A. Dobrowich posted this link in a thread on aboriginal housing and i hope will not mind me quoting it here. My starting point was very different years ago when I was strongly for the autonomous self-management that has led to many of the present problems.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,21816376-25717,00.html

Some responses about the housing post above:
In NSW, an aboriginal applicant receives preference for government housing. Their entitlement, in terms of size, includes an extra bedroom above their standard entitlement for household size (eg a single is entitled to up to 3 bedrooms).

On another note, I want to make a treechange to a rural area on the ranges in the south of the state. The bureaucracy won't let me go, I'm sure if I could tick any certain boxes, it would let me go.

I read this post and thought of a long rebuttal, but then I read the following quote.

"The essence of discrimination is to treat what is different the same, and same different."

I think it says it all nicely.

They used to blame the working poor for dying from cholera because of their "choices". Even though it wasn't equal to the rest of England they built sewage systems in London and surprise surprise peoples personal choices had nothing to do with it. If we listened to people like Cam we would still be living in our own faeces.

I also found it interesting that Cam chose closing the Gap to highlight his case when the NTER is actually discriminatory, hence the suspension of the Racial Discrimination Act. An interesting omission.