That's an interesting question. Should Australians adopt a 60000 year oll culture? that means we would have to remove every modern thing from the Country. That also means that we would be back to as the Aboriginals were before the arrival of Whitie.

No clothes. (remember there were no clothes then) No houses, only temporary dwellings for the night. (Gunyas). No Cars. (we get to walk everywhere), No rifles (Pointy sticks & Throwie sticks) to catch food. No steel knives to cut up your kill. (just chuck it on the fire, guts & all.) No Boats Fishing rods or reels or lines. (Fish traps made of stone & sticks) No Phones. (Bull Roarers & yelling) No Matches or Cigarette lighters. (Twirlie sticks & blow gently) No shoes. (bare feet) No Welfare or Health care. (Well, there would be nothing to spend it on anyway.

But Wait, there’s more. We would get to adopt Aboriginal Law. If you screw up badly you get speared in the thigh. (throw some ashes on that for medication) If you really screw up then you get tossed out of the Tribe & if you try to come back you get killed. You get to do lots of Witchcraft.

Interesting debate. I look forward to you answer.

Jayb,

Nobody is asking us to adopt Indigenous culture and
get rid of our own. What is merely being asked is
the recognition of our First People, and the truth
telling of our full history. A plea for this is not
a big ask. It's a request not a demand. We are not
under any threat.

So far we've done that, twice, John Howard & Kevin Rudd. But it never seems to be enough for Redfern Aboriginals. Ay.

Jayb,

No, nothing has been done as was requested in
their Uluru Statement from the Heart.
Not yet.

cont'd ...

The Uluru Statement is a document Aboriginal people
from all over Australia agreed on. In it they express
that they are a sovereign people and what they want
all Australians to do is recognise and support this
sovereignty.

Aiden: Did they really say "unchanged"? Or did you add that assumption?
Culture is dynamic; it constantly changes!

Not Aboriginal Culture. That's why even the Chinese weren't interested in colonising Australia. Even though they Mapped it just south of the Kimberly's, around the Palmer River in Nth. Queensland & from the mouth of the mouth Murry to Lake Eyre, SA, to on to just north of Hughenden in Nth, Qld.

The first wave of invaders arrived somewhere between 80 to 60000 years ago from Sunda via India & the Indonesian archipelago & brought with them their culture of that time. The next wave was between 40 & 2000 years a from Taiwan, Vietnam, The Philippians & New Guinea bringing very little that was new, (Dingo's) Then the Last wave of invaders came via Sarawak Various Islands in that area & New Guinea to Arnamland & North Queensland. About 15 to 10000 years ago. The only new culture they brought with them was the polishing of the tips of Axe heads.

In some 80000 years very little change was made in Aboriginal Culture. Some, apart from the wearing of White mans Clothes, haven't changed.