[Paul]

Originally Posted by Jose Jones I think John Howard might just sneak back in. It'll be close anyway. The thing is this policy was based on an independent report by these two professors. They found that child abuse was rife in the aboriginal communities with kids as young as 3 having STDs. There was also white paedos going into the communities and taking advantage of the kids because all the adults were off their faces. Aboriginals have major problems with booze. They also have to have special petrol in Alice Springs cos their are big problems with Aboriginals petrol sniffing. Most Aboriginals are happy to take their welfare cheque and spend it all on booze, because they don't have jobs and don't have anything else to do.It may sound racist but it's true. Of course it all goes back to evil colonialism, persecution and land thieving. Did you know it was only 40 years ago that Aboriginals were first classified as humans in the census? Before 1967 they were classified as "Flora and Fauna".

I can accept all of that line except for the word "happy" - and therein lies the problem with the Aboriginal communities of Australia: they are suffering from generational oppression to the point where individuals have become depressed on a large scale.