The reason is just political to appease the noisy urban socalled aboriginals. It isn't going to anything to help the real aboriginals in the bush, most of whom couldn't give a stuff about it.
David

Particularly here in Australia there's a lack of
comprehension about anything to do with the
Indigenous people.

Well I think you should be empathy.

Lets say someone came over your place, murdered some of your family and started building their own stuff on your lands and ran you off into the bush put other members of your family they captured to work hunting you down.

I reckon that would be pretty crap.
And it's a part of our history.

I think we should all feel some empathy towards what happened.
We should feel indirectly sorry for their plight,
- but I don't think we have to feel directly sorry, because none of us were alive then.
No-one's alive today that actually had any part in these events, and no-one should feel guilty or responsible for things that happened before they were born.

We may not have caused the problem, but we still own it.
It's our problem as Australians to resolve, no-one elses.

I think what we have is some kind of mass post traumatic stress disorder affecting a whole entire group of people.

"What to do about those who live in remote settlements, where there are no jobs, defeats me at the moment, as it has defeated every Australian Government."

[Cont]
You must create a foolproof plan.
First you create a base-level (socialist) job system.
- The job you have when you don't have a job.
STOP wasting money policing Centrelink, give people a basic minimum
- And an opportunity - to earn DOUBLE DOLE for full time work.

The government WINS by not wasting resources policing Centrelink.
Double Dole in exchange for full time work means the difference between paying someone $250 week to do nothing or paying an extra $250 week for a full time worker.
1/ Jobseekers have a guaranteed opportunity to better their lot
2. Taxpayers get more bang for their buck with the unemployed

On top of this the program is non-cumpulsary, but workers get training credits to use for upgrading their skills and testing.
Most training would be done by app where possible.

You implement this program onto the mygov website.
- Anyone unemployed can log on and get a work-shift.

Then all you need to do is create a big national project like high speed rail connecting every city, you section it into 5000 1 kilometre sections and you put everyone to work.

Build solar farms and an inland high speed rail rought, bring the city to the country.

Because people are being active and helping themselves, they wont go into a downward spiral so easily when things go wrong in their lives.
You'll save in mental health and all the rest of things that cost government in the long run.

Give them something worthwhile to do.
Don't have them whippersnipping nursing homes for nothing.
- It's only going to make them feel worse about their prospects.

Dear AC,

Some very good suggestions.

I hope that people of influence read the forum.

When we were at war. It didn't matter if the guy next to you was anything but another Anzac! And he'd keep your back! Today we are at war with an invisible enemy that has already claimed more lives than two world! This is not a time for humbug and activists making unfounded claims on the basis of feeling indigenous? If that's is all that's required? Why, we are all native Australians?

Here's the thing, not all first Australians arrived sixty thousand years ago, but came in waves of continuing migration! Those that came first of the first are those who have sovereign claims! Whereas all those that then followed were invaders, regardless of the manner of their arrival! And cannot be solely those who had white skins!

This latter claim has racist overtones! Given the waves of migration and the many attempts by the more recent arrivals to become the resident dominant culture! And by wars and conquest amoung warring tribes who came and took what they wanted! And where the most barbaric usually prevailed over the more peaceful!

And so when Cook arrived and the new victors found they themselves were facing a much more powerful and dominant culture, they were massacred in droves!

Yes, some of the practices of the pr-Cook primitives, were part of their survival strategies! If there's to be a referendum and a truth and reconciliation commission? Then let's have all the truth warts and all. The whites that also settled here, also came in waves, the first mainly as emaciated slaves bound in iron chains!

But if you listen to the mostly white urban activists? You'd think they had a choice about whether they did or didn't come or whether they did or didn't need to compete with the indigenous peoples for their own survival?

Albeit, some including some of my mob cohabited with their indigenous brothers and share the land and their knowledge. Some of which was bush medicine and bush tucker and some was the occasional jumbuck and passed on shearing skills etc. TBC.
Alan B.