Individual,

Re-read your post to me.
Bit rude!

"The apologists on the forum simply want to negate, or totally expunge the horrendous damage done to aboriginal society in more than 200 years of European colonisation".

Nobody is apologising for something that was normal 200 years ago.

The vote enabled them to hit the piss in pubs like everyone else. Nothing much else seems to have come of it, if the moaning and groaning from the usual suspects - black and white - is anything to go by.

Dear Paul,

And still even well intentioned policies brought in more
recently have failed our Aboriginal people. Billions of
dollars are poured into programmes to help Aboriginal
people every year end up with mixed results.

The decade-wide gap in life expectancy is getting wider.
Though only 3% of the population Aboriginals fill a
quarter of Australia's prison cella. Their young men have
one of the highest suicide rates in the world. Their children
are almost ten times more likely to be in state care - and
the list goes on.

Hi Foxy,

We have to accept those things as "normal", according to ttbn if it happens then its normal behaviour. Genocide , dispossession, murder must be accepted as is, according to ttbn it was just a matter of fact, a dot in history, all very normal. Using that logic the Nazi extermination of 6 million people was normal, because that is what Nazi's do, can you accept that, I can't!

Foxy; a recommendation from the wife (nothing to do with this) 'Unmasked' by Turia Pitt, excellent reading.

"hit the piss in pubs" Nah, that's what happened with Indy's last welfare boost.

Paul,

You certainly are a BS artist. I have never driven a fancy car, in fact I am presently driving a Yaris, which is comfortable and very fuel efficient. I have a mid size house that well insulated and with LED lights super efficient and my money is spent on what I find important such as my kid's education.

Money in itself does not make one happy, but only a moron would believe that a life of destitution is anywhere near as happy or fulfilling as one where food shelter and education is available.

So your highly racist "noble savage" theory is a pile of crap. Australia and the world are better because of the insight and bravery of Cook, and the world is a darker place because of the mean spirited polemics that the gangreens and others left whingers promote.

Paul as all good regressives changes language by calling his opponents apologist. The truth is that he along with other regressives, he is apologist for communities that are full of grog, child abuse and dole bludging. The regressives are more part of the problem than the answer as shown over the last 50 years.