"Successful solutions won't be found if the government response flies in the face of Aboriginal culture."

Perhaps a better approach would be entitled
"Successful solutions won't be found if Aboriginal culture flies in the face of the government response.

David

I am an aboriginal woman from Central Australia who is so sick and tired of all this. Stop looking at our communities as if it is all one. Each community is different and has it's own issues within. This is what we have been talking about in these so called money wasting Consultations that have been happening throughout our communities. Enough is enough spend the money where it is needed. Too much money has been spent wrongly through this intervention and the people of Australia needs to know that not a lot of money has been spent on these communities but a lot has been spent with these so called consultations paying for travel allowances, vehicles and wages. Nothing has been done to protect the Sacred little kids.

Amanda. You do not agree with the 'intervention' for the mirriad reasons you document in your article. Fine. However, I find your unrelenting 'racist' diatribe to be way too simplistic for an issues /problem of such 'eye watering' complexity. Perhaps some concrete cost effective suggestions for a solution would help us "move on from here"? Establishment of an ATSIC mark 2 perhaps?

The reason why total anarchy in aboriginal settlemants has been allowed to "fester for thirty years", Amanda Midlam, is because thirty years ago, people such as yourself were screaming that the Australian government should leave aboriginal people alone.

I love the way that the Amanda Midlam's of this world think. They create a problem with their insistence that something must be done their particular way, they scream contempt at those who differ, and when very problems predicted by their opponents inevitably arises, they condemn their opponents for agreeing to do what they wanted in the first place.

Aboriginal self deturmination has been a self evident failure. Instead of Amanda saying "oops we got it wrong", here she is still claiming that should be a success, and condemning the Federal government for finally realising that this quixotic experiment in aboriginal self governance was a mistake all along.

She reminds me of the old Russian commissars who faithfuly predicted that just "one more five year plan" would see Socialism trumphant.

working towards a degree in Indigenous Stories

I wonder who the qualified person will be to deem Amanda Midlam's writings as accurate enough to hand her a degree. More likely than not some ignorant academic or a self-interest white aboriginal.
Why does writing about indigenous stories require a white degree ? I think it's dreadfully wrong. Just write the story & be done with it, no amount of degrees will make it more authentic than simply not writing bull$hit.

Dear individual, I look forward to the day when this forum requires people to reveal their real identity. This would mean that you’d have to come out from behind the facade and cowardice you that allows you to post your childish insults and bile.