Brian Ross wrote on Jul 31
st, 2020 at 12:41pm:
It is an interesting list, I agree. I also agree that Indigenous Australians have to meet them at least half way.
That means an intensive education for them about how to care for and raise children. It means an intensive education for them about the consequences of their actions.
Yes, "Mutual Obligation" would be a suitable method but it would need for the Government to recognise that unless they invest in industries in remote locations there will still be no work for Indigenous Australians. "Mutual Obligation" only works if there is obligation from the Government as well.
However it must be coupled with an intensive education system for white Australians on how to treat Indigenous Australians. Will Whites meet that at least half way? The many Whites which post here appear unable to treat Indigenous Australians with any respect. They are out and out Racists in their attitudes towards Indigenous Australians. Tsk, tsk.
You would think that after 40,000 years of surviving on this continent they'd have that down pat.
As for intensive education .... that's the crux of the decades long programs of bridging the GAP ...
they don't turn up to school for the education.
Govts from both sides of politics have been obliging via huge sums of monetary obligation yet still the problem persists.
Just what sort of "industry" should govt. invest in in remote communities.......... when they won't even do that in major cities, towns around coastal & near coastal Australia?
And just what is the intensive education non Indigenous Australians -( I didn't say "white" because not all non indigenous peoples are white so why did you?) - need to know, to know how to treat Aboriginals?