Comments on: Disadvantage http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/01/11/disadvantage/ Sun, 12 Feb 2012 00:38:10 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3 By: Mark Bahnisch http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/01/11/disadvantage/#comment-28500 Mark Bahnisch Wed, 11 Jan 2006 03:16:54 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/01/11/disadvantage/#comment-28500 Pearson, if you read everything he says, doesn't minimise the other factors which lead to Indigenous disadvantage. But his admirers like Rafe tend to ignore the bits they don't like, and blame it all on "passive welfare". The question of engendering economic opportunity in Indigenous communities is actually a complex one, as I've argued (most) recently in an interchange at <a href="http://johnquiggin.com/index.php/archives/2006/01/06/weekend-reflections-2/#comment-40730" rel="nofollow">JQ's place</a>. Pearson, if you read everything he says, doesn’t minimise the other factors which lead to Indigenous disadvantage. But his admirers like Rafe tend to ignore the bits they don’t like, and blame it all on “passive welfare”. The question of engendering economic opportunity in Indigenous communities is actually a complex one, as I’ve argued (most) recently in an interchange at JQ’s place.

]]> By: Rafe http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/01/11/disadvantage/#comment-28498 Rafe Tue, 10 Jan 2006 22:37:44 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/01/11/disadvantage/#comment-28498 This prompts a memory of Noel Pearson's speech to the Centre for Independent Studies where he spoke about the need to get the incentive and reward system in order for Aboriginal communities to address the collapse of morale and morals engendered by passive welfare. http://badanalysis.com/catallaxy/?p=1280 This prompts a memory of Noel Pearson’s speech to the Centre for Independent Studies where he spoke about the need to get the incentive and reward system in order for Aboriginal communities to address the collapse of morale and morals engendered by passive welfare. http://badanalysis.com/catallaxy/?p=1280

]]> By: Fyodor http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/01/11/disadvantage/#comment-28497 Fyodor Tue, 10 Jan 2006 20:54:43 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/01/11/disadvantage/#comment-28497 Summernats? Summernats?

]]> By: Cameron Riley http://clubtroppo.com.au/2006/01/11/disadvantage/#comment-28495 Cameron Riley Tue, 10 Jan 2006 14:21:23 +0000 http://www.clubtroppo.com.au/2006/01/11/disadvantage/#comment-28495 I recall a kid at school used to sniff petrol. I remember being at an assembly or something, and a mate of mine was sitting next to him. He was closer to the kid than I was. The kids eyes were bloodshot and he was pretty quiet. My mate jerked his finger at the kid and said, "He's been sniffing petrol again." Apparently before and after school he would go for a ride on his trail bike, head off down to the back of his property and sniff petrol from the trail bike's tank. Wonder where the kid is today? I recall a kid at school used to sniff petrol. I remember being at an assembly or something, and a mate of mine was sitting next to him. He was closer to the kid than I was. The kids eyes were bloodshot and he was pretty quiet. My mate jerked his finger at the kid and said, “He’s been sniffing petrol again.”

Apparently before and after school he would go for a ride on his trail bike, head off down to the back of his property and sniff petrol from the trail bike’s tank.

Wonder where the kid is today?

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