Samantha, why do indigenous constantly obsess over the number of black deaths in custody without ever mentioning that black people are no more likely to die in custody than white people? In fact, for the past 20 years, whites are more likely to die in custody.
Even the Royal Commission into black deaths had to admit there was no great difference between the death rates in custody.
As for over representation in prison, why no mention that the majority of black people are in prison for violent crimes, usually against another black person. Most murders in this country are committed by black people.
And before you jump in and excuse that violent behaviour on the treatment they have received from white people, please have the honesty to admit that cultural factors drive much of this violence and that is the reason for the horrifically high murder and assault rate in the north, where black people are still connected to culture.
Traditional aboriginal people have no experience in non violent conflict resolution, one of the reasons for the unending family and tribal feuds that occur in the north. I have actually suggested to the principal of the local high school that they start teaching conflict resolution as a course in an order to reduce the number of black initiated fights at school

personally I am very tired of people in well paid Government jobs claiming victim status. Certainly numerous victims of domestic violence and child abuse are aboriginal. The simple truth is that the offenders are also aboriginal. Blaming whities for this is the whole reason the problem can never be fixed. Teach Indigeneous people to take ownership of their crimes and a little bit of progress might be made. Instead its easier to blame the police, blame the first settlers or blame anyone else to take the focus from the problem.

Onya ttbn. Sick 'em, Fang.

"Reconciliation" is just another racket invented by the Aboriginal Grievance Industry to hopefully shame white people into pouring even more billions of dollars into an ever growing financial black hole. This black hole is supposedly going to make aboriginal people "equal" with everyone else who has developed the knack of standing on their own two feet. Yet all it seems to do is make self appointed and always outraged aboriginal "elders" richer.

I am not opposed to State and Federal governments aiding those who do not have the mental acuity to be independent of government handouts. But I do object when those self same dependent people snatch the money without so much as a "thank you" and instead present their dependence as something they are entitled to, while simultaneously slandering those who are their benefactors.

The best thing that ever happened to the aboriginal race in 50,000 years was the coming of the British. If it had been the Germans or the Japanese, they would all be dead. If it had been the Muslims they would all be slaves. But it was the British, who began the process of turning the continent of Australia into one of the best and desirable countries on planet Earth. If Australia had never been settled by the British, Australia today would be just another totally dysfunctional black ruled basket case holding out the begging bowl to the rest of the world. Sudan, Somalia, Zimbabwe, Sudan, and Upper Topdoggia on steroids.

White Australians today have no more need do apologise for British settlement of Australia, especially so regarding it's prosperous outcome, any more than the young Japanese or Germans of today need abase themselves and self flagellate for the unspeakable war crimes committed by their great grandfathers in WW2.

But rather incredibly, western societies everywhere have somehow created a new caste of tertiary educated Brahmins who think they are God's gift to the human race. And virtue signalling, and constantly attacking their own superior civilisation and own people, is their favourite fashion accessory, which denotes membership of their scurvy caste

As the avalanche of foreign invaders decimated indigenous populations across the globe, and over time, from North American Indians to the Neanderthals in Europe, it's goodbye to the Australian Native culture.

How everybody deals with that inevitabllity is a matter of humanity.

My view is, there needs to be a respect for the contributions of previous cultures, or everybody loses.

The Aboriginal dreaming bings forward a memory hieroglyph no less important than the much prized Egyptians codes of the past.

There is a dividing line that seems to be lost to us between what is mundane and what is critically important to the future of us all, on this subject.

Dan

How can you expect an ancient culture to step into a modern world and be happy?

That step brings with it an endemic unhappiness. How could it be any other way?

For very good reasons, only Aboriginals are allowed the privilege of ownership of a dingo. It's too minor a concession.

It's up to the rest of us to move over and "sensibly" chip-in.

Dan

Diver Dan, endemic unhappiness? Really? The majority of aboriginal people I know in the north are actually just as happy as the rest of us. And have the same issues and dreams as us as well. A job they enjoy that pays well, kids succeeding in school, dreams of home ownership, hopes for a good haul at fishing on the weekend, hopes for a lotto win. You know, all the common wants of everyday life.
And even those unemployed with addiction issues aren’t drooping around the place lamenting the loss of their culture. In fact I’ve never met a single aboriginal in my 50 years in the north who would give up their westernised life to return to their traditional culture. What most want is to own their land but live a western culture. Something many already have.