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Title: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 2nd, 2023 at 10:48am
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh8_U01wwww
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Title: Re: The Reality Post by Jasinner on Oct 2nd, 2023 at 10:56am
...meanwhile Boris the coward, for all of his ANTI aborigine attacks, hides away in the shadows.
Don't expect Boris the coward and his mates of like mind to go out in public to confront these 'cannibals'. Boris is just squealing here folks, in the hope someone will do his dirty work for him. CANNIBALS & COWARDS ...and along comes Brian the Soldier Hero to save Boris. ;D |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 2nd, 2023 at 11:10am
How long did you live in the NT?
How long did you work for the Health Department? Never and Never |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 2nd, 2023 at 2:18pm Oh, dearie, dearie, me, more bullshit from Matty, hey? We know it's bullshit 'cause it doesn't have any references, apart from the claims of a Youtube video. Time you grew up, Matty and came out from your mother's basement into the real world... Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Jasinner on Oct 2nd, 2023 at 4:24pm
...along comes Soldier Hero Brian to save poor gay Boris from the Medical industry. ;D
(Brian likes it that way folks ;)) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by The Grappler on Oct 2nd, 2023 at 5:39pm
The reality is the warning shot from GovNSW and their Commo mates over Mt Warning - OUR National Park... and their lawfare heading rapidly into despotism and tyranny ... and the other minor things ...
... a Mt Warning Handover .... easy as pie... but the 'government elect' didn't do any of that - it was the public service - those unelected swill who get behind your backs and do things without your leave and without your possibility of challenge... unless you are rich which most people are not .... As per Richard K Barnet again - one of the prime motivators to insurrection is the perception that valid political change is taking too long, and thus there arises a need for direct action as some proclaim but have no real idea how to carry out... just uni quadrangle talk again.... Quadrangle Trotskyites in their own lunch time.... they bumped Trotsky off because he considered the real needs of all the people to be paramount - not just the pursuit of power so as to change things to favour another elite... Now then - what would be the outcome if some White Boy said that he'd use a White Man's spear on any Cheer he saw in our National Park(s) and filled the Cheer with lead for being on Our Land? The hunt would be on instantly..... no stone would be unturned... no hue uncried throughout the land over how nasty White people are... Vote out the two major parties and their hangers-on NOW!! Get a real government for all... No wonder Wing Nut Dan left Dodge with his fat payouts for life.... the tide is turning and he could see it..... "oh yeah" - said that separate but equal law down there - "we dragged that little arsehole who stole and smashed your car and ruined your house doing it and killed your two babies in the front room before our court - and we fined the bastard $10 ... what more can we do to attain justice here.. stop complaining, Whitey... sick of hearing you whinging..." ::) ::) ::) No wonder that borderline fat prick left town with his bags of cash..... do not forget.... ![]() |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 2nd, 2023 at 9:43pm Brian Ross wrote on Oct 2nd, 2023 at 2:18pm:
It is not Bullshit - and all the citations are extensive and easily found and he talks about them and shows them. Are you saying they were Never Cannibals? Is that your line - Bullshit - they were never Cannibals! If you say that you are a liar - there is extensive of evidence for Cannibalism and Infanticide. |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by The Grappler on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 4:50am
Oh, well - it's been awful quiet in here since the school holidays started and all the kids have been taken away for a while to somewhere with no internet access ... but now that the long weekend is over, we might get a resurgence of the Usual Suspects...
