Lexi, unless Behrendt got her story wrong when she was talking to the SMH, she was not raised as a "black", and her father appears to have only become an Aborigine when she was a teenager.

I gave you the link http://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/celebrity/lunch-with-larissa-behrendt-20100917-15gbs.html.

She says directly "''Dad grew up with no clear sense of being Aboriginal. He said that his father told him, 'As far as I was concerned, your mother was white.' ''

Again "It was, ironically, Raema who instilled a sense of Aboriginal identity in Larissa and her brother. ''When Jason got picked on because of his colour, Dad had said … 'My son is as white as you are.' It was Mum who allowed us never to feel embarrassed about our Aboriginality."

In your haste to get at Bolt you are doing what he did - shading the truth. And it looks to me like Behrendt has done the same. That Bolt didn't contest the story given in court is neither here nor there. There are tactical reasons why parties allow things to pass in courts that have nothing to do with the truth.

Graham,

I frankly am not interested in arguing with you.
And what I cited was from reliable sources -it's
not something I made up so there are no shadings
of any kind. I quoted the judge's own words, and
Mr Bolt's own words concerning Larissa which
neither Mr Bolt nor his lawyers contested. For
whatever reason. The fact remains that Mr Bolt
has an adolescent idea of freedom of speech .
(I gotta do what I gotta do). This is an
impulse control not an issue of freedom as stated
in my previous post and having to get your facts
straight is part of a genuine expression of freedom.

Mr Bolt got it wrong. And you can paint it
whatever way you like - as a journalist he should have
known better. You see things differently. I get that.
And you're entitled to your opinion. I don't
happen to agree with it. Let's leave it at that.

Graham, not quite...

From the same article:

Brehrendt:
"She (Brehrendt's mother) met Dad, and with the egalitarianism in the armed services, a person's Aboriginality wasn't an issue. But her father was unimpressed when she told him she was marrying an Aboriginal man"

It's pretty clear Brehendt's father identified as an aboriginal when her parents met, to the point where it was an issue with the family of her mother. Long before she was a teenager...

I truly do not know why I persist.
I am forever a Labor voter.
And demand a better out come for every person of Aboriginal decent.
I dislike Bolt.
And yes have opened a door to fraud, committed by my family members in this area.
I in truth think things I dare not say, about one of those who took this action.
I am uncle Al [Allan] to far too many to count.
But here,recently, at last,an award winning Aboriginal Artist, selling for big money, was uncovered , by true Aboriginals, as haveing no links to that race, and admitted it.
In QLD a child of the for mentioned members of my family, no Aboriginal, bank on it!
Is a great Artist, in the style and claiming Aboriginal heritage.
Truth is no threat, it is a must in building a better life for these folk.
BOTH THEY and US must confront the truth.

Thanks Belly,

Yes, you're right.

And one thing about many of the phonies is that they have the gift of the gab, they can talk their way in and out of situations. And there have been plenty of themm roughly in proportion to the good jobs available.

One guy from a generation or so ago claimed to have been raised on a cattle station, that he had been badly injured on the job and learnt to read only in hospital. Relations pointed out that this was mostly rubbish - yes, as the son of a town planner, he had worked during his school holidays (from a private school in New South Wales), ultimately dropped out and worked on his aunt's property in Queensland, been injured in a motor bike accident, and finished his Leaving Certificate in hospital.

A very bright guy, but he was really taking up space that should have been filled - and therefore wasn't - by an Aboriginal person.

I don't know the answer. Aboriginal people of whatever shade and family background are equally entitled to apply for the same range of benefits. But those with 'friends' or who can talk up for themselves are going to win the prizes, get the jobs, go to the overseas conferences. To him/her that hath, shall it be given.

Joe

Lexi, you don't want to argue because you are wrong. The SMH story is clearly different, and mostly in her own words, from what she told the judge. You're no better than Bolt.

Trashcan, that quote doesn't prove he identified as an aboriginal man, in fact the article says the reverse. You don't have to identify as an aboriginal man for people to judge you by your skin colour.

He lived in a white society, obviously with a slightly different colour, but no connection to kith or kin, and told his kids that they were as white as anyone else (and they are three-quarters non-Aboriginal).

And while I'm at it the SMH article says that the grandfather was German while Behrendt in the court case says she isn't sure where the German might have come from.