Hi Steele,

Thanks for the comment above, how disgusting living conditions can be. I have some experence staying in over crowded conditions "up north" in Maori towns in NZ, places tourists never see. Sleeping at a Marae in a room for a night or two with 500 people is uncomfortable, but tolerable. My worse experence was sleeping in an old bus at the side of the house with all these kids. We were glad to get our of there in the morning. I can just imagine hot, stinking, over crowded conditions some Aboriginal people have to put up with.

far more mining royalty money isn't directed
SteeleRedux,
In our area they receive a new car every two years as part of their royalties & are still entitled to collect from Centrelink.
Certain families are said to do very well from the royalties. It causes a lot of division in communities.

Dear individual,

We somehow went very quickly from an all encompassing they to certain families very quickly didn't we.

Just how many are we taking about?

Instead why couldn't we have something pretty basic like the Alaskan scheme?

http://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/9/5/20849020/alaska-permanent-fund-universal-basic-income

SR,

So your solution is to dole out large dollops of sit down money and then everyone will be happy?

Seriously?

shadowminister,

So even a hard right state like Alaska has a very popular program of mineral royalty distribution you would just describe as sitdown money?

What a toxic ideology you have.

We somehow went very quickly from an all encompassing they to certain families very quickly didn't we.
SteeleRedux,
Not we, they. The community has two parties, the one which claims to have all right to the royalties & the one who understandably also want a slice of the cake.
It is not a situation of the standard "brothers & sisters" it's a few families vs the rest of the community. When it comes to money the indigenous are no less generous than all other people on the continent. The only beneficiaries appear to be those with the poker machines !
Literally millions are being spent on keeping the non-productive somewhat content. Just a couple of days ago I was told that some whites who can't get non-emergency medical services due to COVID-restrictions are going to the clinics of indigenous communities where they do get attended to. Paul1405 thinks this is untrue !