“What our western culture offers is so much better; the food, the comfort, the electricity, the housing, the medicine, the cars, the hospitals, the welfare net, it’s all infinitely better,” Mr Bolt said.
“So wouldn’t it be more honest, to say that aborigines, yes, they did suffered terribly in some ways from colonisation but in other ways gained a lot of things they’d now never give up.”
Yeah thanks England, “reprisal … on a larger scale than any other we have knowledge of in this district … By using slashing whips and with guns in reserve, the natives were driven into a yard and then shot.” C.F Boughton.
They will have to change the Anthem 'We are one...' So we are becoming increasingly a divided nation which is what racists of all colours want.
Their lifestyle was I suspect much better before Cook arrived than after.
Couldn't fly a flag representing my race, cause that'd be racist, unless your aboriginal then it's OK
Funny thing, not many aboriginal people would agree. But then again, Bolt talks a lot out of his own ass.
Never happy. Eternally outraged, will never break the cycle despite all the money in the world.
So what? Bolt says all kinds of stupid shit.
How is he still on TV what a total grub
It’s interesting that other countries without being taken over have adopted the comforts Bolt speaks about. They didn’t even need to cede ownership, autonomy, lives, culture, etc. Bolt is an embarrassment.
True.
AndrewRevolt is a divisive, hate mongering fool and so are you Sky News. Start becoming decent journalists this sensationalist crap you put out is getting mundane and boring.
One of the most obnoxious & shthouse takes I have seen in ages... FFS
Agree
Andrew who?
As controversial as that sounds its true. We have a problem in this country where if you speak up against a different ethnic background your labeled a racist which is utter BS....needs to stop an let's start calling a spade a spade as we are all created equal.
Here come the Oakleys
I think they've lost far more than they've gained. We've just been too ignorant to realise it because of our ' my way or the highway' attitude.
Thankyou for bring disease genocide alcohol hatred violence and ignorance.
Yes he certainly comes out with some crap. On a daily basis.
Australia is much poorer for having Andrew Bolt bringing his ‘right wing western culture’ and his bigoted ‘lifestyle’ to be our shores. Where did he come from and why is he here?
Typical, Bilt has already beeen found guilty of racism
If theft happened and they were caught, on réserves tribal Law is applied and you would get a spear thrown through Ur leg. And there are still tribes that live in thé wild. Alcohol is thé Big problem so are std's. White man cannot make a black man bé liké him.
They worked hard and never ever was there talk of injustice/ invasion etc. We all got along and enjoyed each others company. Thé gouvernement built housses in outback Alice and thé Aboriginals up there tore them down to make humpy's I think they were called, little teepees.
Aboriginal people have succeeded in most part, professionnel sports, TV personnalités , school teachers, and normal working class raising good familys. Thé Alice has always had issues and tribal Law trumped Australien Law in certain parts. I have many great aboriginal Friends.
Ethnocentric bullshit. This wanker doesn't even have a degree, yet he gets platformed by MurdochGutterMedia people are not better off after massacres, rapes or having their kids stolen.
LOL 😂 bolts still squeaking
Western “culture” still has no spiritual connection to country, it won’t be civilised until it does.
So true!
For all those knocking Bolts claim, let’s offer a return to native ways to all people who claim aboriginality. Fence off the entire NT, tear down the roads and houses and hospitals and shops and all other ‘western niceties’ and let them embrace their culture
Bolt need to be sued for lying.
Murdoch media strikes again. Racist to the core. Disgusting!
Stone Age tribes using tree bark for clothing and toilet paper before civilisation arrived
Can't remember theboltreport having anything positive to say about Aboriginal people.
Simple statement, from a simple man. Like the very simplest to ever live
Facts.
Absolutely. They not only received Christianity - why do you think Jesus enabled the British to succeed where no one else had? But they are benefiting from a first world nation. The women especially should be grateful. It was a very short, violent life for women.
Was that before or after they were massacred and their children were taken away?
Western culture that stole everything you mean. Even your maths system is Arab, English is just a bastard language made from being contoured all the time. This is Australia not England, we came here for something different. Maybe Sky’s board should move back there.
Projection.
This for example...
Sure, it’s a great place to live. Just change the bloody date.
Goddamn this isn't the parody account.
….. seriously….. omg …
I’m sure they would have preferred to retain sovereignty over their lands.