Let's see who shows up Tuesday morning.... |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by The Grappler on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 5:25am
Feel the desperation.... smell the fear....
https://www.canberratimes.com.au/story/8338677/dont-use-the-voice-referendum-to-deliver-a-protest-vote/ (Letters to the Editor) The usual schmaltz --- "I hope, for the sake of our First Nations people that Australians put aside their anger and vote to give the truly dispossessed a voice. It's a small but necessary step. The big steps must be taken later." 'Truly dispossessed' - how so when they merely wandered the land etc? What were they 'dispossessed' of? Their fine homes and estates and riches? Driven out into the desert to live a temporary life as nomads? I don't see any 'truly dispossessed' going for the Yes campaign... pushing it along every day (more like the truly possessed)................ Advocating Apartheid again ........ Check that highlighted truth-telling... give 'em a voice and all of hell will follow after them .... |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Bobby. on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 5:36am
It will never be enough:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GW5Nebs3TFA |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by The Grappler on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 6:02am Bobby. wrote on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 5:36am:
He may be a bad messenger - his reputation shot - don't ask me since I never heard of him - but truth is truth wherever it comes from. People scorn Sky news - I never used to watch it until mothra got into the opponents of the voice as Skywatchers etc - so I looked into it - often they are right, and in our form of 'free society' people should hear all sides of a question. It's a bit hard to make a piece of 'fake news' about a video of some Court Yester (paid out of YOUR pocket) calling people W***e C***s or 'racist and stupid'. He happens to be right - even WHEN this nonsense fails, it will only be the beginning. As I said before - why would anyone have been surprised that Hitler did the things he did when it was all written down in Mein Kampf years before - same as this voice proposal/Uluru statement in FULL - they just want everything. It's all been written down - why would they not persist with it when it suits them so much and nobody else at all? Keep your eyes closely on AlboCorp - they'll go ahead without you by 'regulation' and not legislation - they'll just get their tame public servants to sign you up for a treaty and more surrender like Mt Warning and Ayers Rock and such.... and all behind your backs when you go back to sleep. NOBODY gave them any mandate to 'negotiate' any 'treaty' on your behalf.. not one that cedes YOUR sovereignty ... something never ceded and never to be ceded.... but rather to be taken back from the political classes that feed off it and abuse your rights daily. |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Bobby. on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 6:24am Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 6:02am:
Hear hear sir Grappler, Albo is nothing but a clown - vote NO. |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 11:47am Boris wrote on Oct 2nd, 2023 at 9:43pm:
"Cannibalism" was a charge usually levelled by Colonists to justify their hatred and oppression of Indigenous people the world over, often without proof. The proof you offer is those charges, Matty. Time to leave your mother's basement and join the real world outside and actually read the modern research on the topic. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 2:24pm Brian Ross wrote on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 11:47am:
Plenty of people recorded it Are you saying it never happened? Bates set up something of a secular indigenous community which provided practical assistance to tribes being forced out of their traditional lands. Towards the end of her book, though, Bates records the following exchange: I often asked my natives why they did not return to their own waters. ‘No,’ they said, ‘we can’t go back, we would be stalked and killed by the relations of those we killed and ate on our way to Ooldea Water. We are safe here with you, but if we went back we would kill and eat our own people again, and when those whose brothers and fathers we killed and ate came to Yooldil Gabba, you’look out’ Kabbarli [the name they gave to Bates], and you don’t let them eat us or let us eat them and so we can all sit down with you, but in our own country we must kill and eat our kind…” Bates’ book is peppered with similar anecdotes and observations. Bates herself witnessed multiple occasions when women gave birth and ate their own children, expressing their preference for what they called, “baby meat”. Another book I came across is the two-volume work by Sir Baldwin Spencer and F.J. Gillen, The Arunta: a study of a stone age people (MacMillan, 1927). It is a masterful account and model of scientific enquiry. Towards the end of the second volume, there is a provocative section entitled, ‘Cannibalism’ which contained the following extended description: There is very clear evidence, if traditions may be regarded as such, that during a former stage cannibalism was a well-recognised custom. We have already described certain ceremonies performed at the Engwura which can only be regarded as pointing back to the existence of a different state of affairs from that which now obtains. For example, in the Quabarra Ingwurninga inkinja[1], two men had their bodies decorated with circles of white down which were supposed to represent the skulls of slain and eaten men. The performers themselves represented the Ulthana or spirits of the dead men wandering about in search of those who had killed and eaten them. In another ceremony two Achilpa men were engaged in cooking the body of a third; in another, concerned with the white bat totem, one of the performers carried on his head an object representing a limp, dead body; and in the