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YES, IT CAN BE CHANGED, but's your responsibility to go and have it changed or you will end up screwed.Go to the local CSS office, tell a case worker your now unemployed. READ THIS VERY CAREFULLY AND FOLLOW WHAT I WRITE**If you don't do what I'm posting here your support balance will stay the same amount and every month you don't make a payment will add up plus every three months 10% interest will be added. The arrears will add up very quickly, if you have a bank account and your doubtful you will have a new job soon, close the account. CSS will freeze your account and legally take every dime in the account and put it towards support payments. The bank by law isn't allowed to tell you before this happens.*** If CSS tells you there's nothing they can do about your support amount, their lying (which I found out is the norm dealing with CSS for 12 years) to you. Go to the court house and file a petition to get a court date in family law court. On the petition state the reason you want a court date is a child support modification because your now unemployed. It will take anywhere from 6 to 8 weeks to get a day for court. The day you appear in court, if possible, bring in writing from your old employer the reason you were laid off or fired whatever the case is. In addition bring in writing the company names, dates, w/ business cards from 6 to 8 places where you applied in a attempt to find a new job. HAVE THREE COPIES OF EVERY PIECE OF PAPER YOU HAVE WRITTEN DOWN. GIVE THE COURT COPIES NEVER NEVER NEVER EVER GIVE YOUR ORGINALS TO ANYONE EVER. THESE YOU KEEP FOR YOUR RECORDS AND DO NOT LOSE THEM. Once the judge goes over the paperwork and consults with a CSS worker. Your support order will be modified with the judge making it very clear to you that once you are again gainfully employed that you are to inform the court to once again have the order modified.I lived both sides of child support, I paid support for my son and recieved support for my daughters from my ex wife. I had to deal with CSS workers who are nearly as bad as CPS workers. Do allow CSS to be rude or treat you like crap, they tried that with me, I treated them as they treated me. ITS EXTREMELY IMPORTANT YOU DO AS I POSTED, OR YOU WILL GET SCREWED OVER BY THE SYSTEM.

TL;DRThis compendium was inspired by another answer for this question, one that was no doubt well intended but whose conclusions I disagree with profoundly. This answer contains corrected and reinterpreted statistics, personal experience and a wildly celebratory, positive view of Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.I encourage all who have wondered sadly about the state of Aboriginality in Australia, to at least scan this and take the corrected statistics on board. It's not necessary to watch all of the videos - I've included these only to better illustrate the amazing diversity of Indigenous experience in Australia today.It's not my intention to argue with anyone's experience - but simply to give a balanced view. I've used a lot of upper case and bold here, not to be aggressive, but to allow you to find the relevant statistics and important information if you should choose to scan this answer.(Edit: Don't take the following to mean that I believe Australia or Australians are any more racist than any equivalent country in the world. Yes, there is plenty of racism here - just as there is in every other country in the world.)ABOUT ME:I don't identify as Indigenous, though some of my family do. It's somewhat silently accepted that there’s Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander (ATSI) ancestry on my mother's side of the family.(((( MY GRAN'MA))))My brother is regularly asked by Indigenous people where our people are from or who our family is or even 'Where your mob at?' When I was younger, this also regularly happened to me. I joke to my brother that I must have gotten whiter looking as I’ve aged.Mob generally means tribe and/or extended family. Traditional Indigenous people had very strong web of kinship ties and the interest in placing themselves and those they meet in relation to each other and the land they come from remains strong for many of them today.My stepsons identify as Indigenous, as their mother (my dear friend, my ex's other ex) is Aboriginal/Islander/Asian, with parts of her family hailing from Torres Strait, where some of the world's most beautiful people are born due to intermarrying between the local islanders and the Asian people (generally Chinese) who worked extensively in the pearling industry in the 1800s.I've also had many close friendships and creative partnerships with Indigenous people including staying with friends at remote communities.I don’t want to sound like one of those annoying white people who say ‘Some of my best friends are black…’ - but I do want to demonstrate that I’m not talking through my proverbial with