Loudmouth I am pleased you came to contribute here.
You have spoken of the success of some and a much higher education than my targeted group.
Rather more Noels why did Labor not find a way to make him Minister for Aboriginal affairs and give him power?
It is a fact, cedp was both great and awful!
Sad that it was bleed to death by the few, but gave real hope to many.
I am fighting for a mate, runs a very small business employing ONLY his folk, Aboriginals, for no other reason but to lift both him, and them out of the welfare trap.
White folk, who give out the contract, about half a million each time, refuse to give him a go in this area, because he is not from country!
His workers are,and have a great work record in this game,re vegetating new roads.
I hurt to see we have failed for 200 years yet can not stop doing the same failed things time and again.
At sometime in the future this country, maybe the whole western world, will find a job for every one who needs one.
Maybe too we will get to select folk from outside the party,s to fill ministerial jobs

Belly,
Let me get this straight, your mate's business is being discriminated against on the basis that he's not from a particular Indigenous nation?
That's outrageous,have you made a complaint to HREOC or whatever body hears these cases in your state?

Why not give them their land back! After all it was you guys who stole it from them, not me.

Hasbeen, you and John Howard have two things in common: you both only have one degree and you are both losers.

Part of a comment I made in relation to “Do Labor deliver value for money” was:

“The concept of welfare is flawed. There should be “no sit down” money (the dole) but should be replaced by a minimum wage that is higher than the dole. It is “sit down” money and only this that causes welfare dependency whether it is on a remote aboriginal settlement or the suburbs of Sydney. I believe every person of working age in this country is entitled to a fair share of this countries productivity however should be required to do something meaningful for it, for a prescribed amount of time. Most importantly these activities should be controlled and tailored at local level, not centralised government. Some activities that come to mind are SES, volunteer fire brigade, public housing, child care and elder care. Everybody has the ability to do something meaningful, whereas work for the dole is seen and is demeaning. The minimum wage should rise and fall with our nation’s productivity.”

Most of the comments would suggest it’s a Black Fella problem. This in reality is not the case and some off the comments could be considered racist as they ignore the less concentrated but larger White Fella problem. Noel isn’t going to solve it, nor Julia or Tony.

I believe it was the mayor of North Sydney that solved its rubbish problem by removing the bins on the street, forcing people to take their rubbish with them. Perhaps by removing welfare as suggested above will require people to solve their own issues.

Mr Opinion,
Our ancestors didn't "steal" from anyone, they were legally entitled to purchase property here or were granted land by the crown, if you've got a problem with that take it up with Her Majesty because it was her ancestors who claimed this continent as their own.
I'll tell you what, show me the scientific proof that Aboriginal life was better before colonisation, that their life expectancy and living conditions before encountering Whites were superior to those of their their relatives in 2013 and I'll take you seriously.
See the average life expectancy of an indigenous person today is about sixty, we don't know what it was pre 1788 but studies of living Amazonian tribal people suggest that it might have been 35-40 years.

To Jay Of Melbourne

What a load of crap! Of course it was stolen from the aboriginal peoples.

You have just demonstrated your total ignorance to the world.

Your ancestors (like mine) were obviously British: the nastiest race of people the world has ever known. And their blood obviously flows in your veins.

But we shouldn't blame you just because you have no understanding of history, sociology and anthropology. I suppose there are reasons as to why you are so ignorant.