I would suggest, thanks in large to the apology from one K Rudd, that our authorities dare not go near indigenous affairs. Tony Abbott tried and got shot down.

These people are playing us for the fools we have become and some of us are too stupid to realize it.

We have a race where many within rely on a pooftenth of indigenous blood so they can live in remote areas, on our taxes with no prospect of bettering themselves and they have and raise children in the same worthless environment and we are stupid enough to allow it.

Call me racist all you like but the reality is that Rudd and his
supporters have built our nest, so now we have to live in it.

It has become obvious that we are living beyond our means and this kind of waste should be high on the 'must fix' agenda, but good luck with that. These people have become untouchable to a large extent.

Hi Susie, thanks for the ABC News article. Professor Smallbone's Report would not contain any surprises, some shocking stats, yes, but surprises no.

The Queensland government sitting on the report for years is of a concern, it plays into the hands of the bigoted racists. More important than the report itself is what is the governments response, a steering Committee, the cynic might say "Oh no, not another committee!" Already on this thread Runner and Butch have had a poke, with racial undertones. do they ever suggest anything positive for Aboriginal people, No! Although Runner's post was rather strange, trying to establish a relationship between catholic pedophiles and delinquent Aboriginals in the suburbs of Cains.

Hi Banjo, I have met many of the Mundine clan including Warren, a great advocate for Aboriginal people. Not sure if he is better suited outside the political arena in an advisory roll, or would be of greater service to the Aboriginal people from within.

Hi Paul,

I agree that "The Queensland government sitting on the report for years is of a concern", but I'm not surprised that (according to the ABC report),

"In response to the report, .... Minister Curtis Pitt announced a steering committee .... to make recommendations for change."

and, lo and behold:

"The Steering Committee will provide an interim report in mid-2016 and a final report by the end of the year."

Yeah, that should put it all off for a bit longer. It's such a big issue that delays should be expected in getting that final report out - perhaps well into 2017, or even 2018.

Meanwhile how many more kids are going to be ruined ? It's already nine years since that 'Little Children are Sacred' Report, and eight since the Intervention in the NT. Those 9- and 10-year-olds back then are now adults. No worries, given another twenty years, they can call themselves elders and abuse all the kids they like.

No, bugger it, jail all the abusers for as long as it takes. Let the kids sleep peacefully at night.

What do you reckon ? Am I racist enough ? For suggesting quicker action to protect yet another generation of children ? For coming down very, very hard on abusers, no matter who they are ?

Joe

While two Indigenous leaders are now (rightly) demanding debate and action on the Smallbone Report it was Indigenous leaders and the political correctness of Indigenous politics that kept the report in the dark.

However the risk of injury to those who came forward would be real enough and betray broader systemic problems of corruption, violence wastage and crime (and concealment of the advice and reports by politicians and senior bureaucrats and NGOs) - revealed by numerous whistle blowers over the years and by ANAO reports (focussed on $$ and identifying generalised corruption).

It is timely to point out that the 'fact-finding'(LOL) ABC and SBS similarly have had a lot to say about children in detention but have been strangely quiet about the Smallbone Report. Now they will have to get the spin right.

Corruption, crime and abuses of children bloomed after the deeply flawed, ideologically-correct Whitlam government provided the money, opportunity and environment of autonomy and self management, with its highly restricted media scrutiny. Not forgetting the extreme multiculturalism that approved and concealed noxious practices such as child marriage.

The first priority should be to restore free speech and get rid of that 18C. Get rid of the Human Rights Commission aka the Commission for Political Correctness at the same time. Nary a word for Indigenous children but plenty to say about 'children in detention' and only when the LNP came to government.

There also needs to be honesty and action on attitudes and behaviours of aboriginal cultural origin, including the ease with which elders and other thugs, male AND female, can bully and conceal crime, and to punish those who raise the black curtain to reveal the less than 'Noble' traditions and behaviours hidden behind.

ALL children MUST enjoy the coverage and protection of Australian law. So too ALL children must have the benefit of education of the Australian curriculum.

It is time that the so-called 'Progressives' aka International Socialists and the Greens 'Protest' Party owned up to the harm they have caused to Indigenous children through their social experimenting.

The ABC should also admit to censoring the news and programming to further the political correctness and extreme multiculturalist idealism that have always concealed and shielded from corrective action, the corruption and abuses that are rife and have been so for generations.

Oh come on folks!

Does anyone really believe that this kind of behaviour has not been part of aboriginal culture, [what ever that really is], for the last 40,000 years.

Time to decide what you really want. Do you destroy this ancient & disgusting "culture", or do you shut your eyes & ignore it.

Come on bleeding hearts, lets hear some real suggestions.