IMO the big issue facing Aborigine people's historic complaint that they were racially discriminated against due to them being black, is that of the recent arrival of African & Indian migrants.
Indian Immigrants are climbing the socio/economic ladder by starting up their own small businesses (aspirationaly middle class) or being already middle class via the professions (EG: Medicine)
The African immigrants are now migrating ( mainly) from being welfare dependant to dinky die Aussie working class.
This is why, IMO , there has been an extra push by the Indigenous leaders to seek advantage via being Indigenous rather than being black.
That said, however, if Indian & African Immigrants were " compelled" to live in outback Aus with limited job/business opportunities, then their welfare dependence would likely be no different to that of our outback indigenous peoples. This would engender a Culture of Poverty rather than a specific ethnic culture, IMO.
I guess over time, it'll be interesting to see how African immigrants who have favoured concentrating in certain suburbs fair out vs Indigenous people in say Redfern. I guess time will tell...eh?
I guess to be reasonable about racial/ethnic issues, we have to judge by outcomes; particuluarly economic outcomes, IMO.
