Hi Tom,

Yeah, that was my point: oodles of 'research', some even by Indigenous 'researchers', but almost nothing about any actual topic, only research about research. Sort of 'Seinfeld research'. As if, for Christ's sake, there is nothing for 'researchers' to get their teeth into ?! In fifteen bloody years since Lester's article ? What the hell are they doing out there ?

The welfare-oriented, a.k.a. 'traditionally-oriented' Aboriginal 'community' is experiencing a huge range of mainly self-induced crises, disasters, tragedies, catastrophes and cataclysms. Things ain't so good either.

Indigenous academia, with its leather elbow-pads, 'working at home' on their 'research', is doing bugger-all about any of those problems. The Gap is getting wider between that population and the working Indigenous population. It's one of Indigenous academia's duties - or at least the hot-shot researchers amongst them - to identify and nut out what to do about those problems. [Call it 'action research']. It's ultimately not the whitefellas' problem.

No, sorry, it's not. People in those 'communities' have created their own problems, and even if Indigenous researchers don't have the courage to say so, then if they love those 'communities' so much, they inherit the duty to find solutions.

Joe