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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 87675 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: Who might be an Aboriginal? Reply #60 - Aug 7^th, 2024 at 9:49pm
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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 87675 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: Who might be an Aboriginal? Reply #61 - Aug 7^th, 2024 at 9:50pm
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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 87675 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: Who might be an Aboriginal? Reply #62 - Aug 7^th, 2024 at 9:53pm
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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 87675 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: Who might be an Aboriginal? Reply #63 - Aug 8^th, 2024 at 12:22am Smart-arsed comment #723 .... Nobody really knows for sure .......................
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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 87675 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: Who might be an Aboriginal? Reply #64 - Aug 9^th, 2024 at 11:14pm Everyone could be one .... or no-one at all..... they are like the ghosts of the desert.... some literally appear out of nowhere... out of thin air.... many would disappear if they stood in front of a snow drift....
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Re: Who might be an Aboriginal?
Reply #65 - Aug 11^th, 2024 at 10:49am

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jul 27^th, 2024 at 12:31pm:

These days anyone could be an Aborigine... might as well just put the whole country on the same level of citizenship, hand out land claims and such, and put everyone in line for special treatment...... that'll fix everything.

Mum told me yesterday that we have no relatives in our family who are indigenous Australian. I thought that my grandmother's cousins married indigenous people. And here I was thinking that I was a distant relative of a sports star.

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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 87675 Always was always will be HOME Gender:	Re: Who might be an Aboriginal? Reply #66 - Aug 11^th, 2024 at 11:37am Fair enough - I have an ancestor who came from Bourke and has no real family connections or something... no 'written history' - might be Aboriginal - mek me a clem to lend, mete! MY country White or Wong ..... Did a part tree yesterday and that one stood out as having few records etc.
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Reply #67 - Aug 11^th, 2024 at 11:44am

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 11^th, 2024 at 11:37am:

Fair enough - I have an ancestor who came from Bourke and has no real family connections or something... no 'written history' - might be Aboriginal - mek me a clem to lend, mete! MY country White or Wong .....

Did a part tree yesterday and that one stood out as having few records etc.

I am sitting in my lounge room. To my right is a photograph of my maternal great-great grandmother, May. I will try to upload the photograph of her. The photograph is a circa year 1900 era photograph that has worn down over time. I was under the impression that she was a local 1/4th indigenous Australian woman. Mum was definitely claiming that she was not. She came here from Germany.

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Reply #68 - Aug 11^th, 2024 at 1:21pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 11^th, 2024 at 11:44am:

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 11^th, 2024 at 11:37am:

Fair enough - I have an ancestor who came from Bourke and has no real family connections or something... no 'written history' - might be Aboriginal - mek me a clem to lend, mete! MY country White or Wong .....

Did a part tree yesterday and that one stood out as having few records etc.

I am sitting in my lounge room. To my right is a photograph of my maternal great-great grandmother, May. I will try to upload the photograph of her. The photograph is a circa year 1900 era photograph that has worn down over time. I was under the impression that she was a local 1/4th indigenous Australian woman. Mum was definitely claiming that she was not. She came here from Germany.

Pascorigine - that's kosher these days - soon we'll all be on the gravy train and things will be sailing along nicely...

Nah - my Lewis forebear had parents - from Britain.

Nephew and his wife are working on family tree - they are overwhelmed at our Australian connections - and we're not even close to the distant ones. Suffice to say that everyone of one surname is a relative... plenty of them - g-gs had six kids or something... seven if you count the three month old who died. One of my mother's brothers has six kids and one of his grand-kids has twelve already... I inadvertently was sleeping with my mother's cousin's daughters once.... no idea.... back to the good old days eh? In the family, but I had no idea.

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25067 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Who might be an Aboriginal? Reply #69 - Aug 12^th, 2024 at 3:57pm Definitely have no indigenous ancestry in my family. Other than that, I have some sperm donor descendants.
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Reply #70 - Aug 13^th, 2024 at 12:02am

It's coming as a shock
In this pitiful country
'Cause it's getting mighty hard
To find an Aborigine

Most countries have a test
But we like to keep it free
So anyone can say
They're an Aborigine...

I'm an Aborigine... and so is my wife! And the family dog - he's a dingo... a black dingo looks like a boxer ... but he identifies as a dingo ... and he's going into the next Olympics as a woman boxer as shown on his passport ...

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25067 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: Who might be an Aboriginal? Reply #71 - Aug 13^th, 2024 at 1:17am I identify as a Rockhamptonite. I have no issue with people identifying as part of the Dharumbul people. Heck, some people even identify as babies.
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Re: Who might be an Aboriginal?
Reply #72 - Aug 13^th, 2024 at 11:36am

UnSubRocky wrote on Aug 13^th, 2024 at 1:17am:

I identify as a Rockhamptonite. I have no issue with people identifying as part of the Dharumbul people. Heck, some people even identify as babies.

Town coupla highway stations up has re-opened its art gallery and named it the 'Nulla Nulla Gallery' - got Aboriginal stuff up at the moment, some of it's pretty good..

Nulla Nulla - ain't that a kick in the head? Or a clubbing in the head? Sounds a bit nihilist to me anyway... so many dialects - so little time - they'll just have to totally take over the school curriculum ....

Future thing - Nulla Nulla Space Station -Welcome to Null and Void ....

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