Barnett is planning to withdraw some services from the smallest 174 'communities'. They contain 1300 people. That's an average of 7.5 people each. Some would be 'communities' of three or four - i.e. a house - and others might have as many as ten or fifteen people. And many of them may have been abandoned - or at least not lived in - for years - that's common all over Australia.

One 'remote community' consisted of twenty people, i.e. an extended family. It was really, truly remote - gosh, it was so remote. Three miles from Meekatharra.

Meanwhile, somewhere between 36,000 and 40,000 Indigenous people have graduated from universities across the country, with another 2,000 each year these days, or the equivalent of about 18 % of a 25-year-old age-group.

Time for some reality.

Joe

Time for some reality indeed.

The following website is worth a read:

http://www.convictcreations.com/research/aboriginalrights.html

"Government policy towards Aborigines is made
according to race rather than need or circumstance.
Not suprisingly the policies have mostly failed
because one size never fits all. Furthermore, Aboriginal
leaders have asserted an agenda that may be in their
personal interest but not in the interests of many others.
As a result they have divided not united."

So who is the Wally behind that rather superficial, lack-lustre site, Fox? It is a mess. The pen name is spot on.

otb,

why don't you Google him.

Thanks for that link, Foxy. I thought it was quite a perceptive article. I'm especially relieved that the writer could discern that the work of BS 'experts' on different Aboriginal learning styles is racist and dangerous rubbish. Christ save us from our 'leaders'.

Love,

Joe

Foxy, a good link which makes for interesting reading.