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Agree on the education, jobs and positive future thing that should start to close the gap.
But, you don’t get that by living under a tree in the remote outback.
So, while Aboriginals want to maintain their ancient lifestyle by hunting and gathering, there will always be a huge gap. This is common across the World, not just here. Europe developed, they conquered the World through colonialism, we went through the industrial revolution that brought us out of poverty, but indigenous people got left behind everywhere. Maybe that was by design, but it’s been 300-400 years now. They have got to see that the future is not living in mud huts or under a tree and burning dung to cook a rodent. They’ve got to join in eventually.
I doubt if many or even any do that.
Being paid to drink all day is a much better job.
Interesting to see how many homes that "need repairs" are the result of willful destruction, but I doubt if that sort of inconvenient data will make it into the media.