ALP politician, Linda Burney, has said that the Greens need to concentrate on 'bigger issues' than Australia day: “incarceration, health and education should be the focus in the indigenous affairs sphere.”

Smart talk.

Then she goes onto to lambast Tony Abbott and call him 'ignorant' because he said that British arrival was a good thing for indigenous Australians.

Silly talk.

Does Ms. Burney really think that aborigines would have been better off remaining in the Stone Age? Does she really think that they would ever have been left alone after world exploration and navigation became possible? Or, did she thing that someone nicer than than British could have come along?

Dear Ttbn,

I don't know Linda, much less what goes on in her mind.

It is quite possible that aboriginals would have fared better if left in the stone age. The problem is, had the British didn't arrive, wouldn't someone even worse have landed instead?

I think Linda Burney is, as a rule, a good and sensible woman. I suppose we all make silly comments at times.

I believe that British settlement was preferable to some of the possible contenders. But there was never any chance of a country with Australia's attributes being left in the hands of the most backward people in the world. And, I think that people who talk about invasion should 'uninvade', buy a one way ticket to somewhere else.

ttbn,
This whole Australia Day thing has been a beat up by the media with a bit of help from the greens.

Outside of that nobody is talking about it, so it is a non issue or fake news. Some other non issue will take its place after tomorrow.

Banjo,

You are right. It's just the pathetic media and a few nutters making more noise that we sensible people make.

I see that retards have vandalised the Captain Cook statue in Melbourne.