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http://www.smh.com.au/multimedia/200...ame/start.html

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Go on! Be brave.

It's not all sunshine, beaches and BBQ's here.

benny the ball

Didnt watch the film but I like your avatar...

iPom

Watch the film. It moves more.

Sammy T

I don't live in Oz, (yet) but everything I have read about the indigenous people of Australia reflects the crap deal they have been dealt. The problem is vast, the mortality and morbidity figures are horrendous when compared to the rest of the population and no one seems to have a clue where to start helping these people.
When we visited Oz, and spoke to various locals, all of them spoke in derogatory terms about the Aboriginal people, giving an distinct impression that they would rather pretend they do not exist.
BUT
as I said at the beginning, I do not live in Oz and I am sure others who do have different experiences and opinions.

Sammy

mbike

Very sobering. Anyone in Perth interested in the indigenous story should visit the Katta Djinoong exhibition in the West Australian Museum. It says a lot about the cultural imperialism of white settlers and what basically amounted to ethnic cleansing of local people.

Mark

keel

I watched the video. But you make no comment.

What are your views? Or are you just posting this to get the bleeding hearts or misinformed going.

Keel

Kapri

I'll make comment.
It's like watching a film from a third world country. Australia should do more to help the aboriginal children have a chance in life.

I have to say though that I have seen some fairly shocking sights here in the Uk in my job as a mental health nurse.
My Dad works for SSAFA and he helps out ex servicemen and war widows who live with nothing.

It's all too easy to be ignorant of what actually goes on in our own countries
(Aus and U.K)

Cooper Clan

Very thought provoking!!!

And I for one do not condone this sort of treatment and will continue my 'equal' treatment of my fellow man which ever country or neighbourhood I live in.

mike-Ju

I asked my friend who has just visited, she lives in Sydney but travels around Australia a fair bit, i asked her if attitudes have changed about the aboriganies, she said that they had and the white australians respected them.

when i was in Australia in 1991 I stayed with the Aboriginals on a communal site, the conditions wernt fit for animals the people were spat at on the street and usually condemned as drunks and layabouts, which was not true, I lived with them and in all my time there they were the nicest most welcoming people, it made me sick to her red neck australians in the outback speak about them in that way.

If i thought it could happen Id say give Australia back to them, they are a nobal and proud people, peaceful and at one with the world and the enviroment. Maybe the world could take a leaf out of their book.

dingoboy

Aboriginies only make up 2% of the population but own 50% of the country, if your white you need a permit or passport to travel into these lands. Aboriginies get a billion dollars a year from the governemnt and millions in mining royalties, its not the fault of white Australians if alot of them waste this money instead of improving their living conditions. l like the way some Brits go on about how racist white Aussies are, wasn't it in fact Britian that invaded OZ 200 years ago and the British army redcoats that massacred all the Aboriginies and stole their land.
The indians in the USA were treated just as badly as the Aboriginies but no ones says white americans are racist because of it but everyone says white Aussies are racists because of what happens to aboriginies 100 years ago

Siren & Brian

They need to help them selves.

It goes on there are only 200 odd homes for a few thousand people.

Ive gone and built houses in the middle of OZ. They dont last long, and by long it can be just days before there destroyed.


I did see alot of empty beer cans. So who needs the water.

Centurion

Your comments may not be popular with some people on here, however I do agree with you and it sums up for me the position. It makes me angry when people talk of the injustices suffered by the aboriginal communities as if its the personal responsibility of each white man.

Its a complicated issue as with any human story of a culture.

jad n rich

Good on you for posting it, Australian lifestyle:curse: has a more sinister meaning for many australians.

Congrats too to the SMH they did another video piece about 2 weeks ago its quite graphic and on children and how they live. If people think there are shi!holes to live in the UK watch that.

Noted on the video the little fella whos amazing because he can read and write to national standards, our middle sons grade 7 teacher taught out there, she would tell the white kids about life there, great respect for her for telling it as it is.

Brissy State Library had an exhibition on the aboriginal children, took our kids down and they were invited to do art/messages for a book which is to be published showing white australians support for aboriginals.

HCJ

A reading of The Fatal Shore might disabuse you of that notion. The aborigines first encountered in NSW had a fondness for tribal warfare, rape, kidnap and thought nothing of torching several square miles of bush in order to rustle up three rats for dinner.