From the First Fleet to the courtrooms of Tennant Creek and elsewhere, the one genuinely immutable aspect of 'the world's oldest continuous culture' has been brutality, especially against women and children. Why has the plethora of well-funded Aboriginal councils not tackled the violence? The evidence suggests they can’t solve the problem because they are the problem
Conservatives love to lament that “you can’t say anything any more”. That could be amended to “you can’t say anything any more without risking unintended and possibly life-ruining consequences”.