[edcoil]

Give them casino's.

[Hodar]

but the culture of directionlessness in which so many Aboriginal people live.

Hmmmmm, I wonder why they aren't doing better? < /sarcasm mode off>

[TruthBeforeAll]

As Patrick Henry once said...I'd rather die a directionless aboriginal that be forced to conform to another man's idea of what is right and wrong. Or something like that.

[Jedi Master Pikachu]

it shouldn't have come to this. The Aborigines did faced a lot of racism from Australians of European descent, but they have to move on. The same goes for some Americans of African descent.

[yankeedame]

"Paternalism is what saw the black children taken away from their parents," he said.

You know, I've never heard the follow up to this action. This happened in the 1930s and 1940s I think. So what ever happened to those kids? Were they re-introduced after a time to their own people? If so when? What was the results? Or were they adopted (in a manner of speaking) by white families and raised as white and with white ethics, habits, outlooks, behavior, etc. If so what happened? Has a study ever been done comparing white v. native raised abor. children? How did it compare in things like alcholism, (violent) behavior, thought processes, literacy, etc. etc.

Now I'm not saying that no such study/studies exist only that I've never seen or read anything about them. But, boy o boy, you don't have to turn around twice to get an earful of how the cruel white Aussie torn these sobbing little waifs from the arms of their shrieking mothers.