We have made many moves towards reconciliation, including the peoples walk over Sydney Harbour Bridge, in May 2000 to advocate reconciliation, and also other festivals and marches. However, today, socio-economic statistics suggest that indigenous Australians have poorer health, poorer levels of education, higher unemployment rates, and higher rates of poverty than non-Aboriginal Australians. 38% of Aboriginals live in need of housing, as opposed to non non-indigenous Australians, of whom, 17% are in need of housing. Indigenous families are 20 times more likely to be homeless than non–indigenous families. Death from diabetes is twelve times more common in Aboriginals than in non-indigenous Australians, and almost three quarters of the children living in the Kimberley region aged 5 or under are anaemic, and the mortality rate in women suffering from diseases such as cervical cancer is more than 8 times that of non-indigenous women. Over 60% of indigenous students do not complete school. Seven years ago the median weekly income for Aboriginals was $76 less than for non-indigenous Australians, and unemployment rates were higher for Aboriginal Australians than for non-indigenous Australians with a comparison of 10.5% to 38% government policies set up to improve the standard of life of Aboriginals have shown little results (Behrendt, 2000).

iginals began to move to more urban areas of Australia, where they were alienated by other Aboriginals, who believed that they were abandoning their cultural ties, that had been in place since before the arrival of the settlers and turning their backs on their

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