Foxy,
I’m more than familiar with the Declaration, I read the draft and he is still my mate even though he’s no longer with us, he died in 1997.

Foxy,

All those issues you mention are firstly relative to 1st world standards. Compared to their pre-colonial status it is unlikely that their life was expected to extend past 35yrs.

That aboriginals have such a gap is probably due to a number of factors such as alcoholism, domestic violence, and lack of access to medical care in remote areas.

Foxy,
The vast majority of Aboriginals don’t suffer from any of the points that you mention, the majority are getting along fine, locally we have the Aboriginal Health Service, Aboriginal Legal Service and the local Tribal Cultural Centers.
Racist groups all but set up with funds from the majority taxpayers.

Is Mise,

Going back to Burrum Burrum's Declaration.
He was a great warrior for Aboriginal causes.
His speech was a bit of showmanship and an
act of defiance. It was full of barbed allusions
to the treatment of Aboriginals by the English
settlers of Australia. In his speech he promised
no harm would come to England's "native people"
from his invasion. Nor would he poison their
water, lace their flour with strychnine, or
introduce them to alcohol and toxic drugs.

And you claimed that he thought colonisation
was great.

Yeah right.

cont'd ...

shadow minister and Is Mise,

so glad to hear that our Indigenous people
are so well looked after by the taxpayer and
that their problems are all self inflicted.
Good to know.

Foxy,
Burnam Burnam was a practical man and he made the most of what colonialism had to offer, that’s why he was a university graduate and drove a Mercedes Benz saloon car.