Suzie whilst I agree with most of that last post there does appear to be significant ethnic factors at play in the outlaw bikie gangs (although a lot used to not allow non white members).

As an example http://www.sbs.com.au/news/article/1014115/ethnic-overtones-in-bikie-wars

Bryant was one very sick individual and his actions do not in my view represent values of those he grew up with.

None of this stuff is neatly packaged, there are subgroups within larger groupings who create some of the broader images of those groupings by coming to our attention.

We won't notice so much all the indigenous people with an education and a job just going about their lives but may well notice those in a group involved in acts of violence on TV.

The numbers of white people involved in criminal activity won't so easily outweigh all those around us who are not doing that stuff so perceptions are not as impacted.

R0bert

Susie

Bikie gangs are predoninantly white and are a huge problem however I don't see 9 or 10 year old riding Harlies and causing havoc. Bikies have adopted tribal thinking so their are some similarities.

Some of you people are a joke. I was staying out of this, I really did not want to bring this up, but I can't stand the do-gooders blind garbage.

My daughter has been transferred to Darwin for 12 months.

After a month there she shipped back her convertible, [12 years old, that I gave her for her 21St 4 years ago], because she was not game to drive it in quite a lot of Darwin.

That cost $1600, not a minor cost when setting up a new home. She had to buy another car as well, so this was not done lightly.

It appears we don't hear about the number of car hijacks & attempted hijacks by the aboriginal community there. They now carry sharp knives, to slash hoods, which makes convertibles an easier target.

What will it take to get through your thick skulls the fact that the namby pamby treatment of aboriginal criminals, promoted by you people, is breeding a really nasty bunch, in many places, & it is spreading.

She was the bleeding heart of the family, but just 10 weeks up there has changed her attitude completely.

Why don't some of you go up there for a month of intensive ideological education?

Hasbeen,

It much less expensive and more insightful to glean an "ideological education" from some choice posters on OLO.

Incidentally, we have two indigenous families living nearby. They don't stand out at all, just living and earning a living like the rest of us...children spruce in school uniforms in the mornings, playing in their yards in the afternoons...etc, etc.

I must remember to drop in and remind them that they're not conforming to "type."

They might be cheaper where you come from but not here.
csteele,
over here they don't get out of bed for that, literally.

Dear Hasbeen,

This 'do-gooder' lived in Nightciff, a suburb of Darwin for two and a half years. I will admit the last time I was there was nearly seven years ago so it may well have changed for the worse but that is not what I am hearing from the people I know who live there.

How long have you spent there?

I have not spent any time in Northam in Western Australia, nor visited the street which is the subject of this thread, or am I to assume the topic is really about indigenous people where ever they live?