Foxy,
Your response was in relation to Big Nana's second post. I was referring to her first post on page 4, where the real reason for aboriginals wanting a separate waiting room is revealed.

Big Nana has a year, or two, working in Darwin hospital, so I guess she may have a little more experience with aboriginal patients than most of us.

Foxy, the glossary gives the definition of cultural safety for the use of nurses and midwives. And no, nurses aren’t asked to state or say anything about their white privilege, however they are asked to acknowledge it. Granted this probably means internal acknowledgment but that is just as offensive to nurses as publicly acknowledging it.
Many nurses come from deprived backgrounds, there are those who have had a more deprived upbringing than some aboriginal people, who have had equal rights in every area apart from census counting for at least half a century.
White privilege hasn’t existed in this country for some time now. Minority groups Including race based groups have access to a greater range of services and facilities than any middle class white person these days.

Dear Banjo,

Big Nana's expertise has been acknowledged many times
on this forum.

Dear Big Nana,

I appreciate your comments.

//teachers are now saying; "Children, to make a good 'Bolshevik' you are going to need two Stalinist eggs, a cup of Lenin flour and a pinch of Trotsky.//

Jesus, what sort of bastardised recipe was she working off? That's nothing like a proper Bolshevik. You should be using a 1:4 flour/dust mix due to wheat shortages, and you're missing the food colouring (or blood, if you want to be really traditional - only one egg and less flour will be needed if using blood) to give it that proper red colouring.

//I did Modern History at school, they tough me about Hitler, now I'm a Nazi!//

You poor bastard, they taught me about the space race and now I'm an astronaut.

But when I got to Uni, my science and math lectures were sadly deficient on the subject of Marxism. It wasn't even covered in the philosophy electives I chose.

I feel I've been gypped. Why did my lecturers not teach me about Marxism when apparently they do at every other University in the land? What the hell is the use of a physics course that doesn't teach you about Marxwell's Laws of Electromagnetism?

Although I suppose it doesn't matter too much when you're an astronaut. Rocket science isn't Marxist, it's Nazi.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TjDEsGZLbio

//I was referring to her first post on page 4, where the real reason for aboriginals wanting a separate waiting room is revealed.//

This bit?

//Or is it because some of them can’t be bothered waiting and this system will see them fast tracked through the system ahead of others?//

I'm going to assume it was that bit. Because that's what it's all about for some of you cranky old Tories, isn't it? You assume that any initiative intended to benefit the lives of Aboriginal people must necessarily involve a disadvantage to anyone who's non-Indigenous, and in particular yourself.

I've seen nothing in any of the reports I've read on this subject to suggest that the nurses and doctors in emergency rooms will be basing their decisions on anything other than well-established triage practices. Frankly, I think it is a disgusting insult to the professional integrity of these hardworking men and women to suggest they would base decisions about triage on racist, rather than medical, principles.

But hey, if that's what's bothering you so much, you know what they say: if you can't beat 'em, join 'em. Want to skip the queue next time you go to emergency? All you have to do is go sit with all the blackfellas in their special blackfella waiting room, where government officials come along every half hour to give out free money so you can gamble to keep you amused while you wait.

Anybody can sit in the blackfella waiting room - in a lot of cases it will just be a bit of the proper waiting room, but with some of those dot paintings they like and some special chairs with the international symbol for a blackfella (it's like the little man on toilet doors, but he's black and he holds a spear) to show who the seats are reserved for.

But here's the trick: nobody will be checking your blackfella ID card. All the nurses are too busy to bother about who's really Aborginal and who's not. So, lifehack, just hold your nose and sit with all the stinky blackfellas and you can have your gout seen to way ahead of that bloke with half his arm hanging off in the white waiting room. If you think you've been waiting too long, all you have to do is scream at the nurses that your people were here first so you should be first in the queue and call them racist [expletive deleted]'s for good measure, and they'll just go ahead and bump you up the queue regardless of whatever else is happening.

So there you go Bazz & co, just give that a try next time you have to go to hospital. You shouldn't get angry at the system, you should learn to make it work for you. I give you an iron-clad guarantee that if you take my advice on your next visit to a hospital, it will yield unexpected and fortuitous results.