A long forgotten pile of dust in a nuclear wasteland.
Paul1405,
With Citizens/permanent residents like you it'll happen sooner than later !

Paul,

Humourist and now revisionist historian, must be the pollution in Brisbane.

XX,000 now covers 40,000 to 80,000years

Technological advancement, from throwing stones to throwing sharpened sticks (and some still throw stones).

Joe, never been in favour of any kind of elitist education institutions, be they private schools or aboriginal universities. According to Issy, aboriginals are just here to throw stones and sharpened sticks. Better than throwing bombs at poor defenceless little Korean children, and they say we're the civilised people. Issy, if I had a choice I would much prefer a life of throwing sticks and stones than throwing bombs at children and blowing them up, I assume you volunteered!

Joe and Foxy, I picked up the DVD 'Contact' made in 2009, the story of Yuwali of the Martu people, who with other aboriginal women and children were brought out of the Great Sandy Desert region WA around the Percival Lakes in 1964, during the Woomera rocket testing days. Yuwali was a 17 year old girl at that time and the people had not had contact or knowledge of whitefella before. A lot of historical film, showing the first encounter, and Yuwali now 62 (2009) recounts the experience, her feelings and emotions of coming in contact with Europeans for the first time, sad but a very interesting story. Joe are you familiar with those events? Anything you can add.

Paul,

Our Aboriginal people have benefited greatly by Cook's exploration; in culture and technology, see how many musicians prefer the guitar to the didgeridoo and then there is dance as well as song.

Paul seems to think that because I believe that Australia is a better place today than when Cook landed, and that the short and violent hard scrabble lives that the indigenous population experienced was somehow better than they experience today, that my views are outdated.

According to Paul the hallucinogenic/amnesiac view of history espoused by the greens is more modern and enlightened.

I would guess that the prerequisite to join the greens would be a tab of LSD or a frontal lobotomy.

In Australia we have an isolated continent nation
with a partially subsumed indigenous culture over
laid with an imposed "British" cultural variant.

Most strikingly it is geographically out of place.

So looking and acting like a British colonial out post
whilst claiming to be an independent nation is not
altogether a good look.

This was taken from the web.