Joe it's not going from one extreme to another.
Why are you using language like that?
All I am doing is answering you allegations with
facts and those of Is Mise as well and you call
doing that going to extremes?

No matter what is brought up regarding our Indigenous
People - you always seem to deflect or totally reject
anything that doesn't match your own so called "research".

Perhaps you actually need to broaden your viewpoint?

Anyway, I'm sick of arguing with you, it is such a
waste of time. No matter what I present you don't
even do me the courtesy of reading any of the links.

On another discussion you told me that our Indigenous
People have had "self-determination" for over 50 years.

Yes the Federal government led by Gough Whitlam adopted
the policy of "self-determination" for Indigenous
communities in 1972. This policy was described as -

"Aboriginal communities deciding the pace and nature of their
future development as significant components within a
diverse Australia". It recognised that Aboriginal people
had a right to be involved in decision making about their
own lives.

However, there was no agreement as to HOW this should be
achieved NOR was there a framework within which this could
occur. Nothing was established. The effect was it
limited the exercise of self determination to what was/is
compatible with the interest of the Australian state.

Successive Australian governments have rejected the view that
self determination includes the right of Aboriginal and
Torres Strait people to decide anything that the government
did not agree with.

So you see - self determination by Aboriginal people in this
country is defined much more narrowly than it has been
in international forums. Our people cannot decide on their
future.

And how much longer will they have to wait?

Loudmouth

Said:

"........... life was never 'wonderful' for any Aboriginal people ever since their ancestors left Africa."

So I guess you reckon the rest of homo sapiens sapiens who didn't find their way to Australia were having a picnic.

Foxy,

I liked this bit,
"Here, a lost young girl is rescued by a kangaroo who has, in turn, lost her joey. Dot’s father is a kangaroo hunter; when his daughter finally returns, he renounces hunting altogether and turns his farm into a sanctuary for native species."

Pretty well sums it up, Australia's stupidest animal and a stupid author.

Sure people hunted 'roos, they still do and the'roos are thriving as they always have.

Is Mise,

I'm getting a bit worried about you and this fixation you have with kangaroos. Have you ever thought about taking up elephants or pandas or something else that might take your mind off kangaroos?

Opinion,

No, those animals are not a problem around here, suicidal 'roos intent on killing themselves by dashing in front og cars are my worry, as I said they're the stupidest animal in Australia if not the world.

Foxy,

Your links were little more than opinion pieces but they did shew that Aboriginal Australians were still hunting 'roos as they have never ceased to do.

"['roos]and were also symbolic of natural grace and beauty, two things that the British Empire had vowed to wipe off the face of the earth."

Let us have a reference for your wide-ranging research that backs up that gem of wisdom.