Billions have been thrown at the descendants of aborigines, and they still can't cut the mustard. The unbridgeable gap between black, barely black and white is currently being played out via the hysteria surrounding the NT police shooting. It's not about right or wrong, not about justice. It's about the police officer being white, and the dead person black. None of the black people making all the fuss have any more idea of what lead to the shooting than the the rest of us do.

Dear Joe,

A lot has changed today in technology, in the
publishing industry and of course in national reception.
But as long as there exists an outstanding vision to
ensure that our Indigenous People control their own
news and that the benefits flow back to the right people -
that this will still stand (it's important now as ever),
then I guess it's worth a try.

The Alice Springs issue is baying for blood, it is pay back time! Western justice is white man law. Someone must die to make it even, that is justice in their eyes. Learn how they think. Any true aboriginal thought put to the public arena would be based in that way of thinking.

Those that have European ancestry might have logical conflict with aboriginal law. The same law applies in New Guinea. You accidently kill someone and you or one of your family must also be killed to make it even.

I don’t think print media is the way to go. I don’t know any aboriginal people who read actual newspapers. All of their information comes from digital sources, mainly social media. There is a multitude of indigenous run FB groups and quite frankly I cannot stomach reading the comments there because they are sewers of hatred towards white people.
And the amount of misinformation on these pages appals me. They constantly re enforce myths from the past and wrong facts from the present. One glaring example is the extreme focus on black deaths in custody, giving everyone the impression that it’s mostly black people dying in prison when the reality is, per capita, more white people die in prison, including violent deaths, although the most common cause of death for both races is natural causes.
The level of hate filled comments against white people on these pages shows how great the divide is between a very vocal black demographic and the rest of the community.
So no, I don’t think we need a print forum. What we need is more social media groups that print actual facts and delete all racist comments so interactions can be kept civil and hopefully, the people who have been fed all this misinformation can learn the real facts about past and present treatment of aboriginal people.

It is not just aboriginals Big Nana who become rabid ratbags, when their dislike of another group is reinforced by others with the same attitude on the net.

I have blundered into a few on occasions, usually inhabited by lefties who never believe they have been given enough of other peoples money, no matter how much.

I found one large one specialising in oldies, retirees both pensioners & self funded, & their hatred for those who fund their lives was shocking.

Any where discontent can feed on that of others does appear to go that way.

Hasbeen, given that over 70% of aboriginal adults have non aboriginal partners I am concerned that all this identity politics is not only influencing individual behaviour but destroying family unity. I am lucky in that my multiracial marriage happened in an area and at a time when such unions were becoming common and were very accepted. And the mixed marriages are still occurring which makes all this division very destructive.
How are children of these marriages going to feel about their parents who are constantly being denigrated and hated by two distinct groups? My kids and grandkids have often spoken to me about how some sections of the community feel about them. Some blacks think they are too white to be black. Some whites think they are too black to be white. No one is promoting pride in having mixed heritage which leaves all these kids without a sense of belonging and very vulnerable to being swept up into radical groups who give them acceptance. To me, this is the real problem.
We need to stop the identity politics, give mixed race people a sense of pride in all their heritages and we might just reduce some of the hatred these mixed race people feel towards whites.