Now for something on a slightly happier note.

I watched "Australian Story" on the ABC on Monday evening.
Being NAIDOC (National Aboriginal and Islander Day
Observance Committee) week - (first Sunday in July until
the following Sunday) "Australian Story" featured the work
of the remarkable - Uncle Ossie Cruse - the quiet leader
for Indigenous Rights. He's led an amazing life and is
still hard at work with young people today. The following
link explains and is well worth a read:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2017-07-03/uncle-ossie-cruse-the-quiet-leader-for-indigenous-rights/8653236

JayB,

I have my own issues with Indigenous Studies, mainly that it has to rely so much on unsupported assertions and mistruths to maintain its Narrative. It's very depressing that its beneficiaries, spokespeople and academics and Industry functionaries, seem to be totally uninterested in truth and evidence.

So, yes, it is having a very negative influence on some Indigenous people (and of course, gullible whites, who usually keep a distance from 'real' Indigenous people), but the great majority of Indigenous graduates are struggling to make it in the real world of opportunity. And it certainly isn't easy for them, substantially due to the incompetence of the Industry. How's that work ?

Well, for a start, there are supposed to be Indigenous quotas - but not so fast ! The 2 or 3 % set aside means that, in effect, Indigenous applicants are shut out from the other 97 or 98 % of possible jobs. Many of the jobs that they CAN apply for are in the Industry, like it or not, and these are available only to Indigenous people who have been vetted for family and clique reliability. If an applicant is not 'reliable', then they can walk the streets.

As well, in some fields, more manipulable and unqualified ('real Blackfellas') are preferred over graduates. I know of one qualified conservationist who had to pretend he was unqualified to get a job.

That's how it goes for most 'Educated Aboriginals'.

Joe

To get back to topic:

Could it be that the Royal Commission is not so ‘unaware’, that it has quickly come up against the brutal realisation that – as in all traditional societies – Aboriginal traditional society is riven with violence, patriarchy, conservatism and anti-democracy ? And that the people in remote settlements honestly, if naively, believe that the outside world will ‘demand-share’ all its bounty with them, forever ? Including child-minding and -feeding ? Has the RC realised the truth of Bill Leak’s cartoon ?

Do people in remote settlements understand the world they have decided to be in ? Are people so individualist that, if the dreadful pathologies are happening to them, they don't notice them or their effects on whole 'community' ? Do traditionally-oriented people have a concept of 'community' at all, or just 'family' ?

Or do they think that the 'Government' should solve all their self-made problems ? Except of course, for their ownership of their children - do they think of children as property, and not as obligation, responsibility and human and family duty ? Hence the outrage when grossly-neglected children have to be taken into care, by State agencies as 'parent of last resort' ?

Bill Leak, we need you now more than ever :(

Joe

the royal commission is a massive con
no one charged, no one locked up
Pell is back why not question him in person?
The RC refused to pursue inquiries into the abuse into govt run child welfare institutions like Tamworth and other hell holes.
The RC refused to pursue inquiries into sexual abuse in mental hospitals
The royal commission is a con

chrisgaff: The royal commission is a con

Of course it is. They all are. Just going on the way the Questions are asked & answered. The questions are never direct & the answers are always deflections. It's all deliberately planned that way so nothing ever gets done & no-one get in the s#it.