I'll be happy to discuss this with you and anyone else when we know more about the political side of this. neither Albanese nor Dutton have mentioned treaty or makarata.... at least you want to talk instead of what the others are doing logco.
Aus is one of the very few nations that has never made a treaty between the invading colonisers and the endemic Aboriginal people.
here's a conservative piece:The Crown could not form a national treaty with Aboriginal people because they were divided by language, geography and identity. Historian Geoffrey Blainey writes in Triumph of the Nomads: History of Ancient Australia,
…[T]he continent eventually had more than 300 languages, and the number would be much larger if sharp differences of dialect were included. Tasmania alone had five distinct languages. Even the two facing shores of Sydney Harbour were, in languages, far apart… the language spoken on the site of the present opera house was not spoken on the facing shore. An aboriginal paddling his canoe across to the north shore had to speak not merely a different dialect but a different language.[1]
Not only that, but the evidence for lethal fighting is overwhelming. Comparisons between Europe and ancient Australia reveal that the death rate through warfare in Northern Arnhem Land was nearly six times higher than United States in WWII. In fact, according to Blainey, the only countries that ever had a higher rate of death due to lethal conflict were the Soviet Union and Germany under Stalin and Hitler.[2] One convict who witnessed these massacres first-hand, was William Buckley. He recorded over fourteen conflicts over 32 years while living with just one tribe, the Wallarranga, on the shores of what is now Port Phillip Bay. The most common causes of violence were disputes over women and payback killings following naturally caused deaths.[3]
https://quadrant.org.au/opinion/aborigines/2023/01/why-new-zealand-has-a-treaty-and-australia-doesnt/
and here's a brief report:
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-australia-40024622 worth reading.