this answer. I have a strong interest in this part of Australian culture and more personal experience than most white Australians.This is me about 10 years back with Bill and Rose Thiaday on an Aboriginal community called Wooribinda a few hours inland from Rockhampton in central Queensland. Bill and his brother, Mick Thiaday developed a network of radio stations throughout outback Australia which have given remote communities a connection to the modern world they couldn't have dreamed of 20 years ago. They are tough, dedicated men and there are many such elders working hard to undo the damage colonisation has done to their culture.Okay. Let's get started. Murri Myth Busting.MYTH NO. 1) INDIGENOUS PEOPLE GET ALL THE WELFARE:Some people complain Indigenous people get more welfare than white people in the same position, seeming to believe that being Aboriginal or Islander is like some kind of never-ending credit card. The following link explains the basic financial strategy of successive governments as they try to address Indigenous health and housing issues:Australian Human Rights CommissionWhile it is true that Aboriginal people are eligible for some minor alternative benefits to white Australians, this issue is blown out of all proportion by those white people who object to it. It is not nearly so much as those who have been manipulated by the politics of envy believe (One Nation (Australia)) and is not nearly so easy to get hold of as some imagine.The middle class welfare available to families - Family Assistance Payments, baby bonus, tax breaks - is at least equal to and far exceeds individual Indigenous assistance in many cases. Disadvantaged white people also have access to low cost loans to buy government housing through the Housing Department.For example: Pathways shared equity loanThere are many reasons that some ATSI people require extra assistance with things such as housing and employment.One is that many businesses are reluctant to hire obviously Indigenous people without some form of government incentive. Yeah, it’s confronting and we don’t like to think about it - but it’s true. It’s true in Queensland and it’s true in Melbourne. Hopefully it’s not as true as it once was - but right here in the 21st century, it’s still true nevertheless.Also, many landlords won't rent to Indigenous people.Some personal anecdotes:1) My landlord once said to me, 'We don't rent to blackfellas. Only time it ever happened, this bloke had his friend come around and rent the property. By the time I found out, it was too late - if you kick them out, you're in big trouble with the law.'When I asked him how it went, he said, 'Oh, yeah, good. He was very clean. Left the place really good actually.''Ah, so that would have changed your mind about the whole issue then.'He looked at me like I was crazy. 'No way. We were lucky. He was one of the good ones.'That landlord was as nice a guy as you'd ever meet on any other subject you could mention.2) A white friend was applying to rent a house with a mutual friend who happens to be Aboriginal. He hadn't been able to get away from work, so she'd done all the business with the estate agent and it was a big YES. The owners had accepted the application and were pleased with both of their professions, their rental histories and credit ratings.He felt he really should make the effort to go in and meet the agents and so the next time she went in there, he went with her.A few hours later, she got a call from the agent saying the owners were very sorry but they'd actually just that day found someone privately to rent to.3) I was once in a taxi heading home and to make conversation, said to the middle-aged woman driver, 'I've thought of driving cabs, but I always worried it would be dangerous. Ever had any trouble?''Nah. Never. But I only drive during the day, and I never pick up blacks.'Er, what?Imagine your life, if strangers who held an undeserved low opinion of you had this kind of power over such things as whether you work, whether you get a place to live, whether you can get a ride home in the rain, for god's sake.Another area in which some Indigenous people need extra assistance is health. The statistics are clear. Australia wide, Indigenous life expectancy is about 17 years less than white Australians. Many people believe this is due to alcohol abuse.However, the vast majority of Indigenous people do not abuse drugs or alcohol.In fact, statistics show that 37% of ATSI people do not drink at all, as opposed to 22% of white teetotalers. Read more at this link:Reconciliation Australia MythbustersThen of course, there is the terrifying suicide epidemic which affects all Australians, young and old, white and black. But the Indigenous numbers are particularly alarming.Suicides accounted for 4.2% of all registered deaths of people identified as Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander in 2010, compared with 1.6% for