Individual,

No more generalisations please.

Some evidence would give you more credibility.
Otherwise - its all just noise.

Some evidence would give you more credibility.
Foxy,
Are you asking that the decision makers are not all all highly educated ?

Individual,

No. All I am asking if for you to explain who
are the Leftist judges and lawyers that Paul
and I supposedly hold in high esteem are.

Hi Paul,

Perhaps Heydon should be shown to be a witch, i.e. given a trial. Then we can take him out and shoot him.

Foxy,

Yes, we do put our own spin on everything, don't we :)

You're getting warmer. I'm concerned by this vague factor of 'cultural loss' that you mentioned: I suspect that, from the earliest days, Aboriginal people were attracted to this bright new world which presented so many opportunities and yet challenges. But on the whole, the 'new world' was somewhat indifferent to them - if they wanted to do a bit of work, goodo, if not then a farmer or carter or ship's captain could get someone else. In that sense, Aboriginal people were, on the whole, ignored, overlooked by, but at the same time drawn in to, this new world.

Much of the traditional culture would have put on the back-burner, and imperceptibly faded for the younger people as it fell into disuse.
:

* Even the traditional methods of fishing would have given way to lines, hooks and easily-made nets; and hunting by spear would have been rapidly replaced by the use of guns (the use of which was never illegal, at least in SA).

* Women's work, gathering grass-seed, would quickly have been replaced by the reliable issue of flour, ready-made, a pound a day per person - or readily bought from every general store, and readily made into damper. Women must have been freed up from an enormous amount of work.

The point is that much of traditional culture, even language (since it was so strongly based on ritual, hunting and gathering), would have withered, apart from the 'kitchen-table' language. The basic ethos, the underlying and taken-for-granted principles may have been retained, the looking after, and sharing with, close relations, the focus on the present, etc. Aboriginal people in 'southern' country towns have evolved a sort of hybrid culture (and language) over the years, including practices which helped them get by and make use of their limited opportunities, and in a rather indifferent environment.

[TBC]

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And, over the last ten or fifteen years, with the collapsing of self-determination in 'southern' communities - at least here in SA - I fear that many Aboriginal people in country towns have really missed the boat - they are caught with few skills, nobody much to encourage them to gain skills, and with limited abilities to assist their kids in getting out of that welfare-oriented rut.

So few, if any, are finishing Year 12 or going on to trades or uni. In fact, I really fear that populations in rural areas are literally withering away - some are coming to the cities, but I suspect that rural birth-rates are much below replacement. So golden opportunities over the past fifty years have been frittered away.

Joe

Indy said,"Are you asking that the decision makers are not all all highly educated ?" Your favourite gal 'The Lovely Pauline', makes political decisions that effect all of us, and she's as tick as two bricks.

You also claim; "Those decision makers are highly educated Leftist Judges" Anther darling of you of the hard right is Dyson Heydon, loved by the misogynistic men of the Liberal Party, Howard and Abbott, to name but two. Seems however, hated as a dirty old sex abuser by his female coworkers down at the High Court. Heydon would fit in well with the Pell loving fraternity, all a bit of harmless slap and tickle, would you not say?