@powder Australia - free democratic country

Bear, the CIA and the rest of the Seppo Governments have their hands chock full of their shit right now, so I reckon this IS the ideal time to tell them and Mother England go Screw themselves for once and for good.
Australia NEEDS to Stand as a Free and TRULY Democratic Republic, Stand by its OWN Nation Identity, the same Identity we were gifted by those who came long before our generation, i.e. the Diggers of W.W.I and W.W.II., the ground-breakers from the 18th. and 19th. Centuries, NOT the Squatters, the ones who busted a gut to open up the country, the REAL Hard Yakka Blokes, Women and Kids.

@Triphid A long time ago I had a mate who introduced me to the philosophy of "if you want to learn the easiest way to do something ask a lazy person".
A sound definition of Australians from 50,000 years ago to today.
My mate described himself as a Heinz 57'er - part Aborigine, part Chinese, part German, part Pommie . . . IMO a real Australian.

@FrayedBear 50,000 years ago there ONLY residents of the Brown and oft Dusty land would have been the Megafauna like the Ancestral Kangaroos, Wombats and the like.
Our "Indigenous" residents did NOT arrive until approx. 30 - 38,000 ago and that is at very great stretch since NO actual human remains dating later than then have EVER been uncovered.
As to being a Heinz 57'er, just being part Aboriginal, part Chinese, part German, part Pommie does NOT add up to my lineage list even remotely close to it.
Btw, the terminology of "Real Aussie" means, literally one MUST have born and Raised upon or within these fair shores, i.e. I was conceived, gestated, born, raised and have LIVED in Australia ever since, ergo, a REAL Aussie.

@Triphid as was my one legged mate. Heinz 57'er was his description not mine.
Re occupants - who did the carvings at the Burrup then if there were no humans?
[murujuga.org.au]
And
[abc.net.au]

@Triphid thank you for identifying your ethnicity. Like the poms a hotchpotch of genetic influences that has no or little purity.
Inbreeding is not renowned for healthy humans.

@FrayedBear It is quite a usual normality to radio-carbon date objects, etc, by having a leeway in the time slots.
The Goody-Two-shoes ( Activists) love to TAKE the GREATEST date offered up and STATE as the Factual one, i.e. Aboriginals were here 50,000 years ago. However, since I have been an assistant of sorts on numerous Archaeological Digs in the remote Australian Outback, here, QLD., N.T. and N.W. W.A. as well ALL that has been uncovered and tested over and over again and again is Human Remains, and tools such as stone axe heads, grinding dishes ( stone of course) and grinding stones, etc, and those have been FIRMLY dated to between approx. 28,000 and 38,000 years ago, which also correlates with the start of the rise in sea level around that period, which eventually cut Australia off from New Guinea, Indonesia, Tasmania, etc, etc.

@Triphid Ie. You haven't found the 50,000 year old bones yet?
Don't worry, I haven't found the bacon butty that I put down & lost somewhere in the house last week. It has taken me over two years to find the dyed red woollen sconce warmer that I lost two years ago. It's now happily back in place keeping my naked skull warm in the cold. . .
And no the bacon butty isn't hiding under it just last month's cinnamon donut!

Who says 9/11 was foreign originated? I have not encountered one intelligent engineer who can prove that two aeroplanes caused their collapse.

@FrayedBear Since AvGas, i.e. Jet Fuel is 100% HIGHLY refined and Distilled Kerosene ( aka Paraffin ) AND it burns at a temperature MUCH lower than that required to actually melt, distort and sufficiently weaken the type of steel used in the construction of those Towers then it would be a 80-90% probability that there is FAR, FAR, more to 9/11 story than the world has been told.