I did read the article, I will admit I don't often come across anything from academia that gains my respect and this is no exception.

I finally made it over to New Zealand some years ago.  Every bit as beautiful as I imagined and then some, but what I did not expect was the strength of the influence of the Maori.  I know I was just getting the tourist welcome but it was more than that, it was everywhere.  They are so present and I really enjoyed meeting them.

Come to Australia.  I arrived in Sydney, 1975, lived in Mosman and it was years before I even saw an aborigine.

Terra Nullius, to claim the land as uninhabited, was a shattering psychological blow, I don't know if it's been repeated, oh well I think the blacks in Africa were determined as animals by the British govt too but I think they acknowledged first there was a fight - conquered lands.

It's so different here, it's an old fragile continent crumbling into the sea.

Gondwanaland was largely destroyed by the invasion of eucalypts, that's like swapping your nice thick green suit for a pair of underpants that keeps catching fire.

all of which goes to say despite the size of continent, there weren't millions of people here.  Having just googled it the estimates of the population pre British colonisation range from 300-750,000.  It is an unbroken heritage though.

Probably, even if they had been prescient enough to simply return those British sailors to the ocean they sailed in on it wouldn't have made much difference in the not too far distant long run, but the story is particularly poignant in their friendly aid to the sailors who first arrived.

The estimates of their current percentage of the population ranges between 2.1 and 3.5% from a quick google search.

When I arrived in Sydney it was bustling with history on all sides just like I was used to from growing up in England but oh, only way is to say how I saw it in my mind - it didn't run deep.  When I got out into the countryside and looked back towards the city, I got this disturbing image of a massive black wall running under the city and out into the country - what I was sensing was a disconnect in history.

It is only now that that is changing, the story of Pemulwuy, the warrior who led in their fight for the Sydney basin, being one of the first stories that came to light.  some time in, well I can say exactly having just looked it up, published in 1987.

So you know turning up here in 1975 was to arrive at a time when there had been a long fight just to stop the lies of colonialism.

I'm assuming when you talk about anti colonialism dogma you are referring to that academia-spawned icky stuff which was in her article rather than being pro colonisation.

And if I get it right you believe this icky stuff is part of a Marxist inspired, Woke engineered conspiracy to capture the minds of our youth and rot the teeth of Western institutions.  Where is Islam in all this???

That's what I want to know, Jim.

I agree it's all going on, I just think there is no need for there to be a conspiracy to make it happen.

but you know, you might be right, Jim, and there really is a group of individuals orchestrating it all.