traditions dealing with the wanderings of the wild dogs, the men are continually referred to as killing and eating other wild dog men and women. These ceremonies may be regarded as probably indicative of what took place in part times amongst the ancestors of the present Arunta tribe, and of what still takes place amongst the Luritcha tribe, by whom enemies are said to be eaten. Care is always taken at the present day, amongst the latter, to destroy the bones, as the natives believe that unless this is done the victims will arise from their coming together and will follow and harm those who have killed and eaten them. It is regarded as especially essential to destroy the skull—an existing belief which may be compared with the tradition referring to the early lizard men, whose head was not destroyed, and who therefore came to life again when his brother spoke to the head. In the Luritcha tribe also young children are sometimes killed and eaten, and it is not an infrequent custom, when a child is in weak health, to kill a younger and healthy one and then to feed the weakling on its flesh, the idea being that this will give to the weak child the strength of the stronger one. As usual in regard to customs such as this, it is by no means easy to find out exactly what takes place, as the natives of one part of the country will assure you that they do not indulge in the habit, but that they know that those of other parts do. When the accused are questioned, they in turn lay the same charge against their accusers, and so on, often from group to group.(494-495, Vol. 2) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 2:26pm
I record all this not as a comprehensive analysis of the topic—there is clearly more work to do—but as an encouragement for people to continue to access and read the primary sources. Because if ChatGPT is anything to go by, then it is definitely not the neutral research many people assume. What’s more, it is this reluctance to tell the truth about traditional aboriginal practices though, why many people view colonisation as being an unmitigated evil when it often did something really quite different.
Mark Powell is Pastor and Teaching Elder at the Cornerstone Presbyterian Church in Hobart |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 2:40pm Boris wrote on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 2:24pm:
More than likely not. You have nothing later than the turn of the century, more or less, Matty. Time you crawled out from under your rock and joined the modern world. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Jasinner on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 2:47pm Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 4:50am:
Big tough Soldier Brian is just too scared to go save Boris from the Cannibals. ;) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 3:04pm Brian Ross wrote on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 2:40pm:
More than likely not? You complete idiot. It was recorded up to 1990 - and I believe it still goes on now |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 3:45pm Yeah, yeah, whatever bullshit you like to spout from your mother's basement, hey, Matty? 1990? Why are there no records? Because it never happened except in your imagination. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Frank on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 4:26pm Brian Ross wrote on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 2:40pm:
What made them stop an unbroken custom of 60,000 years? That's the question. |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 5:18pm Frank wrote on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 4:26pm:
The introduction of Christianity, of course, Soren. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Jasinner on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 5:21pm
Christianity has cannibalised many a culture and people.
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Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 4th, 2023 at 5:17am Brian Ross wrote on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 3:45pm:
My mother never had a basement and she is long dead You live in a fantasy world and have issues accepting reality. PNG people, Maori, all Pacific Islanders were Cannibals - but that is a bridge too far for you that your precious Disneyland version of Stone Age Australian Aborigines were and possibly still are to day - Cannibals. You are totally deluded. |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Jasinner on Oct 4th, 2023 at 6:33am
Even the Nantuckets and Uruguayan Rugby Players were Cannibals.
Brian is a Cannibal too. He eats his officer's stools. |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by The Grappler on Oct 4th, 2023 at 10:17am Jasin wrote on Oct 3rd, 2023 at 5:21pm:
... and they've all turned out the better for it... until turned back to their original Utopian roots... when the tribal massacres and genocides have started again in Earnest (small town up near the northern border of Rhodesia)... Africa for the Africans has lead to a lot of dead Africans.... India for the Indians has lead to a lot of dead Indians... Arabia for the Arabs hasn't changed one bit with their oil buying power in play... you can buy respectability for your genocides and tribal warfare and petty personal feuding to the death and your abuse of women and hatred of poofs etc .... Alan Joyce isn't taking over Qatar Airways, is he? They'd drag him down a runway behind a 797 or string him up from a wing etc ... |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 4th, 2023 at 1:40pm Boris wrote on Oct 4th, 2023 at 5:17am:
Yeah, yeah, what ever bullshit you like to spout, Matty. PNG people, Maori, all Pacific Islanders are not Indigenous Australians, mate. Time you woke up and joined the real world with the other adults and started experiencing Australian society as it is, not in your mother's basement. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 4th, 2023 at 2:33pm
PNG people were Australian Aborigines - when Papua and New Guinea were Australia.
