sonofgloin

Your response to Hasbeen was very balanced. Your experience in the shop is an everyday occurence for many living in Regional centres throughout WA.

I don't blame the aboriginals with the stinking attitude problem but the academics who twist, lie and suck up to the UN in continually feeding the victim mentality. Whether you are white, yellow or purple if you are fed the lies by prominent academics and pushed by national broadcasters you will end up with stinking attitudes prevelant in much of the arm band industry.

Funny enough many of the elders on the ground know the problem but are consistently ignored and overruled by the 'more educated'. Exposing the myths can end you up in court. Just ask Andrew Bolt who was found guilty on technalities but spoke much truth about the industry.

indigenous health and education - is it improving?
worldwatcher,
Bonafide indigenous are not making any so-called progress, it's not in their nature. On the other hand the mixed race indigenous are catching up at the same pace as the dilution of their race.
I have just spent time with people from each group & there's definitely no apparent change from the past 30 years by those from the former group whereas the people from the latter group are climbing the ladders in the public service.
None that I am aware of are actually benefitting their communities. Some hands-on workers have the sense of responsibility needed to keep the communities afloat but they're very thin in numbers.
Judging by the "southerners" coming into the communities the numbers of competent aren't much better down there either.

Has been>> I reckon many aborigines could have done the same, if they had not suffered from the sit down money syndrome<<

I remember the Kanaka from social studies in primary…didn’t we literally ship them all back?

I understand the point you make about the difference in work ethic between our first Aussies and the Kanaka.

Hb, I still stand by my gene theory. I consider the Polynesian Kanaka were eons ahead in the cerebral department than our stone age first Aussies. I simply believe that six or ten generations out from the Stone Age, you are going to have difficulty assimilating into modernity. It is not to say that you cannot achieve, but for the most part you end up at the bottom of the socio economic tree.

Runner, a load of truth in what you said.

Son they were not Polynesian, they were Melanesian, mostly from the Solomons.

There was a wide range of them, but mostly they were little more advanced than the coastal aboriginals of the time. About their only advantage to the planter in Oz, against the aboriginal, was that they could not melt into the bush, & disappear, when ever they felt like it.

Yes mate we sent them all back, just like we eliminated all the Tasmanian aboriginals. For many of them, with the better bosses, the cane fields were a better life than was offering at home.

They may not have been able to hide in the bush from the boss, but they had no trouble eluding the fool bureaucrats sent to round them up, & ship them back. I'm sure that doesn't surprise you, does it?

Hasbeen>> I'm sure that doesn't surprise you, does it?<<

Hb, I wasn't having a go at you tiger.

…didn’t we literally ship them all back?
SoG,
Fortunately no, they're literally the only positive influence for the indigenous. They assimilated amazingly well & should be put up as examples to others. My personal experience with their descendants is that they'd be great role models if only the do-gooders would let them.