Thinkabit; No need to worry about DNA testing, tribal recognition etc
anyone can identify as an aborigine, even a man as an aboriginal woman
I wonder if "she" could attend woman's secret business ?
Another one or two hundred years and it will no longer be a question.
Oh well this line might allow posting in the right place.

So very easy to become a racist
Too to overlook the deliberate failure we whites have had in lifting the standard of living and yes education for these people
Think we have failed them and that it maybe on purpose
A generation will come, hopefully, that takes on the task of truly lifting them out of the poor education and living standards they are stuck in
Charlie Perkins should by drafted [given power] as Minister for Aboriginal affairs right hand man

"There is an inherent contradiction in any attempt to unite Australians by treating people differently ….",says Peta Credlin. And we already have aboriginal politicians in Parliament who have arrived there through the system available to everyone now.

Belly, how on earth are any Australians responsible the low educational levels of some aboriginal people?
Schools were set up almost immediately after first settlement to specifically teach aboriginal kids and they were included into mainstream schools decades ago.
Abstudy money is paid to aboriginal parents at least 10 years earlier than any Austudy money is paid to non aboriginal students, most schools provide breakfast and lunch for kids in more remote areas, schools are provided extra money for every aboriginal child on the roll so they can employ extra teaching assistants to work with kids who are behind. In some communities the teachers even drive their own cars around the community trying to collect kids for school.
And as Joe will tell you, aboriginal kids in major towns and cities are completing year 12 at an unprecedented rate and thousands have already graduated with uni degrees and many thousand more already at uni.
How much more do you think should be done?

Hi Big Nana,

I'm a bit concerned that many well-intentioned whitefellas seem to have a sort of innocent soft racist attitude to Indigenous people, the soft racism of low expectations, that Indigenous people can't be expected to do anything for themselves but must wait for whitefellas to do everything for them, including looking after their kids and getting them to school. I hope I'm wrong :)

And yes, meanwhile, in the cities, Indigenous people are participating in tertiary education at probably higher rates than non-Indigenous working-class people. Certainly, Indigenous women are participating across the country at higher rates, for their population, than non-Indigenous men are.

And it's working - maybe four thousand Indigenous people will graduate from universities this year, adjusting for the low figures used by the federal Education Department, kicking up the total to around sixty thousand.

Cheers,

Joe

Big Nana Loudmouth let me tell you why country first nation kids do not get an education
Is it racist to tell the truth? SOME LIVE IN DREADFUL HOUSEHOLDS, SOME do not go to school some parents can not make them welfare is not doing its job