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[nautilus]

Its a complex & emotional issue and its hard to know who to believe any longer particularly on things like the whole child abuse on reservations etc.

When in Oz I met plenty aboriginals. In the cities, many were extremely aggressive, but it hardly seems surprising, given such a shocking histroy.

I met some also that said they were denied even relatively simple jobs in the city.

The vast majority of white Australians had only bad things to say about them.

I only met one white Australian who had a positive view of them- an anthropologist. He had lived in their rural outback communities, among them for years, and had learned as much of their traditional culture as he could.

The picture is of a clash of cultures that could not be more different in their philosophy and values, that did not mix or interbreed, that always misunderstood and distrusted eachother. Something like Apartheid South Africa, but without the racism enshrined into law.

[komtengi]

[Frankly Mr Shankly]

It seems that some indigenous people support the intervention. Those whose sentiments lead them to think it may be all bad had better ask those involved, especially the women and children, who suffer at the hands of alcohol, poverty and physical/sexual abuse

http://www.smh.com.au/news/national/intervention-ok-warlpiri-women/2008/10/27/1224955948648.html

[girlcabbie]