Towns and cities came about for a reason.
They are convenient and efficient.
All services can be concentrated in a small area.
Each service can be supportive of the others.
It becomes almost like one giant network.
It is easily accessible by all.
Having cities near the coast helps, so that there is easy trade with other countries.

Here we have small groups living out in the wild blue yonder.
They like the isolation?
They want to gaze across an unchanging land?
And yet they need or expect to have all modern services nearby.
And they expect those who live sensibly in or near cities to provide it.
Even though they themselves live so remotely.
The absudity of this beggars belief.
Time for them to join the real world?

They cannot rely upon the largesse of the city dwellers forever?
So over time their living conditions will worsen?
Eventually they could become extinct?
If this happens because they cannot, or will not, adjust to modern ways, that is nature doing its job.
But in the meantime, someone is trying to make us feel guilty about the way they choose to live.
We cannot live the life of another person for them.
And we most certainly cannot continue to pour so much money in to their 'cause'.
They themselves must make an effort to be part of the whole.

This means children going to school.
And not running around the streets at midnight.
It means adults working like anyone else.
Setting a good example for their family.
It means contributing to their local community.
And no more behaving like Oliver Twist.
He had little control over his situation.
Theirs is self inflicted.

Ipso Fatso,
Spot-on !

The NT is introducing a special Court and justice system for aboriginals. Remote Aboriginals have no sense of personal ownership and responsibility to the future [they do not save or store], they live for today. Hence their petty theft offending and their family violence.

"The NT budget, which also came out this week, allocated $15 million to implementing Aboriginal Justice Agreement commitments, including the establishment of Law and Justice Groups and Community Courts in six communities over the next two years. The new legislation will come into effect on July 1."

Remote Aboriginals have no sense of personal ownership and responsibility to the future [they do not save or store], they live for today
Josephus,
There are more non-indigenous in that category ! Will there be a Justice Agreement for them too ?

"Linda Burney said would make a "practical difference"." Repeating a sentence that every Minister for Aboriginal affairs has said for the last 60 years that I am aware of. These people have no idea of how the Aboriginal industry works. Look after family first, regardless of capabilities, then maybe an outsider may have a job until they rock the boat.
Just vote NO as a new bureaucracy will cost the country billions, give a few people highly paid jobs (educated ones with a possible dash of black) with all of the perks while the poor old genuine black-fellow will still sit under a gum tree as usual. Have seen it all before and the country does not need it now. Vote NO, NO, NO

Reading a piece by the ABC on the Voice states>

"Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples are not an homogenous group where one solution will fit all communities," the report states.
The Local Voices will engage with all levels of government: local, state and federal.
What will the Voice do?
The Voice aims to give Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people all around the country A SAY IN GOVERNMENT POLICY.
The referendum working group advising the government says the design of the Voice will be guided by the following principles:
• It will provide independent advice to parliament and government.
• It will be chosen by First Nations people based on the wishes of local communities.
• It will be representative of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander communities.
• It will be EMPOWERING, community-led, inclusive, respectful, culturally informed and gender balanced. It will also include youth.
• It will be accountable and transparent.
QUESTION -
A Proposed Law: to alter the Constitution to recognise the First Peoples of Australia by establishing an Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Voice.

Do you approve this proposed alteration? YES / NO

However, the wording is not set in stone and could go through further changes when it is considered by parliament."

It is evident that no one knows the outcome.

If you do not know Vote NO.