Captain Caveman wrote on Jan 13
th, 2023 at 5:27pm:
Were they even trying to get a job to begin with?
and You have to actually be actively looking for employment to become employed you know.
The egregious level of family dysfunction is a barrier to getting a job (and going to school in the first place).
And actively looking doesn't mean landing a job.
Quote:Then,
Of these aboriginal job seekers, how many were applying day in day out and being rejected constantly?
How many just gave up?
How many got a job and within the month, given up?
Questions which ignore the reality of community and family dysfunction in many Aboriginal communities.
Quote:Your figures are like that because the average abo doesn't want to work.
They'll just sit and be/do nothing.
You can't blame another race of human for that.
It's not a matter of blame, it's a matter of the nation's responsibility to clean up the mess after we "smashed their ancient culture" (as Paul Keating rightly observed); it had to happen of course, part of the long chaotic and often violent journey toward an advanced human civilization on this planet.
Quote:You know how I know this.
I've worked with abos champ. Good hard working ones that have made it like I have.
Anyone can do it.
It ain't rocket science, and it ain't up to everyone else to sacrafice anything so some lazy fukkk can be counted.
50% are currently NOT "doing it", for reasons addressed above.
Quote:Just saying "garrantee them a job" is bullshyte.
You obviously have never owned your own business.
You know you could knock up a mechanics workshop in a remote area tomorrow if you like. Farrk, build a football stadium if you want.
It's got to make money on its own to survive, or do you expect us, the tax payer, to chip into the business and keep it going like a participation award? It's starting to sound like a virgin Airlines adventure.
You will need to learn that the public sector
acting as employer of last resort in the non-competitive 'caring' sector, doesn't need your money to ensure everyone can participate in the economy: a sovereign
currency issuing government can issue it's own money so long as the nation's productivity can support the extra spending in the economy.
Quote:Want a solution?
Move your buddies out of the remote areas.
That's right. You heard.
They need to be in close proximity to education. Like we all farrking do.
FFS, people fly here from other countries to our populated areas where education is available, so your mates can move into town for a while. We all have to do things we don't want to from time to time if we want to excel in life.
er..we already have a housing problem in many towns and cities
Quote:Now they're here, get them off to tafe and get the 3 R's going. (why is it 3 Rs when the second one starts with W and the last one starts with A?) who cares, get them edumacated.
Er.... the last 3 decades of neoliberal governments have emasculated TAFE....
Quote:Now it's off to cold canvas/pound the pavement, head into employment agencies, ring around, get a job.
Now work that job and pay for all the shyte you want.
If the job pays peanuts, upskill yourself, surround yourself with those people in the career path you want to go down.
That's what we all have to do if we want to participate.
That's how you'll close the gap bud.
All this other shyte you speak of is "poor me" economics.
Refuted above.
in fact, neoliberal economics causes ""poor me" economics". There is no reason for ANY unemployment in a country as rich in resources as Oz.