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I . put ten years into finding resources and transcribing them, so that other people didn't have to do it, it was at their fingertips.

Yes, I should have checked each of the nine thousand letters of the Protector (i.e. the 'Aborigines' Department'). And a total of fifteen thousand pages of resources that people can assess as they wish. What a total bastard I am. It might have take a bit of time, say a month for each letter, say 750 years, but I won't have much else to do.

And you've done ...... what ? As someone wrote of the French diplomat Talleyrand, 'un soc parfume plein de merde'.

Joe

Joe,

As my French teacher

"Tu crois que ta merde ne pue pas?".

Or -

"Tu te conduis en petite merdeuse. Tu te crois au-dessus
de tout".

cont'd ...

Joe,
As my French teacher would say -

You can't hide shyte with perfume.
So, stop doing it.

Sorry, Foxy, in what way do you mean ?

Joe

Joe,

Take an intelligent guess.

Paul,

Your statement that ' .... some attempt to negate with things like "so many Aboriginal girls go to uni" etc etc. ' devalues the wonderful efforts of Indigenous people, especially women, to seize opportunities in higher education. This year, I think that Indigenous university commencement and graduation numbers will keep rising by 6-8 % on last year, to around 7300 and 2700 respectively (those federal Ed Dept numbers may UNDER-estimate real figures by 20 %). I think that's wonderful. You think it's worthless and an easy subject for vicious, snide attack. To me, they are the Real Indigenous People, the best of Indigenous people.

For the information of those who might care, Indigenous university commencements in award-level courses have risen by three and a half times since 1994 to around 7300 in 2017, the last year of figures; 17,400 enrolments in 2017; and a total of about 55,000 graduates, two-thirds women.

Indigenous women are commencing study at higher rates now than NON-Indigenous Australian men. And those women graduates make up one in every six Indigenous women across the country.

An equivalent 20- or 24-year-old age-group, more or less the average age when people start uni, is about 14,000. In other words, the equivalent of more than half of young Indigenous age-groups are now commencing university study. Given that two-thirds of commencing Indigenous students are women, this translates into the equivalent of two-thirds of all young Indigenous women commencing university study. And rising at about 6-8 % p.a. for the foreseeable future.

You can mock this, but in my view, it is the one bright light in Indigenous affairs. You may want the 'real' Indigenous people to stay down, poor, helpless, in need of white saviours, because they're so unchangeably 'cultural', fated to stay dispossessed. I don't see any need for saviours any more: Indigenous people are doing it all themselves. They are taking control of their own lives without pseudo-friends like you. They don't need you or me, get that straight. And for Christ's sake, wish them well.

Joe