Yes, there is the ongoing effort to redress the wrongs, and this should continue in ways that bring aborigines more and more into the modern world (and keeping them on their ancestral land as its publicly paid custodians does not fit with this).

IMO the effort should stop short of a treaty, which only serves to promote a nation within a nation. "Treaty" and the extremist "full sovereignty now" position, will always rear their head on Australia Day, regardless of date, and can continue to all hang out AFAIAC. Nothing will, or should, quiet this other than the passage of time as more aborigines join the mainstream at the increasing rate they are doing, according to educational outcome statistics.

Australia Day should be bitter sweet, with solemnity before celebration recognizing that not everyone perceives themselves to be a beneficiary of white settlement.

Even in my party some find my view confronting
That however is no reason to change it
Minority view must never overrule majority
Never divide, this issue does
We are like it or not ,one, we do come from all over the world, a day must exist to celebrate our birth
For us migrants it is our birth as a country
Remember the past learn from it include our first nation, but do not without thinking, divide us
I too do not want a treaty ever
I DO want real effort to make life better for these Australians
SEE TWO STORY'S IN THIS MORNINGS SMH first the theft of funds second of deliberate baring people from a venue
Racism is always wrong, always fed by lies, and always divides us neededlessly

Racism is always wrong, always fed by lies, and always divides us neededlessly
Belly,
Agree but how can we stop the racists from perpetually bleating victim ?

indy all races have racists
it remains evil
it blinds us to the truth, we should be one people,
it helps us ignore others who plant racism may well be taking our eyes off them
we need to observe even the UN as some one will turn up one day with a plan to fix every thing/install a dictatorship

I'll see you all at Australia Day on Saturday to sing Waltzing Matilda and listen to The Last Post- toast our ancestors and tell their stories. May we leave more than we were left. And remember our debt to Great Britain for creating Australia in it's image.

Individual and Belly- Your discussion about "racists being evil" sounds like the hypothesis "all people are liars" - I'm a person so I'm a liar - so the hypothesis I've made is not true.

Human nature throws up a few paradoxes.