There was an Indian bloke in WA who claimed to be Indigenous and he painted traditional Aboriginal paintings (an' he was good at it), but eventually, he was caught out, prosecuted (false pretences?) and convicted.

There is a bearded European in the East who claims to be Indigenous and he writes books, lectures etc., on Aboriginal subjects (an' he is thought by some, like the ABC to be good at it), but eventually, he was caught out, ought to be prosecuted for false pretences as his bogus claims have furthered his earning capacity, just like the Indian bloke in the West.

Hi SM,

No. Not 'mostly' - all of it. He has no Indigenous ancestry. He is a whitefella masquerading as Indigenous, and taking their money. I don't understand why they aren't dragging him out into the street and tarring and feathering him.

I can't believe (not entirely) that the left can be so unbelievably gullible: so why are some pushing this rubbish ? Why the denial that people survived in this harsh country by hunting (men) and gathering (women) ? Why the demeaning of people who, with almost no links to the outside world for sixty thousand years, managed to build elaborate societies here ?

I suspect that the left now believes that foraging doesn't give very strong title to land, and 'therefore' sovereignty, but that farming does, and that 'therefore' Aboriginal people have now become farmers. After all, that stronger title would also strengthen the notion of groups being actually nations - or as Pascoe seems to assert, one single united nation - each of which was, and 'therefore' still is - sovereign across its own territory.

So they have junked the reality that Aboriginal people were traditionally foragers, and seized on a more convenient and useful weapon to stick it up the capitalist, imperialist, colonialist system.

And so many Aboriginal people have gone along with it, since it seems to paint a more civilised picture of their ancestors - to hell with any evidence. But so many Indigenous leaders never miss an opportunity to go down the wrong path, sometimes for decades. Treaties, for example: 'let's have one, but we don't know haven't thought what should be in it'. Or 'Voice'.

So no rush with evidence of farming here: in the meantime, it can be ignored as just another scam. Or would be, except that it is now in Victorian schools as gospel truth.

'Truth' ..... hmmm ...... what's that mean ?

Joe

Joe,

"Truth' ..... hmmm ...... what's that mean?"

Well, it used to be a Sydney newspaper, an' I guess that that will do for many.

'So no rush with evidence of farming here: in the meantime, it can be ignored as just another scam. Or would be, except that it is now in Victorian schools as gospel truth. '

along with 5 year old boys with a penis who needs a crossing guide to get across the road but can decide they are a girl, that by not burning coal we can change the climate, that a baby is not a baby until coming out from the mother. Going to school is becoming more and more like child abuse. The more rational you are the more likely you are to fail many subjects.

Loudmouth, I still can't get my head around all this talk of "land grab" and disenfranchise and other attrocities we are supposed to have committed against the black fella.
As I recall, (correct me if I'm wrong) the blacks did not believe in "owning" land, they were nomadic and transients.
That's why they did not understand the concept of "buying"the land off them, from the white fella settlers.
So if they did not "own" the land, why are we treating them as though they did and all these payouts and handouts about such things as "native title"?
As far as any reasonable, pragmatic and objective assessment of all this goes, there is no basis for treating the blacks any different than everyone else, and absolutely NO special privileges, especially if only because the scum-bag white wannabees, (who are actually whites) claiming special treatment and the number just keeps growing.
It is an affront to the rest of the Australian people to be bias towards one group when the facts and the evidence do not support the decision.
I would not mind if the situation was genuine and the claimants/participants were genuine, but the number of fakes is just too overwhelming to let it go unchecked.
I would insist that anyone who's parents were genuine blacks, without any European in their past, are true blacks.
If not, you're out!
You are an Aussy, with mixed blood.
Suck it up, and wave goodbye to all the benefits and handouts.
Whilst there is REAL money to be stolen by the pollies and their mates, we won't see any REAL change any time soon.
Sad and depressing, until people stop denying and deflecting when it comes to accepting the awful truth.
It's much easier to be compliant and not have to do anything as opposed to doing something about it.

Isn't Andrew Bolt Aboriginal himself?