Is it too hard to admit that first Aboriginal Australians should shoulder the blame for some of this?
My friend above lets the light in on his/her racism, gone in with the whites?
How bl@@dy hard is it to say, MY KIDS WILL BE EDUCATED? FED? CLOTHED? WASHED?
NOT SEXUALLY MOLESTED?
Can it always be white mans fault? how then can this community progress?
How can you on one hand say your community is being left out then claim making it part of mainstream Australia is racist?
How can you denie before white man came these same people who make up these community's would use laws to stop this much harsher than white mans laws?

James Purser

Apologies accepted. My protest was tongue in cheek as you might have guessed.

By the way, I agree in the main with your assessment of the Government's motivations (what have these measures got to do with child protection?)

I think it goes further than ideology. But the evidence won't be clear for a while.

Incidentally, reports from the Northern Territory yesterday say that three months into this so-called 'emergency intervention', not one single case of child sexual abuse has been brought forward. Some emergency!

Arjay, ATSIC has been dead and buried for over two years now.
You're not making this all up to suite your arguement again are you?
C'mon, even you're better than that.(or are you?)

Rainer he has been involved in these type of programmes for a few yrs.I was unaware that ATSIC was abolished.It is not contrived story.

FrankGol,

Yeah I saw that.

Belly, the aboriginal communities know there is a problem, they're the ones who have been screaming for a solution for the past twenty years. They know who are the ones beating the wives and children and they know who are the ones supplying the alcohol (who are predominantly white by the way).

You're not going to fix the problems by just putting more police on the ground. You need to deal with the whole community, from the smallest child to the oldest elder. You are certainly not going to deal with the alcohol problem by saying you can't drink on land, but if you stand in the river chug away.

James Purser do you think I do not know that?
Some who post in such threads here are Aboriginal, not me, but by blood I am uncle to a few.
By choice I have supported them all my life, however far too many want nothing but money.
Far too many who can not even read or write, act as bad as any racist ever did.
is it OK to say it is the women and kids who suffer but do nothing?
Have you seen a man bleed to death?
I have while he cried he did not want to die.
While Australia is shamed by the living conditions of our first people, without doubt it often is those people who bare the shame.
have you seen neglected children in pain with no hope? if not you are blind, our task is to make both white and black totally accountable for our actions.
And that includes so very many who from within this Aboriginal community do far more harm than any white man.