Hi Joe,

I expect the forums 'Usual Suspects' to minimise the wrongs committed in the past against Aboriginal people, they always do. The accounts of I had a mate, who had a mate, who was a black fella, and gee how well off darkie was, etc, etc. That's fine deflection from the general truth. As in Queensland, the Western Australian government is recognising wrongs of the past, without defence, specifically those related to the Native Administration Act 1936, and the Native Welfare Act 1963. According to the law firm acting in this class action; "Under these discriminatory laws, Indigenous Australians were not only separated from their families but forced to work for little or no money, locking them into a vicious cycle of poverty and disadvantage." If there is "nothing to see here" in this matter, then is not the WA government derelict in its duty to WA taxpayers not to oppose this claim.

Thanks Paul, for highlighting in that post, the uselessness of even talking to a green.

Squadron Leader West (aka Hasbeen nee Phil),

I take it you're a modern day slave shackled to his imagination.

I put my wonderment at why people even respond to Paul 1405's fake news in his waffle about meritocracy instead of this one. Probably because his posts are all the same: all fake news from a person with a chip the size of a railway sleeper on his shoulder, and constant treacherous thoughts about his country and its people.

ttbn,

I thought that Asianization (aka Australian Multiculturalism) during the Great Asianization Period (1980-2020) in Australian history did away with all that.

Slave is just an emotive term, used here to confuse the ignorant.

Were these 'slaves' owned? Could they be sold to a new 'owner'? Did their children become 'slaves' of the 'owner'? Were they 'owned' for life or until manumission?

No?

Well they weren't slaves. Stop trying to gather sympathy by linking one thing to the t'other.

They were employees. Badly paid employees perhaps and employees who we exploited and misused. But employees none the less. Whatismore its not entirely clear that they were all that badly paid if at all. sure they didn't receive cash payment but they did receive payment in kind as well as accommodation. .

But that's beside the point. Where-ever one sees a trough one sees piggies anxious to partake. Whether they are entitled to partake no longer matters.