...and how does this measure up to what has been lost?
He is 100% right. Would still have lived without a wheel!
Andrew Bolt is a RWFW and a racist!
Yeah. They only had to give up the entire continent (and a few islands) to pay for it Andrew Bolt is an alcoholic racist boofhead
Is Bolt actually trying to say they should be grateful for the first 200 years of slaughter and abuse because that is what they got. Only since Labor came to power in 1972 did the treatment of First Nations people begin to change. Bolt as always talking out of his back passage.
But really need to get their cultural child abuse in check.
Andrew nails it again. “So much better”: loss of family, loss of culture, loss of language, loss of connection to country for many, chronic disease, unhealthy diet, alcoholism, domestic violence in family communities. Yes Andrew, we gave it all and much more to them.
Yeah, a VB can
Such nonsense
How is our Andrew? Still have that nasty little problem? I’m sure it’ll go soon!
The abo's won't be satisfied until we're all running around dressed like this. 🙄
Before white settlement most tribes could not even talk to each other and didn't have written language, now aboriginies can communicate in English all over Australia.
Isn’t that what the mother country said when they colonised them!
Indigenous people were beaten, children stolen, ostracised ,scoffed at with black gorilla jokes, land stolen,their land taken, Add your party to this ,you are disgustingly self deludedEgocentric to the point of blind, devoid of empathy.
So judgemental and racist, typical of Sky, how on earth would or could Andrew Bolt knowledgeably determine cultural superiority over anyone? Bolt’s sense of culture sits in the cesspit of Murdoch media’s Sky.
Unfortunately it’s not their ‘way’
White man knows best of course
Pluses and minuses, not one or the other.
Eactually and they get Centrelink payments as well
As has Blot
It's not up to him to say that!
Bolt's a fool. Any idiot can see that medicine and education are an improvement, but that's not the problem, is it? It's the murder, rape, genocide, taking their children, paedophilia, violence, intergenerational trauma, theft, and racism.. Whats better about that?
On this issue, I think he is so right.
Obviously- they were in the Stone Age when the West arrived in OZ. Did not even have the wheel!
Another wise comment for the mere folk under them by the plain white toast
With insight like this, why isn’t Bolt Minister for Indigenous Affairs?
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He’s 100% correct, if not for civilisation they’d still swanning around in bloody loincloth and not Gucci and Dolce n Gabana like LindaBurneyMP and the biker lady SenatorThorpe VoteNo
Gained a lot, yes. Better lifestyle, I highly doubt it.
To be fair only the officers could use the Wifi when they first got here 🙃
Has he ever visited remote communities?
It’s not wrong
They gained nothing it was forced on them. Would bolt go live in Alaska for triple his wages and two wives?
Bolt is confusing western culture for modernity. We have all benefitted in some respects from modernity, including the English of the late 18th century. The relatively comfortable modern life was not brought here by the convicts and their boorish captors, but by time's passage.
Sounds like the Andrew Bolt type of verbal poo. Not news.
And some eejit at Sky thought it was worth quoting.
You know, in 2023 with we know and what we understand, this is such an obtuse statement to make.
Aboriginal culture circa 2022
Yeah, like diabetics, glaucoma, kidney decease, drug dependency.... should I go on?
Yep...Aboriginal culture circa 1929
Then why is he always unhappy?
And for how long did Andrew Bolt live as a pre-colonial indigenous person to have the knowledge to make such a comparison. I'll wait.
He just can't help himself
I’m not aboriginal but I’m pretty sure they would say that there is plenty about their culture that they would prefer over western culture. There areplenty of aboriginals that don’t care about electricity because of their lifestyle in the outback.
Why I can’t find any of your journalists or news readers on Twitter? Are they banned?
Like they say what did the Romans ever do for us
This is racist BS 🖕🏽
So sick and tired of all the 💵💵 privileges the aboriginal getting. This really needs to stop very soon. The rest of the people is working hard and are paying for medication ect Not fair and actually discriminating towards us. Now I understand why so many people hate aboriginals
Really? Then why haven't we Closed the Gap? Why are Aboriginal mortality rates well below national means? 🤔 hmmm ...
They definitely don’t mind our beer and cask wine that’s for sure.
I agree with you. No more hand out .We suppose to be one country 🙄
This is white supremacy. And patently racist and gross
And yet all Andrew Bolt does is criticise and complain. Seems that for all that white male privilege and lifestyle, it doesn’t make you any happier.
