Australia is not “failing”. Aboriginal youths are failing us.
They are not failing because of poverty. Australia’s social services are ridiculously generous. Aborigines are pampered every step of the way.
What are we to do when savages cannot adjust to civilisation?
Crime and racism are boiling over in the Australian outback
Smashed windows and ram-raids have become a nightly occurrence in Alice Springs amid tensions over the police shooting of an Aboriginal teenager, Bernard Lagan writes

They broke into his café in Alice Springs 40 times in 18 months. Then, within a week, Darren Clark’s two cars were stolen and his home was ransacked.
“I don’t hate these kids,” Clark said of the young Aboriginals who have laid siege to the dust-dry outpost immortalised by Nevil Shute’s 1950 novel A Town Like Alice.
“Seriously, they’ve broken into me 42 times now. I don’t hate the kids. I hate the system,” he said, echoing the view of many of the town’s 25,000 residents that Australia is failing impoverished Aboriginal youths in its increasingly lawless desert region.
Shute’s portrayal of Australia as a sun-kissed continent of opportunity helped to fuel the postwar surge of “Ten Pound Poms” taking up the country’s offer of assisted migration. More than 80,000 came, some to Alice Springs, the “bonza place” Shute described in the shadows of central Australia’s rust-red MacDonnell Ranges, 1,700 miles by road from Sydney.
Today, Alice resembles a garrison. Its shops, cafés and galleries selling Aboriginal art are no longer bustling. Most have installed soulless steel roller doors to stem the nightly tide of window smashing and vehicle ram-raids — the police say commercial break-ins have risen by 63 per cent in the year to July.
This week the town ran out of its latest defences — unsightly one-tonne concrete bollards that are mushrooming across Alice Springs as businesspeople such as Craig Jervis, a former rugby player who runs the town’s largest private employer, strive to stop the raiders.
“I’ve spent probably over 200 grand at all our venues, just to try and improve security,” Jervis said of his efforts to protect the half dozen hotels, motels and the town’s casino he manages.























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