ALTRAV,

Glad to see that you have finally seen the futility of having dealings with any of the people you mention. It's a total waste of time, and only encourages them and gives them the the attention they crave - attention that they don't get in real life because they are losers and nobodies.

Foxy

Me, a Brit ?! Take that back ! That's an appalling thing to say. Yes, I have to admit, I do have English ancestry, from convicts raised in Shropshire (maybe a Gypsy) and Cornwall and Warrington and Staffordshire (I get all the shires mixed up), and Norfolk, and my granny raised in a workhouse in Hull (Sculcoates), but I try to minimise them in favour of my better ancestors from the Celtic world (except my granny). They also were mostly convicts (but only thieves) and from workhouses. In fact, I think all of them were either convicts or from workhouses, one way or another :).

But 'a Brit'. That still hurts.

Joe

Sear Loudmouth,

I thought you were Aboriginal.

I see mhaze and his disciples are still raving about their ABS bible and telling everyone that one cannot work things out from observation. Talk about an attack on one of the principal methodologies of modern science.

I suppose mhaze would even argue that we should not believe in Darwin's theory of evolution because it has its roots in his observations in the Galapagos Islands. And then mhaze would tell us that his theory of evolution can be shown to be wrong because Darwin did not have any ABS figures to back up his theories. Good on you mhaze, I'd say you're one of a kind but I have to include Hasbeen, individual, ttbn and Loudmouth in your group of denialist thinkers.

Mr Opinion,
Have you ever actually seen/met a real Australian Aboriginal ?

"You give the impression that Australian Aborigines have
thrived under colonial rule "

Well I actually don't give that impression...but I get that you need to misconstrue my point in order to attack it.

There's no question that the natives suffered severely after 1788. My point is that the suffering was far less than had the country been occupied by any other of the potential occupiers at the time.

It always comes back to this lack of historic knowledge. Understand what happened in the various conquered lands around the world and you'll see that the British were far and away the most congenial of conquers as compared to the other powers up to that time. Just read up on the consequences of the Spain getting Central America.

Its simply a question of facing the real world as opposed to the disneyfied world of the historically ignorant. Colonialism happened for good or ill. It was going to happen here. It was just a question of who was going to be the first. The aboriginals were lucky it was the poms