The Indians of the USA have a system of identifying those that they consider to be genuine American Indians.

Some tribal groups are stricter than others and require 1/2 blood others only require 1/4, and others less, could be a good system to adopt in Australia.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blood_quantum_laws

Hi Issy,

I understand what you say, in Hawaii, where native Hawaiians, I believe to be about 17,000 people, who have a high percentage of Hawaiian blood, up to 500k claim Hawaiian ancestry, the pure bloods cannot own tribal land, certainly not the other 300k to 500k. A read of European settlement history will explain why. However they can lease native land under the Homestead Act for 99 years. Until recently, last 10 years I believe, that applied to those with 50% Hawaiian blood, but with the decline in blood, that is now 25%.

Met a most interesting chap sometime ago, a 83? year old Native American of the Navajo tribe, seems they are the biggest tribe in US about 300k. He was in Aussie on a lecture tour, very enlightening on the situation today for Native Americans in their homeland.

Issy, I believe the ONLY system, which is a true and natural one, un-adulterated by foreign blood or superstitions or unfounded and frivolous reasoning, is the only way one is a pure blood or a pure native is when both mother and father are pure blood natives.
Anything else is false, and a lie.
So all these wannabee's out there, which we are expected to believe are native Aussies, are promoted as being in the hundreds of thousands, Oh yes, and of course we have over 60,000 graduate natives in uni.
What a joke!
It's no wonder idiots like Pascoe can confidently say he is a native Aussie, with so many other lying wannabee's out there, why not have a go at trying it on.
It sounds like he's only one of about well over a 100,000 other wannabee's.
60,000 uni grads, HAH!
What a mitigated exaggerated lie!
Well it sounds to me that Pascoe is saying "well if it's good enough for all these 10th, 20th, 50th casts to call themselves natives and receive all the benefits that go with that title, why not jump on the gravy train, these Aussies are so stupid and up em'selves, I'm a shoe-in, because they'll never notice, because they've all been sucked in, either by virtue signalling, or just plain ignorance".
Well some of us ain't that stupid, and if I had my way all the wannabee's like Pascoe, would not only be out on their ear, but named and shamed to boot, along with fraud charges, and in some cases jail time, which is what Pascoe's fate should be.

FYI
http://www.griffithreview.com/articles/andrew-bolts-disappointment/?fbclid=IwAR1zoIn8YjWKl9kpLkUALMguR5_tydIkV9Ue41RMPqvrg54wBE_gr6ZSnh8

Luciferase, sorry mate, that link you supplied, was the ramblings of someone trying desperately to convince the reader that he is what he says he is; A NATIVE AUSSIE.
What he does not realise is that, if he was born here, he is a native Aussie.
But he is trying too hard to convince us that he is a 'black fella'.
I for one see a desperate man trying desperately to save face.
The length of his story, just went on and on to the point where he lost me not long after I began reading it.
Anyway, the best thing he could have/should have done, was say nothing, for now I am convinced he is a fraud.
As the saying goes; "better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool, rather than open it and have it confirmed".

Hi Luciferase,

Thank you for the link, it was a most rewarding read. Unlike ALTRAV I read Bruce Pascoe's response to 'Beat Up' Bolt in its entirety. Nothing that Pascoe can say will satisfy the red neck lynch mob we have here. All of the accusations levelled at Pascoe and his book 'Dark Emu' by honky white elitists, has nothing to do with history, or aboriginality, these people don't give a rats about indigenous people now, just like they didn't in the past. What they fear is RECOGNITION, and what that might entail. Some form of sovereignty is just too awful to contemplate in their minds. They have spent over 200 years suppressing the First Australians, trying to wipe them out, almost succeeded, putting them in their inferior place, almost succeeded, now they certainly don't want to see aboriginal people rise to any level of equality in society. Dreadful thought!

BTW; not one of the forums hard core anti Pascoe mob would read his book 'Dark Emu' The likes of 'Beat Up' Bolt had declared it too shocking for their gentile minds. It was unapproved reading!