What Abos Buy with Welfare and Royalty Money.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/news/northern-territory/18000aday-bender/news-story/dda909a278a25b010812ae620bcf0570

RESIDENTS in the remote community of Gapuwiyak are spending as much as $18,000 a day on drugs and gambling, and the town has lost a "whole generation" to mental illness, according to a traditional owner.

In a statement read in court, traditional owner Mickey Wunungmurra said on some days, $18,000 in cash was withdrawn from the town's only ATM, most of which he claimed was spent on a combination of drugs, petrol sniffing and gambling. Mr Wunungmurra's account was largely corroborated by other residents and police.

The town, 220km by road from Nhulunbuy, has a population of around 1200.

"We have a whole generation of children with mental health problems and depression," Mr Wunungmurra said.

"Having lived my whole life in this community I have seen things made progressively worse since the introduction of cannabis."

He said many parents in town would stay up late into the night, gambling, smoking and sniffing petrol.

By morning, school-aged children would be found asleep in bed instead of at school, Mr Wunungmurra said.

"School attendance used to be really good," he said, adding that at some points last year, attendance rates dropped as low as 20 per cent.

Official figures show Gapuwiyak School had attendance figures of 29.0 per cent in term four last year, down from 54.2 per cent for the 2013 school year, the earliest time comparable figures were available.

Mr Wunungmurra said he and other elders feared for the loss of local culture as young people's drug habits become entrenched

Mr Wunungmurra's comments on the effect of drugs in Gapuwiyak came during the sentencing of an out-of-town drug dealer, Richard Witham, who pocketed $24,000 from the sale of drugs in four days.

The courts regularly hear cases of drug runners travelling to remote communities, who, like Witham, take advantage of the high price of cannabis. At $100 per gram, dealers profit from as much as a 1000 per cent mark-up on wholesale prices in Darwin.


Makes me wonder exactly how much of my taxes go on this crap! How can an Abo afford $18/k per day?! Either that or the mining company is paying mega bucks for royalties in a time where the mining boom has dropped off?

[Rev.Cambeul]

How can an Abo afford $18/k per day?!

That's $18,000 for the entire town - not for the individual Australopithecoon.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

The 1200 boongs living there, you can bet most of them are welfare reciprients getting a "basics card" that allow the purchasing of just :- food, hygene, basic clothing and health products. So where is all this money coming from? Pimping? Selling drugs? Baby bonus? Thefts?

I have noticed Abos at estasblishments gambling at like 8:00am. Is it just from mining royalties they are getting this from? Nhullunbuy had an aluminium mine . But that is no more. Makes me wonder is Rio Tinto is continuing to hook the Abos up with all this money like they previously have been.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/millions-spent-on-remote-tafe-sa-campuses-in-apy-lands-with-few-graduates-prompting-call-for-revamp/news-story/8de586612cff3b4f0d0ec53aee81e858

TAFE campuses in the remote APY Lands cost millions of dollars to run but are producing only a handful of graduates, prompting calls for the money to be better targeted.

It costs TAFE SA more than $1.8 million a year to run six campuses on the indigenous territory in the state's Far North, where hundreds of students are enrolled at any one time.

But in recent years, the number of course completions each semester has regularly been fewer than 10. In the most extreme case, just one student completed a course in the first semester of 2014.

Successive Aboriginal Affairs ministers have been criticised for failing to find sustainable solutions to persistent issues in the Anangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, including a lack of employment opportunities and accessible health care, food insecurity, abuse, financial mismanagement and governance. There are few employment opportunities for Anangu people, outside lauded art centres, continuing reliance on welfare.

A TAFE spokeswoman said students studying part-time, health problems, "cultural requirements" such as Sorry Business and Men's Business, long travelling times and the need for language, literacy and numeracy support were among the many reasons for low numbers of course passes.

The spokeswoman said work expos, close liaison with employers and more on the job training produced the improved results last year.

She said the cost of remote campuses was justified because TAFE, as the public provider of vocational training, was obligated to deliver opportunities across the state.

"TAFE SA is committed to social inclusion principles and providing opportunities for disadvantaged groups to gain qualifications that would otherwise be unattainable," she said.

"TAFE SA's commitment to delivering education to small classes in regional centres, including in the APY Lands, requires significantly more investment than the delivery of qualifications in other areas."


