Is Mise,

And he also was a warrior all of his life for
Aboriginal causes!

"Since Australia was colonised, the life span of aboriginals has nearly doubled"

Based on what evidence? Got any stats for pre 1788, nothing but your racist opinion. BTW European life expectancy has increased from 35 in 1770 to 83.5 for white Australia in 2020, 10 year greater than that of Aboriginal people.

Dear Paul,

Thanks for that.

It's always useful to have the data.

Pauliar,

Once again you showed your racist idiocy. The average life expectancy everywhere in the world was about 35 in 1770 and even lower in primitive societies. Any assumption that aboriginals life expectancy was higher is wildly unlikely.

Secondly, as you mentioned there were no records kept before 1788 so the assumption that aboriginal culture remained the same for 40 000 yrs is also complete bollocks.

Hi Foxy,

The European observations of Indigenous peoples the world over in the 17th and 18th centuries was one of a fit and healthy race. Diet was extremely good, low carbs low fat. Living conditions were superior to that of most Europeans who were living in overcrowded unsanitary scaled conditions in cities and towns of Europe, or battling the "harshness" of colonies. European style diseases such as small pox and cholera were unknown to the indigenous.

My wife's Polynesian ancestors were a solidly built robust people, as can be attested to by Pre-European clothing housed in Bishop's Museum in Honolulu, 7 stories of amazing artefacts and history of the Polynesia including NZ. Men stood as much as 7 foot tall. Te took part some 20 years ago in an identification of forests plants in NZ used by Maori for food, medicines and workable materials. This was part of a Uni study at the time Thanks to "training" from her grandmother and mother, she can identify something like 200 plant species and their uses. Surprisingly there are many plants that have medicinal properties, others are eatable etc.

BTW; The healthy Indigenous people around Sydney Cove in 1788, were almost wiped out by European small pox by 1790.

Foxy,
So he was and that brought him into conflict with many so called activists who resented his attitude to what he contemptuously referred to as “sit down money” and to the harm that it was doing to his people