@Bushbred what do you know about any negroid genetics?? Nothing,so don't speak on what you don't know about.Negroids mix the least out of all races.Negroids are un-like all other races.

It is good to see such strong reactions, both ways... strong opinions to leave as is, and strong opinions for change to achieve a positive change for the aboriginals.

I focus on the rest of this opinion on people whom want a positive change for aboriginals. The first is the nature of human condition...which is its perpetual quest to seek a state of ongoing happiness.

This is where we as Australians have a duty to assist aboriginals by simple fact that they were taken over and forced into changes which we wanted to make them more in our image but was a disaster for them, and now apparently have lost their sense of directions to happiness or unable to within the confines of limits imposed on them. Only those whom live among the aboriginals can say exactly what this is and all we can do is speculate.

The art of science is a beautiful thing to apply here, before changing anything a detailed study of what is observed, then identify the real causes and weigh them in value. Then hypothesis of solutions in limited numbers to apply changes and asses the most effective.

I think the best approach is remove all limits placed on them and allow them the self determination to daily life they so want. Our limits of involvement is to ensure the protection and happiness of the children is being fulfilled, lest they suffer for the maladaptations of their adults.

The other factor we must act on is the same destructive groups within us whom cause such grief for us, affecting them as well. As we address these elements we also help them. Funny situation, by helping them we help ourselves at what really matters.

Sam

Tony I would not share a beer with you or a susage at the bar b q, just the way it is.
And my ribbs will hurt after this but I do not think your intent was to take us back to the 20,s or even 50,s
And in part here go,s this proud ALP member agrees with you.
The tragic shame of our first Australians is our countrys shame too[say sorry Anthony!]
But it is shared by a few from within that comunity who use the dreadfull conditions to steal from their own.
And some who their own fault no one elses, can not even read act not unlike racists and hold back people from within.
Nothing is wrong with some accountabilty Pearson is a true hero and should get a chance to serve his people ,far too many serve only their selves.
Ok Tony if you pay I will have a beer with you on polling night 2007 ,just to say goodby to workchoices.

There are a number of issues that 'keep Aborigines in their place', wherever that may be. First and foremost, is the issue of affordable housing, and I do not mean settling Aborigines in ghettos in the outer western suburbs of Sydney or the equivilent in other Capital cities. Back before the infamous days of ATSIC it was said that in place of spending $XXXm on another bureauocracy run by non-Aborigines (forget the elected Commissioners, who were so inefective they gave the Howard government the impetus needed to close ATSIC) the funds should go the Aboriginal families to purchase their own home wherever they may wish to live. This was not done and look at the mess we now have. With home ownership, comes pride, followed by good health, the wish for a better education for adults and their children, and the ability to live closer to where the jobs are. Now, call me utopian, but with the advent of what follows on from home ownership would allow Aborigines to drive their own future. Not become the Howard government football thrown into the scrum whenever the Federal Liberal Party need to cover the tracks of their other public disasters, viz, Workplace reform, Iraq, and an election year in the offering. Let me finish by saying that I am an Aborigine and extremely proud of that fact, and I live on Sydney's north shore, and yes, we do have problems up here, just not as 'public' as those problems facing remote communities. How about it, Messrs Abbott and Howard, 'What do we want? Home ownership! When do we want it? NOW!

Tony Abbott:

The frank almost apologetic epistle on the plight of the Aboriginal People is a sad indictment of our Government, and prevailing cultural attitudes - since early Colonial Days.

It begs the question Mr Abbott what is your fellow Minister Mal Brough doing about all the malfeasance, social neglect, and Health hazards the Abo's have been suffering since 1778 ? Successive Government's of all persuasion's have poured untold trillions of Tax Payer's hard earned dollars into a monumental sponge that saps at Treasury benevolence, but shows scarce returns on investment dollars ?

One would hazard a guess the Health Portfolio is overburdened with enough vicissitudes without becoming embroiled with yet another ' too-hard-basket-case '. Your admission there are not enough Health Care workers in the area, nor Police, Educators, Social workers, Administrators, ad nauseam - is whose fault ?

We are quick to point out Howard's majestic reign in Parliament - his wisdom and enlightenment his term of Office has rendered the Nation. The endemic problem's Indegenee's experience just didn't happend on his watch - he exacerbated it by pouring more money down the gurgler. As if maney is the panacea to this vexing quandary ?

All the statistics about Aboriiginal Health is widely available on Google. The paedophilic sex practice perpetuated over generations has not gone unnoticed. The defining moment comes when Magistrates cant decide if ' white man's justice' applies to Indegene's even though we reconised in a Referrndum - no one is above the Law.

This paradox has created more dissension in NT then any other. Chief Minister Clare Marlin publicly admitted her perplexity in sentencing a culprit to 4 months for child rape ! Given the circumstances, it is high time the Supreme Court made an issue judgement eg Mabo, Wik et al, to settle the argument once and for all ! How then can Police carry out their duties, when there is ppatent ambivalence over Criminal Law ? Increasing Police presence in settlements as TA suggests, is a waste of valuable resources. Like paying monkey's to sit in Parliament.

Noel Pearson and Mick Dodson..

have provided exemplary guidance and service to their people for years. Pearson's work has never been given the recognition it rightfully deserves.Palpably he has trodden on too many sycophants in DAA to gain the credence he merits. Wot no AO ?

For some time Geoff Clark and Sugar Ray Robinson and too many other opportunist's have exploited their own race, for their own selfish ends. Numerous inquiries into their competence and the manipulation of department funds have never seen the light of day. For good measure, they have been replaced. It remains to be seen the average aborigine will benefit by the changes. Clearly, ASTIC and DAA have failed their people. The Bureacrats have never had it so good. A cursory glance into their Department's reveal a behemoth exponentially exploding at the seams ! How many PS's have visited a reservation..oops settlement in 12 months ? How long do they stay ? Is it a fly in/out just to claim overnight allowances in a five star Hotel ? Don't get caught as Libby Clark did - with a bottle of plonk - may cost you, your Portfolio ?

The Christian Missionaries, despite their good intentions, been thoroughly condemned for the 'stolen generation' saga. No amount of money will restore the loss of broken families, and childhood innocence. Those unfortunates are probably still trying to come to terms with the trauma. Imagine the ' brouhaha' if the incidence happened in reverse ! Frankly, some think early Anthropologist's and Demographer's got together to wipe-out the Race entirely by miscegenation on a giant scale. The Final Solution somehow backfired, affording people like Geoff Clark to claim full entitlement to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander's Funding - from the cradle to the grave syndrome.Great if you can get it.Another example of the Whiteman's burden. What a farce.