Four pages is a bit much for a subject that most people are sick and tired of, but the churches did do a good job in much nicer times - before they also caught the Marxist bug. In any times, however, anything touched by governments turns to shite. The Aboriginal question being the best example of that sad fact.

Whilst the article is certainly true in its summation of government activities, it fails to make any mention of the part being played by aboriginal elders for the lack of development in areas owned by their own people. The elders have had over sixty years to educate themselves in the areas of management so vital to get progress. Instead they have been prepared to sit back and let unprincipled white advisers rob them blind under the pretense of helping them. Unfortunately, lazy government ministers have just sat back and let it happen.
Perhaps the government should round up all these irresponsible elders for a period of six months or so into a school of business administration, attendance being a prerequisite for receiving ongoing government funding.
Law and order is another subject desperately in need of attention by tribal elders. It is not something that can be fixed by the white man.

David (ex NT resident)

Are there any enterprises started for/by aboriginal indentifiers still in operation?

You probably need to ask Warren Mundine that question, but I imagine there are quite a few successful ones.
David

The Chinese are pointing an accusing finger at our human rights record!
Yes, it is far from perfect?

But how much have the lazy, too tired to get up off of their backsides to go take a bog, folk have contributed to it? I've seen brand new hones that were gifted to layabout drunks welded to their flagons, trashed beyond repair, and whole communities going walkabout when there was work to be done and for fair wages!

Taxpayer's money? It just doesn't grow on trees!

Take a few seasons off of the endless complaining, THE BOOZE AND THE DOPE and go pick fruit and assist with the harvest for award rates! Then do what many a penniless migrant family have done, pool your money and buy one business then another then another. Then do the same with housing that you buy with the money you've earned with the sweat of your brow and aching bent back!
Alan B.

You "imagine" David.

Imagination plays a big part in the aboriginal problem. It's a pity that nobody seems to have the imagination to sort it out.