Why did the Australians put the aboriginal "inventor" David Unaipon on their $50 bill?

Unaipon was obsessed with correct English and in speaking tended to use classical English rather than that in common usage. His written language followed the style of John Milton and John Bunyan

THE WOKE MOB ARE THE REAL RACISTS

JUST LIKE THE DEMOCRATS OR AS I CALL THEM THE DEMONRAT DEMOCRAPS!

im just gonna come out and say it, bills should have the collor of the dollar or the yuan, everything else looks like shit

i cant believe he actually said it! screencapped!

somebody had to do it and i stepped up when nobody else dared to

libtards do something libtarded

you're the weirdo if you notice this

Not sure where you’re getting that, though you fat Māori spear chuckers aren’t exactly known for your reading comprehension.

throwing a spear is Le bad!

American calling other demographics fat

It's a contrarian pushback against contemporary romanticizing of Aboriginals. I think racism against them is appalling, ultimately they're not the ones who asked for us to come here and all, but it's also very stupid to read contemporary progressive types trying to hype up Aboriginal culture or beliefs into something they're not.
They were extremely primitive and literally living in the stone age, that's just the facts. However, that doesn't justify being cruel to them and treating them like animals either. For some reason nobody here likes me for saying these things.

Lol my neighbour is some fat romanian gypsy and within 5 months of living here she got jumped and bashed by aboriginals, you guys are really good at it.

People shouldn't be featured on money anyway, I prefer the Euro approach of just showing inanimate things and places.

I like you for saying these things

jesus christ australia really is the same as canada even their money has the same layout. but as usual they are slightly more cucked than us, putting a chug on the 50 whereas we put our black on our 10. 50 and 100 reserved for white men. idk who tho they are tho. but queen elizabeth is on 20, nigger is on 10.

I wonder when they put Elon on the bills here

why does living as hunter gatherers somehow make them less valid as people? There is literally nothing wrong with it, it's what our bodies adapted to and its what all of us were made to be doing. They had really cool strategies too like putting plants in water holes so the animals would get sleepy/clumsy. We could live as hunter gatherers until a comet hit the earth, technology has already offset the balance of the world and moved us towards poverty and extinction.

Maybe if you created anything more complex than a pointy stick it would be less embarrassing.
Also Polynesians are statistically some of the fattest people on earth no contest. You even have this thing where you shimmy back in forth while eating so that the food settles in your stomach so that you can make more room to eat. Not to mention your houses smell terrible, you live in squalor, and you resemble fantasy ogres.

Doesn't make them less valid, like I literally just said it doesnt justify cruelty against them.
But we don't have to pretend that they were actually super smart inventors and giga intellectuals, which is what contemporary culture here wants to do. They were primitive, that's just how it was.

there is 0 wrong with it the problem is when we all pretend they had all these philoaophies and "ways of living" that we can supposedly "learn from". its the lying thats the problem. same as our chugs. id have to much more respect for them if they said "haha ya we were fucking retarded savages but were still proud tho whatever fuck it we got conquored yolo it is what it is". like thats fine. for example i took a law class in uni. we learned about the "three sources of canadian law - french civil code, english common law, and "aboriginal law" - as if it has informed our legal system at all. gimme a fucken break. stop lying

Australians at the beginning of public events always say shit like "Before we begin I'd like to acknowledge that this we are standing on the land of the Wampanaganoogoo people"
Why?

Being a subhuman monkey makes you a subhuman, Mr Touani Smith.
If you want to embrace primitivism then stop arguing on the internet and eating 20 meat pies a day.

Before we begin I'd like to acknowledge that this we are standing on the land of the Wampanaganoogoo people

Is this real?

why do americans always talk like they understand everything. You can read captain cooks diary, he literally said that the Maori had perfect bodies and were specimens of perfect health. The problems with weight is more in pacific people who unfortunately have a really unhealthy relationship with food, maori do have the worst health problems out of all demographics in nz but that is due to the affects of colonialism which you see in all people who were colonised. Also maori invented more than spears, they crafted boats and maps of ocean currents, inventions that lead to the largest distance travelled by boat at the time

I made the tribe name up but yes, Australians really open their meetings and events that way.
Canadians too

Nothing wrong with it, they just didn't stand the competition with the new settlers

Ummm Americans don't always do that, just a large portion of them including that anon!

Before we start this thread I would to acknowledge we are posting on the land of the old fag basement dweller 2004 people.

kek

he sold free energy machines

WTF if this real? This is like Indian Youtube before Indian Youtube.

51.41% of my country did this kek

Yes yes you wuz kangz n shit.
Also as a noble white man I do in fact know more than you, simple minded savage.

why do you discredit their philosophies though? I like Maori philosophy of having a balance of physical, spiritual, mental and community for best health outcomes. I also like the emphasis on being in balance with the natural world, I also like the philosophy of spirit/god being in everything, very pantheistic

take your medication bro

lel

this real?

You know the answer if you went to school

You're a kiwi, you're projecting your Maori stuff onto us. The Aboriginals are nothing like the Maori.

Just keep your nose down and I won’t have to verbally abuse you, uppity jamboy.

You have to interact with one to understand.

Kek

why do you live in the abo gypsy neighbourhood in the first place you wog?

I lived in aussie for 5 years, I went to high school there and spent time working various manual labor jobs. I met a fair share of aboriginals and had some aboriginal friends. I'm not saying aboriginals are like maori, I do like the aboriginal dream time stuff and I love aboriginal art, the aboriginals who have a connection to their culture are a lot different to the ones who dont. The alcohol just wrecks them

wog

Answered your own question.

The alcohol just wrecks them

Everyone gets mad and says its racist when they're barred from having any, so what is there left to do?

