore-collection/first-australians/records-about-first-australians

Much of the claptrap about aborigines is a Western invention, including “the dreaming”.

Aboriginal wildlife management? That consisted of exhausting local prey and moving on.

Land management? The “much touted burning”? Nonsense. JJ Silcock et al, ‘Biological Conservation’, 2013. University of NSW examinations of charcoal records back to 70 thousand years ago reveal “no significant increase in fire following the arrival of the first people 50 thousand years ago”.

“Aboriginal traditions do not contain ideas of management or ecology. Only Westerners, in thrall to the “romantic and transcendental philosophies of the West" could ascribe ecological thought to Aborigines”.

Traditional Knowledge? Blindly accepted. Some of it invented by historians e.g an angelic and humanistic which is totally untrue.

The “Imbecilic sycophancy” over ‘Dark Emu’ reveals intellectual absence among reviewers and the political class. Pascoe is a writer of fairy tales. Lying about aboriginal “agriculture” and “sophistication of housing”.

Bruce Pascoe backs up his nonsense with such “proof” such as: ‘journals suggest’; ‘perhaps’; ‘it seems plausible’; ‘it may have been’; ‘could’; ‘it could be argued’; ‘possibly’;is ‘likely to have’, and ‘presumably’ - as well as ‘probable’; ‘might have been’; ‘the possibility exists’; ‘there may not be’, and ‘I suspect’.

Those people, including Albanese of Voice fame, fell for the BS in a “fog of ignorance and racism”.

As for treating Australians with a claim to an aboriginal background differently, they are no more ‘united’ than any other group of people. “Unity exists only in the fantasy land of identity politics that divides society into ‘indigenous’ and ‘non-indigenous’”.

Traditional Knowledge? Beliefs and dreams from the past cannot be tested, no matter how many people believe them.

The “wonderful” world of aboriginality myth ignores the miserable and the cruel; the violence; domination and bashing of women; infanticide; the wars and killing.

Aborigines had laws? They had customs, but the idea of laws is just another invention of the Left pretending that primitives had “equivalence with modern people”.

They never surrendered sovereignty? They never had it. Only nations can exercise sovereignty, and aboriginal nations never existed: they were just nomadic clans. Clans are not nations. Agglomerations of clans are not nations. Language groups are not nations.

Props like ‘first nations’, ‘traditional knowledge’, ‘indigenous’, ‘oldest continuing culture’ are social constructs, made up by white Leftists and other bums after money and power.

Genealogy is Western. Ancestry played no part in the traditional aboriginal world. Ancestors were never mentioned after their deaths. Even now, the ABC feels the need to warn that dead people might be seen or heard in a program.

Now, any dubious linkage to the past is a lurk to get money.

I think that Stan Grant, Marcia Langdon, and many
others would disagree.

ow many politicians are seat warmers, and are in it
for the perks and power? How many really enter politics to
make a difference? We need a bit of balance instead of
the usual stereotyping. Please allow for individual differences.