Noel Pearson in a Quarterly Essay article entitled Radical Hope compares the Aborigines to the Jews.
He talks about the Jews ancient commitment to education and high learning and how they offer lessons about how a culturally distinct people might hold their own and succeed in a world that is often without pity. They never forget history or allow others to forget history. They fight staunchly in defence of the truths of history but they never make history a burden for their future.
Part of the genius of the Jews has been to remain adaptive to modernity to reach often very sophisticated accommodation and to hang on to both their religion and their ethos.