Wednesday, Feb 01, 2012 at 16:39
Terra simply repeating your previous comments does not constitute any sort of proof of your assertions. Neither do veiled references to 'secret' reports and cover ups.
Similarly research you claim to have conducted needs to be subject to a bit of scrutiny. Who are the people that wrote these supposed reports of murder and mayhem, what is the reason these documents you claim to have seen have never been brought to light and action taken ? If there was a grain of evidence or truth do you really think the very active aboriginal rights activists would a) not have found them, or b) not acted on them ? Why are you the keeper of this knowledge, if it as you say how does it only come to light in a discussion about cattle grazing ? Surely if true there are serious human rights issues here.
As for "nasty events up to 50 years ago" that is surely nonsense ! 50 years is well within my memory and I'm sure that of many others. That makes it as recent as 1962. That is long past the demise, for a range of reasons, and the disintegration of your aboriginal nations. It is well within the period where ANY murder and disappearance would have been formally investigated. Secret burials give me a break !
Shot for entering a pub ? At that time aboriginals were not permitted to drink alcohol so why the pub visit ? Shooting anyone is a serious crime mate and whether being legally allowed in the pub or not a shooting would not have gone un-noticed or un-investigated. That sort of nonsense does nothing to further the efforts of.
The rule of law may not have given much protection in the 1890's but to suggest the sort of actions you claim took place as late as the 1960's is absurd.
To my knowledge the last shooting death of an aboriginal by Europeans in relation to land access was in the 1920's or 30's and certainly not in the eastern states.
You are welcome to your views of history however you need to produce a bit more actual data on events before you launch into an attack on high country cattlemen.
If a similar set of unsupported claims were made in relation to members of the aboriginal nation the discussion would soon spread well beyond this small
forum.
You will no doubt know of Andrew Bolt's recent court case. He made no claim about crimes being committed, he simply questioned the validity of claims of aboriginal
heritage. And yes he was found to be wrong but my point is he made no such claims as you make and yet found himself in court.
Ken
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