Continue from yesterday.

City Aboriginal Folk. They have been living in the Cities for more than 100 years. They lost their Aboriginality but regained it in the 70's & went backward. They used to speak good English but now have turned to "Burrie" to show their "Aboriginality." Most of these people are good citizens dragged down by those who want to get on the handout train, use drugs & break into houses. Not all of them but it seems to have become part of Aboriginality.

Townsfolk Aboriginal Folk. Usually hard working people with few problems who maintain their houses & have good jobs. They seem to deal with their own trouble makers quite well themselves.

Settlement Aboriginal folk. This is where most of the Aboriginal problems seem to lay. Drunkenness & Violence is rampant, Houses are in a destroyed state, entire areas looks like a garbage dump. children are sniffing petrol, glue or anything they can get their hands on. School attendance is appalling. The people are all sick with something. Is it White man's fault or the fault of the people themselves. The violence caused by drunkenness is whose fault. The Aboriginal women wanted to ban alcohol but the men & the PC Academics Do-gooders said "no" it's their right to have alcohol. Solved problem number one. The rape of women & children appears to be their right too. Of course, It doesn't happen, does it? Schooling, Well if everybody's drunk, who cares. The maintenance of houses. Would they be ripped to pieces hey had any instilled pride. No the attitude is, we destroy it, you come & fix it for us so we can destroy it again. The people are sick because they don't know how to look after themselves in a European manner in European houses & settlements. The people who are supposed to administer these settlements are good at making all the funds "disappear."

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The Traditional Bush Aboriginal, These are the only people I see as being happy & healthy. They have little or no contact with Whiteman or with their corrupted brethren.

If Aid is to be given to Aboriginals then a separate Government Program is needed for each of these Groups because their need are entirely different.

Well there you have it John, Most people here think you thinking on the Aboriginal Problem is still rooted in the 19th. Century & not worth an Academic crock of $#it.

Best o' luck with you next Government Funding Application.

I hope to see some sort of reply from you. but I (we) doubt that I (we) will.

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Thank You Mr Pilger for your article.
As historian Henry Reynolds points out in
his book, "Why weren't We told?" it is now
possible to explore the past by means of a
large number of books, articles, archives,
films, novels, songs, and paintings. Reynolds
says that, "Many voices have filled out the space
once claimed by Stanner's Great Australian Silence.
We can know a great deal about the history of
Indigenous-Settler relations."

But, as Reynolds notes, knowing brings burdens which
can be shirked by those living in ignorance.
With knowledge the question is no longer what we know
but what we are now to do, and that is a much harder
matter to deal with. It will continue to perplex us
for many years to come.

Again, Thank You for continuing to stir people out of
their complacency. Hopefully, good results will eventuate,
sooner rather than later.

Thank goodness white people settled Australia Pilger, or New Zealand would be swamped by aboriginal boat people heading for NZ looking for a handout, and claiming "asylum" from the other aborigines who were "persecuting" them.

Foxy: Again, Thank You for continuing to stir people out of their complacency. Hopefully, good results will eventuate, sooner rather than later.

By people, do you mean people like Pilger who do nothing but write about what most of us already know. If you don't you must have been living under a rock. Voicing "Old Sins" all the time does nothing. We are now in the 21St. Century. It's the Educated Academics with their crying about the past are not moving on. They suggest very stupid Politically Correct Solutions that look good on paper but just create more problems. They fail to take into account the different categories of Aboriginal & push their stale old ideas & rip the Australian people off by claiming that they are some sort of expert. BS.

Dear Jayb,

We won't solve the problems of the Aboriginal people
by attacking. John Pilger gives us the facts of
what's still happening out in the Aboriginal sectors of the
community in 21st Century Australia. And that is something
that cannot and should not be ignored. We need to ask why
this is happening and what can be done to correct it. Because
obviously what has been done to date - has not worked.
Historians and people like Mr Pilger urge us to continue to
search for the truth about our past in order to prepare for
and safeguard our future. Perhaps in that way we shall come
up with solutions that will work.