The Needed and Overdue Farewell to Alms

Why are Aboriginal remote communities so often cesspits of dysfunction?  It cannot be blamed on a lack of money, attention or time invested in solving their problems. So, what is going wrong? Why are the vast majority of Australians with Aboriginal ancestry doing fine while those in these afflicted communities endure lives of such misery and violence that it is culpably negligent to persist with the approach and polices that have not merely allowed by encouraged it to continue?

The claim is that the experience of colonisation has caused these problems when the reality is that all humans are descended from the colonised and most do just fine. This suggests by default that it is the lack of assimilation which is the cause of the dysfunction. We know as much because the vast majority of those with Aboriginal ancestry are fully assimilated into the modern world and have been for generations. They are doing as well and have the same sorts of outcomes as other Australians. This is why…