No, not even close. This is a report that points out some tensions. What a shock, country with millions of people has some problems. often with a minority of people on either side.
take muslims, some really don't help themselves by refusing to fratenise with non-muslims because of some obtuse, probably misunderstood verse in some book wirtten 1400 yrs ago. if you don't want to be part of the wider society, why should the wider society pander to your whims.
This is only a minority that do that, but it does give pause to everyone else when dealing with someone from the middle east because you have no idea of the reaction you're going to get, so up go the defences.
The problems with the blackfellas are very deep and insoluble in the short term. Blackfellas were nomadic, tribal peoples who lived in scattered family groups and lived off the land. there was little of the pointers we use to define a modern society. no towns, little or no organised agriculture, no roads, very little trade, etc. it is a completely different thing to what most of us know. many of them esp in the NT have been catapulted into this different society within the last 40 - 50 yrs and many are struggling to cope.
how to solve this is difficult.
i'll take education. many community schools have an appalling attendance record, often because the kids are taken out for cultural activities, or to go to their homelands. but something has to give and it's the education. hard to survive in a modern world, if you can't read and write or add up.
so what's it to be education or culture. you choose. it's been too hard for us. if you force education, you're accused of killing the culture. If you let the culture run, you're accused of neglecting education. no fucking win option if you are a whitefella/yellowfella in govt.
