Australia’s Torres Strait islands: Swallowed by the sea | First Nations Frontline EP 2 

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Australian mainland Aboriginal people used fire for 40 - 60 thousand years to easier hunt animals for food. Imagine how much fauna and flora such burning destroyed, and how the practice would surely have helped to create the vast desert waste lands of Australia! Continent movement was happening long before the Industrial revolution. Do Torres Straight Islanders ever wonder if their multiple Islands were once joined to another land mass?

​@annviolet4727 your point???

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@@island_rogue1687 Meaning Australian Aboriginals over a period of '65 000' yrs. contributed to desolation of much of Australia with the use of fire. Aboriginal people didn't originate in Australia, they all came from somewhere else originally.

FROM WHERE THIS PPL ANCESTORS CAME FROM ??? I THINK FROM AFRICA 75000 YEARS AGO AND FEW MIXED OF PAPA NEW GUINEA SOLOMON ISLAND INDONESIA EAST TIMOR

Me too.

If you think, that the people of the Torres Strait, think that they are above other people, then you don't know the first thing about people from the Torres Strait. All they want, is to advocate for their own place, their own ancestral lands. Something that they deserve to do and to have. They are well within their rights to advocate and fight for their own ancestral lands. They do not think they are above anyone. They are the most wonderful, beautiful people I have ever had the pleasure to get to know.

@@annagilda1 "Nice people" the Torres might be but my point is that it's nonsense to claim one citizen has more rights than another. The Torres Straight people might decide to stay where they are but they aren't more Australian than the next citizen. There's now the combination of reparations because of colonization and "climate change" being heaped on people with great onus on skin colour. It's as though everyone believes white people today owes them something. Torres people might be "nice" but I feel I need to say that other people don't owe them something. What help they get isn't payment of debts.

@@olsaffa7679 my argument is that at no point, have they ever claimed to be better than or have more rights than anyone else. That notion has come completely from.your own head.

@@annagilda1 "rights above someone else" comes from me and "better than" comes completely "from your head". To simplify again: nobody should be treated differently or have different rights simply because of skin colour or ancestry. I'm tired of the equity argument being used up until it's more convenient to use the "colonialism, first nations, redress, etc" arguments. Don't get me wrong; I'm not saying those types of anti-White racist arguments are explicitly used here, I'm just ensuring that it's not implicitly used either. I frankly have had enough of the "woke" anti-White racists' divisiveness. No wonder there's this dangerous buildup on the far right of racism and hate as a consequence. Equity without any ifs or buts in opportunities. That's the most fair humanity can be, without civilization falling apart.

​@@olsaffa7679 cultural rights are held high in regard by the federal courts because it was those same courts originally who passed legislations direct towards First Nations people committing genocide. White Australia has placed in its own constitution to protect culture and therefore by not meeting climate agreement to lower emissions and transfer to renewables they are still committing genocide. Climate change affects everyone, but those who live traditonally generally dont contribute to emmissions and have no interest in abandoning their heritage and lifestyle. This is just one of many stories that has been made international. The Australian government will always hide what they can but can't mistreat First Nations people in the eye of the world.

Because that’s our home ya weak dog

They have been brainwashed into thinking that humans did this. The climate is always changing, we were in an ice age 10,000 years ago

How ignorant.

We can't just move, its our cultural grounds and home, we can't just move onto another territory like that

Their ppl have lived on those islands for 60 thousand years.. "just move" is ignorant to say.

FROM WHERE THIS PPL ANCESTORS CAME FROM ??? I THINK FROM AFRICA 75000 YEARS AGO AND FEW MIXED OF PAPA NEW GUINEA SOLOMON ISLAND INDONESIA EAST TIMOR