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Something else at work here, I think, is the way that some people look at problems like these through the lenses of their own experience. From the way some of you are talking, you're judging a group of people by your own standards. I sure can relate to some of the sentiment- I'd love to get paid to sit around and drink, too. But you're forgetting something. It's right there in Wellard's post- Aboriginals were given the vote and counted as citizens 40 years ago. 92 years ago, in 1915, for I don't know how many years, the Australian government started kidnapping Aboriginal children and putting them in internment camps. Remember that? And now it's 2007, and people are actually wondering why there are problems with this group? People are actually blaming this group for not "getting over it" quickly enough?
It doesn't even seem to me like there should be a question about this, and I sometimes have trouble understanding that this may be difficult to grasp by some.
Change takes time, and understanding takes perspective. Think about it.
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