Comments by "" (@pwillis1589) on "‘Truly sorry’: Plibersek on the Juukan Gorge Indigenous heritage incident" video.

@grannyannie2948 You have so little understanding of how science and advances in archeological techniques have contributed to a greater understanding of how Australia was inhabited it is completely baffling as to why you would make such an ignorant comment and open yourself to public derision. The comment is so lacking in factual content it defies belief.
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@grannyannie2948 OMG, you just went from the ridiculous to the ludicrous. Please reference the scientific paper that suggests human occupation of mainland Australia beyond the 70000 +/- 5000 years. Please provide the evidence of any human species other than the aboriginal again beyond the 70000 +/- 5000 years. All you have is one giant argument from ignorance that is just nonsensical rubbish. I mentioned nothing about aboriginal culture and that comment is just a strawman fallacy again making your comment nonsensical gibberish. Next knowing one anthropologist is the definition of an anecdotal fallacy. Finally calling me a racist without any evidence is just a pathetic ad hominem fallacious attack. You can do better than that. Read some scientific literature on the subject.
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@grannyannie2948 No, you are completely wrong. Read some of the science written by Bowler, Thorne, or Brown. All have peer reviewed scientific papers that totally refute your unsubstantiated claim of 100000 years. DNA evidence confirms aboriginals as the only and original human inhabitants of Australia. Yes one set of remains at Lake Mungo was unusually tall, so what? Yes unfortunately indigenous culture and western science do not always gel, again so what? What has been learned is that the remains at Lake Mungo date to approximately 40000 years ago according to the science. If you have evidence to the contrary reference the scientific paper and its author.
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@grannyannie2948 On the completely separate issue of dingos and thylacine extinction, dingos are regarded as an introduced species some several thousand years ago as the oldest bones found date to approximately 6000 years, and the dingo is generally regarded as making the thylacine extinct on the mainland and sheep farmers got rid of the rest in Tasmania. So what. Are you suggesting the introduction of the dingo is some smoking gun on aboriginal occupation of Australia? If so present your evidence of a published peer reviewed scientific paper.
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@grannyannie2948 Australia is a huge country and different indigenous groups solved different problems with various solutions. Read up on Micheal Westaways latest work north of Lake Eyre. We are constantly learning more and more about aboriginal history pre 1788. It was varied and significantly more complex than we first thought.
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@grannyannie2948 You were so close to a reasonable and rational response and then you had to go and call a group of indigenous people who for them the remains of their ancestors have deep and significant meaning that is different to western culture "activists" and hence displayed an appalling lack of empathy and respect for aboriginal culture. Best we leave it there before you embarrass yourself further.
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