In simple terms Robyn Seth-Purdie is arguing for more racial discrimination, not less of it.

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Not sure how this topic attracted such a bunch of reactionaries.
Aboriginal people require "special" treatment (in terms of extra government funding in particular) because they were dispossessed of their land, hunted, shot, massacred, suffered from imported diseases (some deliberately spread), forced into concentration camps (laughably known as church run charitable missions), often starved, had their languages brutally supressed (Aboriginal languages were called "devil talk" and people punished for speaking them in many missions), often starved, denied human rights including freedom of movement and freedom to vote, and finally if they had a job were paid in food, had their wages stolen by state governments, or if they were really lucky, just grossly underpaid.
Lots of people seem to get steamed up because they don't want to be reminded of this history (it makes them feel guilty, and they don't want to feel guilty do they, so better to ignore such hard facts). To this day, Aboriginal life expectancies and Aboriginal infant mortality in this wealthy country of ours are at 3rd world levels. It is a national disgrace.
The question is, not why a people that suffered such treatment live in poverty and have lots of poverty related problems (that should be obvious surely), but what actions to take about it that will actually work.
Heaping further discriminatory measures on Aboriginal people is surely not the way. Welfare quarantining should not be applied on a place-based basis, stigmatising entire communities - it should be applied on a person or family-based basis. The Racial Discrimination Act should apply again.
Dysfunctional families, regardless of the colour of their skin, should be subject to welfare quarantining, and these families should also be given a way out of welfare quarantining: by doing drug/alcohol rehab, parenting courses and sending their children to school. The NT intervention was supposed to be about protecting children wasn't it?