jim like it or not some one had to act today Democrats just a handful of ALP people the greens and bleeding hearted liberals in all colors and varying IQ,s want to cry racism.
Not me the victims are real the crimes are real, the community should be shamed by both.
Aboriginals once had the firmest rules in place to stop this can you not see whites alone do not bare this shame?
I refuse to say money alone is the way out a job accountability to keep that job and do it well, to educate and protect the children.
And yes new housing that must not be burnt.
New schools hospitals, police stations and if needed prisons.
New life but I owe no man who wants to sit on his bottom a living.
The furry little bugger has this time, got it right, trust Australian voters he is yesterdays man beaten well before the election.
Only an air wasting NT Labor government that failed to act gave him this chance to impress.

Belly , probably agree with most of your post .

ps. Had a win with our local footy team today ,so probably too happy [ ok ,I will admit it - celebrated with a few beers ]-so I won't argue too much with some very good points.

Sorry Belly ,
But after having another look at your previous posts I do think your Psycology Classes on Basic human response to Deprivation are well overdue.

Jim you have a right to your opinions but you must never devalue my right to mine.
And those who know me understand I give far to much away rather than see suffering I can stop.
But it has gone on far too long!
We whites and surely you understand? the Aboriginal community? both have failed to improve anything.
I say clearly if people exist in these community's who can stop these events why have they not come forwards and done it?
I live close to these folk ,watch daily as kids and women suffer, have got work time and again for some who are dragged back into drinking and sharing the wages so it no longer is worthwhile working.
No person of any color has the right to impose this life on any one for one minute if you think a hatred of Aboriginal suffering makes me mentally unwell you are no person to help these people.
accountability, education, tools we must use for a better future hand outs? by a lottery ticket!
If concerns for Rich's out way concern for kids.

Belly wrote:
• We whites and surely you understand? The Aboriginal community? Both have failed to improve anything.

Yes, true, one needs to have full control of its own ability to determine its civil, political, and economic life.

The other must begin to admit that they are very much a part of the problem.
Howard et al have been careful not to implicate themselves as a federal government charged with policy and fiscal responsibility to ‘Aboriginal Australians’.

These communities did not spring out naturally from the economic development of Aboriginal society; their fundamental history is born from a system of control and internment of human beings whose economic and political rights were denied on reserves and missions.

Yes these are the GULAGS that kept Aboriginal people (including me) out of sight and out of mind so that white Australian society can and did profit from this very same dispossession. And aren’t we in the middle of an economic boom that Howard delivered unto us? After tens or more years of cutting and slashing programs that were developed to assist the problems in our communities he trotts this out in an election year as somehow and indication of his humanitarianism?

This is nothing more than TAMPA # 2. (Aboriginal children overboard this time)

Accusations about victim mentality conveniently deny this very history as valid to any analysis of contemporary situations. Walk a mile in my shoes mate!

If for instance my own people were allowed to own even one tenth of our land, (lock stock and barrel) I would not be here agueing for scraps of legal, political and economic rights that in any fair society would have accorded me and mine.

How is it that only 2 percent of this nation’s population also represents 98 % of the moral, legal and ethical dilemma that regularly pops up in the news?

I know why but many here obviously do not because its not how they understand the history and evolution of their own white privilege

A lot of land titles were handed over to various corporate identities of "Aboriginal" groups, why are people within these lands not given long term valid leases for their homes ?

The Central Land Council arguing against issuing leases to "Traditional Owners" because the leases will give people rights.

Tangentjera knocked back $60 million housing project rather than issue leases.

Usual excuses to not give people leases, they get rights, and they might sell them. Yet still want rent money collected from everyone in each house...

All excuses for "seperate rights," "seperate responsibilites" need be rejected, they are the problem, not part of the solution.