Maoris Now Own Over Half The Commercial

Over 120 Aboriginal Communities Run Their Own Health Services - Some Have Been Doing So For 30 Years. They Struggle With Difficult Medical Problems. They Also Try To Deal With Counselling, Stolen Generations Issues, Family Relationships, Violence, Suicide Prevention.

Health Economists Have Estimated That An Injection Of $250 Million Per Year In Indigenous Clinical Care, And $50 Million In Preventative Care, Is Required To Provide Services At The Same Level As For Any Other Group With The Health Conditions Of Indigenous Australians.

There Are No Quick Fixes To Indigenous Poverty And Social Disaster.

Even Australians Who Take A Very, Very Hard Line About Asylum Seekers - And Unfortunately There Are More Than I Would Like To Think - Are Probably A Bit Uncomfortable With The Kind Of Treatment That Has Been Meted Out To Children In Detention By The Australian Government, In Their Name.

Last Year The National Sorry Day Committee Consulted With Stolen Generations People In Every State And Territory, And Concluded That Programmes Set Up In Response To The Bringing Them Home Report Are Reaching Only A Small Fraction Of Those They Are Intended To Help.