The fact is it’s not just an Indigenous Problem it’s Australia wide. Where conditions of systemic and severe inequality are seen these problems tend to follow. Ice has become the scourge of rural Australia. Problems are visible and exacerbated where the circumstances have been historically Intergenerational yes. But while the dysfunction is immediate and recognizable but is falsely defined as Indigenous and  just historical the immediate context of inequality and opportunity denied.  The systemic nature and growing trend of behaviours despite colour is denied and individuals and culture so easily blamed.

Yes , Social and internalised aspects of racist psychology is absorbed in our total Australian Culture which has been stuck in a colonial time warp that dates back 200 years and no matter race, colour, or ethnicity we are all living it and see it as the norm. However if one looks at our urban enviroment today one might think white folk are becoming more and more Aboriginal. Living rough like in Broome white folk can bee seen everywhere. However as yet not noticably intergenerational.Thats not colour or culture thats inequality, poverty and an inability to stop being sucked down materially.

This isn’t an individual battle that can be won by a few good men this is an integrated battle that recognizes our system need radical change and the accomanying Culture that has trapped us all. It’s a fight for equality and opportunity a can that keeps getting kicked down the road rather than dealt with as our problem. It’s why Broome hasn’t changed but got worse as has Melbourne’s white mob. (ODT)

Findings by State Coroner Ros Fogliani following an inquest into the suicides – including two in Broome – of 13 Indigenous children and young people in the Kimberley released last week laid bare the “urgent need to understand the deep inequalities giving rise to the current poor state of wellbeing of Aboriginal people in the Kimberley region”.

The Coroner referred to the “tragic events” as having been shaped by the “crushing effects of intergenerational trauma and poverty upon entire communities”.

You don’t have to look far to see it for yourself.

But you do have to get off your backside.

via Broome’s booze battle: The Kimberley indigenous population is in crisis