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Reconciliation & Aboriginal Problems Opinions
ABORIGINAL FACT FILE
Source: Commonwealth statistics, World Vision
Aborigines are likely to die up to 25 years earlier than other Australians; half of all Aboriginal men and four in ten women will die before they turn 50.
Outside a war zone or famine conditions, Aborigines are the only group of people in the world whose life expectancy has not risen during the past 15 years.
Aborigines have the highest rate of rheumatic fever in the world.
Aboriginal babies are twice as likely as other babies to die at birth.
Aboriginal women are four times more likely than other women to be hospitalised due to an injury.
Treatable diseases such as trachoma [which can lead to blindness & gluear [causing deafness in children), renal failure, heart disease and diabetes are rampant in many communities.
Aborigines are up to 18 times more likely than other Australians to die of infectious diseases.
Only 31 per cent of Aborigines continue education past secondary school.
One in five prisoners is Aboriginal.
About 50 per cent of Aborigines are totally dependent on welfare.
The Question is why after years of support and encouragement from the rest of the Australian population and billions of dollars of tax payers money paid out to improve their condition there seemingly has been so little improvement .
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