Is society getting worse?

[Mugwump]

Skids context was based on many visits to such communities. That is valuable and real context.

If the federal govt numbers replace state expenditure, then unless the states are spending twice as much on non-aboriginal communities, his point remains that overall spending per year on aboriginal is around twice as high.

It was, I repeat, a quality post based on real experience plus hard numbers, whether you like the implications or not.

If you have better numbers, by all means post them.

[Mugwump]

If they were still down the mines from 12, none of this would be happening. If we marched them all to war against cannons as infantrymen with bayonets, none of this would be happening. If we made sure they were weakened by diseas and malnutrition, none of this would be happening. If ....

Yes, the poor are so much better off than the middle ages and the neanderthal days . What the hell is wrong with them? They have no excuse, if only they could learn to behave like the rest of us.

I was raised in a hole in the ground and we were lucky, no crime then. We thanked our overlords, twice daily.

Only the modern left could see violent crime as a consequence of better living standards for the poorer parts of our society. But then, the modern left has always been a libertarian movement devoted to removing tiresome restraints from the middle classes. The poor and precarious, who live in places where the thugs roam, cannot afford sarcasm about this, even sarcasm as cut-price as that above.

[watt price tully]

Skids context was based on many visits to such communities. That is valuable and real context.

If the federal govt numbers replace state expenditure, then unless the states are spending twice as much on non-aboriginal communities, his point remains that overall spending per year on aboriginal is around twice as high.

It was, I repeat, a quality post based on real experience plus hard numbers, whether you like the implications or not.

If you have better numbers, by all means post them.

You're a smart guy but do not accept the numbers as they are. Question the numbers.

If you choose to blindly accept whole numbers, not address the fact that state governments historically took monies away from they were meant to be spent, ignore cultural factors like kinship networks then you would find the numbers meaningful.

It was a less than informed post without context. But go ahead accept what you like sans explanation. Just because Skids may have worked there does not make him an expert on where & how money is spent. Good on him for being a plumber & if we need plumbing issues he should be number 1 but I would not expect a plumber to have detailed knowledge on federal & state expenditure.

[watt price tully]

If they were still down the mines from 12, none of this would be happening. If we marched them all to war against cannons as infantrymen with bayonets, none of this would be happening. If we made sure they were weakened by diseas and malnutrition, none of this would be happening. If ....

Yes, the poor are so much better off than the middle ages and the neanderthal days . What the hell is wrong with them? They have no excuse, if only they could learn to behave like the rest of us.

I was raised in a hole in the ground and we were lucky, no crime then. We thanked our overlords, twice daily.

Only the modern left could see violent crime as a consequence of better living standards for the poorer parts of our society. But then, the modern left has always been a libertarian movement devoted to removing tiresome restraints from the middle classes. The poor and precarious, who live in places where the thugs roam, cannot afford sarcasm about this, even sarcasm as cut-price as that above.

You're right, I'll get off your high horse. I know, its the 1960's wot done it.

[swoop42]

The bigger the population, the bigger chance of more dickheads.

Australia's population has increased from roughly 16 million in 1986 to 24 million 30 years later.

That's a whopping 50% increase and it stands to reason that with far more people and more diversity that can bring it's own associated problems comes more chance of a crime being committed.

The reality might be that the ratio of crime committed per person may not change a great deal across the years but if you have millions of more people committing thousands of more crimes across the years our perception will change along with it as there is a constant flow of incidents the media can now report on and police need to intervene in.

If you think about it our perception of actual population growth would be marginal in comparison because our habits of living our daily life rarely change across the decades and we continue to live within our own bubble of family, close friends, school and work.

[Mugwump]

No argument to make about a moral issue ?
1. Try sarcasm and misrepresentation.
2. If that doesn't work, try the "high horse" or the (assumed) "privilege" gambit and the eye roll.

[Mugwump]

The bigger the population, the bigger chance of more dickheads.

Australia's population has increased from roughly 16 million in 1986 to 24 million 30 years later.

That's a whopping 50% increase and it stands to reason that with far more people and more diversity that can bring it's own associated problems comes more chance of a crime being committed.

The reality might be that the ratio of crime committed per person may not change a great deal across the years but if you have millions of more people committing thousands of more crimes across the years our perception will change along with it as there is a constant flow of incidents the media can now report on and police need to intervene in.

