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With over 67,000 years of culture and heritage - the worlds longest-running mine operation (Wilgie Mia), its oldest known still-extant school (Gabarnmung), the longest successful oral traditions of any culture, ever - the original land owners don't need to adapt to us: We need to learn more about them. And it can't happen a moment too soon.

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> We need to learn more about them. And it can't happen a moment too soon.

Ok, does that include you? Go! I looked up Wilgie Mia. Apparently a 20-metre deep hole in the ground, an ochre source. Hmm. Couldn't find anything online resembling a school by that name, assuming you don't mean the rock art site whose "existence had been forgotten until its 2006 rediscovery". I'm not sure what "longest successful oral tradition" means exactly. (What does "successful" mean there? Are there unsuccessful oral traditions? And what does it come to besides "no writing system"?) ...And don't we all have "over 67,000 years of culture and heritage"?

On the plus side immigration has been absolutely stellar for the Australian economy.

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