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Anna Marshall - 13 March 2005 The Centre for
Independent Studies has just released a paper by two academics,
Helen Hughes and Jenness Warin, that highlights
the problems I first wrote about on this site in February 2004 - the devastation
wrought on Australia's Aboriginal population by the the socialist policies
of H.C. Coombs and other bleeding hearts.
The academics make many of the same points I made- the degradation and
frustration rife in hundreds of human zoos in the middle of nowhere.
However, their prescription to remedy the situation does not go anywhere near
far enough.
The academics have followed the suddenly fashionable path of requiring
Aboriginal groups and families to be given individual titles to the lands gained
in the great land grab (a.k.a. land rights) with the pathetic hope that
entrepreneurial Aborigines can raise capital to fund economic enterprises by
mortgaging the land.
This is more muddle-headed academic thinking. Hughes and Warin reveal in
their paper that the vast majority of remote Aborigines can hardly express
themselves in English, are so innumerate and
illiterate that they cannot even read the labels on food containers.
Secondly, most of the land, with some exceptions, in remote Australia is
worthless from the point of view of raising capital through mortgages.
If individual titles were issued and landowners could raise money by
mortgaging the properties, how long do you think it would take for the money to
be so raised by illiterate persons with no business skills, to be dissipated in alcohol,
drugs, gifts and reckless spending, with the end result the land reverts to the
mortgagor?
I believe I have given the real prescription for Aborigines to break free
from this downward spiral. See The real solution to the
Aboriginal disaster.
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