Tuesday, January 27, 2009

Modern Australia

Still as paternalistic as ever

The Wall Street Journal has an article entitled "Tough Love in the Outback" about how Australia's previous conservative government, in an attempt to reverse the dramatic decline of Aborigines society in the last couple of decades, introduced stringent rules in those societies. Some of these policies included alcoholic and pornography bans and restrictions on how the Aborigines can spend their welfare money.

I wonder how Baz Luhrman took this? Of course, he would cry "racism". But the reality is that these policies are showing positive results. The interesting article is here.