In Reply to: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: re: the thi posted by n on January 18, 2008 at 15:56:02:

Most, but not all of our local indigenous people around my hometown are generally unemployed and are on welfare, even though there's a boom in mining right now, there's also plenty of work about.
They have a major problem with alcohol and drugs, but they think they only have a problem when they run out of money for more drink! and we non Aborigines are expected to put up with a rampant crime rate, such as car thefts and house-breaking. Its been like that for years and it doesn't seem to change much, years go by!. The pavements are littered with broken glass from discarded beer bottles where they are just smashed to smithereens by drunken p***pots.
The parents are not good role models either and their kids are badly neglected. They have a very robust way of living. Most of the money is spent on booze and cigarettes.
There is also a lot of others who come into town and just camp around the shopping centres where they frequent and they are unclean and don't wash, they bong something awful, it's enough to make one gag.

Years ago the Australian government tried to help out by selecting some mixed blooded people to give them an education and to give them an opportunity to make something of their lives, the children were taken away from their families by force perhaps? but it was not a very nice occasion for the children and their parents. The government received no thanks for this from the Aboriginal people, even though I personally think they were attempting to do them a big favour by taking them out of that environment, perhaps the Travelling people in Ireland have a similar problem with adjusting to modern life?

Australia had a population in the region of four million European people around 1900, today we have 20 million or so,many mre mouths to feed! we try to be even handed to all our multi cultured society, there have been much hart break endured by our own with home sickness and all the riggers that life can through at us, but we don't cry in our beer for long, we try to get on with lives and it gets a little bit better with each new generation. I live in hope that our indigenous black people will stop missing the boat, one fine day soon!