Big Nana,

Fair enough. So you say it is just too diverse and complex an arrangement of indigenous groups to provide for a singular treaty to cover all Aboriginals.

I agree with you on that being the case. Things are always a lot more complex below the surface.

A very similar situation exists in PNG and even small island nations such as Vanuatu.

I get the impression you believe that given time things will sort themselves out.

Mr Opinion, I believe the situation will resolve, just as every settled or conquered nation has assimilated into the dominant culture, on one condition. Aboriginal people must be compelled to take responsibility for their own outcomes. The government has provided all the services, facilities and extra benefits needed to achieve the best outcomes for people. Now, it is up to aboriginal people to use all those services to their advantage.
The majority of aboriginal people actually have done this. Tens of thousands of university graduates, many people owning small businesses, over 30% own their own homes, tens of thousands of aboriginal kids in secondary schools with ambitions to do well.
It is only a small percent who have been left behind, and paternalistic management of those people is what is holding them back.
And on a last note, when I say assimilation, I don’t mean people have to abandon those cultural practices that are legal. In fact , I’m all in favour of them retaining language, art, music, mythological stories etc.

The Australian government has always sought to
create a single uniform white Australian
culture which has been pursued through the various
assimilation policies and which has had devastating
effects on Indigenous communities.

However the "Aboriginal problem" refuses to go away.
It refuses to disappear.

And it will continue until an agreement is reached
with our Indigenous population.

Other nations have managed to reach agreements with
their native people - why can't our nation do that?

The study of our country's history would possibly help some
understand exactly where the problem lies.

Foxy,

Where on earth do you get your stuff from ? Sometimes it is so un-real.

Joe

Dear Joe,

I get it from the history books you don't read.

I get it from the history books you don't read.
Foxy,
Written by Historians whose profits for their writing depends on how much they appease the victim bleaters, many of whom are actually descendants of perpetrators & instigators of conflict !