Paul Everingham is a Brisbane solicitor who was the first Chief Minister of the Northern Territory.

What did he do?

Perhaps the birth rate is too high in these communities. Smaller populations could find employment as rangers or maintenance workers. I suspect if the aboriginal parliament gets up it will be dominated by people who have had good schooling and there will be few if any poorly educated members. Given the stolen generations issue I also suspect that forced non-remote schooling would be seen as damaging to aboriginal culture. Assimilation could be a case of 200 years down, 200 to go.

If you knew anything at all about Pawkee you would know he did quite a lot

Sounds like a sensible plan.

My experience on the ground over many years in and around aboriginal communities tells me, until the parents are decontaminated from negative lifestyles, their children remain in a vacuum of imitations. Concentrate all efforts there at that point.

Boarding schools and money, money, money because. Why? because drunken violence forces educators away and the kids have no home life or parental control.

And of course, they'll cry, they took the children away. We can't take the alcohol away because that would deny a right every white fella enjoys and start the home brew and alcohol smuggling.

That there is a solution, I'm sure, but not one we would impose but must come from the community. And it can't include sending the children away.

Me? I'd arm some tough as mothers with shot guns and bean bag ammo and give the abusive drunks a gut full at every opportunity, then throw them in the cooler for a couple of weeks.

Or in the stocks in a public square. I like the non-lethal ammo as that would be a modern version of a spear in the leg.

Second offence, bean bag fired into testicles? But not without prior warning!
Alan B.

The real tragedy are Leftist bureaudroids not doing what they are employed for in such communities ! That includes most teachers & Legal Aid outfits.

diver dan, makes a valid point, "until the parents are decontaminated from negative lifestyles" how true, poverty and disadvantage, no opportunity, having no positive values, a lack of education, leads to alcoholism, unemployment, and violent anti-social behaviour. These things are self evident in some remote communities It becomes a vicious circle for some that has perpetuated for years. Many well meaning people from within Aboriginal communities, and from outside have tried to tackle the problem with government oversight, without success. Until the root causes are addressed and rectified then not much will change. There is no doubt European imposed solutions have often failed, its now time to plot a new direction under Aboriginal leadership and control, and then maybe there will be some more positive outcomes.

the problem with government oversight,
Paul1405,
It's not Govt oversight, it's bureaucrats sent there by Govt to implement policies etc. but they fail in doing that & Govt gets the blame.

I know of a Public Servant who flies from Qld to the NT on an almost regular basis to "work" in an NT community for a week. Are there really no Public Servants in the Nt who can do a fairly basic job ? Is there really a need for such expenses ? The travel costs involved in flying someone from Qld to the NT plus away from home allowances etc etc. could employ another person.
This is the kind of waste that goes on throughout the Country on a daily basis. Who authorises such rorts & why aren't these people reprimanded for so much waste of public funding ?

Isn't the lack of interest in such an important topic the clearest indicator yet that there's no genuine concern by most ?