Academics have concocted a totally false image of aboriginal culture that has come to dominate all discourse and seen millions of dollars being put into indigenous studies centres, research, courses, colleges and propping up living museums in totally uneconomic, isolated camps misnamed 'communities'. The elites of the aboriginal industry have assumed for themselves a pseudo culture that carries with it all the pomp and circumstance of a nation - one that never existed.

A common culture of all aboriginal people has been invented, as has an unreal society of liberty and fraternity among the nomadic tribes and family groups of the original inhabitants. The truth is regular warfare, raiding, porous borders, brutality and the abandonment of the unwanted.

These historical facts have not prevented the fabrication of an ancient Utopia, the aim of which is not to reflect past truths, but to set up for apartheid in the future

ttbn,
Sounds like you've spent time on communities too. Academia & Australian Academia in particular on the history side are indeed the cause for much of the wedge that continues to split the us & them state of affairs.
A large part of that wedge are the countless gutless bureaudroids who hand over funding with no questions ask re the integrity of applications for 'Projects" !
Morrison really should think about putting in place some fairly fine filters in the guilt industry !

No country is perfect, is often pointed out by
people trying to find a way to argue that there's
nothing actually wrong with their country and no
changes need to be made.

And the fact that Australia is objectively better
than every other country doesn't mean there aren't
some bits that could maybe do with a bit of
improvement.

Australia have never been perfect, obviously. But
having gone through the long, painful process of
becoming a nation, then discovering a national
identity and finding a way to make the rest of the
world take notice of us, Australians have devoted
precious little thought to the nation's failings and
contradictions.

We've had enough time now to stop and reflect, and to
mull over the ways in which Australia, though having
so much that is wonderful and positive to offer the
world, also has a fair bit to feel guilty for.

The issue of the relationship between white Australians
and the original inhabitants is perhaps top of the list.
There are bound to be tensions when two peoples are
forced to coexist with vastly different cultures and
priorities; especially when one of those peoples spends
a significant portion of its time trying to exterminate
the other one.

To this day Australia has not reconciled the darkness at
the heart of its foundation, the brutality upon which the
nation was founded. But in the relative prosperity that
most of Australia now enjoys some serious thought is
being given and some recognition of the struggles of
Aboriginal Australia is starting to break through.

People are still continuing to fight to redress the wrongs of
the past and find justice for the marginalised
not just by recognition of a problematic foundation, but
by the tragedy and heartache in the present moment.

In this time it will be men and women of good heart who
will emerge to question, quarrel, excel, and exploit,
inspire and infuriate. They will help bring Australia
into hopefully a new era of self-awareness and maturity
with all the wisdom and pain that necessitates.

"To this day Australia has not reconciled the darkness at
the heart of its foundation, the brutality upon which the
nation was founded. "

So, again, how?

How do we reconcile that? What do we need to do, say, intimate that would 'reconcile' the past?

What specific measures should we take. Or is just pontificating on how all the others aren't as reconciled as 'me', enough?

Truly, I've been asking this question for two decades now. What is the end point. How do we know we're reconciled? What 'thing' would we see in our society that would signal the end, that reconciliation had occurred?

No one knows, or cares because getting to the end, getting to the reconciled point, isn't the point. If we were reconciled then there'd be nothing to whinge about, nothing that would justify the claim for more resources, more hand-outs. So we never get to the end. And we never even bother identifying where the end is.

//Given the predilection of the left whinge Teachers union to use school time for indoctrination rather than education, this crowd of left whinge clowns want to take us back to 1984.//

Of course. Teaching kids about the history of racial oppression outside of their history classes is exactly like a dystopian totalitarian dictatorship, except for the 'dystopian', 'totalitarian' and 'dicatorship' bits.

I feel there should be a corollary to Godwin's Law that covers Orwell's masterpiece.

Sorry, wrong thread.