all Australians.Read more here: Australian Bureau Statistics - 3309.0 - Suicides, Australia, 2010I have a personal connection to this statistic - my stepson is a part of it. He committed suicide in 2010 at the age of 28.This is a slide show of his funeral:I was torn about including this video. I don't want to feel that I'm using his death to make a point. But then again - why shouldn't I? His death and that of those like him are exactly why this point should be illustrated.Some people say that people like my stepsons 'don't look very black', as if therefore, they don't need to have any problems with racism, as if therefore, they somehow choose discrimination by declaring themselves, as if they should somehow deny that part of their heritage and...What? Try to pass for white?What are they supposed to do when half of their family is black, as you can see from the above slide show? While it may be true that they won't be pulled over for Driving While Black as often as their darker-skinned cousins, they certainly get pulled over just as often when they have their family in the car with them.They feel angry to see their family treated this way. They feel sad to see them suffering injustice. They feel guilty to be treated a little better than their cousins when they go out in to the world just because they are fairer of skin.I feel all those things for them, too.2) INDIGENOUS PEOPLE HAVE AN IRRATIONAL REACTION TO BEING DISPOSSESSEDI’ve seen it claimed that Indigenous people have an ongoing hatred of whites which was not assuaged by PM Kevin Rudd's official apology in 2007 and that this is borne out by their treatment of the police.But really, while most Indigenous people I know have stories of prejudice and bigotry they have experienced, there are very few who hate all whites. Most take all people as they find them, just like any reasonable person does. Amongst the Indigenous people I know, the only ones who hate all police, sight unseen, are the criminal element.Just like any other racial group, really.Which brings us to...3) INDIGENOUS PEOPLE ARE TAKING UP ALL THE PRISON BUNKSIt is commonly incorrectly claimed that, although they only make 2.5-3% of Australia's population, Indigenous people make over 80% of prison populations.The correct statistics are:26-27% of the prison population Australia wide are of Indigenous descent. If you remove the aberrant Northern Territory numbers from the equations, the rate falls to 17%.In the Northern Territory, the least populous region of Australia, the figure climbs to between 80 and 84% depending on whose figures you are using. It's important to note though, that the Northern Territory also has the highest Indigenous population: 33% compared to - remember? - Australia-wide 2.5-3%.With a population of 233,300 it is the least populous of Australia's eight major states and territories, having less than half as many people as Tasmania.[1]Of course this means that while the percentage may sound high, it’s a high percentage of a low number. In other words, it’s actually a low number. Don’t forget, statistics lie like a mofo.More here: Northern TerritoryLet's look a little further into this terrible misinterpreted statistic.Northern Territory routinely puts people in jail who should be in hospital.In the Northern Territory, Aboriginal people with a cognitive impairment who are found mentally impaired under Part IIA of the NT Criminal Code are incarcerated in maximum-security jails in both Darwin and Alice Springs.More here: Issues in the Northern Territory (ADJC)So we can't really know who among the 84% percent of the NT prison population really belong there. Add to this the NT's policy of mandatory detention and you get a real Injustice Stew.Here is a small list of some of the crimes for which NT Aboriginal people have gone to jail under mandatory sentencing:Margaret Nalyirri Wyndbyne, 24, receiving one can of beer value $2.50: 14 days jail.Jamie Wurramara, 22, stealing box of biscuits and orange cordial on Christmas day value $23: 1 year jail.Samual Eupene, 23, goods in custody of seven pearls found on beach, value unknown: 14 days jail.Joanne Coughlan, 27, criminal damage of an electronic till by pouring water on it. Damage bill paid by defendant: 14 days jail.Chris of Gunbalanya, 18, receiving petrol value $2: 28 days jail.Robert of Nhulunbuy, stealing two cartons of eggs value $8: 14 days.Kevin Cook, 29, stealing a beach towel from a clothes line value $15: 1 year.Liam Edwards, 16, stealing $20 he claimed he found: 28 days jail.Brett Willoughby, 19 stealing one bottle of Stoli value $2.04: 14 days jail; andJohnno Johnson Wurramarrba 15, stealing textas, paints and liquid paper value about $50: 28 days. Died in custody.More here: Shane Stone and the NT’s mandatory sentencing regimeTo be fair, the Northern Territory's mandatory sentencing laws were watered down in 2001 after being legally challenged by the Federal