I was gonna write this reply sooner, but have not had a chance.
I've been to Laverton, Leonora, Paraburdoo, Halls Creek, Meekatharra, and Newman, all predominantly Aborginal town, admittedly not for any other purpose except for work, but I lived in Meeka and Laverton for over a year all up (the other places were brief stays, no more than a month or two) and the situation out there is completely fucked.
Seriously man, pictures and talks (I'm not having a dig at you here) they don't mean tuppence worth of fuck all, seeing it first hand is the only way to truly understand. Kids out there go days without eating, people shit on the street, once I went to use a payphone and there was a barker in the phone booth and smeared all over the handset.
The fighting and yelling resounds through the night, broken glass litters the streets, rubbish gets piled up for days in the "park" (read: gravel circle with fence enclosing it).
I met two little kids, probably 9 and 7 although the were that underfed and riddled with disease they coulda been 12 and 14 who were scabbing out of the bin behind the pub we were in, they hadn't eaten for 4 days, man the poor little buggers didn't even know where their parents were, not like it'd matter in any case since they were probably too broke, drunk and fucked up to do anything about it anyway...
Finally, I barely survived a mobbing on my final day in laverton, we were moving to a remote exploration camp and loading our truck with beer and cigarettes for the 2 weeks we would be out there before the final holes were drilled at that area and as we loaded the last of into the truck, about 15 natives came tearing across the "park" throwing stick, bottles, bricks, cans and whatever else they could as we hauled ass out of town and we were pursued about 100m down the road until we got to the hwy the sole purpose was to get the booze, since they hadn't even look twice at us in over 5 months.
To be honest, I think the situation is completely unsalvagable. On one hand you have a govt that couldn't care less about the town and towns full of aborigines who couldn't care less about life.
My point is, as other people have had a go at me over previous threads is that it's hard to get the aborigines to adopt our white middle class ideals, and rightly so, but not looking after your kids, not feeding them, shitting where you sleep, constant fighting and violence - they aren't middle class ideals, it's just basic human nature to do those those, no matter where you come from, you provide for your offspring, being productive whilst entirely subjective, isn't even human nature, it's basic animal nature.
). I know that there are a small amount of people that have contributed decent discussion, but for the most part, this thread has gone to shit, just like the first one.
![:\](https://bluelight.org/xf/BL_Images/Orig_Emoji/wrygrin.gif "wry grin :\")
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