The TAFE SA campus at Indulkana, in the APY Lands.
Opposition training spokesman David Pisoni, who obtained the figures under Freedom of Information, said the "shocking waste of money" must end.

"Minister (Susan) Close must explain why so much money is being spent to achieve such a poor outcome year upon year," Mr Pisoni said.

"It is inexcusable that some of our most disadvantaged citizens are being failed so comprehensively by the education system.

"It is almost criminal this is occurring when South Australia has an unemployment rate of 7 per cent and the Weatherill Government has gutted its jobs training programs.

"This shocking waste of money and resources must end and the savings invested in effective jobs training programs for people living on the lands."


TAFE has learning centres at Amata, Ernabella, Indulkana, Fregon, Mimili and Pipalyatjara.

Certificate courses are offered in areas including education and skills development, community services, early childhood and care, automotive, hospitality and conservation and land management, plus short courses in a range of work and life skills.

Numbers of enrolments have ranged from 222 in Semester 1, 2012 to 329 in Semester 2, 2014.

Just three students completed courses in Semester 1, 2012, six in Semester 1, 2013, and seven in the second semesters of both 2013 and 2014.

Improvement was made last year, with 35 completions in Semester 1 and 25 in Semester 2, but the number fell to 14 in first semester this year.

Most training was in Certificate I in Education and Skills Development, for which TAFE's approach was focused on individual training plans and identifying study units to help students achieve their personal and employment goals, rather than certificate completion.

About 2700 people live on the remote APY Lands. The average age is 27 and the average annual income is about $22,700, according to ABS data.

The ABS also lists education and training as the main employment industry in the region.

Mobile phone coverage is patchy on the Lands and at the last Census, in 2011, only 28 per cent of occupied homes had internet access.

About 80 per cent of the population is recorded as speaking a language other than English at home. In 2011, only a quarter of APY residents held a post-school qualification.

Design work has begun on a $106 million road from Fregon to Indulkana to improve accessibility and reduce travel times and freight costs.

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

http://www.adelaidenow.com.au/news/south-australia/sa-researcher-warns-one-in-every-two-young-people-in-some-outback-indigenous-communities-carries-an-sti/news-story/83dfe691db1097e6eea777d2c86ddaa9

ONE in every two young people in some remote indigenous communities now carries a sexually transmitted disease and Australia is facing a new syphilis and HIV epidemic in the Outback, a leading South Australian researcher warns.

An in-depth study of 65 remote indigenous communities across northern Australia revealed the extent of sexually transmitted infections (STIs) among teenagers.

South Australian Health and Medical Research Institute (SAHMRI) Aboriginal Health Infection and Immunity Theme Associate Professor James Ward said the extent of the largely hidden problem "keeps me awake at night".

The study found about one in two young people in the communities studied had one of the three major STIs — chlamydia, gonorrhoea or trichomoniasis. Prof Ward said: "There also is a major syphilis outbreak now occurring across northern Australian, mainly among young people, and without extra resources to deal with it we have been struggling.

"We've always known there are a large number of diagnoses but that has only been related to diagnoses returned — as part of research study over the past five years we have studied the prevalence.

"We looked at 65 remote communities across northern Australia — in the NT, WA and Queensland — and found the prevalence among young people to be almost one in every two. It is a complex issue and one that is largely ignored."

Prof Ward, who has Aboriginal ancestry, noted the prevalence outstripped the diagnoses results for reasons that included cultural sensitivity about talking about STIs, young people avoiding health clinics, and some STIs not causing symptoms that would prompt a visit to a health centre.

A low level of health literacy and education for prevention, plus the influence of drugs and alcohol, were also factors. Prof Ward stressed it was not an issue of promiscuity.


"A 16-year-old in Adelaide who has five partners might rarely get chlamydia, but a 16- to 19-year-old in a remote community is very likely to get one of the three even if they have only one sexual relationship simply because the prevalence among the community is so high," he said
"As much as it would be lovely if everyone used a condom, we know it is not always done and it is a large, young, mobile population. It's a bit like the flu — if everyone in your community has got it and you don't have protection of vaccination you are probably going to get it."

Prof Ward is helping develop a range of resources in communities for young people, their families and carers to learn about STIs and blood borne diseases.

The work is also focused on providing resources for clinicians, to get them to offer tests.

So , nature has a way of dealing with these immoral boongs who probably have gang bangs and therefore knock up women who don't know who the father is? Just goes to show it is dangerous to sleep with Abos!