mothra wrote on Oct 11^th, 2024 at 7:37am:

Well, whatever they taught you in school, the meaning of 'contiguous' wasn't in the syllabus.

You are trying to use big words to show off your supposed education but you just reveal your snobbish ignorance. You strive to seem nuanced and educated but you aren't.

There is no rich Aboriginal history. Their mythol our is not particularly interesting or revealing or insightful. It is primitive pre-historic, pre-civilisational tales like every other primitive tribal mythology. Their total lack of curiosity, the actual, active rejection of change for millennia, ossified into their myths, rituals and minds, is remarkable in its mysery-producing persistence.
Their violence, superstitions are hideous.

methra, fearless defender of FTLW in hir madness and ravings as the sock hse is, wasn't eddicated in our schools... hshe's a Pom...

'Hshe' indicates there is nothing positive to show man or woman... just another blind canyon on the internetn ad most likely a fake anyway...  could be anyone - but what you can guarantee is hir ultra-left vacuous views driving entirely on emotion without reason or fact ....

Got a few of those here - at least Smith is a simpleton who prefers insult to reasoned discussion ... LTYC is just the village idiot who we all just laugh at...

Darkly methra said once: "Do you know who I am?" ....  response - WGAF - just another anonymous fool on the internet with nothing to contribute but silly comments of a personal nature.

Who is Jackie-Jackie?

Frank wrote on Oct 10^th, 2024 at 6:39pm:


I spent a couple of days of NAIDOC Week looking at the artwork at both the Rockhampton Regional Library, and then over at the new Art Gallery. The artwork I saw was quite good. I did recognise some of the names on the paintings being that of the members of the immediate Capricorn region.

I bet these exhibits would outrank a lot of work in Sydney art galleries.

Never heard of that - it's just a common phrase for a person of colour .... nothing to do with anyone.

You don't reckon 'cobber' was derived from Charles Cobber, the Minnesotta blacksmith,do you?

Truly your mind wanders in strange ways.

Now then, Jackie-Jackie... I have no 'burden' to explain anything ... just is.... common usage you know - nothing to see here.

Some very creative accounting going on there.
A tourist takes the add on abo tour and they add up the entire cost of the holiday and say it's for boong spotting.

This is the reality.

There is no rich Aboriginal history - life was short, nasty and brutish with perpetual conflicts and killing, all over extremely limited and hard to secure resources meaning that women and children were also killed rather than the behaviour of even the most low class pillagers and plunderers in history, who kept the pretty women... the diet was dismal, being of protein with little vegetable etc, leading to early death in most cases .... the 'history' of any given small group - just large enough for the territory to sustain, was one of simply wandering about in their 'territory' for as long as they could hold it until the next Aboriginal Napoleon came over the hill and established a New Empire by the spear and club... they still carry on ancient tribal blues in places like Wadeye where several groups are together and none will leave it to the others ... all very reminiscent of pre-Western South Africa which was described as a series of tribes perpetually bouncing off one another and all over the place with the Zulus making it all worse with their disciplined approach to tribal warfare.

Show Me The Spirits!  Say - at the headwaters, the whole area of which is suddenly 'a sacred site' so as to put in a bid for Cargo Pay and Royalties for gold extraction - well - at least until Plebeian Stick put a stop to the gold mine....  Show Me The Spirits!!

Aurora Complexus wrote on Oct 12^th, 2024 at 10:49pm:


Aboriginal history.........

Aurora Complexus wrote on Oct 12^th, 2024 at 10:59pm:


No need - plain as day. The traditional diet was largely protein and little vegetable - a sure recipe for lack of health and early death - as was and remains the case.  Do you know how many of them die at forty from heart troubles?  Why is that?  Because they are immersed in a feast and famine feeding style, which was (as an Aboriginal I know said) 'lean meat', and a few yams and such... berries etc, but hardly a balanced diet.  So when they enter the land of Plenty, and there IS a more balanced diet of vegetables with meat and such - they still go for the high protein fried chicken and burgers and similar, and as a result still have a lower life expectancy.  The ongoing neglect of children in many cases also contributes to this ... heart disease is a complex set of issues... people who are often hungry when growing up develop a capacity to absorb and retain fat - so that often thin people can suffer serious heart problems ... when they grow up and can afford to eat, their body accepts that without question... after all - they once lived in Famine.... and they often die of what is called 'a silent heart attack'. 

In a SHA, the heart arteries just clog and the heart stops with little or no pain... I had an Aboriginal mate sit down for a little rest on a bench and just quietly pass away without a murmur... closed his eyes for a little rest and was gone.  42 years old. 

Much of that is diet.... and while better overall balanced nutrition in many cases extends life expectancy, many still die pretty young of heart artery problems and the imbalances often created by early disadvantage caused by neglect and abuse.

As I said - it's a very complex issue.

When you are ready - you may explain to the room why you believe Aboriginal life expectancy is still lower than The Rest.... go for it.  It's not just because they kill one another at hugely higher rates.....