And Cannibalism was recorded up to 1990 in the Pilbara. |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Jasinner on Oct 4th, 2023 at 2:38pm Boris wrote on Oct 4th, 2023 at 2:33pm:
No. Papuans are Melanesian and not akin to Aborigines. Papuans are curly haired 'negrito' as are Melanesians although they also have the highest inclusion of Denisovian DNA. Aborigines are 'wavy-haired' and closer to Caucasoids known as Australoid. |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 4th, 2023 at 3:05pm
Err Papua and New Guinea were Australians
Torres Straight Islanders are the same Cannibalism was everywhere - all of them were Cannibals |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 4th, 2023 at 3:43pm Boris wrote on Oct 4th, 2023 at 2:33pm:
Bullshit, Matty. Why are there no records of it then? It wasn't recorded anywhere I can find. Funny what you can see from your mother's basement, hey, Matty? Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Jasinner on Oct 4th, 2023 at 3:46pm Boris wrote on Oct 4th, 2023 at 3:05pm:
You're sounding like you're chewing on your own foot. You should talk. ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 5th, 2023 at 8:34am
Both Papua and New Guinea - 2 separate entities - were Australia.
Therefore as they were Australia - the same as the Torres trait Islands - then the natives are Aborigines. Get it? Boigu Island and Saibai Island are right next to PNG and yet they are Queensland. The people - natives - are Australian. Get it? |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 5th, 2023 at 1:25pm
Oh, dearie, dearie, me, you have no understanding of historical events do you, Matty? Boigu Island and Saibai Island are Australian, as are all the Torres Strait islands by accident, by the imperial ambitions of a certain Queensland premeir who was frightened by the possibility of a German take over of PNG before WWI. So, we have the Germans on the north coast of New Guinea eying the south coast and the Torres Strait. Funny that. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)
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Title: Re: The Reality Post by The Grappler on Oct 5th, 2023 at 2:06pm
Now don't you go disturbing Brian - he's doing a great job of ruining relations between Aboriginals and Australians...
Australia for the Australians hasn't killed many so far... unlike - say - Asia for the Asians which has killed countless millions, with Mao doing a better job on China than the Japanese ever did.... Africa for the Africans... Arabia for the Arabs... you know.... all those places that still hold firmly to tribalism.... while ever they remain tied to their tribalism, they will never be anything but greedy, barbarous and cruel... Now then - we need to define what IS an Australian... a sovereign citizen of somewhere else can't be... so no benefits or privileges. Sign here, Jackie-Jackie, where it says , "I willingly forfeit my Australian citizenship. Now that's the deportation queue over there...." |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 5th, 2023 at 3:19pm
Brian is an inner city Latte sipping Leftist Lunatic.
