I suggest you are the one who has fallen asleep at the wheel.
There is a new outlook among a growing Aboriginal middle class that is leaving its mark on society through creative arts including film making and business enterprises.
https://www.abc.net.au/radionational/programs/boyerlectures/series/2012-boyer-lectures/4305696
From the Boyer Lectures by Marcia Langdon
The emergence of an Aboriginal middle class in Australia in the last two to three decades has gone largely unnoticed. While the numbers remain small, this change heralds an economic future for Aboriginal people, unimaginable fifty years ago.Today, the expectation is quite the reverse.
The policies of federal governments for the last decade have implied, and increasingly made explicit, the expectation that educational achievement and employability will be the key outcomes of spending in Indigenous Affairs portfolios. This is a view generally shared by most ordinary Australians.
