Tonny Abbott today announced he would fund a training scheme for indigenous Australians, whereby their training would be funded and they would be guaranteed a job.

How come we white Austrailains usually have to pay for our training, only to be told, sorry, you have no experience when applying for a mining job.

Talk about racial discrimination, in reverse.

this endless apologies and recompense to aborigines is senseless
when will it end?
tony offer $10m and rudd ups the ante to $20m and the wonderful greens top it up to $100m

wrongs were done to them in the past
like treating them like vermin
and taking away their children
such wrong doings must not be repeated
i believe the govt had apologised unreservedly for these past incidents

let us move on

the aborigines were conquered
taken over
that is a fact
wars between countries is a fact of life
wars are fought for all sorts of reasons
religion
ideology
resources
racial

whatever

the victors will have the final say
who is to going to argue with that?

BUT let the victors treat the vanquished with some basic human dignity and rights
we can discuss this in detail later
Let the victors not forget they in turn will be conquered one day
so, do not do to the aborigines and minority what you do not want to be done to your or your family in the future

forget about renaming roads with names too long to even finish reading when you drive past them ...bridges... and thanking this tribe and that tribe for every tv show made

i for one think that these are just farcical.

let us move on

Oh yes indeed, we would all be much better off living the great life that some Indigenous people live, with all this VAST wealth that the Government supposedly gives them.

Their children and babies are far more likely to die before the age of five than any other group, and their elders die much younger too.
They are far less likely to be employed, usually just because they are Indigenous.

I say they need all the help they can get...

Suseonline,

What you say is no excuse for racial discrimination. If their children are sick then they should be treated just like any other sick child, if their elders are ill then they also should be treated just like any other person who is ill. Their is no excuse for singling a group of people out based on racial grouping and giving special treatment, that is simple racist.
The best test of this is to simply ask, would we accept the same treatment given to any other racial group. If you cannot obviously say yes to this, then that treatment should be deemed racist.
Thus would we accept this treatment if it was just given to whites? I think most people would say no. Thus this is clearly racist and should be seen for what it is.

Ya know what?

I think this cruddy little mean-spirited thread just about takes the cake.

Who can be bothered with a forum filled almost exclusively with mean-minded, petty, whinging fools.

Nothing better to do than count their pennies and begrudge the downtrodden a crust.

For the most part they're "little men" with petty concerns.

Waste of time coming here these days.

Poirot, you have allowed your bias to get the better of you.

If we were talking about pure bred Aborigines, living in slums, then I might be partially agreeable, but, as usual with indigenous affairs, one only needed to have a fraction of aboriginal blood to qualify for these schemes.

This is why it is discrimination.

......Oh yes indeed, we would all be much better off living the great life that some Indigenous people live, with all this VAST wealth that the Government supposedly gives them.
Suz, the reality is that many indigenous chose to live the life they do. Mining has proven that to be true, because if any Aboriginal person was to turn up seeking work in the industry, they have a guaranteed free pass.

They simply choose not to.

....Their children and babies are far more likely to die before the age of five than any other group, and their elders die much younger too.

Again, often by choice as the assistance is there, but, if one chooses to redirect the child's welfare into the bottle shop, that's their choice because after all, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make it drink.

.....They are far less likely to be employed, usually just because they are Indigenous.

Crap! Unless of cause they chose to live in some remote area with no transport and no prospect of work.

While on that subject, they (those living in isolation) would be the only group in this country where being out of work, and on life time welfare support is acceptable.

But, as I said earlier, indigenous is the key word, not aboriginal, as to me, an aboriginal is just that, not a half, quarter, eighth, sixteenth, or even a one thirty second version.

After all, this is why the word indigenous is so widely used these days, so these so called aborigines can keep holding on.

Finally, before judging me as racist, just remember, there's racist and there's truth, often separated by a very fine line.