Foxy,
For your sake & our sanity I really hope you get to practise your idealism in one of the remote communities one day !

individual,

Although I grew up in Sydney I've had roots in the country.
From Bathurst, to Windsor, the Hawkesbury, the Hunter,
Wagga Wagga, Albury, Wodonga, Armidale, Kempsey, Quirindi,
Wentworthville, Parramatta, to name just a few. I've also
had a varied career - over several continents. Not only
in libraries.

Anyway, perhaps a change might do you the world of good.
It just might broaden your own outlook. It certainly
couldn't hurt.

Foxy: "Although I grew up in Sydney I've had roots in the country.
From Bathurst, to Windsor, the Hawkesbury, the Hunter,
Wagga Wagga, Albury, Wodonga, Armidale, Kempsey, Quirindi,
Wentworthville, Parramatta, to name just a few. I've also
had a varied career - over several continents. Not only
in libraries."

Great! Good for you Foxy- good to see that you've seen a bit of Australia! Now tell us, have you actually lived and worked in a *REMOTE* aboriginal community. Because those places you've listed are cities and towns with self-supporting functioning economies and predominately populated by non-indigenous law abiding residents.

Now in contrast, just so you know, this is the sort of thing that regularly occurs in remote communities: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-8m45zFCCU . There are hundreds of videos like this on the internet. Now, what's really important to note here is that there is not a single non-aboriginal person in sight. So you can't say that this sort of dysfunctional social behaviour is caused by us "whities". This is how they, themselves, choose to live.
Oh, by-the-way, perhaps you've noticed those houses in the background of the video. Do you think that the types of people in these videos take personal responsibility and work to pay for them/pay for the rent? And likewise for their food, drink and other household goods?

And while you're at it, on another matter that you keep persisting with. You might as well tell us once and for all precisely which bits of the constitution you wish to remove and the exact wording that you wish to add as a replacement/extension. Instead of just vague comments about needing to change the constitution.

Foxy,
Show me one (1) privilege that non-indigenous have over the indigenous.

What does a closed Gap entail ?

thinkabit, often the perpetrator is nowhere to be seen after the crime has been committed. Victim blaming is stock in trade for some. Remote communities account for about 20% of the Indigenous population, yet they receive the most attention from the racists and haters as dysfunctionality is easily identifiable in those communities where the vast majority are Aboriginal people. Fertile ground for a racists with a mobile phone, can bet your life you'll find kids and adults behaving badly. These communities are a 'gold mine' for some; "See, I told you the Darkie is no good, and I've got evidence right here on my mobile."

Foxy, have you even been struck by the fact that so many Forum Rednecks, how they have all this first hand knowledge of Aboriginal people in remote communities, and its all bad! I've got one up on them, I lived among the largest Aboriginal community in Australia for many years. Redfern Sydney.