Wasn’t NT ALP Warren Snowden in politics for 30 years & admitted Aboriginals lives were worse when he retired than when he started? Imagine admitting this? Hasn’t Marion been part of the successive failed NTG ALP & CLP cohort, I’m sure all the black & white politicians are millionaires whilst remote communities live like dogs?
Australians are not ‘dickheads or dinosaurs’ & have been awakened after the COVID SCAMDEMIC, knowing NT politicians, DPP, NGO’s & Agencies etc work for self-interest; NT Grant networked system is corrupt & broken. Yes voters were the elites in the Canberra Bubble. Australians can be proud they voted No to globalist agenda.
We absolutely need to work in partnership. Govt can better fund schools but if we want better education outcomes, you must send your kids to school. If we want better health outcomes, more clinics and hygienic housing can be provided but you must give up smoking and drink more water than Coca Cola. If you want less kids in jail then work together as a community to look after and nurture these kids to stop offending. Yes, we need partnerships that all sides take responsibility for the issues and the solutions. It is not all the government’s fault and it is not all the non Aboriginal community’s fault.
Aboriginal people now control vast assets. They need to be able to use these in joint ventures with mainstream business. Australians need to work together not undertake some naive, mistaken notion of separate development. Land Councils need to be reformed to enable economic and human development to proceed.
Everyone needs to learn to take responsibility for their lives. Their actions All the excuses for the poverty. Cannot be fixed with money. It can only be fixed with people being responsible for their own lives and families. The paternalism needs to stop. The smothering needs to stop.
Totally agree with all the above comments. The point about the money was mentioned by a listener in the morning ABC program who described the money as a running tap with holes in the hose and a sprinkler at the end. Yes – all governments and agencies need to be audited properly – with no prop-up grants to keep them operating. Also, why when a program is working, do the powers that be withdraw/stop the funding? Also, the land councils existence depends on keeping these communities under their control. Several proposals from communities over the years in the NT have been blocked by the land councils. The Jawoyn people got out of the NLC many years ago and look at how great they are doing now? No other skin group has been able to do this since. Yes – grants are available but accountability is glossed over and so the circle of rorting continues.
@Jane Davies… you’ll find that 17 of the 18 mobile polling places around the NT overwhelmingly voted Yes. Nothing to do with Canberra or bubbles.
@Phil Adams…but it’s not working so therein lies the problem. It’s why the referendum was a great opportunity to fix things to make them better.
I’m looking forward to Question Time across the NT Parliament this week and next. Federal QT was pretty fiery yesterday and I’m assuming will continue to be today.
You are either myopic or (self) delusional Phil. The only area of Australia to vote Yes was ACT (full of “Public Servant” types). Many Aboriginal and Labor constituents voted No. Sick of the Virtue Signalling Woke brigade.
Wasn’t NT ALP Warren Snowden in politics for 30 years & admitted Aboriginals lives were worse when he retired than when he started? Imagine admitting this? Hasn’t Marion been part of the successive failed NTG ALP & CLP cohort, I’m sure all the black & white politicians are millionaires whilst remote communities live like dogs?
Australians are not ‘dickheads or dinosaurs’ & have been awakened after the COVID SCAMDEMIC, knowing NT politicians, DPP, NGO’s & Agencies etc work for self-interest; NT Grant networked system is corrupt & broken. Yes voters were the elites in the Canberra Bubble. Australians can be proud they voted No to globalist agenda.
We absolutely need to work in partnership. Govt can better fund schools but if we want better education outcomes, you must send your kids to school. If we want better health outcomes, more clinics and hygienic housing can be provided but you must give up smoking and drink more water than Coca Cola. If you want less kids in jail then work together as a community to look after and nurture these kids to stop offending. Yes, we need partnerships that all sides take responsibility for the issues and the solutions. It is not all the government’s fault and it is not all the non Aboriginal community’s fault.
If everything was working there wouldn’t have been any feeble excuse for the voice referendum.
Maybe she should support the audit of where all the millions of dollars are going and why it doesn’t make a difference.
Aboriginal people now control vast assets. They need to be able to use these in joint ventures with mainstream business. Australians need to work together not undertake some naive, mistaken notion of separate development. Land Councils need to be reformed to enable economic and human development to proceed.
The voice needs to be in the communities not in Canberra. The reason that indigenous peoples face bad outcomes often stems from their own choices.
Everyone needs to learn to take responsibility for their lives. Their actions All the excuses for the poverty. Cannot be fixed with money. It can only be fixed with people being responsible for their own lives and families. The paternalism needs to stop. The smothering needs to stop.
Totally agree with all the above comments. The point about the money was mentioned by a listener in the morning ABC program who described the money as a running tap with holes in the hose and a sprinkler at the end. Yes – all governments and agencies need to be audited properly – with no prop-up grants to keep them operating. Also, why when a program is working, do the powers that be withdraw/stop the funding? Also, the land councils existence depends on keeping these communities under their control. Several proposals from communities over the years in the NT have been blocked by the land councils. The Jawoyn people got out of the NLC many years ago and look at how great they are doing now? No other skin group has been able to do this since. Yes – grants are available but accountability is glossed over and so the circle of rorting continues.
@Jane Davies… you’ll find that 17 of the 18 mobile polling places around the NT overwhelmingly voted Yes. Nothing to do with Canberra or bubbles.
@Phil Adams…but it’s not working so therein lies the problem. It’s why the referendum was a great opportunity to fix things to make them better.
I’m looking forward to Question Time across the NT Parliament this week and next. Federal QT was pretty fiery yesterday and I’m assuming will continue to be today.
You are either myopic or (self) delusional Phil. The only area of Australia to vote Yes was ACT (full of “Public Servant” types). Many Aboriginal and Labor constituents voted No.
Sick of the Virtue Signalling Woke brigade.