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I was drawing attention to the fact that Ideo's post was abusive, but because he was abusing "the majority" that's OK. Don't you see the irony?

The Sydney Morning Herald called him the "Lying Dutchman". So "Yes" you can be "objectionable and offensive" to non-blacks. Is this not racist?

But it's perfectly alright to be objectionable and offensive to others who are NOT in a minority group.

Stefan, my parents have been dead "long time" but both were involved in Aboriginal welfare way back BETWEEN the wars. I am unable to make definitive statements but I know that nothing is as it is portrayed. They suffered worse than forced separation and while some of that was BAD, not all...

A stitch in time saves nine! (ask your Grandma) Just a little effort with the original post would have saved you the angst and time of defending a carelessly typed post.

English IS my first language but my typing and spelling are atrocious. I try hard to make my posts readable by using my spell checker and carefully reading my posts before hitting the "submit" button. If you don't care to do so, cop the flack in good humour. Your choice.

Even in straight forward cases of the law, they expect (demand!) a different interpretation than for the community at large.

Has someone been telling porkies? AB wrote that Aboriginal lawyer and academic Larissa Behrendt "looked as German as her father" - yet she posited her father was Aboriginal and dark-skinned. This is her father (or so we are told) He apparently had a German father and an aboriginal...

But if you're "nearly white" and raised in a middle class white suburban household you can still claim to be black. Someone named Yvonne springs to mind. After she became a world famous millionaire she remembered she was a "stolen child". I think her life was better than the alternative...

In the ATSIC days they needed aboriginal commissioners from Tasmania. None of them were black, to the best of my knowledge they had not been raised as aborigines (are there any aborigine "settlements" in Tas?) and they had to invent their tenuous links. Why not? The pay and perks were...

And I think you're wrong. Critics are absolutely essential to our system and no area deserves more scrutiny than aboriginal quangos. They waste enormous amounts of money. The HSU would blush at the waste in their housing and medical institutions.