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"A curious thing is that though an old native man will sell any or all of his wives to white men again and again, he will never at any price agree to release one of them to marry another native man who loves her and whom she loves ; and if the other native man should seek such a solution unaided or unprotected by a white man, the old native will stir up the other the members of the tribe to take his life. But a native tracker can take whom he will, and the executive represented by his policeman master is presumably behind him."

Mrs Bennett died in 1961 and the Communist newspaper 'Tribune" printed a eulogy for her.

Paul confidently asserted that there was no evidence of pre-colonial abuse of aboriginal women and children by aboriginal men. Its a fairly standard assertion from those who buy the noble savage trope.

Paul promised to apologise to others if he was provided with the slightest evidence that such abuse occurred.

Funnily, now that LM, Big Nana and I have provided plenty of such evidence, rather than the promised apology from Paul, the only thing we hear is the patter of little feet running in the other direction.

Not that we'd expect more or better from Paul et al, but it is a symptom of the problems we have these days in regards to understanding the past and how we got here from there.

There is no longer a desire to understand the past for itself. History is only valued if it can be used as a cudgel to advance today's policies. If the history of this or that is 'unhelpful' it is either abused or ignored.

And that's how civilisations depart.

'There is no longer a desire to understand the past for itself. History is only valued if it can be used as a cudgel to advance today's policies. If the history of this or that is 'unhelpful' it is either abused or ignored. '

so true mhaze

“A degree in Australian history is like three years in a re-education camp, where any natural interest which might have existed at the beginning will well and truly extinguished by the end. Identity politics renders Australia's history …. mind-numbingly dull. …. students …. sit through class after class ….. being indoctrinated by political activists masquerading as historians …. every subject (uses) the same tedious predictable template ….. students are leaving the humanities in droves”. (CIS).

The last few words are encouraging.

big Nana,
You must have hit the nail on the head. No Leftie opinions other than Foxy Links for 25 posts !

If you only have a hammer - you tend to see
every problem as a nail.