Tony Abbott wants to be the Prime Minister for Aboriginal Australia. Then again he also wants to be the Minister for Women. When he was asked what he had achieved in this portfolio he said he had abolished the carbon tax. Perhaps as Prime Minster for Aboriginal Australians his main achievement is stopping the boats. Only 227 years too late but I guess there's no use crying over spilt milk. Now Abbott has flagged another seminal achievement in Aboriginal affairs by supporting the Western Australian Government's decision to stop providing basic infrastructure to approximately 150 outstations - small Aboriginal communities, often remote, that have been set up by Aboriginal people since the 1960s as overflow from the towns and larger Aboriginal communities. The Western Australian Government says continuing to provide services to these communities is too expensive, and Abbott says that governments shouldn't pay for the people's "lifestyle choices". &quo
'Contemplating the teeming life of the shore, we have an uneasy sense of the communication of some universal truth that lies just beyond our grasp.' - Rachel Carson