Government. However, they remain the most draconian in Australia and in May this year, the newly elected conservative government beefed up the mandatory sentencing laws once more and well, I don't think Tony Abbot's Federal Government will ride to the rescue this time.In summary:The Northern Territory jails black men at a rate of almost 6 times that of South Africa during the last years of Apartheid, the most racist regime in recent memory.Again, Australia wide:Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners comprised just over a quarter ... of the total prisoner population. The age standardised imprisonment rate for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander prisoners was 1,914 per 100,000 adult Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population.More here: Prisoners in Australia, 2012This statistic tells us many things, but perhaps the most important piece of information is ignored:Over 98 000 ATSI people per hundred thousand are NOT in jail!Let me spell this out for you.THE VAST MAJORITY OF ABORIGINAL AND TORRES STRAIT ISLANDERS ARE LAW ABIDING CITIZENS WHO WILL NEVER SEE THE INSIDE OF A JAIL.4) INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND THEIR INSATIABLE THIRSTMany people believe that alcohol abuse among Aboriginal people is 'rampant'.While it is true that there are communities where alcohol abuse and petrol sniffing are tearing the people apart, as previously mentioned in this answer, 37% of Indigenous people do not drink at all.In 2008, around one in six Aboriginal and Torres Strait islander people aged 15 years and over (17%) drank at chronic risky/high risk levels, which is similar to the rate reported in 2002 (15%).More here: The Health and Welfare of Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Peoples, Oct 2010 The Australian Bureau of Statistics.While this is a worrying statistic, what is once more left out of the picture is the fact that:83% OF INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DO NOT ABUSE ALCOHOL5) INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND HEALTHSome people believe that all Aboriginal health disadvantage is due to 'lifestyle factors', basically meaning excess alcohol.In fact, a great deal of it is related to the problem of remote area medical assistance. Urban Indigenous people still have a higher incidence of diabetes than non-indigenous people, but much lower than those in remote communities.Diabetes/high sugar levels were reported by around 1 in 16 Indigenous people. Diabetes/high sugar levels were more common among Indigenous people living in remote areas (that is, communities/small towns) (around 1 in 11) than among those living in non-remote areas (that is, big towns/cities) (around 1 in 20)More here: Review of diabetes among Indigenous peoplesIt's worth turning this statistic on its head, as well, to get a clearer picture of how the vast majority of Indigenous people actually live.Yes. The incidence of poor health is high and some ATSI people are victims of a quicksand of sickness, addiction, discrimination and poverty, but the vast majority are in good health and look after themselves in order to stay that way.15 out 16 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AUSTRALIA WIDE DO NOT SUFFER FROM DIABETES.Furthermore:IN URBAN AREAS WHERE HEALTH SERVICES ARE AVAILABLE, 19 OUT OF 20 INDIGENOUS PEOPLE DO NOT SUFFER FROM DIABETES.6) INDIGENOUS PEOPLE AND COMMUNISMIt's also been said here on Quora that :Aboriginals have large extended families and property is expected to be shared. For example, if one was to buy a new car it wouldn't be abnormal for a 2nd cousin to 'borrow' the car for several weeks.For most Aboriginal people that I know, this is simply not true.For some in remote communities, there is a need to regularly travel many hundreds of miles to main townships for supplies of one kind or another. But since there's little use for vehicles within the small communities, it's true that cars and other transport are kind of seen as communal property to be used according to need.It's also true that some desert Aboriginal people have an entertaining relationship with their vehicles, as shown by the TV show, Bush Mechanics (TV Mini-Series 1998). My brother who worked in remote South Australia as a mechanic for 30 years, assures me it's all true. He’s regularly seen Aboriginal people drive into town with the most ingenious quick fixes on their vehicles which have often got them many hundreds of kilometers across the harsh Australian desert.However, if any of my urban Indigenous friends' family were to take their car for 2 weeks without permission, there’d better be a bloody good reason.7) MORE INDIGENOUS ALCOHOL ABUSE AND UNEMPLOYMENT, BUT NOW WITH A SIDE ORDER OF DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AND RENT ARREARS!I've seen it written here on Quora that:Along with alcohol abuse and unemployment comes a range of issues