The Aboriginals will NEVER stop complaining until left-wing bigots stop telling us to keep giving them compensation.

We've already apologised them a thousand times, but they're still not happy.

Why?

Because they want MONEY, ATTENTION and SUPERIORITY.


Aboriginals are a lost cause. My advice: Forget about them.

It's not just the aboriginies who think our society should apologise in a more official way. They deserve justice, including the return of wages that were stolen from them. You can't expect a group of people to get over such a massive injustice when the society that inflicted it on them isn't even aware of how recent it was.

Aboriginals are a lost cause. My advice: Forget about them. "
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DT..you are either a student or a teacher from what Ive read here...if your a student Id say comments like this are understandable, but if you are a teacher....

IT REPRESENTS MINE !!!!!

You made some very good points DT - and in theory you are so right, but Australia is supposed to be a democratic country and once we dismiss human rights violations, we become just as bad as the rest of those nations who dismiss human suffering.

In some ways the aboriginals are a lost cause for the simple fact they have lost hope.  Many of our indigenous people cannot cope in our world with our rules and regulations.  After 60,000 years as hunter gatherers - they've only had 200 years to catch up with us  so called civilised citizens who have had thousands of years to develop into what we are today.  Remember - it was only 2 centuries ago - they were natives.

New Zealand and the US now give their indigenous people special recognition as well as the right to hold onto their cultures.  We seem to have a horsewhip out and demand that they keep up with us or else they're useless.  Call a dog a bad name and it sticks.

DT, demanding compensation for acts of war is what caused WWII to follow WWI so closely. On the other hand, truth and reconcilliation are effective ways to deal with civil injustices. All those examples you gave happened before a lot of the stolen wages.

The Abos seem to have cause and effect confused - us saying sorry is not going to suddenly make us feel bad about what some stranger did so many years ago - nor is is going to make us feel responsible, nor can we re-write history to make it better for them.

One of the biggest benefits of the national sorry campaign is that the public is more aware of the very recent injustices committed against the aboriginal people. When most people get the full story about what happened, they are genuinely sorry, and fell less inclined to blame the aborigines for all their problems.

DT, you have no respect for the indigenous population (your Abo reference is offensive). What have they done to you?

Have you ever sat down with an Aboriginal elder and spoken about how his family was broken up by slave traders (in the 19th Century) or by the Protector up until the 1970s? Saying sorry is not admitting that you were to blame for the attrocity, it means that you understand what has happened, and express allegiance with their cause.

No decent elder wants compensation. They want recognition that Australia, as a democratic country and a signatory to the UN, committed crimes against its own people.

I live in a town where a third of the population is indigenous. Does it strike you as a problem when most of them live in poverty? That their lifespan is barely half of yours? Do you think they enjoy living with the stigma of being bludgers?

Most of the aboriginal people I have met are kind and considerate, and have a greater respect for their family than a majority of Australians. The problem is that they are treated like second class citizens, given no opportunity to succeed, and are manipulated by bureaucrats. Is it any wonder they turn to alcohol and start beating each other?