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Reply #15 - Feb 8^th, 2026 at 5:58am

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 6^th, 2026 at 10:16am:

UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 5^th, 2026 at 8:44pm:

Closing the gap means that indigenous Australians have to lift their standards. Not drag the rest of the country down to the indigenous Australian level. I don't expect indigenous Australians to be Olympic level fitness, but I expect them to be healthy. I expect them to abide by the law so that they don't end up in prison. I expect them to work at a reasonable job. I expect them to have atleast a high school equivalent level of education.

These are not unreasonable expectations.

The overwhelming majority of Indigenous Australians already fulfill those requirements. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

Why can they, why do they- but not a sizable minority?

If Aborigines beat, rape abuse each other it is framed as 'disadvantage', dispossession, wacism.
If anyone else behaves like that it is disgraceful criminality and opprobrious moral degradation.

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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 89859 Proud Old White Australian Man Gender:	Re: First Nations leaders outline their priorities Reply #16 - Feb 8^th, 2026 at 6:13am Well - they're way ahead in the woman killing stakes - 75% guaranteed to date for 2026 from 1% of the community - and another one had a go just up this way before being shot. Tends to make the casual observer think that far too many of them are not bothering to behave like human beings.
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Reply #17 - Feb 8^th, 2026 at 6:32am

Brian Ross wrote on Jan 25^th, 2026 at 9:49am:

From truth-telling to closing the gap, First Nations leaders outline their priorities in 2026 Cool

Community leaders are calling for action on many long-running issues, including calls to change the date of Australia Day, action on deaths in custody, and the establishment of a national truth-telling process.

They dont give a gob of shite about "their people" living in moral and physical squalor, horrendously abusing each other, their children and themselves.

No, they are really exercised about Australia Day (about which they would whine and mozn no matter what date it was) and more publicity and kvetching time for themselves.

Despicable.

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Reply #18 - Feb 8^th, 2026 at 12:27pm

Gnads wrote on Feb 7^th, 2026 at 4:06pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 5^th, 2026 at 8:44pm:

Closing the gap means that indigenous Australians have to lift their standards. Not drag the rest of the country down to the indigenous Australian level. I don't expect indigenous Australians to be Olympic level fitness, but I expect them to be healthy. I expect them to abide by the law so that they don't end up in prison. I expect them to work at a reasonable job. I expect them to have atleast a high school equivalent level of education.

These are not unreasonable expectations.

Coming from you they are indeed unreasonable expectations.

You epitomise a hypocrite with a short memory.

I graduated from a training company that was heavily indigenous oriented. I was part of the racial minority of trainees in the course. Indigenous students there were quite good. They did their work and showed no signs of being trouble.

Funding for training, welfare, housing, and the justice system is in a considerably biased favour of indigenous Australians. And whilst I am quite pleased for remedial action to undo socioeconomic disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, I think the favouritism towards indigenous Australians should have evened the playing field within a generation.

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Re: First Nations leaders outline their priorities
Reply #19 - Feb 8^th, 2026 at 1:02pm

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Feb 7^th, 2026 at 4:35pm:

Gnads wrote on Feb 7^th, 2026 at 4:07pm:

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 6^th, 2026 at 10:16am:

UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 5^th, 2026 at 8:44pm:

Closing the gap means that indigenous Australians have to lift their standards. Not drag the rest of the country down to the indigenous Australian level. I don't expect indigenous Australians to be Olympic level fitness, but I expect them to be healthy. I expect them to abide by the law so that they don't end up in prison. I expect them to work at a reasonable job. I expect them to have atleast a high school equivalent level of education.

These are not unreasonable expectations.

The overwhelming majority of Indigenous Australians already fulfill those requirements. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

Yeah nah they don't - a reasonable proportion do - but far from a majority.

I’d say that they do, because the majority of people who could legally be considered Aboriginal don’t identify as such and simply get on with life.

I disagree - between 2016 & 2021 cenuses - a 5 year period the number of people identifying as ATSI increased by 25.2%. That's the fastest growing racial demographic in the country by a long chalk.

Much faster than even Muslims.

So for some reason they're either breeding like rabbits or there are a lot more of those who previously just used to get on with life that have now box ticked onto the gravy train.

I wonder why? Roll Eyes

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Reply #20 - Feb 8^th, 2026 at 1:05pm

UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 8^th, 2026 at 12:27pm:

Gnads wrote on Feb 7^th, 2026 at 4:06pm:

UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 5^th, 2026 at 8:44pm:

Closing the gap means that indigenous Australians have to lift their standards. Not drag the rest of the country down to the indigenous Australian level. I don't expect indigenous Australians to be Olympic level fitness, but I expect them to be healthy. I expect them to abide by the law so that they don't end up in prison. I expect them to work at a reasonable job. I expect them to have atleast a high school equivalent level of education.

These are not unreasonable expectations.

Coming from you they are indeed unreasonable expectations.

You epitomise a hypocrite with a short memory.

