Dear Malcolm, it’s a pity that the UN itself is not being scrutinized. Here we have a body that has perhaps the most atrocious human rights record on the planet, not directly of course, but through admission to its ranks, of some of the most despotically rotten dictatorships in the world and the UN’s abject failure to act against them. If they had acted, we might not have seen the recent public reactions and deaths in the Arab world? Some might feel the UN “scrutiny” of our affairs is both hypocritical and unwarranted, time to wrap up the UN and its woeful “blind eye” contributions to social equity and justice.

It is our own ill conceived, poorly thought out, interfering, irrational, populist and appeasement driven policies that has utterly confused our aboriginal peoples and driven them into a state of victimhood.

We’ve done a great job without the UN thank you very much.

It’s time to get aboriginal kids into school and their parents into a job. That is where they should start.

Or we could start where you left off and have an action replay of all the “wonderful initiatives” our politicians, academics and human rights groups have delivered in the last 100 years?

It’s time for all the contributors to this essay, to be part of the solution rather than calling on the UN to “endorse” your already persistently flawed views and failed initiatives. Stop trying to rewrite history, get over it and move on.

Australian indigenous will always see themselves as discriminated against. it's their right to think.
I would like to ask these 33 leading Australians what action they're taking right now to stop the production of more suffering refugees in Somalia, Afghanistan etc.
What are they doing about it at this very moment ? Well, after lunch anyway .

Fraser and the other well meaning signatories are probably not aware of the utterly desperate situation of many people in the NT Aboriginal communities.

How you get anywhere by consulting and seeking permission to act from dominant individuals who are often themselves leading perpetrators of violence, bullying and corruption,and/or complicit in the illicit grog and drug trade, is beyond my ken.

Rosalie Kunoth-Monks and Djiniyini Gondarra have their heads deep in the sand over some of this. If their own communities are lucky enough to have escaped some of these problems, they still must be aware of the intractable nature of corruption and irresponsible behaviour infesting many other places.

As for the alleged "failure of NTER measures such as the policy of removal of welfare entitlements where there is unsatisfactory school attendance", are they aware that, owing to determined obstruction by the NT Govt and Education Union, implementation of this program has barely begun? It is a bit rich to base half your argument on such flimsy evidence of failure.

Mr Fraser

Did you ask Mal Brough or Noel Pearson for their ideas and input on your current well meaning contribution?

regards Keith Kennelly?

I would like to see Mal do an article on the slow genocide of the Palistinians and the theft of their land.Then I will know you are fair dinkum.

Who cares?

When we spend on averge several hundred thousand dollars of taxpayers money in legal aid for every illegal immigrant plus housing and feeding htem in luxury hotels, plane fares and so on... when our government spends about $20 per taxpayer for defending the convicted Australian terrorist Abdul Nacer Benbrika...

That's a heap of money keeping the lawyers fat, while not making the taxpayer any better off