We all can find reasons as to why a State created for the Aboriginal race of Australia cannot work. Taxes, industry, mining interests,subsidies, welfare are a few of the curly ones. But after all we have had 200 years to work on the potential problems. However there are a some other questions that need to be answered.

Why did the American indigenous (Indian) people suffer the same fate?
Why did the North American Inuits suffer the same fate?
Why did the Brazilians suffer the same fate at the hands of missionaries?

What is the special quality possessed by indigenous peoples from all over the planet that it seems needs to be suppressed or destroyed?

I am told that Dr.Hugh Schonfield had a vision of a Servant Nation joining together to serve the nations, forming a brotherhood of man in miniature and serving mankind. I could think of no race on earth better suited to fulfill such a vision than our own Aboriginal race.

Dear Gerbran,

You're missing the point. Fifty thousand years of
Indigenous cultural existence tied to their land
cannot be changed overnight.

The American Indians were deported into Reservations
on virtually "wasteland" far from their cultural
heritage and to this day they haven't been able to
recover.

Their culture was more advanced than the Australian
Indigenous culture. So unless we want to totally
destroy them - it is best to leave them in
the tribal lands of their heritage.

What every culture in the history of the world wanted
was to expel the invaders. In this case, we are the
invaders. We are forcing a way of life onto them, that
they don't want.

It is time that we stopped playing the "Big White Father,"
and allow their elders to determine their own future.
Help them if they ask, but don't enforce white-man's
policies.

As for creating a new State for them. They have a State.
They have their own tribal lands. And the white man
should respect that.

Why are they fighting for their "land rights?"
Because they want what was taken from them back.
They want their own national identity. Even if it is
on a small scale by our standards. However, look at
Luxembourg and Malta in Europe, and many other small
island nations of the Pacific, some of only a few
thousand people.

Don't look at this issue from the white man's point
of view. Look at it from the Indigenous point of view.

GERBRAN: << I am told that Dr.Hugh Schonfield had a vision of a Servant Nation joining together to serve the nations, forming a brotherhood of man in miniature and serving mankind. I could think of no race on earth better suited to fulfill such a vision than our own Aboriginal race >>

I thought GERBRAN's original post was pretty silly, but the last one's plain ridiculous. "Servant Nation" indeed.

You are right Foxy, fifty or sixty thousand years of culture cannot be overturned overnight but 200 years of forcing a way of life on to them can. June

Dear GERBRAN,

Of course it can.

But sadly, whether it will be is another matter.

It would mean regarding our Indigenous people
as both equals and special, recognising them as people
who had prior occupation, sovereignty and governance.

As the late Aboriginal leader Rob Riley said,
"But it's simple... unless you give us back our
nationhood, you can never claim your own."

Gerbran it isn't going to happen.Most of the Aboriginal race have more Anglo genes than Aboriginal.The same scenarios have happened in our genetic past,whereby cromagnon man was replaced by homosapiens etc.
Eventually the Chinese race will have own our land.If they cannot invade it ,they will simply buy it.Big fish eat small fish.