Hi. Im a student from South Australia Matriculation and am studying Legal Studies. I'm currently conducting a research based on the title "Are the aborigines being overprotected in Australia?". In Malaysia,over the past few years,our government has been doing a rather outstanding job on trying to increase the quality of lifestyle of the Malaysian aborigines,better known as ‘Orang Asli’ in the native tongue. Nevertheless,their living quality is still below the majority of the rest of the Malaysians,in aspects such as education,job prospects and many more which requires the government’s attention. While doing my research, I notice that a similar trend is observed in the state of aborigines protection in Australia. Sharan Burrow, a minister in Australia said that in this 51% of unemployment rate, Aboriginal people are still not being treated with respect. They don't have equal opportunity. They do not have a superannuation as well. Besides this,the level of Aboriginal voter participation in federal electoral politics remains low, and their ability to successfully translate political participation into the election of Aboriginal people to the House of Commons is even lower. While looking at the prospect of education, the Australian Government often fails to ensure that aborigines enjoy reasonable access to the development and delivery of their educational programs. Some aborigines state that this may have been so in the past when their parents were denied access to the schooling system in various state. As of my stand in this matter, I believe that the aborigines are not being overprotected in Australia. There are still many areas that the Australian Government could work on to improve the state of the aborigines community. It is only fair that the aborigines feel accepted back again in the lands which they originally first lay foot in. I hope that you guys could provide me with some feedbacks and views pertaining to this research I am still currently working on. Any opinions is welcomed, whether negative or positive as I believe a discussion is more interesting with a topic being analyzed critically. Thanks for taking the time to read this post.

Why don't you go and work in one of the communities for 3 months to find out for yourself...I reckon it'll be hard for you to come up with an educated opinion without having lived in the communities yourself.

Yes.

Apparently you are a university student.

Guess what! There is a big building on campus called a library. It’s full of books and journals and other media.

Follow these instructions. Find these texts them and read them.
• Write some notes.
• Discuss them with your professors or tutors.
• Discuss them with fellow students.
• Think deeply
• Start from the beginning again & repeat this cycle at least 10 times.

Then when you have done all of the above return to this site and write something more informed with some critical analysis of history and law and even sociology.

Hi hY.

You might find some interesting opinions on other current threads on this forum. http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=744, http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=751.

It might also be worth scrolling back through the history of article and general threads http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/

Aborigines are certainly not being ‘overprotected’ in my opinion. For further comments please see my recent post; http://forum.onlineopinion.com.au/thread.asp?discussion=744#13250

LoL... He is from college