As aboriginal people, the world over, become educated they leave the past behind them and get on with life.
I don't know one Aboriginal who wants a treaty and I know a lot outside of my family members (grand uncles offspring).
They are too busy making a life tor themselves and their children.

Dear Paul,

I think it appropriate to include another name to the
"Great Australians," who made this country. That of
Vincent Lingiari, who was a living legend whose story
merits singing to future generations for as long as
this country endures.

Opposed by a society that had dedicated the best part
of two centuries to the brutal dispossession and oppression
of his people , Lingiari stood firm and declared he would
not submit. He changed not only the course of his people's
lives but that of Australia itself.

" Gather round people let me tell you a story
An eight-year long story of power and pride
British Lord Vestey and Vincent Lingiari
Were opposite men on opposite sides..."

You probably know these as the opening lyrics to the
1991 Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody song, "From Little Things
Big Things Grow." It's one of Australia's most important
songs. The story told by the song is one of the greatest
this wide brown land has known and
one that sadly too few Australians know.
It's a story that is everything we lionise
in Australia - mateship, courage, the battler, a fair go,
the underdog, getting one over the powerful and a happy
ending where the hero wins.

There's more at:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-08-26/hodgson-from-little-things-big-things-grow/2855942

Happy as they were to kick darkie into the gutter, they now want to maintain their position of privilege at the expense of the first Australians.
Paul1405,
You're a prize all on its own ! Why don't YOU put your money where your mouth is & vacate the Aboriginal land YOU live & work on ?
What have YOU ever done for indigenous people in return for living on the land YOU occupy ?
From where I'm standing you look like an indisputable m...n !
Terms such as the one you used above to describe indigenous people exposes you as the racist hypocrite you really are !
I don't suppose it ever occurred to you what a waste of space your poor parent produced !

Dear Paul,

There's an article in the Griffith
Review by Paul Newberry that I think you may enjoy.

Newberry acknowledges that our inheritance should
not engender a paralysing guilt, but that rather
it should be a mature realisation of the moral
obligations created by our past.

He tells us that
we should reach out if we don't want to forever be
immigrants in Aboriginal land. That our indentity
is commensurate with living on Indigenous land.
And that Indigenous philosophy and spirituality should
be a guiding theme in our identity.He explains it better
that I'm doing and it's worth a read.

There's much more at the following link:

http://www.griffithreview.com/articles/perspectives-of-identity-in-being-australian/

Dear Paul,

Just a short further note.

I mis-spelled the author's name in the link I cited
for you earlier. It should have read - Paul W. Newbury.

He actually has contributed as an OLO author.

He stated that "if we are to be members of one nation we
cannot continue to have conflicting stories about our
past."

He also said - " We will know we belong to one nation
when a shrine honouring fallen Indigenous warriors is
placed alongside the " Tomb of The Unknown Australian Soldier"
in the Hall of Memory at the Australian War Memorial in
Canberra".

A treaty means, in practical terms, recognition of tribal law and the resultant deprivation of young Aboriginal girls of their rights as Australian citizens, they'll be even more at the mercy of so-called 'Elders'.