Loudmouth, you sir are a man amongst men. (I hope you are a man) well I don't know, BAZINGA!
Go to the top of the class.
You see I pretty much don't care about the outcome of the link you have suggested, only the fact that someone has, (in Foxys words 'dared to challenge the book or Pascoe').
I never say something is right or wrong unless I have proof or have experienced it for myself.
My postings have always been of an enquiring nature or questioning nature because something about the topic has led me to enquire.
Foxy, it seems is a sore loser, so I would not invest too much in her and her antics.
I must however warn you of a 'slight of hand' she seems to practice rather well, and that is, just like one of her topics she proudly proclaimed it had a very good response as rebuttal to my criticism of the fact it was a nothing topic.
She proudly offered 380 comments as proof the topic was in fact very well received, until I brought her back to earth in telling her that pretty much ALL of the 380 were just a few like myself and other regulars simply arguing back and forth trying to convince her that she was wrong.
And that has a real chance of happening hear again, so I for one will be posting with one foot out the door from now on, if this is the kind of thing we are to endure in future.

Mr Opinionated,

Strange, I've worked at universities, usually in Indigenous Student Support. I built up the numbers at one campus from eight to forty one (one year up to fifty), and six graduates each year. How's your university experience ?

They were the best years of my life. My late wife (it's her birthday today) co-ordinated Indigenous Student Support on eleven sites, overseeing sixteen staff providing support to about three hundred students. You think we didn't talk ceaselessly about our students ? A wonderful Indigenous woman, we had 43 wonderful years together. We ran what we called Careers Aspirations programs in maybe fifty towns, from Brewarrina to Leigh Creek to Ceduna, in schools going down to Year Six, and marvelled at the lights in the eyes of maybe a thousand lovely kids: their hopes and dreams about what they wanted to do with their lives was incredibly inspiring, lovely, lovely kids.

So what have you been up to lately in that area ?

Joe

Mr O, come on now, stop showing off.
We also know how to Google, we don't need a uni degree for that.
Anyway judging by your response, I take it you might be a uni grad?, would I be close?

Dear ALTRAV,

Let's just say that I am considered to be one of the most educated men in the country.

Dear Loudmouth,

Hit a nerve, did I?

Loudmouth, your presence on OLO is a blessing.
You keep coming out with these fantastic stories, each one entrenching you further into the position of 'top dog' or the 'go to guy' on the subject of the blacks and their REAL status, and not some fanciful, or romantic notion of what life was really like for the blacks in Aus.