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The solution is to give people something else to do. The article makes Alice Springs seem like a remote city populated mostly by Aboriginal people. Aboriginal p
by dfxm12 3y ago
The solution is to give people something else to do. The article makes Alice Springs seem like a remote city populated mostly by Aboriginal people. Aboriginal people tend to get the short end of the stick in Australia, and remote places are hard to deliver social services to. Alcohol is easy to turn to in the face of inequality, unemployment, little access to education or healthcare, etc.
Addressing all of these issues will take longer to implement and be less politically palatable to the majority voter than something that looks more like a punishment.
- civilitty 3y agoI mean, what solution is there, really? What else can they do? Most of the professionals capable of providing such services don't want to move to a remote area to provide permanent services. Many of them could be convinced to provide mobile services working for the public good but most Western countries already struggle with chronic nurse, doctor, social worker, and teacher shortages so I assume Australia is following a similar trajectory. Even if there was political will to solve these issues, there simply isn't enough professionals to provide enough of these services to the urban areas, let alone the most remote ones. I think this is a much deeper problem with modern societies than just social and healthcare services in remote areas. We've got shortages of trained professionals across the board and we're not set up for any more growth, immigrant or native.
- scotty79 3y ago> What else can they do? Cannabis?