OK I've read enough rubbish.
The last straw on this thread is, of course, none other than the famous "knower of all things obvious".
I ultimately promote physical persuasion to failed verbal attempts at trying to correct stubborn morons from their blinkered mindset.
I would like to administer a painful lesson to those who insist on misleading or lying continually, for personal ingratiation and satisfaction.
If I read/hear one more person say or even hint that we, the white man 'invaded' Australia as in a war.
There was no war, other than the blacks doing what they or any other person would do if someone decided they did not want others on their patch.
That is not something unique to the blacks, everyone even animals naturally act the same, so unless someone can tell me the first people to set foot on this land were military people, at war with Australia, then shut up!
If anyone attempts to use the fact that there were soldiers amongst the first arrivals, yes they were there to keep the prisoners under control.
As it turned out the soldiers did have to do some shooting in defending themselves and their charges, but not as if in a war, far from it.
So to be clear, we did not "invade", we settled, migrated, just like the blacks did when they came from lands to the North, when New Guinea was attached to Australia.
All this is a matter of record, and yet there are still the morons with some sick sense or beliefs and emotional attachments to a romantic notion of what they see history to be and not the true history.
Anyone trying to suggest we invaded Australia is only looking for fodder to boost their own sick and twisted mis-guided agenda.
If the natives get upset about the truth, too bad, GET OVER IT!

Foxy says: "He [MR O] seems to have touched a nerve."

Well anyone who thinks that strolling around the CBD counting Asian faces is a better way of calculating the Chinese population of a region than checking the Australian Bureau of Statistics figures is a moron.

Refusing to even look at the ABS numbers multiplies their moronosity and does touch a nerve.

Then claiming to be highly credentialed simply indicates someone who is totally out of touch with reality or at least someone who has no compunction about monumental lies, and is therefore someone to be ignored and pitied.

"You protest too much, methinks."
That's become one of your go-to phrases. But it indicates that in fact you don't. Think, that is.

Loudmouth wrote "Of course, what happened was inevitable and it was both an invasion and a program of settlement."

Yes. I've written many times that the aboriginals were spectacularly lucky that it was the British who settled here. It was going to be someone from among those nations you list with the probable exception of the US.

And if it had been any of the other nations, the aboriginals would have been treated far worse than they got under British rule. Indeed had it been any of the others, there probably wouldn't be an aboriginal problem today, because the aboriginals would have long since been wiped out.

"Well anyone who thinks that strolling around the CBD counting Asian faces is a better way of calculating the Chinese population of a region than checking the Australian Bureau of Statistics figures is a moron"

Absolutely correct, mhaze! But we probably have to show a little compassion for someone who brags about being a sociologist, the most useless of all the 'ologists' coming out of brain-washing centres that used to be universities.

Ttbn,

What ?! isn't telephone sanitizing a university course yet ?!

And with some little kid winning four million on some computer game, do you think there won't be a massive expansion of relevant uni courses ? And, of course in film direction ? Art and design. Sometimes, in a very spiteful mood, I think that young people will deserve what they get.

Joe

mhaze,

You give the impression that Australian Aborigines have
thrived under colonial rule when actually they are barely
recovering from the devastating consequences.

As a direct consequence of British colonisation,
western diseases like smallpox, appropriation of land
and water resources, outright murder, Aboriginal population
falling - reaching all time lows in the 1920s when it was
widely expected they would go extinct.

Even today Australian Aborigines have yet to reach
pre-colonial population levels. They have little to cheer
about from British colonisation.