I graduated from a training company that was heavily indigenous oriented. I was part of the racial minority of trainees in the course. Indigenous students there were quite good. They did their work and showed no signs of being trouble.

Funding for training, welfare, housing, and the justice system is in a considerably biased favour of indigenous Australians. And whilst I am quite pleased for remedial action to undo socioeconomic disparities between indigenous and non-indigenous Australians, I think the favouritism towards indigenous Australians should have evened the playing field within a generation.

Mate your rolling on toward 50 or already are & you've done more training courses than 50 men & you're still on the Govt & Mum & Dads teat. Working a few hours a fortnight at a restaurant or fast food joint doesn't cut the mustard.

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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25150 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: First Nations leaders outline their priorities Reply #21 - Feb 8^th, 2026 at 3:29pm Well, being on the radar for the police does not do Gnads much goood either.
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Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 89859 Proud Old White Australian Man Gender:	Re: First Nations leaders outline their priorities Reply #22 - Feb 9^th, 2026 at 6:07pm Money, Boss - then more money so we can syphon it off into our families and close mates ...
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Re: First Nations leaders outline their priorities
Reply #23 - Feb 9^th, 2026 at 6:09pm

Gnads wrote on Feb 8^th, 2026 at 1:02pm:

Sir Eoin O Fada wrote on Feb 7^th, 2026 at 4:35pm:

Gnads wrote on Feb 7^th, 2026 at 4:07pm:

Brian Ross wrote on Feb 6^th, 2026 at 10:16am:

UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 5^th, 2026 at 8:44pm:

Closing the gap means that indigenous Australians have to lift their standards. Not drag the rest of the country down to the indigenous Australian level. I don't expect indigenous Australians to be Olympic level fitness, but I expect them to be healthy. I expect them to abide by the law so that they don't end up in prison. I expect them to work at a reasonable job. I expect them to have atleast a high school equivalent level of education.

These are not unreasonable expectations.

The overwhelming majority of Indigenous Australians already fulfill those requirements. Tsk, tsk, tsk... Roll Eyes

Yeah nah they don't - a reasonable proportion do - but far from a majority.

I’d say that they do, because the majority of people who could legally be considered Aboriginal don’t identify as such and simply get on with life.

I disagree - between 2016 & 2021 cenuses - a 5 year period the number of people identifying as ATSI increased by 25.2%. That's the fastest growing racial demographic in the country by a long chalk.

Much faster than even Muslims.

So for some reason they're either breeding like rabbits or there are a lot more of those who previously just used to get on with life that have now box ticked onto the gravy train.

I wonder why? Roll Eyes

51% or you are not a Nabo. Enough of this ball's skite.

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Gnads Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 33013 Gender:	Re: First Nations leaders outline their priorities Reply #24 - Feb 9^th, 2026 at 6:13pm UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 8^th, 2026 at 3:29pm: Well, being on the radar for the police does not do Gnads much goood either. Really? Is that a threat?
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Frank Gold Member Offline Australian Politics Posts: 56785 Gender:	Re: First Nations leaders outline their priorities Reply #25 - Feb 9^th, 2026 at 7:20pm UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 8^th, 2026 at 3:29pm: Well, being on the radar for the police does not do Gnads much goood either. The problem with Australians is not that so many of them are descended from convicts, but that so many of them are descended from prison officers. Clive James.
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UnSubRocky Gold Member Offline Crocodile Hunter: Origins Posts: 25150 Rockhampton Gender:	Re: First Nations leaders outline their priorities Reply #26 - Feb 11^th, 2026 at 12:49pm Gnads wrote on Feb 9^th, 2026 at 6:13pm: UnSubRocky wrote on Feb 8^th, 2026 at 3:29pm: Well, being on the radar for the police does not do Gnads much goood either. Really? Is that a threat? No, a fact. Nothing close to being a threat.
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Re: First Nations leaders outline their priorities
Reply #27 - Feb 11^th, 2026 at 1:03pm

Money, Money, Money ...
Ain't it funny
From dat Wharte Man's purse...

Cargo Cult... long overdue for history's scrapheap - the same as reckoning some vast tract of land your ancestors might have wandered across is now yours. If that were the case there'd be no land available to anyone on Earth.

The DIFFERENCE is that under relatively civilised rules - wherein for convenience the 'ownership' of land is vested in the Crown or similar - every individual is equally entitled to claim land via purchase.

FFS - is it not enough that governments buy farms and stations for them, or allocate missions and reservations (so despised they claim) like Arnhem Land without their paying? NO - they just think they can demand and get all of it - and while ever piss weak governments are in play that will just go on and on.

It's 2026 - your old 'possession of land by conquest' wrought by your repeated invasions of genocidal maniacs from the north who conquered by spear and nulla nulla - no longer applies - possession is now regulated through the Crown - which in this case appears to be the ultimate socialist, as opposed to the Abofascist Ideology of Supremacism by seniority of wandering about.

There are and can be NO special dispensations of land via race. There endeth the lesson.

Now you know.

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