Why not look at funding alcohol drying out programs, camps run by elders for the children, child sexual abuse treatment programs using Koori-trained staff, sporting programs.
Throwing people in jail has never worked as a way to curb criminal behaviour.
For an already decimated Indigenous people, it will be our white boots of moral outrage again trampling them into the mud.
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Now is the time to take a grip on the Aboriginal issue, engage their communities, create employment by training their people to help each other and start rebuilding the esteem and hope we long ago destroyed.
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Barbara Biggs is a former journalist and author of a two-part autobiography, In Moral Danger and The Road Home, launched in May 2004 by Peter Hollingworth and Chat Room in 2006. Her latest book is Sex and Money: How to Get More. Barbara is convenor of the National Council for Children Post-Separation, www.nccps.org.