Many analyses but few solutions - try this one - stop giving individual people money as part of a universal welfare program which they waste on goods and services that are killing them at an early age. Put the same amount of money being paid to individuals into community development programs as you would to a Third World country. Administer it through AusAid.
Lets face it - remote Aboriginal communities are equuivalent in standard to Third World conditions and we must acknowledge and stop treating them as an extension of mainstream Australia.

Hi Rollo,

Aboriginal people, wherever they are, are Australian citizens. They are as entitled to welfare benefits as anybody else, and should be as liable to take on civic responsiblities as anybody else. If other able-bodied non-Indigenous Australians are provided with welfare benefits to tide them over unemployment, then so should Aboriginal people. But if able-bodied Australians have to look for work and take it where they find it, then so should able-bodied Aboriginal people.

You can't have special favours on the one hand, that people in remote areas don't have to look for work or go to where the work might be, then complain about the Intervention on the other hand. Equal rights surely also means equal responsibilities. No favours.

Of course, this is pretty much the case for Indigenous people in the cities, especially now that CDEP has been abolished there. No favours.

So should people be actually rewarded, with special favours and benefits, if they also happen to be living on their own land ?

To him that hath shall it be given ?

As a CONSTITUTIONALIST I deplore the conduct of the fake “SORRY” event because there was nothing “SORRY” about when they continue to perpetrated the gross unconstitutional injustice against Aboriginals. That is liker a person while raping a woman telling her he is sorry about it. This whole Northern Territory Intervention act is a unconstitutional legislation and well overdue to be recognised as such. One has to ask why all those lawyers who claim to be so smart by now did nothing about it to rectify it, or could it be that it would not be in their own financial benefit to do so? As an INDEPENDENT candidate in the Broadmeadows district (Victoria) election as well as in the Olympia Ward (Banyule) election I would like to see electors to give the political parties the boot o support INDEPENDENT candidates so instead of political parties doctrine we get back to real representation. If I were elected to the parliament I would question the constitutional validity of legislation and you may just discover it only takes one person with backbone to finally get it all addressed.

loudmouth "You can't have special favours on the one hand, that people in remote areas don't have to look for work or go to where the work might be, then complain about the Intervention on the other hand. Equal rights surely also means equal responsibilities. No favours"

completely agree, you seem to have a very good grip on this and are able to divorce yourself pretty well from the self centered emotion of many.

aka, you twist my words and try to verbal me in your attempt to always be seen as some sort of sage, you come across as a bitter person with a grudge.

As they say, most people in the aboriginal industry are balanced, with a huge chip on both shoulders. You don't like the truth and don't like to be questioned and are clearly someone who grates at not getting their own way .. which is why the perceived iniquities bother you. you need to put it aside, and move on, it's called diplomacy .. demanding everything and then having petulant little fits when refused, will get you exactly, nowhere.

Do you hate whites .. reread your posts (and not just this thread), any reasonable person would assume so. Perhaps it is just subconscious, perhaps you need help?