Invasion Day 2005

At Australia Day Council New South Wales: Indigenous, there is the offical discussion on Invasion Day (26 January 2004). This is a more sensitive version than that is put forward by the Federal government. That attitude is best described as "...pandering to the black armband view of Australian history" (source unknown).

There are still many injustices that Indigenous Australians suffer:

• Greater risk of imprisonment;
• Very poor health and education;
• White misconceptions that Indigenous Australians are getting great amounts of welfare.

The liberal press has a commentary at Time to acknowledge the first people's rights (Free subscription required).

One paragraph that really explains the current attitude is:

Rather than providing adequate medical, educational and housing facilities, we compel outback Aborigines to wash their faces in return for providing a petrol bowser, thereby implicitly reinforcing the 18th-century view of the Aborigines as child-like savages who have to be civilised.

This is a no better definition of the "nanny-state".