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By Paul Scott, published 19/1/2026A modern nation cannot be built on ancient possession, inherited blame, or divided citizenship.
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The impossible gap between ancient and modern societies which the native populations of Australia were, and are still currently dealing with, inarguably demands special and specific considerations above and beyond other similar global native populations, which were more advanced than our own native inhabitants.
The often clumsy and mostly well meaning attempts to reconcile disparities by the succession of Governments through our own history of occupation, should not be reason to condemn those efforts totally either.
Dealing with past innovations towards the reconciliation, clumsy or not, should not cloud the lens of progress towards better outcomes for Aboriginal populations still with us with guilt, and thus distort responses by overcorrecting them either, which is glaringly obvious with current Labor attempts at reconciliation by pushing such idiocies as the voice, which effectively creates the opposite effect to the intentions of the well meaning effort.
All the above brings me to point out another glaring fault of (successive)Governments to overcorrect righting of past wrongs, by resorting to the lazy way of solution, throwing money at the problem: This laziness adds to the pushback from the general population whose money it is, (or was), adding resistance to solving genuine need, and further highlighting Government failure in its policies towards these ends.
Splashing money at the problem, also demonstrates the lack of ability of politicians to truly understand the genuine need Aboriginal disenfranchisement has created.
Resorting to NGO’s to solve these problems, too often exacerbates the problem by diluting the funds that are made available for that purpose, leaving needy Aboriginals devoid of help, and as local example, living in homeless squalor, to witness absurdities of NGO’s arriving at their camps driving a Mercedes Benz, as I witnessed very recently.
The sight of that absurdity, brands the efforts to assist them with the same absurdity!