Australia a civilisational state with a 65,000 year Stone Age Aboriginal history, the progenitor of all other cultures in this region - Latest Australian foreign affairs initiative likely to impress neighbours as much as its values based LGBTIQ+ diplomacy

 by Ganesh Sahathevan 

                                   Aboriginal leader Pat Dodson and Foreign Minister Penny Wong

Australia's new  foreign affairs policy holds that its Aboriginals are its first diplomats, having established ties throughout this region. Underlying the policy is the claim that Aboriginals are the world's oldest living culture, with a 65,000 year Stone Age  history. That Aboriginals have not moved beyond the Stone Age has  not however  prevented the Australian Government from making the claim that its Aboriginal are the world's oldest astronomers, as they are in other  areas of scientific endeavour. 

Given that no other country in this region makes that claim, it follows that Australian Aboriginal culture must be the progenitor of all other cultures in this region. 
 It does seem as if the Australian Government is attempting to assert superiority over all others by giving itself the veneer of a   civilisational  state, but that is  likely to impress its  neighbours as much as its values based LGBTIQ+ diplomacy .  The region has Indian, Chinese and Arab influences going back thousands of tears; its people will not accept some Sone Age culture to be part of it.