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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~ Ernest Gaines

Yes, actually, depending on the circumstances.

There is a class action in progress in Australia at the moment to compensate children who were placed in foster care and then abused etc.

Righting wrongs has to start somewhere. The `everybody does it' argument kind of just doesn't wash with some things. Neither does the `move on' argument. Nor, for that matter, does the `the end justifies the means' argument. Yes, a small proportion of those children were removed because of the circumstances of their lives. But that was a small percentage, and the predominant reason for the removals - that was written into our legislation - was to `cleanse' the aboriginal race.

Some things need to be apologised for, and need to be made right. That's what makes us human.

`Aboriginal' is a generic term for natives. Native Americans are aboriginals. Our indiginous population are aboriginals. The dictionary definition is `describes a person or living thing that has existed in a country or continent since the earliest time known to people'

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins

I remember seeing about this on the news...

Native American I have heard of...so our Aboriginals would actually be 'Native Australians'? That sounds much better, to be honest.

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Why is it that, as a culture, we are more comfortable seeing two men holding guns than holding hands? ~ Ernest Gaines

Well yes - the word `Aboriginal' is really being phased out. Indigenous means the same thing, pretty much, with the slight change that it is more representative of the original and naturally existing inhabitants of a land, instead of having arrived here, therefore more accurate to describe our native Australians.

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We've got rules and maps and guns in our backs, but we still can't just behave ourselves. Even if to save our own lives, we are a brutal kind. The Shins