Antinuclear

Mr Abbott surprised many with his comments, made in a speech about foreign investment on Thursday night.

“Our country is unimaginable without foreign investment,” Mr Abbott said.

“I guess our country owes its existence to a form of foreign investment by the British government in the then unsettled or, um, scarcely settled, Great South Land.”

Ms Robinson, the acting chief executive of the Illawarra Local Aboriginal Land Council, said more than 40,000 years of Aboriginal history needed to be remembered.

“It’s very disturbing to think we’ve got a Prime Minister who isn’t aware of what was here prior to invasion,” she said. “This country was very settled. We had our laws in place, we had our Parliament houses, our opera houses, our hospitals, our homes.”

Ms Robinson said most Australians did not cling to the myth that Australia was uninhabited…….

Mr Abbott’s comments exposed him to criticism that he had not moved on from the old doctrine of terra nullius – nobody’s land – that was dumped by the High Court last century.

Northern Territory Labor senator Nova Peris said Mr Abbott’s comments were “highly offensive, dismissive of indigenous peoples and simply incorrect”……http://www.illawarramercury.com.au/story/2396912/illawarra-aboriginal-leader-reacts-to-abbotts-unsettled-speech/?cs=300