mmm - watso started a similar thread (post
14735360) - with no responses - maybe because watso was not attacking the government.
watso used to work in exploration crews, and worked the width and breadth of western australia .
maintaining aboriginal communities, because of the so called connection to the land is a waste of time . meaningful work, is what is required, to get people off their backsides...
just one small example of the problem - and indeed, where there could have been gainful productive employment for a community in the back blocks of west australia - yes, out wiluna way - right in the middle of west australia.
Desert Farm was started in 1967 by Jack Parr. He established 70 acres of mandarins, valencias, navel oranges and grapefruit, which grew exceptionally well. Watermelons and rockmelons were also grown. Lime trees were planted as windbreaks. Water for the trees was provided by a network of 15 bores, each equipped with electric pumps. Sometime after 1972, Desert Farm was taken over by the Aboriginal people and thrived for several years, marketing its fruit under the label "Desert Gold". The orchard closed sometime after 1995. This aerial view taken in January 2001 shows the blocks where the fruit trees have died due to lack of water and maintenance.
seriously - but why bother working, when the government will build houses, for the whole community, and then allows work to be optional .
if aborigines have this so called connection with the land, then let them have it - let them hunt their kangaroos, let the women make their spinifex bread, let them live in mia mia's - at least they will be working from sun up to sun down - but cut off the welfare, so there is no sit down money.
watso used the example of desert gold - because it was a viable business, providing an economic basis for a remote community, but that did not work.
the jews managed to turn desert into gold, in isreal - and all people are supposed to be equal????