Duty, I doubt that you would have had the gonads to say that to the Aborigines I marched with in Albury yesterday:
" ...“OUR Home, our place, it’s not a lifestyle choice.”
The passionate chants filled Albury’s main street early yesterday as about members and supporters of the Border’s Aborigine community made their feelings clear on the idea of forced closures of indigenous communities.
Their voices joined those at more than 70 marches across Australia and the world, which served to condemn Western Australia Premier Colin Barnett for moving to shut 150 Aboriginal communities.
Criticism was also directed at Prime Minister Tony Abbott for past remarks that Aboriginal communities were making a lifestyle choice that governments shouldn’t fund. ..."
http://www.bordermail.com.au/story/3051644/defying-the-great-land-grab-of-2015/?cs=11
One look on their faces would have demonstrated to you just how misunderstood, persecuted and threatened they feel by Tony Abbott's post election behaviour and those threats in WA to remove them from their land.
As for your opinion, you are entitled to express it but as with the likes of Andrew Bolt; unless it's supported with reliable and factual evidence and references, that is all it is.
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