In our area the indigenous' feelings about the 250th of Cook are not overwhelmingly joyous !
At least a few have told me so.

re the previous post, Looking at the Pokie room I tend to believe otherwise.

Hi there Indy,

I could not agree more, research shows 95% of aged pensioners are inveterate gamblers, addicted to pokies, lotto, scratchies, bingo and chook raffles! Under the PPP the El Dorado pokie facility down at gods waiting room will be off limits to ALL aged welfare recipients! Should some find voluntary abstinence beyond them, I cannot rule out electric shock treatment as necessary! Once we have delt with the rampant aged pensioner alcohol and gambling addictions, we can move on to my Pensioner Initiated Self Sustainability, PISS for short. BTW are you collecting those free seed packets from Woolies? If not, why not? You will need them, PISS is coming.

Individual & Paul,

I didn't say i liked the idea that invasion of Australia was inevitable, simply that it was inevitable. Since it was bound to happen - if not by the British, then by the French, Spanish, Dutch, Portuguese, Russians (think of those huge gun emplacements on the coasts of every major city - and then the Japanese, Chinese, Indonesians. Sooner or later.

Having established that incontrovertible but inconvenient fact, the next question is: after all the tragedy and turmoil, was the invasion, on balance, beneficial ? Would Indigenous people have been better off if, in spite of the invasion, they had been left to live their lives as hunters and gatherers (or, for Paul's benefit, farmers) ? Well, they can do so now, there's nothing stopping people from eschewing the welfare life and going out hunting and gathering, and living their simple but charming lives around camp-fires. Is there anybody doing that, except on weekends away from the ghastly conditions of 'communities' ?

Another incontrovertible but inconvenient inevitability. Somewhat confirmed by the sixty thousand Indigenous university graduates, with maybe four thousand more each year. Yes, many getsucked into the do-nothing power-elites, but I live in hope that many somily want to do a good job with their skills and live like other Australians.

Now perhaps we can get onto the real issues of how to either improve, or migrate away from, 'community' life.

Joe

Forget the wombat stoning;
Anyone catch the 7:30 report on racing thoroughbreds...

I'm willing to support them shutting the racing industry down entirely.

- Melbourne Cup and all -

They've had their chance to clean things up.
I don't want to see them treating animals like that.
It's wrong.

Another piece of good news in education:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-08-03/miraculous-indigenous-education-rates-complete-year-12-qld/10069150

In short, this ABC article shows that, according to ABS figures, Indigenous students in Queensland are completing Year 12 at almost the same rate as non-Indigenous students.

Next stop: university.

A game-changer.

Joe