Thanks to the people that have tried to be supportive. But to those people who are being negative well let me just say something. I am 17teen years old and i go to tafe and i work and I am not a bad person. I do believe in God and go to church. You cant say that murri fullas are the only people with drinking problems and go around hassling people.. that is just a minority of people. Does anyone understand that thousands and thousands of indeginous australians were killed and buried in deep holes on top of one another. We we punished for speaking our own language.. it was a fine bak then and you would pay the price.. And to the people that have said that we are better off being invaded.. wel i think your wrong our people weren't dumb or anything we lived by the land. we didn't destory what God gave.. We embraced it.

Im agreeing with gundubaldany on this one. as a young indigenous person i would also like to know what is happening to our people. i would also like to learn my tribal language and more about my culture. yet in schools they are teaching the languages of different countries such as german japanese etc. and to 'runner' im pretty sure christians catholics etc were the main ones that did the damage. took over every hill with a nice view and built a church on top of it. took us away from our family and made us learn the white mans way of 'civilization'. i dont really see how you've helped us in any way. every time we speak up about an issue thats happening within our community they say we complain too much. you know i jump on google and i type in 'aborignal' and one of the first things it comes up with as a suggestion is 'aboriginal jokes'. i mean do people get that bored they either make up jokes about our people or google them? how low can you get, seriously.

If you are trying to find out were you from i know on queensland archives it dates bak to 1938 or something and it shows where our people were taken from and sent to.. stuff like that..

gundubuldany, have you contacted Link-up?
http://www.link-upqld.org.au/

gundubuldany,

One of the main factors in the loss of age-old traditions is due to the fact that superstition was & still is rife everywhere. This was the anchor for the skilful exploitation by religion.
It is no different in 2010 except that money & status have become the new anchor point. I fully accept that over 230 years many, many indigenous lost their lives in standing up against the newcomers. I also fully accept that many, many indigenous embraced the invader/occupiers' ways & means. Many idigenous suffered, many benefitted. I can not feel what an indigenous feels just like an indigenous can not feel as I do. I have lived more than a generation among indigenous & I can say with certainty that when it comes to gain or benefit, it becomes an "anything is fair in love & war" situation. At times bleating victim pays dividends, at other times it pays to assimilate. Black, white or brindle, everyone becomes an opportunist under one disguise or another. This is the 21st Century, let's make it better than the last three by acknowledging the past but not exploit this past as an excuse nor ignore or dismiss compensation & associated efforts & good will.

You have won me over young fella, good luck to you.
Never ever give in but never not ever judge us by yesterday.
I look after your people in the workplace, even get the training and the job, every time we win I am happy.
Often mate I fail, it leaves a cold hard feeling, to hear one of your people who has had every chance, been high maintenance for a long time, insult those who helped along the way.
Not long ago, not quoting anything that is not a weekly issue, I began helping a man.
He had 4 DUI charges in his life, his workmates for years had hidden him at work.
He smashed the work Ute after work, his mate had taken the keys yet he threatened them and nearly died in the smash.
They lied for him, it did not work.
He was under investigation to be sacked, standard procedure.
He and his wife, it happens often, came into the workplace shouting the mates he hide behind for years are racists who set him up!
White products of unwed parents!
We saved his job, never if he was not Aboriginal, he has not said thanks not said sorry just said see?
You cannot sack me I am Aboriginal!
Both sides can do better must do better but would you young man say we should not talk about this all too common workplace issue?