UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 10
th, 2024 at 12:44am:
Valkie wrote on Dec 9
th, 2024 at 5:54pm:
All of the problems with aboriginals could be simply solved.
Take the dole off them and make them get a job.
It's coming. It is coming. When the next government takes power, indigenous Australians will lose their special treatment and have to work in order to maintain their privileged lifestyle.
Perhaps the conflict between traditional lifestyle and western lifestyle, produces dysfunctional families. Parents want their children to have opportunities they did not have (and this applies to every race and ethnicity.) They just don't know how.
Sending their children to school every day, would certainly help. Government spends good money to keep schools open, when attendance would see them closed anywhere else.
By the way, government over funds remote schools for while kids too. Aboriginal kids have other challenges besides just being remote: there's that conflict between cultures, which manifests in low attendance. They need more and smaller schools, with smaller class sizes but still plenty of teachers. It would help if more of the teachers were aboriginal themselves, but that's never going to happen if you can't raise graduation rates.
When you talk about "privileged lifestyles" I think you intend to close rural schools (particularly majority aboriginal, but perhaps you're going to be fair and take away schools for white kids too?)
And as to jobs, yeah how are you going to provide jobs for rural aboriginal kids, when you have further reduced their academic qualifications? Do you have in mind an Asian agrarian economy, with kids planting rice by hand?