So, Australia thinks the Aboriginals are too dangerous to be allowed to drink alcohol (What's up with that?)

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Honestly, I really don't know anything about Australia, but what it sounds like is everyone can drink except this small group of people that actually originated the continent.

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout And in saying this I think many American reservations are dry meaning you can't drink alcohol on the reservation. But that's the Native Americans making that decision.

@Lostpoet i havnt tuned into it all in quiet a while, but im sure it goes like this.

if youre unemployed and recieve governemnt welfare. instead of cash they give you a credit card top up. and this credit card cant be used in liqour stores or for ciggs. labor party scrapped that when they took power. went back to just giving ca$h
now theres another election coming up. those who ended this credit card scheme are embarressed because violence immediatly shot up.
as aboriginal elders warned it would, and begged them not to end the scheme.

(important side note... that aboriginal elders were begging for the scheme to stay in place)
and the media not mentioning that part .. seems weird right?

now the argument is, : its racist to reinstall the card system.

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Even the employed are banned. But it did say that a lot of the elders wanted to keep it enforced. The paper was talking about how there was a barrier between a bar and the aboriginals couldn't cross it. But this is me reading one article about an issue that i know nothing about.

'they' say a lot.
from the comfort of an entire different state without ever visiting and seeing the problem for themselves..