including domestic violence. Furthermore, 60% of those removed from public housing in the past 2 years were aboriginal. Reasons include non-payment of rent, disturbances & damage.I would be interested to know where the '60% of evictions from public housing' statistic comes from. But again, let me counter with another statistic that shows more clearly how many Indigenous people live their lives.HOME OWNERSHIP RATESAround one in eight Indigenous households (18,350 or 12%) owned their home outright (without a mortgage secured against the dwelling) and a further 38,650 (24%) owned their home with a mortgage.More here: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Home Ownership: A snapshot, 2006Again, there's a sad disparity between white and black households, but 36% of Indigenous people are just mosying along through life living the great Australian dream of never having to deal with discriminatory landlords and real estate agents or the bureaucrats at Public Housing ever again.A common misconception among white people is that Aboriginal people willingly destroy the houses they are given by the government.Sara Hudson from the Centre for Independent Studies in St Leonards, NSW, says that “although vandalism to houses is evident in some communities, the widespread assumption that Aborigines destroy their houses is false” [3].Rather, “studies conducted over a seven-year period (from 1999 to 2006) found that the major causes of ‘house failure’ were lack of routine maintenance and faulty construction and design.”“Of the 4,343 houses surveyed in 132 communities, only 11% passed national standard safety. In 50% of houses, there was no tub or bath to wash a child in, and only 35 per cent of houses had a functioning shower.”Architect Paul Pholeros has 30 years’ experience in Aboriginal housing. He says that 60% of housing problems arise from poor maintenance, 25% from poor initial construction and only 8% from damage and abuse by its tenants [8].The problem is not the people. The problem is shitty housing.—Paul Pholeros, architect [9]The state of Indigenous housing across remote Australia is the most visible and enduring evidence of the failure of governments, over decades, to address Indigenous disadvantage.—Jenny Macklin, Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister in 2009 [4Read more: Aboriginal houses8) THOSE DARN MURRI KIDS GOING ALL AMERICAN GANGSTA!I've also read this statement on Quora:Aboriginal youth don't generally learn their culture from their elders. Hence they try to identify or dress as black 'Americans' ie 2Pac t-shirts with bandanas and jeans hanging below the butt.Yes, it's true that some Indigenous youth have co-opted black American hip hop trappings. But not because the elders don't teach them about their own culture.Teenagers all over the world adopt American culture for better or worse - from Coca-Cola to rap, American cultural imperialism, aided by unlimited advertising budgets, pervades the world and annoys the shit out of parents everywhere.Is it really so surprising that Indigenous Australian youth would identify more closely with Tupac than with Hanson (band)?It is hilarious, in that way where it hurts to laugh, that European civilisation would do everything it possibly could to stamp out Aboriginal culture - breeding programs, cultural indoctrination with Christianity, outlawing language, the Tasmanian genocide - and yet come back at contemporary Indigenous people in 2013 with the accusation that they don't teach their children the ways of their ancestors.Besides which, it simply isn't so.Many Indigenous people and communities are far more dedicated to teaching their children the old ways than most white people, for whom putting on a DVD of a TV comedy from America in the '60s is about as far as they get with exploring the roots of their own culture.Here is a chess table that my stepson, David, made for me.Pretty freaking cultural, I'd say. Like most Aboriginal paintings, it tells a story from his peoples’ oral history. Aboriginal people did not have a written language, but their history was recorded in paintings. Sadly, in this case, he tells the story of how his Indigenous ancestors were forced to scatter from their country and set down in strange places throughout the whole of the continent. This story was handed to him by his Aunty from Cardwell who was very old when I met her in the early 90s.9) ABORIGINAL PEOPLE AND RELIGIONAnother mistaken belief about Indigenous people is that they don't have a religion.Many Aboriginal and Islander people do in fact have a religion. There are Aboriginal Catholics, Protestants and Muslims. There are even Aboriginal Jehovah Witnesses - I know this because one came to my door once and tried to give me a Watchtower, just like any old garden variety J.W.Deacon Boniface Perdjert from Wadeye, Northern Territory.