Boris wrote on May 18^th, 2023 at 10:36pm:


It fits your narrative, you Racist Troll,  Matty. Tsk, tsk, tsk...   

UnSubRocky wrote on May 18^th, 2023 at 8:28pm:


When individuals in a particular GROUP do it more than individuals in other groups do it, it might indeed have something to do with learned generational disadvantage resulting from past, misplaced  'protection' policies imposed by the authorities. 

thegreatdivide wrote on May 19^th, 2023 at 1:41pm:


Rubbish. Plenty of people have had abusive, drunk, and/or poor parents in their lives. That does not mean that they are going to adopt the same traits. When you have a group of people of the similar background adopt an inconsequential lifestyle, it is usually the result of knowing that they have nothing for to be responsible. So, if they are going to get drunk, disorderly, and then piss themselves in public, the only consequence they will receive in a stay in a drunk tank, a feed the next day, and a trip home.

Coddling indigenous Australians over the last 50 years has resulted in a bunch of spoiled, irresponsible layabouts. If Australia treated indigenous Australians the same as the government did 100 years ago, you could bet that there would be no drunken, lazy indigenous people about, even though they (indigenous Australians) probably would have good reason to have some Dutch courage from time to time.

thegreatdivide wrote on May 19^th, 2023 at 1:54pm:


If indigenous people achieve at least my level of poverty, then that is the beginning of a "good enough" platform to build upon. Those living below the poverty line should have their cases investigated to find solutions to their problems. But government organisations can't be left to do the heavy lifting to get them above the poverty line.

thegreatdivide wrote on May 19^th, 2023 at 1:54pm:


Then they should at least try to gain employment in whatever is in their capacity. Fifty years of trying to help indigenous people integrate into Australian society should have achieved more than just layabout status for a considerable number of indigenous Australians.

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Meaning that indigenous people should be able to learn to read, have at least a tenth grade level of education, know how to bathe and look after themselves with nutrition. If an indigenous person is no older than 50 years old, they should have this understanding, with no excuses. If an indigenous person is older than 50 years old, they should have learned all this, regardless of whatever problems they had to endure before the 1970s. When indigenous people have these life skills, they then become employable. If they do not have these basic life skills, they are not trying to help themselves.

UnSubRocky wrote on May 19^th, 2023 at 2:04pm:


It's simple: no job, all the "heavy lifting" in the world is pointless. You have partime and fulltime work.

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See above.

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Chicken and egg problem; dysfunctional communities mired in poverty and welfare dependency - because govt.  is faling to ensure jobs for everyone - aren't conducive to acquisition of skills.

How can anyone live in an area where there is no job and then complain about their circumstances? If you have no job and live in an area that has no jobs, you either move to a place where there are jobs. Else, you do not complain about your circumstances of being poor/destitute.

Oh, dearie, dearie, me, spoken like a true Racist Troll, Matty.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...   

Boris wrote on May 19^th, 2023 at 3:30pm:


Easy, stop acting like a "Racist Troll," Matty.  Tsk, tsk, tsk...