Oh dear Bruce, do you hate yourself that much? You look to me like the very thing you rail against in this piece....A white middle class so and so.
How about you give up your white middle class life and get a job helping these poor kids who have been forced by their white oppresses into committing crimes*. Get a job as a prison guard and shown them all hows its done. Be sure to only ask for $50K a year to show how you don't need to been paid well to work there and still get high quality people.

Lets us know how you get on.

* Lets ignore the fact that many of the people in detention have committed crimes against other Aboriginals in Aboriginal communities.

Leave poor old Bruce alone, he cannot help being so stupid.
Bruce help me out here. We set up an act to combat "Racism" by being racist? The act excludes any race who feels they have been hard done by past injustice. Mate that is everyone. Try reading some history. One hundred years ago some men and women in Europe did not even have a vote. These was no National assistance and disease was rampant. So why this nonsense?
The rest of us do not feel guilty mate but you certainly should. It is your ilk that have made this nonsense not the average tax payer who incidentally pay for your ex PS grandee lifestyle.

Could we suspend discussion on 18c until the verdict on the Queensland student case is known? Then we will have some solid to discuss.

' Could we suspend discussion on 18c until the verdict on the Queensland student case is known? Then we will have some solid to discuss.'

the fact that their is even a case displays Bruce's blindness and ignorance.

Bruce, it isn't only white helpers of aboriginals who have got their snouts in their trough while managing aboriginal money. You only have to look back to the heady days of ATSIC to see that scenario writ large with their own people ripping the system off.

David

Good point, Outrider. But I wish they would get on with it.

On Mr Haigh's contribution, far be it for me to criticise someone for being pig-ignorant, but there are too many fallacies in his argument. Most people funded by the $ 6 billion annual Indigenous budget allocation employed yet doing nothing are Indigenous, for one thing. Most Indigenous people incarcerated have committed offenses, usually against other Indigenous people. And what impact would giving MORE power and money to useless parents have on their nurturing skills ? The road to Don Dale is paved with good intentions, Mr Haigh.

Anyway, on a more positive note: currently, Indigenous enrolments and graduations from universities are at record levels. They have improved at around 8 % per year since 2007. There are currently around forty+ thousand Indigenous university graduates, one in every nine adults, perhaps a bit better than for Tasmania as whole. By 2020, there will be around fifty thousand graduates, and by 2030, around 80-90,000, or one in six adults.

There are around fifteen thousand Indigenous students at universities this year, and that number could double by 2025. Around 120,000 Indigenous people have, at some time, been to university, overwhelmingly urban.

So the 'Gap' between Indigenous and non-Indigenous participation and performance at universities is closing at about 4 % per year, in spite of the drop-kicks in rural and remote areas.

Of course, the vast majority of Indigenous graduates are urban people, living and seeking work in urban areas. The 'Gap' between working/educating Indigenous people and welfare-oriented people is growing. And who is it up to, to close that Gap ? Not the urban population, they are on the right track, and why should they turn back now ? Their country cousins need to get off their backsides and join the contemporary world of obligation and responsibilities like anybody else.

Joe