Joe,

Assoc Prof. Robert Foster whose focus has been
Australian Aboriginal History, Comparative
Indigenous History and General South Australian
History has collaborated with Prof. Amanda
Nettlebeck on a variety of projects dealing with
the history and memory of Frontier Violence in
Australia. Both have ties with the University of
Adelaide.

"Out of Silence: The history and memory of South Australia's
Frontier Wars," which is one of their works - deals with
and I quote:

"When South Australia was founded in 1836, the British
Government was pursuing a new approach to the treatment
of Aboriginal people, hoping to avoid the violence that marked
earlier Australian settlement."

"The colony's founding proclamation declared that as
British subjects Aboriginal people would be as much "under
the safeguard of the law as the colonists themselves and
equally entitled to the privileges of British subjects".

"But could colonial governments provide the protection that
was promised?"

"Out of Silence"explores the nature and extent of violence in
South Australia's frontiers in light of the foundational
promise to provide Aboriginal people with the protection of
the law and the resonances of that history in social memory."

"What do we find when we compare the history of the frontier
with the patterns of how it is remembered and forgotten?"

"And what might this reveal about our understanding of the
nation's history and its legacies in the present?"

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Dear Foxy,

I would love, one day, to see what you really think and believe - your own ideas - apart from your slabs of quotes. I suspect it would be something like this:

"

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But I live in hope. :)

Love,

Joe

Joe,

I stated what I really thought to you many times
over the past years regarding our Indigenous people.
And also in this discussion, including the latest
comments on page 51 - where I went into great detail.

However -

Quoting from Prof. Robert Foster's book I thought quite
apt as he's an expert on Australian Aboriginal History,
Comparative Indigenous History and general South
Australian History. Whereas, I'm not.

I thought those comments relevant. Yet you
have ducked the issues - and tried to wriggle out of being confronted with such a lame response. Instead of arguing
your case - you blame me for quoting Prof. Foster's
expertise.

I expected something resembling some
semblance of strength of character from you.

I got zip. Only a cringe-worthy, cowardly
response.

And to think I once thought highly of you.

Truly disappointing!

Foxy,

You have something LOUDmouth will never have: credentials.

LOUDmouth suffers from a dose of what French sociologists would refer to as 'resentement', which we might refer to as having a case of sour grapes.

You have what he would like to have but can never obtain for himself.

Mr O,

You're absolutely right.

All I can do is shrug my shoulders and walk away!

Hi Foxy,

Re Dr Foster, for whom I have great respect, he was very kind and supportive of my wife:

I was interviewed by The Australian in 1914. They went and asked Dr Foster whether or not what I had transcribed and put on my website (www.firstsources.info) was on the ball. Dr Foster said something like, 'Yes, he's right, but it depends what spin you put on it.'

I suppose you can put whatever spin on that that you like.

Joe