cont'd ...

Josephus,

Only about 60 Aboriginal languages are still healthy
today.

An Indigenous child is more likely to be locked up in prison
Foxy,
That's an insipid statement ! Any child committing an offence will be locked up IF they committ a crime ! It just so happens that indigenous youths commit more crimes so, the incarceration rate is absolutely no surprise to anyone except you.

Indy, a racists looks at the high crime rate of Aboriginals in black and white terms. For you, and those like you, its a case of black fella is inherently bad, commits crimes, we lock him up, serves him right. Of course your lot will continue to call for harsher penalties, more jail time for the offenders.

People like Foxy look beyond the skin colour and realise there is far more to it, systemic disadvantage cased by poverty, lack of family cohesion, poor education, unemployment, and a myriad of other social and economic problems. Until those problems that confront a significant proportion of Aboriginal people, and I will add, many socially and economically disadvantaged white people as well, the cycle of crime and incarceration will continue.

Indy you are looking at the end product and not the beginning. The aim should be to keep people out of jail, not an easy thing, and not simply increasing the prison population.

individual,

I can see that having such a small screen you will never
see the bigger picture.

Dear Paul,

Thanks for summing things up so well.
Take care.
Stay safe.

I am in favour of indigenous people who are maintaining their native culture and living as hunter gather in native titled bush receiving welfare and health care.

Once they decide to enter into Australian society, education and business and live in our communities they should no longer be considered aboriginal, any more than any other person born here be considered another nationality. That places all persons born here and living as the rest of Australia as Australians.

Kudos Individual, Josephus.