Found myself involved in a riot between two warring groups in a NSW Aboriginal community two weeks ago: Such a frequent event in my life it’s almost boring.

A three month old baby was brought out of the house in the arms of the perpetrator as a self defensive tactic, to be flung into the air and fortunately caught before any serious damage to it.

The attacking force bolstered by relatives from a town north an hour or so away, divided itself into two parts on its frontal attack on the home of the perpetrators. One group demolished the front of the cottage with lengths of timber, the other group began splashing petrol over vehicles and parts of the house with the intention of burning it down, with people still inside, (including the infant and other children).

No police arrived during the riot or next day. The incident was officially ignored.
I don’t make this up!

I raised this incident to an acquaintance of mine who is a retired town planner. His response is unprintable as to why the powers in control moved an Aboriginal mission on the edge of town, into the centre of a white community as a policy of integration.

It’s impossible for white communities to live in peace with a central part of town turned into a riot zone and a hub of criminal activity without responding in kind.

Dan

It is a waste of time discussing this problem.

I believe we just cannot allow extreme antisocial behaviour, domestic violence and the sexual abuse of minors to continue unabated in aboriginal communities that we would not allow anywhere else!

But treat it the same as we would almost anywhere else! Nor should we allow the past or history to influence outcomes today!

By all means leave to aboriginals to fix it. But allow sunlight and transparency in to ensure equal justice and reparation to prevail, always providing the punishment fits the crime.

And Jail should be last solution given exile ought to be the best remedy for incorrigible repeat offenders!

Albeit, in the case presented, no obvious solution presents itself, save euthanasia. Sometimes one needs to be cruel to be kind?
Alan B.

Federal & State bureaucracy has failed the Indigenous & the non-indigenous on a clockwork like basis !
I doubt that this will ever change without modifying the mentality of both sides of these particularly industries involved !
Take note of ttbn's post !

In some communities they found that sport and being allowed to play in the team was all they needed to modify antisocial behaviour. Get kids into classrooms. And a swimming pool and being allowed access during heatwaves, another.

Rugby and boxing being among the most popular sports the latter enabling young men to use sport to vent unrequited spleen?

And allow sport to assist integration, we are but one community and need to live side by side in peaceful harmony. As for riots? A fire hose is often all that's needed to cool down the hotheads.

And video footage of incidents like throwing infants up in the air going viral might modify this sort of, completely lost it, behaviour?

There's a lot to be said for old time remedies like a spear in the leg then sent packing as a exile from the community, to modify errant behaviour.
Alan B.

I know that many will react in horror at this remark;
But surely it comes down to survival of the fittest!
If you cannot exist with others then one side or the other will be eliminated !