Интересная статья

про ситуацию с австралийскими аборигенами.

Насколько я понял из статьи, аборигены поколениями живут в страшной бедности. Уровень преступности в их удаленных поселениях высочайший. Сколько-то последних поколений живут за счет Welfare.

Австралийкое правительство много раз безуспешно пыталось изменить ситуацию. Сейчас снова пытаются, используя, так называемый, tough love подход.

Вот пример этого подхода:

Now this battered town is in the middle of Australia's latest attempt at a fix: a tough set of policies known as The Intervention. In the past two years, the government has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into Aboriginal communities across the Northern Territory — and forced upon them strict new rules. Residents are now required to spend half their welfare checks on family essentials like food. Welfare payments are suspended if parents in some settlements don't send their kids to school. Pornography and alcohol are banned — although in Wadeye, many white people are allowed to drink in their homes.

But what is pitched as tough love has a downside. A 2008 government review of the intervention found feelings of betrayal and resistance. Many Aborigines complained of "intense hurt and anger at being isolated on the basis of race and subjected to collective measures that would never be applied to other Australians."

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