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"Pearson rails against grog in communities. Indeed, it has been a back-and-forth debate. But two things are clear. Banning alcohol is only a temporary measure. People must learn to live with alcohol; most Aborigines have. Second, if not alcohol, people will access other drugs; cannabis and ice are the latest. What drives some people to lead unhealthy lives is not a matter of a different set of public servants delivering programs, or even ‘locals’ in control. How come everyone else can cope with it? Pearson eschews understanding human behaviour.
Pearson rails against child protection. He accuses the Queensland governments, beginning with Peter Beattie’s, of turning ‘children into fodder for a parasitic industry’. But whose industry is it, Noel? Aboriginal-controlled agencies never cease advocating for Aboriginal control over children from dysfunctional families. There are not enough functional families.
Remote Aboriginal society is in free fall, existing in name only. Eighty-six per cent of Aboriginal mothers in Australia had an ex-nuptial birth (including “traditional” marriage). Ninety-six per cent of Aboriginal mothers in the Northern Territory had an ex-nuptial birth. Paternity was not acknowledged in 21 per cent of these cases across Australia and 45 per cent in the Northern Territory. Pearson eschews understanding human behaviour and refuses to admit that Aboriginal society has collapsed.
Paul Everingham, then chief minister of the Northern Territory, said in 1981, “there are times when government is guilty of being over-zealous in its responsibilities to remote communities. We ought not to be chasing after people with services from which they are running away.”
The future lies in allowing remote communities to stand on their own feet or to close down. Children have to be prepared for a life beyond the suffocating life of ‘community’. Pearson and his acolytes have observed of Cape York, “If a child stays in their community, their chance of graduating Year 12 is less than one in 100.” The Bruce Wilson report on NT education, A Share in the Future, made clear that while students barely fulfil the legal requirement to remain at school, morally they fail to benefit from the experience. He proposed that, with some exceptions, secondary education should be delivered in the NT’s urban schools in Darwin, Palmerston, Alice Springs, Katherine, Nhulunbuy and Tennant Creek, and that residential accommodation be provided.
No matter the model of boarding school, mindset is the most important; the young ones have to come in, lest more dysfunction be created by Pearson and others’ dream of a separate Australia."
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