Proxy>> You and Reynolds should try reading Windschuttle if you want to know the truth.<<

As a society we rank people by prosperity, and the indigenous community has always been at the bottom of the ranking. The truth is simple and clear re the Anglo Saxon influence on the aboriginal peoples, a disaster.

I do not hold the Land Councils responsible for blowing billions and billions, nor the aboriginal citizens. I blame the bleeding hearts who gave a people who are only four generations hence, from the last stone age culture in the world, billions of dollars to administer. We pay CEOs and management teams millions to run businesses with a load less working capital than the $650 million that was given to the Land Councils last year, and next year, repeater.

My suggestion was an aboriginal ASX listed corporation. Find a CEO, hire a management team, give them the $650 million, give them terms of reference so they do not do stupid things and see what they can do in regard to ongoing benefit to the indigenous stockholders from that year’s $650 million.

I lost interest in helping aboriginal people in about 1998. It was the year that Palm Island ran out of water.

We, the taxpayer, were paying for a barge, working full time, carting mainland water to the island, but many of the residents were not prepared to help conserve this very expensive water.

At that time I was in the water & energy saving business. We supplied $40,000 worth of solid brass water saving showers, & 2 plumbers were employed to fit them. These were top quality, & great showers, I still have them in my home today.

These plumbers found they spent much time just turning off taps left running in public areas. Removing the taps, & capping the pipes was not enough to stop this waste, as they just removed the cap, or broke them off. The plumbers had to blank them off, underground to stop the waste.

Unfortunately some residents realised the solid brass showers were heavy, & made good fishing sinkers. Within 2 weeks, most of those fitted had been stolen for fishing, & the program was cancelled. Some $200,000 had been wasted, & even more water was used as the people now showered under the open pipe, where the shower had been.

As these people don't value anything that is done for them, I think it's time they recieved no more special consideration, or assistance.

In defense of Palm Island, its not a great example to use of the whole people. Unless you live in Townsville you probably havent heard of Happy Valley, the other aboriginal comunity there. In past times, Palm Island was where all the more difficult people were sent so they couldnt walk back into town. This was a terrible policy for many reasons, including putting a whole lot of different tribes that dont always get along on a small island together, and having cherrypicked all the troublemakers to put there. There are still consequences and problems from all that, but you also cant really send them back to where their relatives lived either. Just keep rebuilding the place, maybe as a research station for indestructible prison building techniques...

Dear Individual,

As a librarian - I've been taught to research
more than one source. And I have done my research
on the topic Sir. I would encourage you to do the
same and read more than just "right-wing" sources.
Read the Henry Reynolds book - accept the challenge,
get past the labels.

Dear Proxy,

Any connection between Windschuttle and Aboriginal
historical reality is purely coincidental.

It is not possible, just cannot be done, to highlight real problems in todays Aboriginals without being slammed.
Usually by people who know little about the subject.
People who not like my family walk across the road to say Gday to those groups others fear.
My back ground is Irish Scottish Welsh, maybe a bit of Pommy in there.
Doubt anyone? that my convict ancestors got it hard?
That history probably has a lot of hardship and lost cultures we know nothing about.
I believe with every instinct, those who want to use this subject as a teddy bear,a pet the underdog makes me feel good thing continually go back to a past that was often evil in evil times, do far more harm than good.
It is time for us all to move on, forget the crutch of whites mans crime.
HIGHLIGHT FAILURES on BOTH sides in the present.
Tell me why kids do not go to school never learn to read, never learn to work.
Tell, please stop hiding it! why CHILDREN are being molested in their own homes in near City community's far from out back.
Bleeding hearts will harm trying to be kind, not wanting to know why shanty towns exist are blindness.
We can we must do better tell me one more story about how actions of others two hundred or two years ago bought us this failure and I will be sick.

Foxy,
thank you for the indirect explanation why some information is so difficult to obtain from libraries.