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.