People & Power - First People, Last Chance - 26 Dec 07

People & Power reports from the heart of Australia on a dilemma facing the country's indigenous people.

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[PrecisionAfrikan]

sick. it's blame-the-victim colonial sociology. indigenous people and afrikans in amerikkka or australia aren't born self-destructive, intoxicated and unmotivated. such conditions are a clear and direct result of oppression and colonialism. once we are totally free to define our own destinies and command our own resources and labor for our own benefit, we can independently move forward. until then white man leave us the fuck alone!

[gumacyare]

What would have happened if palastinians were not muslims? They would certainly be accused of child abuse, drugs and alcohol to further the agenda of the colonialists.

[RoslynJoyJohnson]

Don't listen to the white man, it's in their interests, they create the problems. White children in the past also experienced abuse. It's a sick society.

[everlasting1878]

i jest think funding medical funding and jobs or to be given a chance international aid if you can't see there is no help from coverment and its put aboriginals in a state of poverty and no strucksha in place some new worriers haft stand up and make ow people strong again stand up tall and dress good keep of the drink be positive role models for the children and remember theres wrong way and theres the right way

[SuperAmira85]

its a shame how people are being treated in their own country

[DaphzGemini]

So sad these issues have still not been addressed. Aboriginal people need to be helped not told, if only the govt could work with them not against them their would be results.

[shortyzan]

The most draconian since the arrival of the white man? what about the stolen generations? the (alleged) massacres? the land grabbing? the opinion that the indigenous people were little more than animals? I find it hard to believe that these are the worst times that these people have faced.

[geoffybellofiore]

mixed aborigines like walter shaw shouldn't be labelled abo.

[afrolatinadamien]

...This is sad....200 years?? omg that is not that long ago :/.....*sigh* these people deserve to be treated like human beings in my opinion these people should be granted special citizenship status's because it was their land to begin with.

[rodmiller27]

Aboriginals want to move forward,, what shit,, 40 thousend years not one monument temple, pyromid?? Make it illegal to sell them piss that would be a start.

[mthemoss]

Its us white men sitting in our own shit that forced us to invent solutions to the problems that came with every new solution until every benefit has three times the problems, ie: rapid population growth, deforestation, fuel dependency, famine though over farming. The natives had it right. individually they may only live until 50 but the tribe could live for ever.