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All depends om your definition of indigenous.
The defunct ATSIC let those with only 6.25% aboriginal blood pretend to be aboriginal.
That's one great-great-grandfather aboriginal and everyone else non aboriginal.
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When I was a young child, I knew that I knew so much about so much.
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If you are not engaging AI actively and aggressively, you are doing it wrong.
You are not going to lose your job to AI.
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Your company is not going to go out of business because of AI.
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Con Gorozidis wrote:but the funniest one was kevin sheedy picking daniel kerr in his aboriginal all stars team - daniel is of sri lankan heritage-
indian, actually.
yep. you is right! i just checked. i remember in the paper is said he was lankan. but according to wiki hes anglo/indian - from bengal!
correct anglo indian ... basically to be classed anglo indian on the fathers side not further then 2 generations ago had to be born of european decent but the next generation being born in india ... i know im an australian born anglo indian so my children will be anglo indian but their children (unless born in inda) will not be anglo ... its confusing i know
"The team that wins in the most positions and makes the least amount of mistakes, usually wins the game." -- Allan Jeans
I am indigenouss ...(I have spell check and couldn't be stuffed using it simply because is it is an overly complicated word that comes with overly complicated connotations)
....to this planet ....what planet are we on again?
I would hardly say that Australian Aborigines are the most genocide affected race on earth!
Do you guys know any history from before the Iraq War? Like Julius Caesar massacring Gauls? Or more recently Rwanda? Arm*nians killed by T*rks? What about the little matter of the millions of J%ws killed in WWII?
Have you heard of the potato famine in Ireland? Thousands have been killed in Sudan this decade.
Over 200 000 Australians now identify themselves as "indigenous". That's about double the number estimated to be here when the First Fleet arrived in 1788.
In honour of those who went before, in the dark and desperate years.
Moods wrote:In the late 80's I played with an aboriginal fella named Alan Thorpe. He played about 20 games for Fitzroy and the dogs. Blonde hair, blue eyes and as fair as skin as you're likely to see. He now assists young aboriginal players within the AFL and in other areas. Great bloke Thorpey, but I always felt a bit sorry for him as he was very much an aboriginal in every way, but not everyone recognised it.
He is a co-host of the Marngrook Footy Show which is on Ch 31 and NITV.
I Love Peter Kiel wrote:I would hardly say that Australian Aborigines are the most genocide affected race on earth!
Do you guys know any history from before the Iraq War? Like Julius Caesar massacring Gauls? Or more recently Rwanda? Arm*nians killed by T*rks? What about the little matter of the millions of J%ws killed in WWII?
Have you heard of the potato famine in Ireland? Thousands have been killed in Sudan this decade.
Over 200 000 Australians now identify themselves as "indigenous". That's about double the number estimated to be here when the First Fleet arrived in 1788.
The genocide of Australian Aboriginals has been going for 220 years so far without any sign of stopping. The examples you quote are conflicts that lasted for less time.
I'm not surprised at your figure of 200,000. With modern medicine, and plentiful food, the natural circumstances that kept the birth rate down have now been totally eliminated. Not sure about your accuracy in Quoting 100,000 when the First Fleet arrived..... It's not as if anyone conducted a census on arrival..... it would be like estimating the number of possums in australia at that time.
Many of you have the black armband view of history. There was no state-sponsored systematic genocide of indigenous people in this country. There was displacement, injustice and there were some massacres. There were also massacres of Chinese during the Gold Rush. These were bad things, but they cannot be changed now. The best thing we can do now is treat everyone equally and try to ensure that today's children have access to education and wider employment opportunities.
You can't call it genocide if the population has increased. Surely having plentiful food and modern medicine is a good thing?
Unfortunately we now have remote aboriginal communities like Wadeye where people are paid "sit down money" and there's a huge amount of school-refusal so kids don't learn English. Living in a tribal community may seem romantic to some of you, but you can obviously already speak English and express yourself reasonably well, read newspapers, have access to the internet, have skills that you can use at work, are able to travel and be part of the wider world. many of these kids don't have that choice.
In honour of those who went before, in the dark and desperate years.
I Love Peter Kiel wrote:Many of you have the black armband view of history. There was no state-sponsored systematic genocide of indigenous people in this country. There was displacement, injustice and there were some massacres. There were also massacres of Chinese during the Gold Rush. These were bad things, but they cannot be changed now. The best thing we can do now is treat everyone equally and try to ensure that today's children have access to education and wider employment opportunities.
You can't call it genocide if the population has increased. Surely having plentiful food and modern medicine is a good thing?
Unfortunately we now have remote aboriginal communities like Wadeye where people are paid "sit down money" and there's a huge amount of school-refusal so kids don't learn English. Living in a tribal community may seem romantic to some of you, but you can obviously already speak English and express yourself reasonably well, read newspapers, have access to the internet, have skills that you can use at work, are able to travel and be part of the wider world. many of these kids don't have that choice.
Very good post.
Genocide is bandied about so flagrantly nowdays that it has lost all its meaning.
it like the looney right calling Obama a Nazi/Communist/Socialist, it is just used by people to lazy to look at the history in depth.
Now I am no Ken Shuttleworth fan who tries to deny any massacres or any children forecably removed etc, but genocide???
You second paragraph is exceptional in its incapulation of the issues remote settlements have in "white" Australia. All the kids from there aren't like Liam Jarrah (obviously an exceptional young man).
We still need to improve the rate of infant mortality and life expectancy for aboriginals which are a disgrace for a supposedly first world country, but it is much much harder than it seems.
Lance or James??
There comes a point in every man's life when he has to say, "Enough is enough." For me, that time is now. I have been dealing with claims that I cheated and had an unfair advantage in <redacted>. Over the past three years, I have been subjected to a <redacted>investigation followed by <redacted> witch hunt. The toll this has taken on my family, and my work for <redacted>and on me leads me to where I am today – finished with this nonsense. (Oops just got a spontaneous errection <unredacted>)
I Love Peter Kiel wrote:Many of you have the black armband view of history. There was no state-sponsored systematic genocide of indigenous people in this country. There was displacement, injustice and there were some massacres. There were also massacres of Chinese during the Gold Rush. These were bad things, but they cannot be changed now. The best thing we can do now is treat everyone equally and try to ensure that today's children have access to education and wider employment opportunities.
You can't call it genocide if the population has increased. Surely having plentiful food and modern medicine is a good thing?
Unfortunately we now have remote aboriginal communities like Wadeye where people are paid "sit down money" and there's a huge amount of school-refusal so kids don't learn English. Living in a tribal community may seem romantic to some of you, but you can obviously already speak English and express yourself reasonably well, read newspapers, have access to the internet, have skills that you can use at work, are able to travel and be part of the wider world. many of these kids don't have that choice.
So where is the compensation for theft of their land?