Jump to content

Indigenous Sovereignty Demands


red750

Recommended Posts

40 minutes ago, willedoo said:

He had a theory of different waves of migration into the country

It's a theory that cannot be proved by independent findings, but I think that it is more true than not. To me it is logical that the earliest arrivals would have been moved on by the later ones, just like a crowd leaving a football arena.

 

Maybe using DNA a comparison could be made between Aborigines going from north to south, sampling from reasonably pour groups, to see if there are indicators of genetic changes. These DNA-wallahs seem to be able to give an estimate of when a genetic change occured, so you could see if there was a pattern of colonisation spreading radially from a northern entry point.

 

Another method is to study the vocabulary of each language to look for the roots of common words, just has been done in examining the Indo-European languages.

 

 

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

A DNA examination of the Aboriginals would more than likely find they're descended from the Indians and the Javanese. Many of the Northern Aboriginals possess skulls that are very Javanese in shape.

A family friend is John McGuire, the Aboriginal footballer and cricketer. I remember how furious he got, when he was regularly mis-identified by sport commentators, as one of the Indian cricketers!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Take a good look at that "Elder". In his face I can see generations of Irish genetics. The thin face and the long thin nose are pretty typical of the Irish. I have a strong Irish (Celtic) genetic makeup, with a touch of Cornish, which is also Celtic. I reckon that "Elder" is an octoroon Aboriginal.

 

Octoroon. A race based term used to classify Indigenous people of mixed descent. According to this logic, an 'octoroon' has seven white great-grandparents out of eight.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Not related to this chap, but ancestry in general, many people have found they have unknown ancestors of various races. The TV ancestry research program Who Do You Think You Are has turned up a few. Ray Martin has aboriginal ancestry, Cathy Freeman has Chinese ancestry.

  • Like 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

I heard that the bloke who was instrumental in creating the game grew up on the land. The local Aborigines played a kick and chase game using a "ball" made from animal pelts. The thing was that the Aborigines' game had no scoring system. They just enjoyed the activity. The bloke adopted the kick and chase pat and added a scoring system to make such an activity acceptable to the European culture wich requires a victor.

  • Informative 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

  • 2 weeks later...

They didn't use a victa where I fixed the house in  Alice Springs. Nor did they have a garden hose which would have been useful. So they sat on the fence and watched the fire till the brigade came out.

They subsequently left the ( no longer liveable ) house, as did the family which lived opposite. We had some dealings with the opposite lot, mainly by feeding the kids  when the  men had spent the social security money on grog. We also stopped using the clothes-line when we went out on account of how the women would take clothes they liked from the line.

None of this really annoyed me, but the smouldering fire in their  back-yard did. Aborigines turned  out to be exempt from "fire bans" of all sorts. ( They had to call the smouldering log a "comfort fire" ).

If you rang the cops, you would be asked if the perps could be abos. If you answered "yes" then you were told that no cops would come, and you should see a solicitor one day.

  • Sad 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Nope nev, I haven't been back to Alice Springs lately either. I was told at Coober Pedy some years ago that the ban on grog sales did a lot of good. I found out about this after being refused to buy wine at the pub take-away. The guy said how all the cash-registers in the town were connected together so competition didn't work so good.

The abos hanging around the grog shop were a lot fewer and cleaner than before...  I wonder if the woke lot have stopped the whole thing , I would expect them to try.

  • Like 3
  • Informative 1
Link to comment
Share on other sites

Tenant Ck is one of those places where you have to prepay for fuel before tge pump will dispense. Daytime in tourist season is fairly safe but it's  not a place I would live in, no matter how good the pay was.

In Alice, I  just didn't feel safe.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

On 19/10/2024 at 1:12 PM, nomadpete said:

you have to prepay for fuel before tge pump will dispense

How does that work if you don't know exactly how much you have to put in to fill up? Do you estimate how many litres you want, do a quick calculation of the cost of that amount and pay that much? What if you have overestimated how much you need. Do you go back in for a refund? And what if you underestimate? 

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
×
×
  • Create New...