Rojama,

There is absolutely nothing you said that indicates that you are being 'racist'. Had you not yourself indicated that some people might consider that you are, the boofhead JBSH would not have come out of the woodwork with that school yard 'if the cap fits, wear it' nonsense. I doubt if he, she or it has ever owned a dictionary. The only definition of racism is a feeling of superiority. Anything else is a construct of the comrades. The fact you were married to an aboriginal lady clearly shows that you do not think that way. Perhaps the boofhead JBSH, did not read that bit. Some people become highly irrational at the sight of the words 'race' or 'racist'.

Good on you for sharing your personal experience in getting across your point. If we kept quite all the time for fear being called a racist, the comrades would win something they are not entitled to, neither through truth nor common sense.

Just to be clear. This is not "the NT Royal Commission".

It is Turnbull's Royal Commission. He personally owns it.

Whenever it happens it will cost a lot, produce recommendations which are not acted upon by the Turnbull government or whichever government is about to replace it, and will leave the problem of indigenous crime and dysfunction exactly where it is today.

If there was a solution to the mess it would have been put in place long ago. There isn't a solution because too many people refuse to accept that paying the dole and other such allowances to people who choose to live in places were industry and employment are impossible does not encourage any sort of change for the better.

The ABC, of course, and as usual, produced a propaganda film of which Leni Riefenstal would have been proud, full of imagery and devoid of context. The take-away message from the ABC: somebody should do something.

Now that's a great help, isn't it?

I believe Brendan presents a very balanced analysis of an extremely complex ongoing situation. As an ex-child protection officer in the NT & Qld I have worked with Aboriginal staff committed to help address the 'challenges' of dysfunctional communities, abusive parents, addictions, domestic violence, neglect, woeful fast food dietary reliance, Coke or sugar laced drinks replacing healthy water- resultant diabetes, kidney failure, lack of education because of little parental interest, chronic resultant generational unemployment, 'sit down welfare'and a new 'lost' generation to replaced the 'stolen generation' as kids are removed to Darwin to end up in gangs focussed on crime and addictions and the cycle repeats . . . The answers must include "Actions = Consequences" but it is easier for the problems to be swept under the political carpet and blame 'anyone instead of fixing the system'! If anyone wants to learn how the previous and current Aboriginal NT Chief Minister have ignored NT child protection law and not made a Katherine magistrate accountable for his unlawful decisions to order that an Aboriginal female infant be removed from the care of her Child Safety-approved Aboriginal aunt and be given to a non Aboriginal 'self titled' grandmother let me know via a post on this site and I'll send you full details - 'All it takes for evil to flourish is for good people to do nothing.' Edmund Burke. Politicians need to be pressured to fix the rot and Aboriginal people need to accept it may start with them taking responsibility as well.

By setting up a royal commission, Malcolm Turnbull has grasped the opportunity to show that he means business in this new term. And his blinkered followers, such as journalist Nikki Savva, have been taken in and praised him for it.

But, ho-hum. This is a typical reaction of a government that does not know how to fix the problem, buys time by referring the problem to an inquiry, hopes that the inquiry recommends useful solutions, and then probably shelves the recommendations because they are found to be too difficult to implement.

Rojama, while you are at it, also look up the word 'realism' because what you say is real and if speaking the truth is racist, then welcome to the club.

Paying up to $250 per week in cold hard, easily wasted cash to ANY dole RECIPIENT is simply ridiculous.

Can you imagine being a local indigenous kid, without love, possibly being abused, all of a sudden being handed this money on an ongoing basis.

The answer is so obvious, yet the PC brigade simply prevent a solution.

The truth is never easy, but it is the truth so we either except it, or continue burying our heads in the sand.

These kids are not there because they are model citizens, they are there for a very good reason.

Ahh, Cobber the hound trots out the usual 'soft on crime', 'criminals have more rights than victims' mantras and as usual absolutely nothing to substantiate that uninformed opinion. Try again Cobber.