Divine_msm " every school would have a kitchen, hired cook and weekly rations delivery to provide a nutritious breakfast, lunch and afternoon snack to these kids before anything else - plus a daily multi-vitamin pill. That would be an appropriate start AND a great incentive for kids to turn up daily. It would also probably be the most cost effective efficient way to improve the health of indigenous youngsters at same time."
Excellent idea.

I am crushed, Loudmouth. And terribly hurt.

Of course, you know, this means war?

Your premise is, that people who are not racist are "decent", and those who are racist are "indecent".

Your problem is, that like so many white Australians, we are sick and tired of always being blamed for aboriginal dysfunction by white hating racists like you. It was "Nugget" Coombes, the former head of the Australian Council for Aboriginal Affairs who dreamed up the concept of aboriginal "self deturmination" and the setting up of "aboriginal only" apartheid areas on former cattle ranches and mission stations. It was the Socialists who bequeathed to aborigines the right to drink.

This policy of alcohol fueled "self deturmination' was enthusiastically endorsed by the aboriginal "Big Men" leaders who saw it's potential as a cash cow,which seems to benefit no one but themselves. I quote Justice O'Keefe in NSW who headed one inquiry into aboriginal financial scandals in which he angrily proclaimed that "black leaders are ripping off their own people."

This failed policy has resulted in the creation of totally dysfunctional aboriginal settlements which are entirely dependent upon the taxpayer for their continued survival, and where economic progress is prohibited forever. Within these "self governing" communities, violence is endemic. Aborigines make up 24% of the NT population, but of the 17 murder victims in the NT in 2002, 15 of them were aboriginal.

"Indecent" "racists" like myself opposed this stupid policy from the beginning, Loudmouth.

Egalitarians like you are just amazing. You create a social catastrophe by your arrogant insistence on creating policies based upon the unobtainable ideal of human equality, and when it fails miserably, you blame the people who opposed it.

Individual & LEGO, your last posts are sad inditements of your own education and upbringing.

ybgirp,
Please explain where there's no fact in my post.

you're part of a superior race
ybgirp,
When did I ever even hint at this ? You're making statements about others' statements but you're not quoting, you're inventing. First of all when I look at Australians today I fail to see anything remotely looking like superior on the contrary. There's nothing superior about being handed a most beautiful country only to have a race amongst themselves to see who can ruin it faster.
Mainstream education in Australia is brainwashing gone wrong & the indigenous have totally different values to those academic morons who persistently interfere with peoples' lives.
If anything the morons could learn from a couple of indigenous.

"ybgirp,
Please explain where there's no fact in my post."
individual, I was referring to your apparent attitudes towards non-white people as expressed in your writing.

"you're part of a superior race
ybgirp,"
Actually, individual, I wrote: "If it makes you feel better to believe you're part of a superior race, then it would be cruel to disabuse you."
Again, it was the impression your comments made. If you didn't intend others to draw that conclusion, then you should take more care in your choice of words.

As for the rest of your post, I have the impression that you might agree with me just the teensiest bit on some issues :)

apparent attitudes towards non-white people
ybgirp,
you're making the same mistake as most who think they know but don't. After 34 years of residing in various indigenous communities I don't actually have an attitude as such, I have experience & you mistake experience with attitude. It's wrong & counter-productive to dispute peoples' experiences. By all means dispute the remarks of City folk when they guess about others but do not dismiss experience. We in the Bush get swamped by short term career bureaucrats & therefore we are qualified to express our opinion of them due to our experiences with them. When those overpaid & overmollycoddled pains leave they leave nothing behind that would tempt the locals to even consider having good memories of them.
If you were to actually think about what you read you'd find that I don't blame the indigenous in general, they're getting manipulated just as much as the brainwashed in Urbania.