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   From: geoff.muldoon@trap.gmail.com   
      
   mack54@nospameircom.net says...   
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   > "Geoff Muldoon"  wrote in message   
   > news:MPG.1f9ed510598a16dc98986e@news.readfreenews.net...   
   > > mack54@nospameircom.net says...   
   > >   
   > >> >>> The Indigenous Australians have close to 40% of the Australian   
   > >> >>> continent   
   > >> >>> in   
   > >> >>> their keeping. The Australian Aboriginal is alive and well!   
   > >> >>   
   > >> >>Remind us all why there's none in Tassie?   
   > >> >>   
   > >> > There are.   
   > >> > --   
   > >> Since when?   
   > >   
   > > Always have a chuckle where some fool asserts that there are no longer any   
   > > Aboriginals in Tasmania.  OK, the last "100% Tasmanian-only genetically   
   > > pure Aboriginal" may have passed on but so what.  Has such a thing as a   
   > > "100% genetically pure Englishman" ever existed?   
   > >   
   > We know that the *nglish are mongrels, but they didn't 'pass on' as a result   
   > of being hunted like dogs by the powers that be. I always chuckle when I   
   > hear Aussies trying to forget their genocidal past...............   
      
   Hey, I'm not trying to gloss over the fact that horrible atrocities were   
   committed against our county's original inhabitants, it's just that I know   
   a couple of Tasmanian Aboriginals, and they get severely miffed at being   
   called "nonexistent" by ignorant simplistics.   
      
   Geoff M   
      
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