Foxy, by anyone's reasonable thought it is obvious that aboriginals benefit more from welfare provided by white working people of Australia than anyone else. They have benefited greatly from white settlement, it is a pity they don't acknowledge that.

Perhaps when, if ever, they start pulling their weight, they will have earned the right to demand anything. While their total existence is paid for by others perhaps, they should be saying thankyou, rather than listing their demands.

They would be well advised to start earning the respect of those upon whom they depend, rather than making ridiculous demands.

PhilipS,
So what if ttbn stated something that is not to your liking, I cop that all the time. Being pedantic is of no benefit to anyone. There's too much usage of links & hardly any useful/helpful/beneficial commenting. One's against something & the other is for it. They call that human nature, I call it not being switched on enough to ignore minor quips.
The question we must ask ourselves is do we want to continue on the path we're on or do we want to find better ways for the common good ? To blindly support one side is not progressive.
We can continue on the path we're on but are we prepared to deal with the consequences ?
I for one do not want more PC & similar nonsense interfering with my life, do you ?

It's very difficult to ignore Aboriginal leaders
who make statements from the heart and talk
about self-determination whilst our leaders simply
brush them aside. The end result is a total breakdown
in communication and a breakdown in any sort of progress.

Putting our heads in the sand and doing nothing is not
an answer.

Foxy,
sadly, this handful of leaders in the communities are so outnumbered by their own versions of the tall poppy syndrome that change will not happen anytime soon.

'It's very difficult to ignore Aboriginal leaders
who make statements from the heart and talk
about self-determination whilst our leaders simply
brush them aside. '

Its difficult to ignore the fact that the closer these towns seem to have to self determination the worse the abuse.

individual - I don't need to explain myself to you, you can't even answer a simple question about what part of a comment made you make such a stupid assumption to reply with this comment Quote "have you ever been outside your suburb ?"