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There would be Boomers in this forum older than this video.

What was life like for these people is this what they want to claim back?

Yet when I suggest a Homeland all the dork-heads get up in arms.... but if the Abos have it and want it it's golden!!

Arnhem Land is a good start - it is simply not possible to hand over all the territory demanded to the distant descendants of what were once wandering groups who really only 'owned' the place they settled on for the night etc... yet thought that because they lived in The emptiness they owned all they could see.

Those days, the ancien regime, of Old Imperialism and Colonisation are gone... don' cha know?  It's time governments and their agencies got their minds around realities and started to actually treat everyone the same as required by Law... and understood that Aboriginal occupation of land was limited to where they were at any given time and was only held by the same rules of colonisation as the world once was but has now given away.

ProudKangaroo wrote Today at 7:09am:


Well - it is THEIR demand that they be 'sovereign' and that the evil White Man's Ways not intrude onthem (unless it's a free benefit, ay?); they are the ones demanding Apartheid; the idea of raising some ready to cover their international obligations by holding hunting parties was derived from Maverick in which Mel Gibson posed as a sick Indian and Graham Greene gave a deal to a visiting dignitary to hunt an Indian for a fee - with no result or effect on the Indian... it was just an idea raised during the creation of the concept of The Homeland demanded by Abos, but was discarded as impractical.

It would take too much effort to train hunters in the use of traditional weapons so they could hunt an Abo the way the Abos used to do to each other in their dream times...

The idea of a hermetically sealed 'glass' railway from which visitors could view the pristine native culture in action is still pretty good - division of spoils would give the Abo Homeland some needed income to survive.  Otherwise it will be very hard for them to get by the old traditional ways ... they'll all be dead within two years if The White Man's Resources they hate so much are removed.

They've got to have something... you've ruined the idea of The Hunts - now I suppose you reckon the Glass Train is a terrible idea too! 

That only leaves payment for the guards at Gondwanamo Bay to which all the dissidents and hardened criminals of Australia will be sent.  Not a lot of biccies to pay for running a Homeland.... but your choice there, champ.