Until the term racism is used by all in the correct context, no progress will be made.
it'll simply continue on its funding path !

Thanks Cossomby.

As always - a voice of reason.

O sung wu

Very reasonable and measured comments. Being in the ' job' as you were, you would have seen things most people couldn't even imagine.

Not my own words, but given the way things are going in Australia, it might turn out that this opinion it is not as harsh as it sound on a first reading. I do agree with the bit about the totalitarianism of group rights. It is a key tool of dictators.

"The Voice is part of the attempt to erode Australian society, with a strong ideological connection between communists in Australia and the push for Aboriginal land rights; and now this egregious, racist nonsense being pushed by a hard Left Prime Minister, who insanely blames history for every indigenous problem, and who is epitomises the totalitarianism of group rights instead of individual rights"

O sung wu: Re new houses built for Aboriginal people. I was once shown through one of a group of new houses built for Aboriginal people in a town in western NSW. The rooms were tiny, with low ceilings and minute windows. They opened off a central hallway just a metre wide, we had to walk single file. There was no air conditioning. Just walking through, I felt claustrophobic. I grew up in a 1950s housing commission house in western Sydney, one of eight kids, so I had real experience to compare. I couldn't believe that, nearly 50 years later, even worse houses were being built for poor people (though at least they were brick veneer not asbestos fibro!)

How this came about - the new housing project came up in a conversation with some Aboriginal people I was visiting. I said something to the effect: "Oh, that's great, new houses! You must be pleased." This was met with silence, then "come with us", and they took me to the development and showed me through one of the houses. The local community and organisations were not consulted about their needs or desires, it was just a matter of this is what you get.

While I don't condone it, I can totally understand why people vandalise such houses. Such dog kennels are seen by Aboriginal people as a constant reminder of their low status in society.

That was in the 1990s; housing standards may have improved since then, but I suspect some Aboriginal people still have no choice but to live in the ones I saw

One thing thar needs to be done is to define just who is Aboriginal, as things stand the Aboriginal “Voice” could be the descendant of the union of a European and an Aboriginal in, say, 1790 and all Europeans since then; hardly representative.