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Listed below are comments made by Kyofu01 between Wednesday, 8th July 2009 and Friday, 10th July 2009.

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The great fly-over problem 09:40am on 10 Jul 2009 TotallyBaffled At the heart of the matter is ignorance and bigotry. This must be about the most intelligent statement that you have stumbled across. Its a pity youre describing yourself.

The trouble is that you continue to perpetuate the current situation with your ignorance and bigotry. Bringing racism into the open? You have done nothing but display behaviour of an ignorant, bigoted, and racist nature.

If you had done your research you would have know that there have been prominent Aboriginals in athletics, Parliament and well respected government positions, including those of the legal branches and the military. Have you seen Samson and Delilah by Warwick Thornton? He was in Cannes to receive the Camera D'or for best film by a first-time director. Here Ill give you another link to the history of Indigenous movies seeing as you show an indifference to doing any research:
http://www.creativespirits.info/resources/movies/indigenous-film-timeline.html
Im betting you havent seen any of these films?

So you sat down and watched an episode of Four Corners nearly a month ago? Good for you. You are quoting reference from the same media that you previously labelled as paternalistic, patronising or stereotypical. There is no question that this was a terrible thing to happen and one which I would not wish on anyone but do you have any statistics on non-indigenous deaths in custody? I suppose not because your paternalistic, patronising or stereotypical media has not reported any.

Like I said before, everybody who lives here already knows the problems, we hear about them each evening on the news. People are aware of what is going on and we have to put our faith in our judicial system to ensure that the perpetrators are brought to justice.

Do you even know what the missing generation is about? Much of what happened then is still going on now being carried out by DOCS to people of all creeds. I dont even want to go down the path of teaching you African American history because I dont think you could comprehend it.

William Rowe a 49-year-old farmer from Western Australia's mid-west died and his son required 30 stitches to his face, after a brawl at a Geraldton beach for failing to hand over their drinks to a group of nearby Aboriginals. The death in the van may have been a terrible accident but this was just plain murder. So the police officer did not have time to explain the risk of alcohol combined with over 200 years of pent up rage due to oppression to an English tourist. Would you expose your family and friends to this risk?

People like your wifes friend and your neighbour make me cringe. But so do people at the other end of the spectrum like you. Youre not out to help, youre a child throwing stones, spewing hate and picking at an already festering wound.

If people like you spent more time doing research and providing constructive assistance, rather than spitting and foaming their unfounded hate on forums, Australia and the Indigenous cause may have a better hope. For you own sake please go off and do some soul seeking before returning with more diatribe. There is no place in this world for hate.
The great fly-over problem 10:32am on 09 Jul 2009 Australians already know that Australia has a problem dealing with the major social issue of Aboriginal welfare. What point is there in reminding people about it, particularly when little or no research has been conducted on the topic (by Nick)?

How about some constructive criticism? What benefit is there in highlighting facts about abused children and reports chronicling failure? Everybody who lives here already knows the problems, we hear about them each evening on the news.

Its flimsy remarks by people such as TotallyBaffled which add to the problem of how to resolve this mess. To suggest that Australians are racist serves no purpose other that to inflame the situation. TotallyBaffled are you out in the indigenous community helping these people, building their homes, assisting them financially, or providing them legal or medical support? Do you employ any? Probably not.

Aborigines live under extreme oppression? Free education (some even get paid to go to school), free housing, free medical, low doc loans with no time limits, job allocation, this hardly sounds like oppression, in fact I find myself laughing at such an incredulous remark.

As for being unable to exercise their right to do what they want, what evidence do you have of this? You cant just make these remarks without some sort of evidence or examples.

I find it interesting how Nick's blog occasionally draws out this insecurity and parochialism which seems to be a deeply deeply entrenched in the thoughts of those who bludge in Australia for over 20 years.
The great fly-over problem 1:25pm on 08 Jul 2009 Geeze Nick, is this really the pot calling the kettle black, pardon the pun?

I think you'll find that much of todays issues stem from the many atrocities committed against the Australian indigenous population by the English Government and early settlers.

On the 17th April 1816, Governor Macquarie ordered troops to attack Aboriginal people for the first time since colonisation. 14 men, women and children where either shot or trampled by soldiers on horses and an undetermined amount were forced over a cliff at Appin in NSW.

On 10 June 1838 a group of white settlers murdered 28 Aboriginal men, women and children near Myall Creek Station in northern New South Wales, near Bingara. Seven of the killers were tried and hanged.
The Myall Creek Massacre now serves as both a harrowing reminder of Australia's colonial violence towards Aboriginal people and an example of modern-day reconciliation.

And this is just the tip of the iceberg, try checking out massacres of Indigenous Australians at Wikipedia:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_massacres_of_Indigenous_Australians

After years of abuse at the hands of these colonists, Aboriginals have lost their way of life, their land was taken and their lives destroyed. Yes Indigenous children are six times as likely to be abused as non-indigenous children, but did you know that it's them who are abusing themselves. White Australians do not live in their remote communities.

Modern day Australians have been left with this mess with no way of solving it, the problem goes much deeper than just a simple apology and bag full of money.

Your article is disappointing case of sloppy and slack journalism. The closest that you have come to an Aboriginal community is 30,000 feet? There are real jounos reporting from combat zones, maybe you could go and take a leaf out of their books and try reporting from the source?

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