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With over 67,000 years of culture and heritage - the worlds longest-running mine operation (Wilgie Mia), its oldest known still-extant school (Gabarnmung), the

With over 67,000 years of culture and heritage - the worlds longest-running mine operation (Wilgie Mia), its oldest known still-extant school (Gabarnmung), the longest successful oral traditions of any culture, ever - the original land owners don't need to adapt to us: We need to learn more about them. And it can't happen a moment too soon.

User23 5y ago
On the plus side immigration has been absolutely stellar for the Australian economy.
yesenadam 5y ago
> We need to learn more about them. And it can't happen a moment too soon. Ok, does that include you? Go! I looked up Wilgie Mia. Apparently a 20-metre deep hole in the ground, an ochre source. Hmm. Couldn't find anything online resembling a school by that name, assuming you don't mean the rock art site whose "existence had been forgotten until its 2006 rediscovery". I'm not sure what "longest successful oral tradition" means exactly. (What does "successful" mean there? Are there unsuccessful oral traditions? And what does it come to besides "no writing system"?) ...And don't we all have "over 67,000 years of culture and heritage"?
- fit2rule 5y ago
  Wilgie Mia has been a constant mining operation for over 10,000 years, and the ochre from this location has been identified in trading networks all over Australia. (European settlers didn't believe the original land owners had an economy - they did.) Gabarnmung is a community education site, which has been being used for 40,000+ years to teach generations of original land owners about the land and the animals it supports. The longest successful oral traditions -- we Westerners can't even keep our oral stories accurate for a few decades - the original land owners of Australia were able to re-tell the same stories for 60,000 years. They used cryptographic techniques to ensure the accuracy of re-told stories, to the point where the evidence of the accuracy of these tales is supported by the geological record today. Your ignorance of all of this is not surprising. It is very inconvenient for modern Australians to realise that they did indeed genocide a great, functional civilisation, and that the conclusions made by our forefathers that the original landowners were 'nothing but savage animals' was not only racist dogma designed to justify slaughter, but absolutely and utterly incorrect.

User23 5y ago

On the plus side immigration has been absolutely stellar for the Australian economy.

yesenadam 5y ago

> We need to learn more about them. And it can't happen a moment too soon. Ok, does that include you? Go! I looked up Wilgie Mia. Apparently a 20-metre deep hole in the ground, an ochre source. Hmm. Couldn't find anything online resembling a school by that name, assuming you don't mean the rock art site whose "existence had been forgotten until its 2006 rediscovery". I'm not sure what "longest successful oral tradition" means exactly. (What does "successful" mean there? Are there unsuccessful oral traditions? And what does it come to besides "no writing system"?) ...And don't we all have "over 67,000 years of culture and heritage"?

fit2rule 5y ago
Wilgie Mia has been a constant mining operation for over 10,000 years, and the ochre from this location has been identified in trading networks all over Australia. (European settlers didn't believe the original land owners had an economy - they did.) Gabarnmung is a community education site, which has been being used for 40,000+ years to teach generations of original land owners about the land and the animals it supports. The longest successful oral traditions -- we Westerners can't even keep our oral stories accurate for a few decades - the original land owners of Australia were able to re-tell the same stories for 60,000 years. They used cryptographic techniques to ensure the accuracy of re-told stories, to the point where the evidence of the accuracy of these tales is supported by the geological record today. Your ignorance of all of this is not surprising. It is very inconvenient for modern Australians to realise that they did indeed genocide a great, functional civilisation, and that the conclusions made by our forefathers that the original landowners were 'nothing but savage animals' was not only racist dogma designed to justify slaughter, but absolutely and utterly incorrect.