he has no knowledge or experience of anything other than the inner city and Marxism and is a Useful Idiot for the Communist Party in their plan to destroy Australia. The Polls on the Voice show that the further you get from the Inner Cities, the less support for the Voice. People like me who lived and worked for many years in the NT and worked for the NT Health Department and saw horror after horror day after day know and understand the reality of Aborigines where as Brian has NFI about anything. |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 5th, 2023 at 7:33pm Boris wrote on Oct 5th, 2023 at 3:19pm:
Oh, dearie, dearie, me, Matty, what a bore you are, you characterise me as something I am not a Latte drinker in the slightest, nor am a lunatic in the slightest. You charactise the Indigenous Australians as being all violent savages but the reality is that most are not in the slightest. My own experience of Indigenous Australians is much less than you claim but they have invariably been quite civilised individuals no different to most other Australians. In otherwords, you spout bullshit, the bullshit of a basement dweller under his mother's house. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Frank on Oct 5th, 2023 at 7:50pm Brian Ross wrote on Oct 5th, 2023 at 1:25pm:
So? Good that they are Australian islands or would they prefer being German or Chinese or Indonesian or PNG islands?? The lucky, jammy bastards should be grateful for being colonised by the British and guided into civilisation by them. Best thing that happened to them and the Aborigines in a VERY LONG time. Give thanks. |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 5th, 2023 at 8:33pm Brian Ross wrote on Oct 5th, 2023 at 7:33pm:
There is a lot of stupid to unpack here. Firstly all the invalidation - typical Narcissist. Oh, dearie, dearie, me, Matty, what a bore you are, you characterise me as something I am not a Latte drinker in the slightest, nor am a lunatic in the slightest. The majority of people in the inner cities of the Capital Cities of Australia are rabid Labor and rabid supporters of "The Voice" because they are disconnected from reality. And you fit all of those things. You charactise the Indigenous Australians as being all violent savages but the reality is that most are not in the slightest. Well the murder rate where you are is less than 1 per 100,000 people but in the NT it is 8 per 100,000 indicating Aborigines are extremely violent as they commit the vast majority of the murders and assaults in the NT. My own experience of Indigenous Australians is much less than you claim but they have invariably been quite civilised individuals no different to most other Australians. In otherwords, you spout bullshit, the bullshit of a basement dweller under his mother's house. Tsk, tsk, tsk... I do not make claims I state facts - I lived in the NT for many years and worked for the Health Department there and worked in the Wards and drove Ambulances and saw horror after horror. But you cannot see the truth when it is presented to you. Aborigines are violent and lawless - just look at the statistics of crime and violence. My mother is dead - she never had a basement and I do not lie. But you invalidate everything I say and devalue me and dehumanise me and it is an overwhelming and textbook display of Grandiose Narcissism. Basically you are a complete wanker disconnected from reality and not worth knowing. Read up on Grandiose Narcissism - Know thyself |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 5th, 2023 at 9:12pm Yeah,yeah, whatever bullshit you want to spin, hey, Matty? When you grow up and admit you are a Racist wanker who lives in his mother's basement, we might believe what you say, until then, keep on bullshitting, boyo. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 5th, 2023 at 9:19pm
Oh you are just so superior aren't you?
Everyone else is just so insignificant compared to your magnificence. When I grow up? My eldest daughter is nursing her terminally ill mother and has come down with the same symptoms. Will I grow up seeing my daughter die? I watched my mother die from cancer and now my daughter's mother and next my daughter. But as you think you are GOD all you need is to speak your miraculous words and fix everything. You are utterly beneath contempt and not worth a nanosecond of my time - you are nothing but a Narcissist and you show that with every word you utter. |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by The Grappler on Oct 5th, 2023 at 9:21pm
You don't like latte`? And I like my smashed avocado on rye thanks.... real men eat and drink what they like...
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Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 5th, 2023 at 9:45pm Boris wrote on Oct 5th, 2023 at 9:19pm:
More bullshit from Matty. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 5th, 2023 at 10:05pm
you are sick and evil Brian
Once something is in the Constitution it is permanent |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 6th, 2023 at 11:53am Boris wrote on Oct 5th, 2023 at 10:05pm:
Yeah, yeah, Matty, what ever you want to believe. When something is in the Constitution it is there until the next referenda to remove it, Matty. Something you don't understand. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Boris on Oct 6th, 2023 at 12:00pm
That referendum can be vetoed by the Voice
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v_wsk6LpFkY |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Brian Ross on Oct 6th, 2023 at 3:51pm Boris wrote on Oct 6th, 2023 at 12:00pm:
Yeah, yeah, Matty, what ever you like to believe. Something you don't understand is Constitutional law is it? Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Frank on Oct 7th, 2023 at 4:47pm
The voice referendum deserves to be defeated on the ethics of conviction and consequences. I write as a proud Australian of Indian heritage. I pay my respects to the Aboriginal communities that have lived here since Dreamtime; but also to the pioneers who established modern Australia as a stable and prosperous democracy, and to the visionary leaders who strove tirelessly to create a society that grants equal citizenship to everyone in a vibrant multicultural country.
