Are Aboriginals and Aboriginal culture of any benefit to the Australian society?

Oh dear AM you are showing your true colours yet again. He never called him Abbotts, he used an apostrophe, an apostrophe in this case, makes the noun of possessive form. Abbott is a noun, a proper noun actually. In this instance, Catts is referring to his (Abbott) followers, so it's "Abbott's followers". If the possessor is more than one person, e.g. the Liberal Party, you would say the Liberals' followers. Herein completes lesson one in basic English, Possessive Nouns.

For God's sake AM, get it right.

Tomorrows lesson will be "How to read", hope you stay tuned AM, you really need that one.

I will concede that in this case, a possessive was not needed, it should have read, an Abbott follower, naughty Catts. AM I remember you having a go at me for being pedantic.

 

Yes it does actually, oops, your ignorance is showing.

 

oh dear, at least we don't have to be bailed out by others......

 

.............Yet!

 

Yep ! Another Einstein.

 

I am aware of snot shooting and bar milking that sum up your "culture" , you can not claim ignorance .

 

The burden of proof is on you. Put up or shut up. It's that simple. Failure to put up can only be taken to mean that you have no evidence and your generalisations are unwarranted.

What does the rest of this post even have to do with my response? You seem to have missed the point yet still feel the need to rant and vent your hillbilly hatred....yeah, nuf said.

 

Our Aboriginal mates would never ever 'dream' of producing anything worthwhile in our modern civilisation. Producing an Einstein would be a sheer impossibility. Dreaming never produced anything worthwhile, but imagination certainly has,

 

Necessity is the driver of all innovation! War and conflict certainly sped up invention in Europe!

 

You wrote like a do-gooder; sounded like a do-gooder - you're a do-gooder! Did you think I was going to waste my valuable time researching, when you were going to chuck your teddy out of the cot at the first critical comment made. :icon_pee: FFS, educate yourself, and read about critical analysis.

 

"The burden of proof is on you. Put up or shut up. It's that simple. Failure to put up can only be taken to mean that you have no evidence and your generalisations are unwarranted."

Thanks for playing. Better luck next time.

 

Just keep in mind that I wasn't the one who ran crying out of the sand-pit, becuase I didn't want to do my own homework. Also keep in mind, that I wasn't the one who made assumptions against you, because I was too lazy to do my own homework. The philosophy of a do-gooder: attack the individual, not the subject.

 

Same old same old crap. You never back up your words... Why? BECAUSE YOU CAN'T LMAO Your just a keyboard warrior with NOTHING

 

Just a few sentences from anyone to explain how Aboriginal culture can benefit Australian culture in 2014? So far, the do-gooders have failed to answer the question.

 

And yet your entire post is focused on attacking me instead of providing evidence to substantiate your own claims, which now appear to be entirely baseless.

Oh, sweet irony.

 

A few words, easy. They can teach us to love this land. Oh not the country Australia, but the land, the mother, the water and the air. They can teach us to respect our land, for it is all we have,if we destroy it for money and greed, then we shall destroy ourselves too. They can teach us to look into our hearts.

I know this is much deeper then many will understand, for it is not possible to put into words. You need to have sat under the stars in the desert. To have swum in clear mountain streams, to have been put to sleep by the bush as you nestled in it's bosom, you have needed to lived, loved and dreamed.

 

We don't need them to teach us to love and respect our land or look into our hearts, we already do, well most of us anyway. I have seen plenty of aboriginals trashing the environment, obviously having no respect for the land, the bush or the water. I have lived in bush camps while working on stations in central queensland, a few years ago now but I can still remember the ants, the mozzies, the bloody sand that got into everything, the ticks and the crushing daytime heat and burning hot sun. The bush won't look after you mate, the bush is cruel and indifferent, the bush doesn't care whether you live or die.

 

I would have bet a thousand dollars as to what your reply would have been, and you are right.

YOU don't need anyone to teach YOU anything, you already know everything. You think Adolf Hitler was a genius. You think mining our land beyond recognition, beyond repair is alright. You are already carrying all the dole bludgers and all the illegals on your back. You don't get anything for your taxes, you don't need fresh air or clean water.

YOU are one of the great Australians, so why would you need to learn anything, wow, you already are so intelligent.





You wouldn't like Bondi Beach then, I remember a few years back I went there. I can still remember the ants, the mozzies, the bloody sand that got into everything and the crushing daytime heat and burning hot sun.

Here are a few pictures of the devastation caused to the Hunter Valley, only one small part of our great nation wide mining industry. Now I want you to show me the worse images of Aboriginals trashing the environment please, just to balance things.

 

More devastation, vandalisation for money, to make cheap crap to sell in $2 shops and $10 toasters.

http://www.miningaustralia.com.au/news/hunter-valley-councils-see-mining-compo-inequi--1-
http://www.ikners.com/2011/12/31/mining-in-the-hunter-valley-and-quirindi-nsw-australia-pictures/
http://www.news.com.au/finance/carbon-tax-protester-locks-himself-inside-box/story-e6frfm1i-1226071795958
http://www.huntervalleyminewatch.com/
http://econews.com.au/news-to-sustain-our-world/court-challenge-to-nsw-coal-mine-could-be-last/
http://www.couriermail.com.au/ipad/miners-horse-breeders-fight-over-hunter/story-fn6ck4a4-1225971093123
http://jamesryan.net.au/2012/02/27/coal-mine-dust-more-action-required/

 

What it looks like where they are fighting against it.


http://www.habitatadvocate.com.au/?tag=hunter-valley-coal-mining
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2010-10-07/rduring-may-eight-hunter-valley-mines-were/2774494
http://pbxmastragics.com/2013/03/11/open-cuts-tearing-the-heart-out-of-the-upper-hunter/
http://www.huntervalleyminewatch.com/
http://www.cellarit.com.au/wine-blog/margaret-river/wines-not-mines-help-margaret-river-make-the-case/

 

I see there is nothing of any real value of how Aboriginal culture can benefit Australian culture. I think the author of this thread has his/her answer.

 

This goes to show you the big difference between you and I. I see the scrub, a land of vast differences, a land that was for millions of years untouched. A land of diversity, yes there are flies, yes there are ants and ticks, yes there is sand and heat, but not all the bush is like that, but even that land is loved and respected by thousands of Ausies, black and white, just not you and those like you. I do feel so sorry for you AM I truly do.

 

Dont know what ya'll (*)(*)(*)(*)(*)ing about - sounds like an average day at the cricket to me

 

Really struck a nerve there, didn't we DV! But your reply is a good example of a typical big city mentality. You complain about mining 'trashing the enviroment' but really, what percentage of the Austrlain land mass is 'trashed' by mining? Not forgetting that mining operations by law have to restore the land to what it was prior to mining, including replanting trees. Now let me take you out to central NSW and show you hundreds of thousands of acres of land where the natural environment has been completely and utterly destroyed. Yes, we are looking at the grain growing industry but I don't hear you whining about that complete destruction of the environment. There is no comparison between the land 'trashed' for mining and the land 'trashed' for agriculture. There has been far, far more erosion and destruction of waterways caused by agriculture yet we only hear the likes of you carrying on about mining! You even hold out pictures of agricultural land has being 'natural', it is not. Bad mining practices are a thing of the past, but even the worst mining doesn't actually destroy the land, it only alters the shape of it. If left alone the vegetation will always grow back. I can show you places in Queensland that were devestated by mining in the late 1800's but now look like pristine bushland, you would not know it was once completely stripped by mining unless someone told you.