Valkie wrote on Feb 28^th, 2021 at 7:54am:


Wow thank you for revealing to us that the Aboriginal people came to Australia as British convicts.
Aussie Yobbos are amazing at creating fairy tales about their uniqueness.
One of the most popular myths is that the word “Mate” is unique to the “Australian language”.
When I visited pubs in London I could hear every other word of Mate.
It was then I realized that the English actually came from Australia and settled in the UK.

True the Aboriginals wiped out the Mega Fauna (as did the Clovis (Denisovian) Indian of North America - before being wiped out by Sapien Indians entering a long time after).

There is a possibility that the Aboriginals may have wiped out early Hominid habitation here. But no proof of Hominids are found here - only 'stories' from Aboriginals themselves of 'little people'.
Murrayan Aboriginals nearly drove the First Australian 'Tasmanian' Peoples to extinction - finding survival on the Tasmanian island. The Carpentarians nearly drove the Murrayans to extinction into one pocket of the Continent.

  Uni’s tribal mystery
ANDREW BOLT

An Aboriginal academic’s appointment revives a dangerous and delicate debate

Three months ago, one of our universities boasted it had hired an Aboriginal professor, “a proud Winninninni woman”.

This was a big achievement for a woman who says she’s from “an Aboriginal mob from West Queensland”, and survived the worst that White Australia could throw at an Aboriginal family.

She has written that her father was taken away as a child, and later, to save his “mocha blonde” daughter from being stolen, sent her from Queensland to NSW, when she was about eight.

Even so, she suffered terrible racism as a child: “I used to come home the ‘back way’ to avoid being pelted with rocks and stones from the other kids, and being called ‘black person’ …”

But the announcement of her promotion to professor has revived a debate so delicate and dangerous that it’s safer not to identify her. The question: what exactly is an Aborigine?

There is no doubt this professor feels in her bones she is Aboriginal. That’s her right, and there’s no absolute proof she’s not Aboriginal.

Several universities, and the ABC, have accepted her as Aboriginal and she’s given her university a certificate of Aboriginality.

But last September, the First Nations Telegraph, run by Aboriginal activist Stephen Hagan, reported on the promotion of this “Winninninni woman”, and some readers were puzzled. They’d never heard of this tribe.

I’ve checked. There is no reference anywhere to the Winninninni, not even in Norman Tindale’s magisterial Aboriginal Tribes of Australia, published in 1974.

Had the Winninninni people perhaps been wiped out? Had they survived only as oral history, imperfectly remembered?

Hagan asked the university for answers. It responded: ‘This is a personal matter and she [the professor] will contact you when she feels it’s the right time.”

Weeks later, I asked the professor: “Can you tell me where precisely the Winninninni lived? Which ancestor is the Aborigine from which you trace your Aboriginality?”

No response. So I asked the university, and on 25 September it replied that the professor was “the daughter of [a] renowned Aboriginal artist” who’d “raised her with the knowledge that they are descendants of the Winninninni people of Southern Queensland”.

So the Winninninni were now from southern Queensland, not western. But the mystery deepened.

A search of genealogical records revealed this “Aboriginal artist” father was in fact the professor’s adoptive father, marrying her mother in the year the professor turned 16.

What’s more, his ancestors were all of British or Irish descent. (So were her birth father’s.)

But her adoptive father, now dead, did have one publicly known claim to Aboriginality. The art society he founded says he went to work in the Northern Territory when he was 18 and was initiated into the “Yarrunga Jarra” tribe of Arnhem Land. Yet there’s no known record of that particular tribe, either.

Still, could the stories this man told his adoptive daughter as a child make her Aboriginal?

I’ve repeatedly asked the professor to explain but she refused to comment, although she did CC me on an email to her university: “Ask him if he can supply a map [of Aboriginal tribes] that is 100 years old. And I have engaged a defamation lawyer …”

That’s enough to stop most people from asking such questions, and not just because our laws against free speech are so tough. The definition of “Aboriginal” is also ambiguous. Legally, you are considered Aboriginal if you have an Aboriginal ancestor, and are accepted as Aboriginal by other Aborigines. But is that definition changing? Today, a man can even identify as a woman. Can we now choose our own race, too?

Had the Winninninni people perhaps been wiped out? Had they survived only as oral history? 

Old Caucasoid Races: First Nations peoples.
Young Caucasoid Races: Europeans, Middle-Easterners, Indian subcontinentals.

Old Negroid: Xhoi-San, Hottentot
Young Negroid: Bantu

Old Mongoloid: First Nations peoples like Clovis
Young Mongoloid: Han


What gets me is how/why successive 'waves' of humanoid races have come out of the same area: the Rift (Vagina) Valley. Are the Ethiopians hiding something there?
Is it an Area 51? I can see Sad Kangaroo and It_is_the_Light having a jellyfish wrestle over this one.