Foxy if you have real examples of what works from experience then share your research. The thing is you have no research of what works - just reports of problems. What is the research that works? You only have bluff otherwise you would share facts that work.

Instead of giving a hungry man money, give him a meal for a job. How often have we just given a man claiming hunger money and he puts it in the pohies in the hope of winning more money, when we should have offered to sit and have a meal with him and listened to his story.

Often being the first to Church near the railway Station and the local Pub I had someone come asking for money to travel to see family several hundred miles away, who was dying. The Church is, they feel a soft touch, so I would go and offer to buy the train ticket - however a train ticket was not what they wanted, someone was delivering drugs and they did not have the cash when the train came in - was the problem. More Money is not the answer, changed attitudes and behaviours are - and that applies universally to every culture.

Josephus,

Kudos. Well said!

BTW:

Josephus,

I've already made it quite clear that more money
is definitely not the answer and that doing the
same things over and over again and expecting
different results is bordering on insanity.
A new approach is needed.

Hi Foxy,

The naysayers on the forum would have everyone believe that its all been one big failure when its comes to the Aboriginal people, nothing could be further from the truth, there has been countless success stories. What has to be tackled are the areas of failure, and those failures are identified in the 'Closing The Gap' report. Despite the best of intentions, and a lot of money, the problems still exist. It is reasonable to take a different approach to the one that hasn't worked in the past. Optimistically I believe a new approach will give much better results.

There's hope for a brighter future.

Paul1405,
Agree, money can't buy good will !

Dear Paul,

There certainly is hope for a brighter future for
our Indigenous people. Stan Grant has expressed
some interesting views in the following link
that is worth a read:

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2018-02013/stan-grant-we-know-how-to-close-the-gap/9425552