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Resetting our relationship with Aboriginal people : Comments
By Michelle Fahy, published 29/8/2011Given the amount of debate on Indigenous issues, the absence of the voices of the people concerned is telling. Walk With Us redresses this.
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Suze,
Yes, education is one of the major keys - I'm very circumspect about naming anything as the Silver Bullet, the One Great Panacea. But so much flows from getting a good education, for Black or White. Probably the vast majority of Indigenous home-owners battled to get a good education, I'd put money on it.
And really, is anything at all working in remote settlements ? Anything ? Surely on the odd settlement, here or there ? Or can the history of southern people, leaving missions and settlements after the War and up through the sixties, working their guts out on whatever paid for their subsistence, be roughly replicated by people in remote areas ?
Or is it already too late, too difficult, for most of them ? No, that's too horrible to contemplate. Surely there must be pathways to employment, and alternatives to lifelong welfare and degradation.
Joe