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And I have a burgundy passport.
what?? what is your problem?? Do you think only aborigines have poor health care???? Seriously. Its a big conspiracy to give the white men the best of everything and screw the natives??? Proof please???
I'm not saying people don't get poor health care, some of them do, white and aboriginal alike.
*taps fingers on desk*
No you haven't.
Aboriginal people have a life expectancy up to 21 years less than that of the general Australian population. They have a life expectancy of someone from over 100 years ago. Source
ok, you proved a point on life expentancy. Thought it was 1998-2000 W have had nearly 6 years sinc ethen, though I grant thats not a lot of time.
I don't see what it proves other then they die sooner. I didn't say it was caused by anything other then things which can kill anybody.
If not, why not?
Actually, if you read the report, it does say what the main causes of death are. And how they differ from that of the white population.
Strill waiting for answers on my other questions. Going to answer them or not?
Possibly but birth and death artes can be fickle. I mean were developed years ago but people still died in the 30's and 40's. Obviously we are more developed now and we are living longer here.
I mean it depends on what it took, if its going on aborginies that still live in the out back and off road settlements then you are gonna die quicker coz its harsh out there, harshness effects your body so it doesn't surprise me. It also didn't site the causes of death as malnutriton or anything liek that but rather smoking related diseases and some alchol as well as the usual things that kill epople like cancer and heart attacks.
Then you gotta consider how the figures pan out, I mean population sizes can effect percentages.
It would also be interesting to compare it death rates of the poor and see how it fares.
but to suggest that all the aborginies ar enow suffering is just not right. Plenty not on poor condition.
I just think some populations play on the past and the things that happend while also being quite hypocritical about certain things.
All I am saying.
So you're saying the Aborigines aren't poor, they just like a good whinge? Is that what you're saying?
You've not got a clue about the real world, have you Luke?
Some are poor, some arent', some white people are poor, some are not.
Do I belive they play on past events that have no relvance today? Yes.
I gave my views on the figures and yes I do understand the real world hence why I am not poruing the praise and kiss assing for every bleeding heart cause.
1. Does history have a role to play in current social dynamics?
2. If not, why not?
3. Why do you think the Aborigines have a much shorter life span, and are prone to mental illness and drug abuse? Do you think they are weak or evil, and that White Man is just stronger?
4. Given the history of forced repatriation and adoption, why do think the Aborigines don't trust Government settlements?
What was my other point?....erm...oh yeah...The argument that some people use that Aboriginees were there first and all that, well it harps back to Jews in Israel and that whole argument, so lets all try to avoid who was there first after so many centuries of multicultural living!
It's gpot nothing to do with that they were there first, and everything to do with 300 years of the white men shitting on the Aborigines from a huge height.
Walkindude here doesn't think that the forced adoptions of the 1950s and 1960s- where Aborigine children were literally ripped from the arms of their mothers- doesn't have an impact on what happens now. He doesn't think that 300 years of them being seen as inferior has an impact on how they are treated.
But, as we know, Walkindude's arguments are bollocks.
You have to move on. No I don;'t think those events have any relvance to now.
Why do they take drugs? I don't know, I don't care but no one is forcing them to. If they wanna do it then fine but don't bitch about it.
That's your best argument yet :hyper:
Answer the questions.
Your arguments are offensive and odious.
Nope.
Four questions, no response to any of them.
Except to say "lalala I don't care, whingeing abbos"...
you do know people have other points of view don't you?? Your not some dictator are you?
I'd just like to see some justification for them.
Such as why the "whingeing" Aborigines are "playing the victim card".
Four questions, you haven't answered any of them in any meaningful way, except to say that a badly discriminated-against section of the community are "whingeing" and "should stop playing the victim card".
"Fuck you Kermit" isn't an answer to my questions, just for future reference.
Is it all the fault of the whites, or is blame more evernly attributed
Nothing to do with the thread...or the arguments...i just think your a git now!
What an intelligent comment.
If "what are you on about?" is "biting your head off", I must eat whole bodies alive sometimes.
Great to see that walkindude still hasn't managed to back up a single one of his claims. Come on dude, it's been nine hours now.
So long as that's cleared up :yes: