The fact is we can laud people like Yvonne ans Ashley for representing Australia in great sports achievements this is not racist. The fact is they are games we all play and they identify with life as we recognise. They are not competing in boomerang throwing or spearing wild animals. Though if they were doing it as a sport on the World stage we probably would praise their skills. It is not skin colour we are identifying it is the discipline of skills. They achieve theseskills by adopting accepting Western disciplines.

Aboriginals lived in a country of mud and glazing sand, of iron and coal of native fruits and grains but in 60,000 years they never developed any one of them as the evolution of Northern Hemisphere Nations; as they are now under Western agricultural advice contributing to the diet. It is aboriginals that are adopting Western culture to their lives - not the reverse.

They need to adopt the 60,000 years development of Western Nations, we do not need to now adopt a primitive culture and become aboriginals.

Dear Paul,

I've received an email from the Indigenous Law Centre.
(I've donated to them in the past) ) telling me that the
government has released (on Friday 17/12/2021) its
final report on the Indigenous Voice Co-Design process.

The Final Report runs to 272 pages and contains 7
recommendations - 4,5 and 8, are worth a read.

Anyway, here it is:

http://voice.niaa.gov.au/sites/default/files/2021-12/indigenous-voice-co-design-process-final-report_0.pdf

Dear Josephus,

This is for you:

http://theconversation.com/aboriginal-people-how-to-misunderstand-their-science-23835

Foxy,
Interesting link and it well illustrates what a few years, compared to 60,000 years can achieve.
In 1788 they couldn’t write as they had no writing.
You are to be congratulated for illustrating so well how Indigennous people have advanced since Governor Philip set up the first British colony.

The last 20,000 years went rather quick. When I first arrived here Aboriginals of Australia had been here for 40,000 years.

Paul, "Seeing the ads, and reading the garbage put up by the forum haters, one can see why there is still a way to go before true equality is achieved in this country".

For once Paul is right about something. There will have to be a big reduction in the special handouts given to remote Aboriginal communities & individuals, before anything like equality can be achieved on this country.