Frank wrote on Jul 30
th, 2023 at 2:16pm:
thegreatdivide wrote on Jul 30
th, 2023 at 1:23pm:
Frank wrote on Jul 30
th, 2023 at 1:14pm:
[quote]They had NO IDEA of Oz. They had small and particular tribal areas.
Out on a limb there, mate! ......tribal areas covering the
entire continent.
Of which none of them had any idea.
They certainly knew what dispossession of tribal lands meant...see how silly is your claim they only knew their own locality, as if your claim has any relevance to current black sovereignty/land-rights claims? (however misplaced).
Quote: They knew nothing of a continent, of Australia. They knew nothing beyond their territorial borders but that there were hostile tribes there they constantly feuded with. Beyond that, no notion of any kind.
Irrelevant. They possessed land from which they were driven by the white invders.
Quote: Modernity reached the Australian continent in the late 18th century and there is no way back.....The only worthwhile effort they can make is to adjust and be part of modernity.
The question is: does the nation have an equal responsibility to assist them to be part of modernity?
Quote:Most of them realise this and have done so.
But not those living on, eg the APY lands, and similar situations elsewhere.
Quote:The ones that are hanging on to Stone Age ways and beliefs are called 'remote disadvantaged Aboriginal communities".
(....note those quote marks again....)
Yes, but not only remote: the Alice and similar places are suffering high crime rates caused by entrenched disadvantage (a fact graps doesn't want to acknowledge).
So... what must the nation do to eradicate that disadvantage, to close the gap. I heard the average life-span in the APY lands is 48 years..