I seek no privilege, right or obligation of citizenship not available to every Australian. I do claim, for myself and my descendants, every opportunity to participate in civic life. This is the ethic of conviction. Using sectarian ancestry as the organising principle to add a chapter to the nation’s foundational governance document will inject the poison of race-based preferential access to parliament and government into the heart of the body politic. The overriding goal of the voice should be the difference it will make on the ground, not making us feel virtuous the morning after the referendum. Yet it will deliver no practical outcomes. I am yet to hear anyone describe a single effective, or even potentially effective, measure that cannot be implemented now by government without the voice, or one that will be helped in any form with the voice. Australians are familiar with the litany of failures afflicting Aboriginal communities. The voice will make little practical difference in remote communities to the metrics of life expectancy, literacy, housing, violence, incarceration rates, suicide rates, community safety and so on. Ramesh Thakur is emeritus professor at ANU’s Crawford School of Public Policy and is a former UN assistant secretary-general. You can also hear him here: https://www.2gb.com/podcast/race-based-politics-of-the-voice-referendum-should-be-rejected/ |
Title: Re: The Reality Post by Frank on Oct 21st, 2023 at 10:40am
Prominent conservative historian Geoffrey Blainey says Indigenous Australians are “far far better” off since colonisation and are benefiting from a dramatic increase in life expectancy since 1788.
Professor Blainey rejected suggestions it was a national shame that the life expectancy of Indigenous people was eight years lower than other Australians, backing leading No campaigner Jacinta Price’s claim colonisation had been positive for First Nations people. “The life expectancy of us all, Aboriginal peoples included, has improved dramatically since 1788,” he writes in The Weekend Australian’s Inquirer section. “I myself believe that most Aboriginals and Torres Strait Islanders are far, far better off today than if they were living in 1788. “This land is infinitely more fruitful than it was in 1788, and most Aboriginals are now the gainers … Here in this continent arose a democratic society which, for all its imperfections, offers liberty in a world where liberty is not normal.” Professor Blainey says the life expectancy of Indigenous Australians – recorded in 2018 as 71.6 years for men and 75.6 years for women – is “about the same as the average citizen of the world”. “Every country in Africa has a much lower life expectation than Indigenous Australians. Even the European Union displays more than an eight-year gap between member nations,” he writes. “There is a wide gap between north and south England. Today the Aboriginals have a life expectancy equal to that of Bulgaria and Romania. Their life expectancy is higher than that in peacetime Russia and Ukraine.” Among other contentious claims in his piece, the 93-year-old pours doubt over the future of remote Indigenous towns, criticises the Native Title Act and refers to the “so-called Stolen Generation” as being made up of “Aboriginal children who had to be rescued for the sake of their own safety and welfare”. Senator Price was condemned by the Healing Foundation, Central Land Council and other peak bodies, who said her claims were “a denial of history” and “an insult” to Indigenous Australians who had survived colonisation and the Stolen Generations. Professor Blainey, who stirred controversy in the 1980s for critiquing the nation’s immigration policy and its intake of Asians, criticises Anthony Albanese and Indigenous Australians Minister Linda Burney for failing to congratulate No campaigners Senator Price and Warren Mundine. “Here was a unique event, a national triumph for two true-blue Aboriginal leaders, Warren Mundine and Jacinta Price,” he writes. “Only one sentence was needed. (Mr Albanese) failed to speak that sentence.” |
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