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The Forum > General Discussion > Referendum: Before we vote: What is an aborigine ?

Referendum: Before we vote: What is an aborigine ?

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Foxy,

Do they have any aboriginal records pre-colonisation?

Without records, there is no way on earth that the cultures of the roughly 3000 separate tribes remained sufficiently similar to claim a single continuous culture over 60 000 years.

So I would suggest that you don't spread misinformation.
Posted by shadowminister, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 11:28:55 AM
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There are records. If you visited either the National libraries
or Australian Museums - you would learn about the many
digs and various sites that have been found and information
recorded. Museums regularly have exhibits on the subject. Also
there are many books and encyclopedias that cover the details.
Britannica is one that gives a wide coverage to Australian
Aboriginals.

I do not spread misinformation. I supply it. It's an
occupational habit.

Try going to the Melbourne Museum - if you live in Melbourne.
They'll be able to help you.

Talking about our Indigenous people?
Here's a few thoughts that I posted on another discussion:

So many colours in the human race
So many cultures and different forms of face
Why so much hatred and so much dread
We should celebrate our humanity as we all bleed red
Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 1:20:25 PM
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Foxy your belief in anything written by some academic is very sweet, but also most naive. It is a well known fact that many anthropologists were very loose with the facts & truth in their musings. It endeared them to their subjects.

The often claimed of their careful husbandry of the Oz bush is rather fanciful when they claim fire stick "farming". Fire stick hunting was real, but that is not farming.

No lesser authority than one Captain James Cook mentioned in his log that on his trip up the Oz east coast it was rare for there not to be large areas of smoke, & often a number of them from aboriginal bush fires. Husbandry that is not. The greenies would have a dozen fits if we started burning many large patches of the countryside in that fashion. They even scream when it is done where it is desperately needed.

Husbandry it was not, which throws into severe question all the other garbage glorifying aboriginal practices promoted in learned tomes.
Posted by Hasbeen, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 1:28:43 PM
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Foxy,

Simply suggesting that all the answers are in a museum in a city far from me has all the credibility of saying God did it.

Nothing has yet been found that shows a clear link between the culture of aboriginals today and those 1000s of years ago.

All men are equal, you consider the aboriginals as more equal than everyone else. That's racism.
Posted by shadowminister, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 4:42:03 PM
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Foxy,
You should hang around the domestic terminal at Cairns airport at every school holiday !
Have a look at community housing & road works etc.
Yes, infrastructure was poor some 80-100 years ago as it was how it suited the people then.
In the past 70 years since WW2 infrastructure has been updated continuously & is still being upgraded.
Communities have very good medical facilities, even dental services which the non-indigenous need to travel hundreds of kilometres for.
You'd be over-awed if you could just spend a week near a community airport. You'd be scratching your head in disbelief how the indigenous can afford to travel so much.
The indigenous do receive more benefits than non-indigenous ! Their communities have concrete driveways, kerb & channel etc. They are being compensated very well. Your link is not portraying a true picture.
Posted by Indyvidual, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 6:52:41 PM
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Gentlemen,

I can't help you as obviously your minds are already made
up. And you refuse to take up any of the directions in
which I suggested you go for the information that is
available to you. Evidence does exist - you just don't
want to see or acknowledge it.

The following link from the National Museum may help:

http://nma.gov.au/defining-moments/resources/evidence-of-first-peoples
Posted by Foxy, Tuesday, 13 September 2022 7:14:17 PM
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