rudd to make formal apology to aborigines, page-100

banjar, typical myth-spinning of those with no conscience:

"...if you feel so strongly about it then move out of the country, hand your little piece of it back to the rightful owners and compensate them with all the benefits that have flowed to you personally."

Is that what the indigenous people want? Would that help them in any way at all?
This is again a typical red herring, a simplistic argument to slide away from the real issue. My moving out has not been suggested by anyone. Ever! Doing that is not offering reparations or a hand of reconciliation. There is a huge number of other things we can do to ease the lot of the first aussies: to give them back their dignity, to acknowledge them as equal partners, to pull down the wall between us and them. Successive Lib Gov's have continued to push the "them and us" mentality; not only of the aborigines but of every other group of people who are different even in the most superficial way. And their view of the "them" has always been that "they" are far lesser than "us," deserving of the vilest treatment.

"...It was the frequent droughts that sealed the fate of aboriginals here as diminishing supplies of water drove the settlers and the aborigines together as they each tried to hold what water holes were left for their own use. It was not governments, or the laws, but merely two different people forced into situations of having to survive the vagaries of nature."

If this wasn't such serious a topic, I'd say you're trying to be funny but, since it is, you must be trying to re-write history. A new history that exonerates the governments of the past for their outrageous and contemptuous attacks on a people.

Drop it banjar. On this topic, at least, we will never see eye-to-eye.
You live with your heart and I will live with mine.