Lionel Edriess wrote on May 25
th, 2016 at 8:34pm:
GordyL wrote on May 25
th, 2016 at 8:15pm:
Laugh/Svengali, some ideas please.
I don't mind taxpayers money being spent but not chucking good money after bad.
As I said, pick the brightest and send them to boarding school to get them away from the toxic environment. What's your solution, more soapbox proclamations?
I can hear the screams now. "More stolen generations!"
Yet the other option is to leave these kids in already proven dysfunctional and violent societies, with no employment prospects and no chance of escape.
To interfere or not interfere - that is the question.
Outback Aboriginal communities are the pits. There is no hope for these people. There is no chance of employment and they are being paid 'sit-down' money. Whole societies are dysfunctional on a generational level.
Can somebody present a workable solution to this existing problem on a national level?
No takers?
And you bleat about government.
FFS!
Lovely to read you gain Lionel. Hello

I think Howard engineered a really good middle ground. Bloody Labor got in and ripped it up - it wasn't perfect, but there was evidence it was working. But I'm sure laugh to you cry will be along in a minute to critique it for us.
I know a guy - and I know this is anecdotal - who is a nurse in his 30s. Really genuine guy. Specialises in tropical medicine and war zones - currently in Yemen I think.
He did a stint on the lands. He came back from that very disillusioned...
they were far better off working on stations and being paid with rations and tobacco.