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There was brutality towards Aboriginals no doubt about that. As I’ve said many times I’m glad to a knowledge that. But criticism of Cook is just stupid. 99.99% of the wealth was built by hard bloody work. What we have today was the result of all that hard work. The working classes and the convicts need a knowledgment for the stadiums they are watching these games in and roads and rail that delivered them there etc etc. We have all contributed to our culture, the constant disrespect to our ancestors from the British Isles is just as disrespectful as it is to not acknowledge the Aboriginals.But it was all achieved with a significant level of brutality towards Aboriginal Australians which is still not recognised by a lot of us despite the fact that all of us materially benefit from the dispossession every day.