The dream is that one day, the public will see Indigenous wellbeing not as a niche cause or a tokenistic gesture, but as a matter of national responsibility and collective benefit.
It may just be something simple and at the same time profoundly complex, such as this is what happens throughout history when one 'civilisation' is overwhelmed by another that is better at adapting. If you look at it via a 'macro-level', of clashing and competing civilisations, then this may be how history plays out. Of course, at the 'micro-level' of humans interacting, we see pain and suffering. In this sense I think no-one is to blame. It's how the world has always moved. There is an old Buddhist saying that goes 'a man can only free himself', and I think there is a lot of truth to that. Indigenous folk are the only ones who can 'free' indigenous folk. I don’t see their problems as a manifestation of 'white supremacy', 'colonialism' so much as a 'failure to adapt' to a changing and challenging world. At a micro-level there is plenty of racism and terrible bigoted treatment.....its complicated, but won’t be solved by non-indigenous and their ‘programs’.
It costs money and Gina needs a tax cut
The reasons the gap isn't closing boil down to one word - poverty.
Indigenous people are more likely to be poor than white people.
Poor white people have similar problems to poor indigenous people.
Poverty causes disadvantage.
It may just be something simple and at the same time profoundly complex, such as this is what happens throughout history when one 'civilisation' is overwhelmed by another that is better at adapting. If you look at it via a 'macro-level', of clashing and competing civilisations, then this may be how history plays out. Of course, at the 'micro-level' of humans interacting, we see pain and suffering. In this sense I think no-one is to blame. It's how the world has always moved. There is an old Buddhist saying that goes 'a man can only free himself', and I think there is a lot of truth to that. Indigenous folk are the only ones who can 'free' indigenous folk. I don’t see their problems as a manifestation of 'white supremacy', 'colonialism' so much as a 'failure to adapt' to a changing and challenging world. At a micro-level there is plenty of racism and terrible bigoted treatment.....its complicated, but won’t be solved by non-indigenous and their ‘programs’.