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Aboriginal health restored to its proper priority : Comments
By Jacqueline Phillips, published 17/9/2010The initial omission of the Indigenous health portfolio could have just been a clumsy oversight
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No, I'm certainly not blaming people for the situation they are in, not entirely, but I do suggest that self-determination means that the people themselves must find ways around the problems that they find themselves in: who did what in the past is somewhat irrelevant, it's done and it can't be undone. Never forget history, but there is little to be gained by simply finger-pointing.
Surely self-determination means that the people themselves must decide - without necessarily involving yet more outsiders, and yet more outsider dollars - what are the problems, what to do about them and how to implement the solutions.
In other words, to construct and implement their own policies about their own issues. Their problems, their solutions - and of course, their right to make mistakes, over and over again, ad nauseam.
Frankly, I don't spend a single second thinking about solutions to those problems - it's not up to me, so why should I ? There are more important Indigenous issues to be concerned about, Indigenous successes and achievements to come to grips with, such as 25,000 university graduates and what their positive impact may be on Indigenous futures.