Big Nana,

that is interesting.

we should indeed have polls that ask Aborigines about their views, like we do everything else.

perhaps then we would have a much more accurate understanding about what is going on.

i would like to think that all groups, whatever their identification, are getting on with the human quest for happiness and prosperity, albeit obviously some may be disadvantaged.

If what you say is generally true big nana, we wouldn't have authors complaining on OLO of the opposite would we!

I stand by what I said. That's without stating here, where my position comes from, and what overall life experiences prompted them to be said.

In your world, your right, and in my world I'm right. Where does that put the argument then?

The balls in your court!

Dan

Hi Big Nana,

Yes, you're right on the money. Looking at the Education Department and last ABS Census figures, out of an average Indigenous population across the 18-24 age-groups of about 14,000 (ABS, 2016), in 2018, nearly 5,900 Indigenous people commenced university study for the first time. i.e. more than 40 %:

http://www.education.gov.au/higher-education-statistics

Of course, the great majority of those were living in urban areas, where the vast majority of Indigenous people now live. Two-thirds were women. More than 90 % were enrolling in standard, mainstream degree-level study.

Indigenous participation in university education in Australia is on a par with, or better than, participation in most of Europe. Indigenous numbers of commencements and graduates is increasing each year by around 7 %. Like for everybody else, the Covid-19 virus will kick those figures around for a year or two.

I look forward eagerly to the day when the Indigenous elites actually trumpet these sorts of figures, and move away just a bit from its parasitic mutual dependence on the welfare population. Perhaps not in my life-time.

Never mind, they'll keep rising. Graduates total around fifty thousand now, one in every six or seven Indigenous adults, and will exceed one hundred thousand by around 2030.

This young lady has been one of them. There are probably well over a thousand Indigenous lawyers these days. I hope she learns as she goes.

Joe

Diver Dan, I cannot know what you’re experiencing, all I can know is my life experiences.
I have spent the past 50 years living with aboriginal people, of all different types. Remote traditional, educated town dwelling, itinerant drunks, full bloods through to almost white. I spent 30 of those years as a paediatric nurse caring for remote, sick aboriginal children whilst educating their mothers about hygiene, nutrition etc. I have participated in traditional cultural activities in remote communities. I have attended university graduation ceremonies for aboriginal people. I have given birth to aboriginal children and now have 29 aboriginal descendants.
In a nutshell, I have 50 years of extensive contact with aboriginal people and I can tell you that the overwhelming majority are no more unhappy than the average Australian.
Certainly they wish for more , and better, but who doesn’t?

Big Nana you are a breath of fresh air in a Cesspool of Sewage.

CL: we should indeed have polls that ask Aborigines about their views, like we do everything else.

& How do you think the Redfern Cowboy’s would respond.

Loudmouth2: More than 90 % were enrolling in standard, mainstream degree-level study.

Yes. Socialist inspired Social Science designed to destroy the White man. Ay.

LM2: This young lady has been one of them.

As can be seen by this young lady’s attitude to White Australia.

LEGO: 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.

As I iterated many times. You are correct.

Can we hear from Samantha or does she even know we are discussing her comment? Is her comment hers or taken from someone else’s paper. I thought I’d saved it, but what Samantha has written is almost exactly the same as a paper by some Aboriginal Academic yesterday. Plagiarism?

Ok JayB, Thanks for that. Apparently a poll would focus on Redfern alone.