They keep being given more and more “Exclusive Native Title” (meaning only they can financially benefit from the land, water, mineral resources, etc.) grants, too, which seems to include both where they claim they originally lived, and the land where whitey later forced them to move (the latter being more similar to reservations in the US, in that sense, I guess)…
Which means that they control like 20 - 30% of our landmass, now. And I think up around 50% of the Northern Territory, which is kind of like… Our Oklahoma.
I suppose a difference would be that Abos are extremely restrictive of who gets to enter, or even cross, “their” land, and these places are almost always nearly completely undeveloped, with all the dysfunction that brings…
A casino on said land would be a massive step up, compared to the… Virtually nothing “civilized” that exists on most native title land right now…
But yeah, the better comparison is Canada, for all of this. It’s much more similar than the US, or even NZ, situation…
I would add to my latter point: on this one issue, Australia and Canada followed a more similar path, and then you can argue that NZ and the US followed another (sort of)…
Which I think has to do with the relative development level of the civilizations in question.
The Māori and like, the Huron, Iroquois, etc., had the civilizational/technological know-how to fight back, and then they were able to “adapt” relatively well into the mainstream (particularly Native Americans).
Whereas for the Abos and the Inuits and the like, that… Didn’t occur, and they, even now, refuse to assimilate fully, which results in… What we have here.
I know a large number of Abos, and one (extremely entitled) Native Canadian bloke. The difference between the indigenous who see themselves as “Australian first, Indigenous second” and those who refuse to do so, is… Enormous.
Unfortunately the latter ones tend to get all the gibs, though.
Abos are much lower iq than Indians in the American continent. Some of our Indians were building massive pyramids and civilizations like Cahokia. They figured out how to thrive unlike abos.
As Rouler said, yep.
They keep being given more and more “Exclusive Native Title” (meaning only they can financially benefit from the land, water, mineral resources, etc.) grants, too, which seems to include both where they claim they originally lived, and the land where whitey later forced them to move (the latter being more similar to reservations in the US, in that sense, I guess)…
Which means that they control like 20 - 30% of our landmass, now. And I think up around 50% of the Northern Territory, which is kind of like… Our Oklahoma.
I suppose a difference would be that Abos are extremely restrictive of who gets to enter, or even cross, “their” land, and these places are almost always nearly completely undeveloped, with all the dysfunction that brings…
A casino on said land would be a massive step up, compared to the… Virtually nothing “civilized” that exists on most native title land right now…
But yeah, the better comparison is Canada, for all of this. It’s much more similar than the US, or even NZ, situation…
I would add to my latter point: on this one issue, Australia and Canada followed a more similar path, and then you can argue that NZ and the US followed another (sort of)…
Which I think has to do with the relative development level of the civilizations in question.
The Māori and like, the Huron, Iroquois, etc., had the civilizational/technological know-how to fight back, and then they were able to “adapt” relatively well into the mainstream (particularly Native Americans).
Whereas for the Abos and the Inuits and the like, that… Didn’t occur, and they, even now, refuse to assimilate fully, which results in… What we have here.
I know a large number of Abos, and one (extremely entitled) Native Canadian bloke. The difference between the indigenous who see themselves as “Australian first, Indigenous second” and those who refuse to do so, is… Enormous.
Unfortunately the latter ones tend to get all the gibs, though.
Abos are much lower iq than Indians in the American continent. Some of our Indians were building massive pyramids and civilizations like Cahokia. They figured out how to thrive unlike abos.