If you think about it our perception of actual population growth would be marginal in comparison because our habits of living our daily life rarely change across the decades and we continue to live within our own bubble of family, close friends, school and work.

True, swoop, so it's the rate that matters. Most crime stats report incidents of x or y type, per 100,000 people. In the Uk this shows a dramatic rise in murder+attempted murder+GBH since the early 1970s. This number rose About 8x between 1965 and 2000. Population in that time sent up about 40℅. I reckon Australia will have seen about the same over that period, though there does not seem to be a comparable dataset.

[Mugwump]

Skids context was based on many visits to such communities. That is valuable and real context.

If the federal govt numbers replace state expenditure, then unless the states are spending twice as much on non-aboriginal communities, his point remains that overall spending per year on aboriginal is around twice as high.

It was, I repeat, a quality post based on real experience plus hard numbers, whether you like the implications or not.

If you have better numbers, by all means post them.

You're a smart guy but do not accept the numbers as they are. Question the numbers.

If you choose to blindly accept whole numbers, not address the fact that state governments historically took monies away from they were meant to be spent, ignore cultural factors like kinship networks then you would find the numbers meaningful.

It was a less than informed post without context. But go ahead accept what you like sans explanation. Just because Skids may have worked there does not make him an expert on where & how money is spent. Good on him for being a plumber & if we need plumbing issues he should be number 1 but I would not expect a plumber to have detailed knowledge on federal & state expenditure.

This is not a subject I know well, so if you have more integrated numbers between state and federal expenditure, that may certainly change my view. On the face of it the spending is a big disparity, but I'm open to revising my view if you can show that these numbers don't reflect the reality.

[stui magpie]

For me, the numbers Skids put up along with a few other of his stories about remote communities, just proves 1 point.

We can't fix those issues by throwing money at them.

Arguing over the whether the numbers are correct because of political accounting is pointless because the actual amount is irrelevant in the context.

fact is we spend a lot of money on indigenous issues and get far call ROI from what's intended. More money isn't the answer, it's better oversight on where, how and what to spend it on to actually make a difference.

I also like Swoop's point. The only problem with that is he assumes the number of dickheads as a percentage of population remains the same where in fact, it's increasing.

[think positive]

For me, the numbers Skids put up along with a few other of his stories about remote communities, just proves 1 point.

We can't fix those issues by throwing money at them.

Arguing over the whether the numbers are correct because of political accounting is pointless because the actual amount is irrelevant in the context.

fact is we spend a lot of money on indigenous issues and get far call ROI from what's intended. More money isn't the answer, it's better oversight on where, how and what to spend it on to actually make a difference.

I also like Swoop's point. The only problem with that is he assumes the number of dickheads as a percentage of population remains the same where in fact, it's increasing.

They're not dickheads, just greedy, lazy, self important, <snip>heads who should do hard labour to earn their place back in society. Criminals I mean.

[Skids]

[stui magpie]

Criminal shcriminal, the number of dickheads per capita is on the rise and education has nothing to do with it.

My team deal with highly educated dickheads every day. *


*caveat, some of them are actually smart.

[think positive]

Criminal shcriminal, the number of dickheads per capita is on the rise and education has nothing to do with it.

My team deal with highly educated dickheads every day. *


*caveat, some of them are actually smart.

[Morrigu]

No claim to being an expert on anything WPT, funny how my occupation seems to have me in some sort of uneducated moron category at every opportunity you can grasp

Have you never noticed that your eyes and ears are painted on then?

FWIW I worked in many remote communities ( a good many years ago now granted) as a nurse and quite frankly a plumber was in many instances a bloody side more useful!!

A significant amount of funding never reached where it should because of tribal and kinship affiliations - harsh but true!

[watt price tully]

No claim to being an expert on anything WPT, funny how my occupation seems to have me in some sort of uneducated moron category at every opportunity you can grasp

........

FWIW I worked in many remote communities ( a good many years ago now granted) as a nurse and quite frankly a plumber was in many instances a bloody side more useful!!

A significant amount of funding never reached where it should because of tribal and kinship affiliations - harsh but true!

That's exactly the point I was making with respect to kinship networks and a problem with top down policy. making a decision without community consultation /involvement is bizarre and destined to fail.

A plumber indeed any trade would be a highly regarded asset in remote communities