Yes Issy I did, you don't still get around in your Boar War outfit do you? Or do you! Times change.

Glad to see even the Government recogniser Aboriginal Sovereignty woth a 'Welcome to (Aboriginal) Country'.

Paul,

Do you mean to tell me that those T-shirts etc., weren't traditional?

Dear me!

Why was Morrison and co in business suits, and not dressed in traditional attire? Something in the order of a Artie Phillip or Jimmy Cook outfit. Me thinks the T-shirts were genuine Nike, so whats the problem!

BTW, My wife has a traditional Indigenous NRL footy jersey!

Gee, the Shooters and Hooters members look splendid dressed in their battle fatigues with camouflager paint on their faces, and bits of gum tree stuck up their backsides. Oh you couldn't see them, that's because they were waiting to ambush the ten Green members. If only Dicko Dickson had delivered the 20 mill from the NRA, you blokes would be set.

Banjo,

"That was the beginning of the end of their traditional hunter-gatherer lifestyle. Expropriation of traditional lands. Owners parked in reserves. No need to gather. No need to hunt. Nothing to do. Disintegration of social structures. Loss of dignity and self-esteem. Alcohol, petrol sniffing and drugs. Wife bashing, rapes and juvenile delinquence. Prisons and suicides. Child expropriation and religious indoctrination. Progressive urbanisation. Forced assimilation of Western culture and loss of traditional culture ..."

Wow. That's quite a grab-bag of issues. You don't think choice, including poor choices, had anything to do with it ?

I'm intrigued by your "Progressive urbanisation. Forced assimilation of Western culture and loss of traditional culture ..."

Are you suggesting that Blackfellas ' real environment is the bush, while whitefellas' proper environment is the cities ? Innocence versus education ? "Forced assimilation" ?! And that's what is causing all of the problems ? Too much education ? That they should stay out-bush, living their charming but quaint culture, doing their colourful dances, even if they have to be forced to do so ?

Apartheid is dead and buried, Banjo. Keep up.

Joe

Hi Joe, come off it, in no way is Banjo talking Apartheid. This notion of choice, what... people choose to be marginalised, disadvantaged, poor etc. The dice was loaded against Aboriginal people the day Phillip and his mob stepped ashore. Banjo talks the timeline of history, you speak of the here and now. I totally agree with what Banjo has said, tell us what Aboriginal people did wrong that caused them to be so disadvantaged. Given all these choices, when confronted by the European what should have Aboriginal people done to put themselves in a position of equality?

Paul,

I went a bit further into it and you're right, there is nothing traditional about the Welcome to Country ceremony at all,
I guess that the performers could wear tuxedos if they were so inclined.