Foxy,

One Law for all Australians and if those who are primitive and do not understand the Law must be brought kicking and screaming into the 21st Century then so be it.
I find the excuse that remote communities do not understand Australian Law to be both a condemnation of the Elders and of local Officialdom after all enough time has passed and enough millions have been spent for the problem to have been fixed long ago.

One Australia, one Law, one people.

We are all responsible for how we remember our
nation's past and how we might go about redressing
the present wrongs.

"We are all responsible for how we remember our
nation's past and how we might go about redressing
the present wrongs"

Yes, we are and we will also be responsible for mucking the future up, especially the future of young Aboriginal women who have the same rights as all other Australian women to choose who they shall marry if that is what they want to do.

Tell me Foxy, do Lesbian Aboriginal girls in remote areas have a choice of lifestyle?

Is Mise,

You seem to have a fixation on a certain category of people.

Is this a particular interest you picked up from when we were studying anthropology together at Sydney?

Hundreds of women and girls in Australia as well
as men and boys, don't have life style choices
due to the cultures they come from.

All sorts of problems exist and many cases go unreported
despite certain practices being made illegal.

Regarding our Indigenous people - we cannot have one nation
one law - when we treat our Indigenous differently.
When we don't acknowledge the truth of their history
and when we don't listen to their requests.

Only when this changes can we move forward as a nation.

Foxy,

I doubt that will ever happen.

Society is always composed of sub-groups opposed to other sub-groups. If it isn't differences in race and ethnicity it will be differences in class or religion that antagonises social groups, who only ever seem to want to come together if their social system is threatened by external groups.

Humans just never seem to be at peace with each other.

The Roman concepts of law that we have inherited were always about averting civil disobedience amongst the plebs against the aristocrats, with the main purpose of fitting out an army when Rome was under threat by its neighbours.

Wars seem to have that effect of bringing together disparate groups of people to protect the 'nation'. Isn't that why states always have a head of state, who is basically the war leader. Everyone can rally behind the king, president or religious leader.