Aussie has always wanted to be USA of the southern hemisphere, and now they can lay claim to a record not even the Yanks can beat:
Aboriginal Australians are locked up at a rate 53 times other residents of the Lucky Country.
Pity, that since they were there first, they didn't get some more of the luck.
From shooting them for sport only a century ago to the stolen generations to now, where they are either in jail or on a reservation drunk out of their minds, there can be little doubt that Australia has completely failed to preserve the culture, health or lifestyle of the original inhabitants.
I have a friend who lives close to an Aboriginal settlement, and she sees old people being bullied, victimised and burgled with alarming regularity by blackfellas.
I see no easy answers, but whatever's being done right now is clearly not working.
80% of juvenile detainees in WA are Aboriginal, despite them making up 4.5% of the population.
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Aboriginal Australians are locked up at a rate 53 times other residents of the Lucky Country.
Pity, that since they were there first, they didn't get some more of the luck.
From shooting them for sport only a century ago to the stolen generations to now, where they are either in jail or on a reservation drunk out of their minds, there can be little doubt that Australia has completely failed to preserve the culture, health or lifestyle of the original inhabitants.
I have a friend who lives close to an Aboriginal settlement, and she sees old people being bullied, victimised and burgled with alarming regularity by blackfellas.
I see no easy answers, but whatever's being done right now is clearly not working.
80% of juvenile detainees in WA are Aboriginal, despite them making up 4.5% of the population.
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