What I object to are the SOBs who make their living, so often sinecures in public employment QUANGOs and NGOs, who patronise, deny the agency of indigenous and disempower them, while claiming all of the time to be 'Do Gooders', but knowing that they are everything else but.

As for some here, it is all water off a duck's back. Lights on but somehow there is no-one at home. Just like Larissa Waters, SHY and others whose superficial protest politics they admire. People who have trouble distinguishing a TV series from the ADF operations. And when might Larissa live in an indigenous community for a fortnight? Would she take any responsibility for the distraught protesters she might encourage in an ABC studio? What about for their later night or days after?

The difference is that those seat-polishing Greens Senators sleep well at night and yes, they obviously enjoy the trappings of power with no responsibility and those present day entitlements like travel and the eventual promised golden handshakes are never refused either!

All care and no responsibility, and your money for nothing, that is the life.

Dear Joe,

I have no wish to argue on this issue with you.
I've tried that in the past. Read the provided
links. Aboriginal people have much lower employment
rates than other Australians due to a variety of
factors from housing conditions, to
education, training and skill levels, poorer health,
limited market opportunities, discrimination, and so on.
It isn't as simple as a matter of "choice".
But then that is something that you should know.

leoj,

I agree with your thoughts on the Greens; they are just a 'root-everything-up group, no use to man nor beast.

If only Joe and Nana could teach in our schools. They are worth a thousand times more than our dumbed down academics with an ax to grind. Thanks Joe and Nana. So refreshing.

Coming from our resident poster with no
ax to grind - (cough) we'll take that as a comment!

Dear ttbn,

Not everybody has the imagination or the soul to:

"...see the world in a grain of sand and heaven in
a wild flower. Hold infinity in the palms of your
hand and eternity in an hour."
(William Blake).