NATURAL COLLECTIVES

'NATURAL COLLECTIVES'
Humans of similar race, religion, economic status and cultures naturally band together and like to live within communities of common interests. This is a basic human instinct to be near your friends. Redfern's Aboriginal community is comparable to Chinatown's Asian collective, Mosman's yuppie collective, Bondi's creative good-looking collective, etc.

It seems to me that Sartor wants the Aboriginals and drugs out of the area to remove the 'fear' of potential apartment purchasers in the newly developing southern corridor. It wouldn't surprise me if Sartor has many property developer friends (in fact it would shock me if he didn't) that own a lot of the recent development in the area- the value of that property would rise enormously if the drugs and crime were to be removed from that area. So, I'm suggesting that he is hugely biased in the interest of his friend's & benefactor's pockets. It would be nice to expose this if I can prove it's truth.

I am STRONGLY OPPOSED to the idea of disallowing the Aboriginals to do what they please on their site. They own it!!!!
TO ME, THE ABORIGINAL OWNERSHIP OF THE BLOCK IS A SIGNIFICANT SYMBOL OF ABORIGINAL ADOPTION OF WESTERN CULTURE, FENCES, MONEY AND AND THE FUTURE OF THEIR RACE. TO ERADICATE THEIR RIGHT TO CONTINUE A STRONGHOLD IN REDFERN IS ANOTHER STEP TOWARD PASSIVE GENOCIDE BY OUR GOVERNMENT.
The Pemulway project seems like a valid idea. However, I am yet to fully examine its architectural resolution.

In 1778 England claimed the land Terra Nulius ' - land belonging to no-one. Now, even after all we have been through- recognising Aboriginals as humans (as opposed to 'fauna' until 1970), allowing Aboriginals to vote, paying Aboriginals equally, giving Aboriginals Land Rights, finally recognising the issues of easy dole payouts and education, etc, it seems we are about to go back to the start and claim TERRA NULIUS ON THE BLOCK!!!

The Block could be a very important turning point for the future of Aboriginals. With it's accessibility to education, surrounding artistic and upwardly mobile communities it could inspire new life among those Aboriginals wishing to escape the cycles of alcoholism & boredom that do exist in many outback communities. It's hard to talk about these things without sounding like a dickhead but one thing is for sure- if you continually give someone money and they get hooked on drugs out of the boredom of not working, without guidance or encouragement to grow, learn and flourish as a person then they will become a part of the vicious cycle. Money to drugs to money to drugs to addiction to dependency to crime to death. Forever!!
TO ME THE HUGE DOLE PAYOUTS ARE THE GOVERNMENTS WAY OF KILLING OFF THE ABORIGINALS... ITS LIKE-
'HERE, TAKE THIS MONEY, SHUT UP AND GO ROT YOUR BRAINS!
A drunk /addict is no longer a contributing member of society and and the culture they could have passed on will be lost. It's like passive genocide.
I've been to some remote Aboriginal communities west of Alice springs and that is seriously what happens!!

WHAT IF THE BLOCK WAS MADE BIGGER? Say 62 family residences + 150 studio apartments for students + a school + a hospital.
The Natural Collective of hard-working families and students looking to break into money grabbing capitalism that cannot reasonably be ignored (since there is no going back to hunter gathering now we have $$$$!!!!!- unless you want to live in the outback- many of the young Aboriginals out there are dreaming of what they see on Mtv... $$$$).
Surely the presence of these upwardly mobile citizens alone will remove many of the 'dangers ' of the block.
Moreover, could it be better for the crime and drug dependant Aboriginals to be around upwardly motivated people of their own race so they can see the possibilities are there!!??

As for the 'dangers' of the block at night...
I went there last night at about 9pm and hung around for an hour. I had a chat to the people gathered around a fire near the AHC. They were all fine. A little bit of yandi being sold (solely to white customers) but there was no feeling of danger!! Although, I wouldnt have felt comfortable walking into the almost purposefully dark areas alone...