The recent report in The Australian newspaper  of Aboriginal claims of a new Stolen Generation – a claim for exemption from child abuse law in a situation where Aboriginal children are four times more likely to be sexually abused than other Australian children –  looks like the last gasp of the grievance mentality which has for some time now – I’d say since Kevin Rudd said “Sorry”– artificially sustained the Aboriginal political industry. 

The terminal sign is when once valid rhetoric has its meaning reversed. 

Now, with 19th century bureaucratic discrimination disposed of, a claim that historical child removal is the same as current practice only destroys the historical claim. 

That is why it is essential not to take the new claims seriously, and to recognise that they come from a shrinking Aboriginal political class whose days of levering themselves to leadership by grievance are just about over. 

Despite the differentialist claims of Aunty Rhonda and Aunty Hazel, and despite the statistics, apparently skewed by very high levels of abuse in isolated localities, Aboriginal people generally raise their kids like everyone else. 

I know them – I have a young Aboriginal mother sitting at the next table as I write – and none of these people’s children will suffer abuse. 

And when I say “everyone else” I don’t just mean Australia. 

For all the crimes of Muslim extremism towards women and other abuses, there would hardly be another country in the world which would allow the licence with child abuse law that these self-promoters seek.

While the British administration was derelict in law enforcement and compensation, and above all in failure to inoculate against smallpox, with the vaccine freely available by 1800, the time seems now near to end the grievance mentality and the associated anger which seems to have aggravated Aboriginal problems. 

With Aboriginals at the time of white arrival being 0.1 per cent of world population and Australia 

5 per cent of the world’s land, with Aboriginals numbering 1 million after 40,000 years and Australians 23 million 200 years after British arrival, at that general level, no-one need apologise for anything. 

Time to move on.