Darkies can't even grow their own food.

[Black Orchid]

Hate to point out the obvious, Brian, but if anyone lives in the past it is most definitely you!

[cods]

Brian needs to learn to open one (his mind) and shut the other (his gob). He keeps doing the opposite (closed mind, opened gob).

Oh, my mind is open to new ideas. You know, ideas which weren't proved outmoded way back in the middle of last century after the most destructive war the world had ever seen. What a shame, hey, when Racism, Xenophobia and hatred were shown to be complete WAFTMs, right? Poor, Neferti, what a shame you live so far into the past with your narrow-minded views...

oh dear all the while telling nef she lives in the past...

own goal bri bri..

you almost never fail to bring up history....its a pity me ploy are you sure your not aboriginal or at least brought up with them....you certainly keep thinking we must punish these bastard white people FOIRRRRRRRRRRRRRRREEEEEEEVER..

bri do you think the aboriginal would have improved on the boomerang in the past 200 odd years had white never found this place?????...

maybe they would be using it to dig with so they could plant all those seeds we have been told they farmed well before whitey arrived...

just wondering thats all.

[brian ross]

Indigenous Australians were not the simple, nomadic peoples which they have become portrayed as.

Today, there is archaeological evidence that they farmed, that they had extensive aquaculture and large settlements - in some areas of Australia. Their development was not even or uniform. It has always suited the white colonists to portray them as being brutal and nomadic, it made stealing their land easier. That theft has been largely recognised and Native Title offsets their losses to some extent by fitting their ownership into the existing Colonial tenure structure which the Colonists established.

Many here prefer to believe the old Racist viewpoint because to admit that was wrong or incorrect unsettles their world view. They'd rather see their fellow Australians dispossessed of their land, their heritage, their culture, their children than admit any wrong doing on their ancestors' part. However, historical evidence refutes that. History is being rewritten. No, it doesn't have to be a Black Armband view but it needs to be much more balanced rather than the Three Cheers view.

The Culture Wars are still ongoing but slowly, the keel is being levelled and the truth of Australian colonialism is being revealed.

[Rorschach]

That is bullshit bwian and its been refuted.
I suggest you post some real proof to back your opinion up.

[FLEKTARN]

Your doing well Neff

He went from tut tut to insults in only two posts

You really got under his skin

But be careful there, I would wash with antiseptic as soon as possible.

Lol, hahahaha, sorry, couldn't hold myself. That was funny as hell. You wrecked him.

[Rorschach]

Brian needs to learn to open one (his mind) and shut the other (his gob). He keeps doing the opposite (closed mind, opened gob).

Oh, my mind is open to new ideas. You know, ideas which weren't proved outmoded way back in the middle of last century after the most destructive war the world had ever seen. What a shame, hey, when Racism, Xenophobia and hatred were shown to be complete WAFTMs, right? Poor, Neferti, what a shame you live so far into the past with your narrow-minded views...

LOL
You haven't got an open mind bwian you are a close minded bigot.
You are an intolerant PC LW Progressive...
You don't live in the past or any reality you live in fantasyland...

[Rorschach]

I note as usual your fantasy is not backed up by any proof bwian... as usual.

Wake up bwian... the world is not what you think it is... and people who live and address reality are better people than you will ever be.

[cods]

Indigenous Australians were not the simple, nomadic peoples which they have become portrayed as.

Today, there is archaeological evidence that they farmed, that they had extensive aquaculture and large settlements - in some areas of Australia. Their development was not even or uniform. It has always suited the white colonists to portray them as being brutal and nomadic, it made stealing their land easier. That theft has been largely recognised and Native Title offsets their losses to some extent by fitting their ownership into the existing Colonial tenure structure which the Colonists established.

Many here prefer to believe the old Racist viewpoint because to admit that was wrong or incorrect unsettles their world view. They'd rather see their fellow Australians dispossessed of their land, their heritage, their culture, their children than admit any wrong doing on their ancestors' part. However, historical evidence refutes that. History is being rewritten. No, it doesn't have to be a Black Armband view but it needs to be much more balanced rather than the Three Cheers view.

The Culture Wars are still ongoing but slowly, the keel is being levelled and the truth of Australian colonialism is being revealed.

I think you believe the world was flat at one point.....

its a fantasy bri they fished they threw boomerangs and probably rocks before then at kangaroos they ate berries and ants... and guess what bri bri..

they still do in the far outback... if they farmed as you claim why are they not still doing it......they still fish with a spear...

another guess for you bri they are NOMADIC they were pretty smart like that when they had eaten all the berries and most of the fish in the hole were gone they realised they had to move and move they did.......and guess what again bri... THEY STILL DO...

the full blood aboriginal is nothing like the almost white ones you believe in..... my guess is it was the almost white ones that may have done any farming and even then I dont believe it.............seriously you need to get a grip bri...

[Neferti]

Have a read of Joseph Banks' Endeavour Journal recording what he saw when they first landed in "Botany Bay" in 1770.

http://www.sl.nsw.gov.au/joseph-banks-endeavour-journal

[brian ross]

Australian have long held the idea that all Indigenous Australians were simple hunter-gatherers. It enabled them to more easily dispossess them of the land and take it for themselves. Appears that myth has been destroyed at last - Rethinking Indigenous Australia's agricultural past

Speaking of Windschuttle, as I don't doubt some people here will, here is a copy of James Boyce's (author of the acclaimed book, "Van Dieman's Land") Quadrant Article which PP McGuinness then editor refused to publish which demolishes Windschuttle rather well. It is well worth reading

Aboriginal Village

Vic bushfires uncover ancient Aboriginal stone houses

Indigenous owners hope ancient eel traps will be recognised as world heritage

There is plenty of evidence that the Indigenous Australians were a varied lot, with simply nomadic lifestyles in the centre of Australia to more settled existence around the periphery.