Sorry 51/49 re the shares, no edit option on OLO?

My People.. White People

Hmmm...
Sounds racist when you put it that way.

It has been done sonofagun, the cash found to start something and lost stolen or sold by those it was meant to help.
Your, was it you or individual who quoted $600 million?
If shared out between all these folk would still be wasted.
While blaming the past is the answer to both sides not doing it right we move no place.
Do we continue to dig up a past long gone.
Or do we ask why Japan has moved on from those bombs yet we still try to relive history and see only one sides sins.

Dear individual,

All I can say is read the book for yourself
and then make up your own mind.

The book is a moving personal journey of
the author towards as stated on the
back cover - the "realisation that he,
like generations of Australians, grew up with a
distorted and idealised version of the past."

There's an unforgettable encounter in a North
Queensland jail which had a deep effect on me
when reading it. Then there's the author's
friendship with Eddie Mabo. The author worked
for thirty years in Townsville. His primary research
has been the history of Aboriginal-White relations
in Australia. His publications include:

Aborigines and Settlers, Frontier, The Other Side
of the Frontier, The Law of the Land, Dispossession,
With the White People, Fate of a Free People and
An Indelible Stain?

Henry Reynolds is married to Margaret Reynolds, who
was for many years a senator for Queensland. They have
three children.

The book received excellent reviews from The Australian,
The Age, The Bulletin, just to name a few. I bought my
copy from the Parliamentary Bookshop on a visit to
Canberra.

Anyway, as I said - read it for yourself and then
decide.

Foxy,
<<"People now want to know the truth about the past and to come to terms with it.
They see this as an essential step along the way towards national maturity.">>
You and Reynolds should try reading Windschuttle if you want to know the truth.

The Australian,
The Age, The Bulletin, just to name a few.
Foxy,
Why not read some non-left literature to do a cross dissolve of the views then you can reasonably assume you're getting a balanced version.
Anyhow, that's what I do. I also never comment on subjects unless I have read copies of original reports by the people on the ground in those days. It's quite amazing to see the variations over time.