Best of both cultures would be much better. Add to the best of western - the best of Aboriginal life and knowledge… Living in harmony within six seasons and having a deep understanding and appreciation of the local environment would be pretty good.
God save us from cowardly fools with a megaphone.
Sadly, it is true....
Name them Andrew. How about also naming the things lost.
Oh I didn't know Bolt is Aboriginal
Sometimes ignorance really is bliss... Just a thought 🤔
Speak for yourself!
‘Better lifestyle?’ That’s debatable
and still not a word about robodebt
Reconciliation takes conciliation from both sides, from what I can see the efforts toward conciliation is only coming from one side, there is very much a take take take mentality on the other.
Bolt just doesn’t get IT, does he, his intellect does not allowed him to understand that anything that relates to England is toxic, to not only 1st Nations people but also to about 66% of the population that don’t have a Saxon/Celtic background !!!Get over it, we need to move on!
lie news dribbler andrew bolt knows sweet fa about Aboriginal People or their 60,000 years of culture.
The very reason the term knuckledragger is applied to bolt, Panahi, dean etc. Seriously, they should grateful..they only lost their culture, land, family and way of life....but we've given them so much
He is right in same ways,the lifestyle is theirs if they want it.They are their own worst enemy.There are a lot of aboriginals who have had very successful lives & careers.
Alcohol, Disease, Drugs.
Ahhh yes, people who roamed their land hunting and gathering for thousands of years are now better off with their white invaders.
Alcohol and tobacco related diseases, diabetes, rheumatic heart disease, STDs, renal disease, substance abuse, loss of language, loss of cultural identity, forced religious conversions and of course the stolen children and years of unpaid or minimal wages (slavery).
Yeah but they gained fucking sky news and Andrew Bolt!
Oh look more racist bs from White Male Privilege Bullshit
. . . and all they've had to give up is their culture, their language, in many cases their families, their land, their lifestyle.
Its true Aboriginal people have “gained a lot of things” living in western culture. Genocide. Stolen land. Disease. Racism. Destruction of language and culture. Kidnapping.
As long as they not living next door to him
Andrew Bolt
Jews gained alot of things living in western culture as well, but I am pretty sure they wouldn't appreciate Germany celebrating their national holiday on Holocaust Memorial Day for example.
Yes yes yes and even now they live like barbarians in their communities
Reconciliation is thecoming together of all parties with good will There has to be recognition of white and multicultural Australia as well as Indigenous Australians. Aboriginals are only 3%of the population. Migrants have brought good to this country. We need a Diversity Day
so true!
Thought this was the parody account posting this. How tone deaf.
He’s correct. The issue is they will never be happy no matter what we give them for free. Move on and let it just be noise because it will never stop
How many would give up the trappings of Western culture to go back and live a neolithic existence? And if the British didn't take it, someone else would have and the outcome probably would have been a lot worse.
understanding why the non indigenous aspirations are of no interest could help the debate along
1000s of them prefer to do nothing in the bush They get bored so they drink then violence starts It is their choice
I’m an ardent critic of Murdoch press and an immigrant. Can’t argue with Bolt on this one. Australia is a much blessed place than many countries.
Bolt should be grateful for the left wingers who abolished the white australia policy, and economic benefits Australia is reaping by engaging with Asia. Is he blind to intergenerational racism ?
We have so much to learn from FNP that been caring & respecting their land for over 60 thousand years, yet not a single mention in Sky News. Just racist commentary from a white male ego self indulgence.
sky news quotes sky news , how desperate can you get
The F stain of Sky News whose sole purpose is to create division within the community and make shock statements to cling on to any type of relevancy.
It's a capital A for Aboriginal.
Lifting Aboriginal peoples out of the stone age is pretty significant
I must say, i am happy taking a turd in the toilet than in the dirt...
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I genuinely thought this was a post from SkyAusNews
The overreaching by some sections of Australian society, largely on behalf of a previously dispossessed people, & with little effort from the latter to do so themselves, is a recipe for failure. Celebrating Australia Day doesn’t denigrate as much as it lauds. Sense please 🙏🏽
Nah back to the Stoneage. Nothing wrong with shitting in the woods and wiping your arse with leaves. Down side no booze or meth.
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