Is Mise,

Don't you wonder how many of the British criminals
who settled Australia could write?

Hasbeen,

Don't you wonder how much of what you call "handouts"
actually reach where they're needed and who profits
the vast majority of the funds? After all it's still
a "White Man's Law" in this country. The Uluru Statement
was initially rejected.

Foxy,
No I don’t wonder at all about how many of the convicts could read and write, I simply look up the relevant records.
Don’t belittle the Aboriginal people they are very quick learners and early learnt the benefits of firearms over the traditional weapons.
They were also quick to adapt to new materials; there is, in the museum at Sydney Uni an exquisitely made spear head from a green glass bottle
Just as they were quick to adapt broken glass into circumcision knives, unfortunately for the initiates they have not adopted anaesthetics to go with the cutting.

Is Mise,

And who recorded the "relevant records?"

Interesting.

Foxy,
People who could read and write, obviously.

Is Mise,

You were the one to bring up the fact that Aboriginal
people could not write.

For your information - oral history is an integral part
of Indigenous culture and beliefs as its how creative
and culture stories such as those of The Dreaming,
history, accounts, traditional ecological knowledge and
language are passed on from generation to generation and
have been for thousands of years.

A great big raspberry to you!

Is Mise,

The majority of British criminals could not read or
write.