It's a good way to pad out speeches while saying absolutely nothing

Mr. Prime Minister, how are you planning to end the housing crisis? Are you considering expedited rezoning of agricultural land? Cuts to immigration to lower demand were proposed by the opposition. What is your specific plan?

Well first of all I want to thank the womboniga people whose land rights are upheld

we support the elders, including those of future tribes. this is not only a forgotten page in history

you first need to understand australia is the oldest continuing nation, our parliament simply an expression of that system

also we respect australians of every background and sorry, we're out of time

now it ain't as funny as intended
anyway what's your ethnicity?

German/Irish, not that uncommon here (well except maybe that mixture I guess).

oldest continuing nation

Aren't there like a hundred different aboriginal nations

cause their philosophies are bullshit. they believed in slow roasting kids on a fire pit and slicing off pieces and eating them. its a bunch of hogwash. im sure there is some wisdom there if u dig but its not important to our countries at all. they arent influential. historical curiosity? sure have at it. but its not relevant.

a lot of aboriginal elders are against alcohol and prohibit it in their communities. I think if aboriginal people faced less discrimination, had their culture celebrated (in a non tokenistic way), and left to sort themselves out it would make a difference.

Hundreds or thousands, there was no one single culture at any point. Nobody even knows which might be the oldest since there is no recorded history.

he invented peanut butter fuck you

I think if aboriginal people faced less discrimination, had their culture celebrated (in a non tokenistic way), and left to sort themselves out it would make a difference.

Areas of NT and rural WA come close to that, with some entire areas just being aboriginal, and yet they still face extreme issues from within. It seems like the logic and desire to fix things only sets in once they get to the elders stage, and the younger ones don't listen to jackshit, which is even more ironic in the face of the "respecting elders" side of things.

It doesn't feel like there is a way for things to improve. Help or no help, the results seem to always be the same.

It's too at odds with modern global society and culture that what they are cannot be acknowledged for what they are, and how they behave, so a fake people is invented. It's not about their traditional food source, which on its own has always been irrelevant, but social sensibilities and culture. And I don't think you understand how little there is to work with in creating a mythos styled in an erasing/homogenising global 'indigenous', like they do, when it comes to Australia. There just isn't really anything authentic to it. You have much more to work with with maori.

Also, as for racism, abos are simply trash people across the board and often dangerous (violent crime), so anyone who lives around them doesn't like them. So the fake people created, all the fabricated 'tradition', is incredibly comical. Nothing stopping abos being decent either, since I have known decent ones, but compared to the population at large, for abos that's the exception.

I think it's really cool that the earliest ancestors of the aboriginals to arrive in Australia would have encountered marsupial lions

they believed in slow roasting kids on a fire pit and slicing off pieces and eating them

who did? native canadians? that sounds like one of those things that colonisers used to show moral supremacy and justification. Like how the conquistadors went on about the human sacrifices as if it made it ok to rape and murder normal people who weren't even part of the elites sacrifices beyond being victims to it. Or how colonisers made a huge thing about cannibalism in Maori culture

It's almost like they're not very intelligent and that's the root cause of most of their problems

You will find the people criticising one actually criticised both. You act like it was only mentioned to excuse something when that's not the case at all. You have a simplistic worldview and would defend anything if framed in line with it. In other words, you have no business talking morals, especially in handwavey terms.

You act like it was only mentioned to excuse something when that's not the case at all

it was used as moral justification for colonialism and forced conversion. The colonialists would take any propaganda they could. They do x and we dont do x therefore its good they get taken over. It may be simplistic but it is reality

ya but they still did it. so to sit here today in 2025 and talk about hoe great native culture is when they regularly engaged in barbarism we grew out of by the bronze age is retarded.

how did we grow out of it? Sure eating human flesh became a taboo but i'd argue burning people alive and dropping bombs on cities is a million times worse

The actual elders are genuine heroes to real local actual Aboriginals, all hardline against crime, drugs and porn like Duterte or El Salvador's President to put them on the right path, begging for a factory or something for them to work at and gain skills, which will never happen because "aussies building anything, that's Trumpism and would crash the economy".

The people most fucking over Aboriginals are the Elizabeth Warren types mentioned above, who somehow have come to represent Aboriginals legally, for the purpose of collecting cash payments from housing developers to build on ancient spirit land they pulled out of their ass. Billions provided "to the tribe" and their children don't even have textbooks or shoes. Criticizing it is an offence in some contexts.
The indians pulled this off with reservations, actually flowing cash to the community and coming out perhaps off than the average settler in cases, while the activists running them here all parasites. It's nothing but annual tribal travel budgets being spend in under a week, bankrupcy as the tribe somehow runs out of money despite collecting 10mil last week from a lithium mining plan to keep Australian the power on.
People think Worldvision is a scam for blowing 50%+ on marketing, but this is near 100% of all funds collected in reparations schemes going to the pockets of barely even aboriginal aboriginal corporation directors to buy investment homes.

Stuff being made here is considered luxury. The only things that come to mind that are made here would be RM Williams, Crumpler and some skin care products.

Noses point down, oinkers.

Those Ugg Boot stores are all made in Bangladesh cheap crap, and skin care products are all made overseas.
I think we still build some low-end budget washing machines. Kraft really do make Peanut Butter here for the domestic market. I think we also produce soft drink.

Ugg Boot stores

RMs aren't uggs anon, they're leather boots that used to be loved by farmers but are now a luxury item.

skin care products are all made overseas.

Aesop and Thankyou. are both made in Australia at the least.

Because there's still a few public housing units scattered among all the developed land, you're getting run out of your cockroach-ridden shacks even over here lol.

I didn't realize aussie dollars have this cool transparent stripe in the middle