It looks like you're using an Ad Blocker.
Please white-list or disable AboveTopSecret.com in your ad-blocking tool.
Thank you.
Some features of ATS will be disabled while you continue to use an ad-blocker.
A State Government report paints a bleak picture of the life of Aboriginals in Roebourne, revealing alarming levels of alcohol abuse, child neglect, violence, crime and overcrowding.
...
Police figures in the report reveal that between February 2008 and February 2009 there were 59 reported domestic assaults and 56 non-domestic assaults in Roebourne.
In the same period there were 10 reported sexual assaults, 41 acts of threatening behaviour and 171 reports of property damage. Eighty per cent of offences were alcohol-related.
For a town with a population of 1000, 75 per cent of which is Aboriginal, the quantity of offences is out of proportion, the report states.
In an area of the town know as The Village there can be between 15 and 20 people living in each home at any one time.
Village resident Cyril Munda, who lives among the squalor, said no one should have to live in such conditions.
The report, dated July last year but quietly placed on the department's website, highlights the poor school attendance and literacy and numeracy rates of the town's children. It also highlights the high proportion of Roebourne children considered vulnerable in terms of their physical, social and emotional development.
*
Originally posted by Chadwickus
To those who aren't Australian probably won't understand this issue, it is hugely biased when reported in the media, the two above articles quite clearly show that it couldn't possibly be the fault of the occupants of these communities, no just blame the government, to blame the people who need to be blamed gets you called racist.
Originally posted by Chadwickus
There needs to be a line drawn, we've paid tenfold for the crimes and atrocities we inflicted on their ancestors, we're still paying for it now.
Originally posted by Dock9
The whites tried to break this cycle by separating Aboriginal children from the adults, putting them in church homes, giving them an education, decent if plain food and teaching them some sort of skill via which they could earn a living.
Originally posted by Retrovertigo
I'm surprised the govt hasn't extended this to other centres of indigenous population (like Fitzroy Crossing)...