Hi, so i'm doing a research concerning the aborigines in australia. i'll be glad if u guys, girls, sir, and madam can send in yr views concerning my research. THANKS!. have a nice day.

This is not a question that can be answered with a straight "yes" or "no".
A lot could be said about the (generally- very-ill) treatment of Australia's indigenous people in the past.
In the present, they are clearly not being treated "equally".
An argument could be put up that there are a few ways in which the Australian aboriginal people receive "positive" discrimination - and that this is deserved, in some effort to redress past injustices.

However, I am narrowing the discussion to just one field of interest - LAND.
No way would white people tolerate uranium mining and nuclear waste dumping on their land. It is clearly unequal, and indeed discriminatory, for the Australian people to tolerate the injustice now being perpetrated on aboriginals as the government goes ahead with its plans for Australia's participation in the Global Nuclear Energy Partnership.

Aboriginal communities, kept in poverty, will now be offered bribes – or perhaps more accurately, blackmail, so that the schools, hospitals, infrastructure that white Australian already have – will be part of the money package they’ll get, in exchange for having their land poisoned.

Another inequality – as at Muckaty Station, deals will be done with some individual aboriginals, and this will be called “democratic”, while other aboriginals’ views are ignored.

Even if the majority of aboriginals did agree to these toxic deals, one must ask whether they were fully informed of the permanent pollution of land and water that will result from nuclear waste dumping, or of the health hazards to workers (their people) of the uranium industry.
Chrisrina Macpherson www.antinuclearaustralia.com

"Are the Aborigines treated equally in Australia?"

No.

Sometime I think"I would enjoy the opportunities they are offered"
Then I think to take advantage I'd have to be as desperate as they've become.
We whiteies sometimes forget the decisions we didn't have to make? Taking for granted the safety we enjoyed when young. My mother thought an engineer drove a train? and she wasn't wrong but:
Were the current actions the only option? I don't think so.
Schooling is mandatory for white, as it is for black, the second group is not "policed" that needs to change.
There need be no child in Aussie without the opportunity to attend school. I was threatened as a child, by inspectors who had the authority to demand I attend, or be removed from my family. No child I hope would not be scared of that. My point is that it did not require army or police, certainly not the resumption of anything but my
choice.
Why then is it that we must invade, resume and threaten? I trust it's not that they are an easily identified group?
On speaking just today to a boy who attends a Vic school, a breakfast is served three times a week at school, I promise he's not deprived at home. It's the infrustucture thats missing in a lot of black communities for them to become "viable".
English speaking is a priority without which choice is reduced, Their native tongue is valuable too and should have a place in the education they receive. Culture surely has it's base in language.
Having said that " no they are not treated equally" neither need it be that they are, their special and we must address their specific need.
Home is home where ever and whatever that be, school is our responsiblity, It's where I learned about engineers before becoming one.
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In response to the first question in this thread: I don't know, are they treated equally in Iceland?

No.'They' are not treated equally, until they are seen as 'us'.

Do Aboriginies want to be treated equally in this country? They could after all move into any town or city in Australia get a good education and a job and live exactly the same as the rest of the population including all the other non white races who arrive here with nothing and do exactly that. The trouble is they want to stay remote and live like they did 200years ago but still demand all the present day advantages like hospitals and housing and grog etc. They need to decide which its going to be the past or the future.

If they want to live in the stone age then do it,but dont demand any of the advantages of the white mans world. Alternatively live in the white mans world and work like the rest of the country does for the white mans way of life. The white mans way of living doesnt just happen, its built with study and work and sweat and organisation.

My apologises to the Aboriginal people who have got an education and made a good life for themselves. They are leading their people by an example they should follow and thats the point I'm trying to make here. You cant have equality with just the advantage part of equality you have to take the responsibility part of equality as well.