(PHOTO: BETH DOHERTY, ACBC)World class athlete Tony Mundine, an Aboriginal and observant Muslim, faces Mecca to pray.A delegation from the Gubbi Gubbi people welcome His Holiness the Dalai Lama to their country.The guys in this picture will likely finish their smoking ceremony, sit through the service, then wipe off the clay, throw on a t-shirt and head out to the footy field to watch the game, or maybe home to throw a prawn on the barbie and knock back a couple of tinnies.And of course, since this is Quora, I'll specifically mention there are also atheist Aboriginal people.Dreaming is more of a spiritual philosophy than a religion and is often practiced/ believed in tandem with religious beliefs. It's a beautiful, magical world view and the basis of it has echoes of Jung's Unconscious Archetypes and Plato's Theory of Forms.Dreaming says that we here on earth are but reflections/copies of the Ancestors who reside in the Dreaming. Everything you see on earth has a magnificent, perfect prototype that lives in the Dreaming, best described as another dimension that exists alongside us and can project itself into this one as necessary. For instance, any old kangaroo that jumps in front of your car is a mortal reflection of KANGAROO. We ourselves are reflections/ projections of the original MAN and WOMAN. Even objects that are inanimate to us, are reflections of perfect spirit objects in the world of the Dreamtime.Any of us can be inhabited by our 'prototype' spirit at any time. Any kangaroo can become KANGAROO if there is a need. This is why traditional Aboriginal people pay so much attention to the natural world. Absolutely anything can be infused with Spirit and become a messenger from the Old People at a moment's notice, returning again to its mortal state just as quickly. This is how a traditional Aboriginal person might explain those instances of a child being able to lift a car off someone or a dog rescuing a baby from a burning house - they temporarily embodied SPIRIT, as was needed at the time.SOME RANDOM BITS AND PIECES YOU MAY FIND INTERESTING...Indigenous peoples are not one culture. They are similar to Native Americans in that there are many tribes with many different set of laws and customs, linked but separate. For instance, the didgeridoo is seen as synonymous with Aboriginal culture across the country. It's actually a north central Australian instrument. The people around where I live don't use them except, in recent years, for fun. Also! Didgerdoo isn't an aboriginal word - it was coined by a journalist trying to convey the sound it makes to his readers.I've come across the perception from a few people internationally that the term 'abo' is not offensive here. It is. I think the perception comes from the Rolf Harris song Tie Me Kangaroo Down, Sport. This song was recorded in 1960 or so before Indigenous people were considered citizens in their own country and basically refers to Aboriginal people as chattels. It's true that it's not as offensive as the N word. It doesn't make you a monster in the way that saying the N word appears to in the US, but no, don't do it - it's definitely not cool.As with the N word in other countries, some ATSI people may choose to refer to themselves and their friends and loved ones in this way. That doesn’t mean you can. Aboriginal people most often refer to themselves as Murri in Queensland and Koori in New south Wales. I'm not familiar with other states. Blackfella and whitefella are also common terminology among Murris and can be used in a matter of fact way to refer to someone's race if you know the people well. They are not really considered offensive, but are presumptuous if used with too much familiarity.A cultural difference in language which could be misinterpreted by those from other countries is the practice of calling Aboriginal Elders Auntie and Uncle. Generally only other Indigenous people and white family will do this. Don't get the wrong idea if you see this happening. I presume it would be a great offense in the US because of slavery, but the Elders consider it a mark of respect here and whites who are invited to be part of the family in this way feel honoured.And, oh yeah. We don't use the term Native here. I've learned here on Quora that it's cool for Native Americans - but yeah, don't do it here. The word native is very strongly tied to our native fauna and Aboriginals were once considered a part of that.It's worth mentioning here many white Australians deny the use of the term genocide for what happened to the Tasmanian Aboriginal people. There was no intent to kill all Aboriginals off, it's commonly claimed - it wasn't a genocide, it was an accident.Personally, I believe that point is moot but I don't want to argue. Let's just agree that:Colonisation occurred in 1803 and the British developed a policy aimed at ridding the Tasmanian mainland of Aboriginal people. The colonisers didn't really mind whether the Indigenous people moved to the outer islands or died.By 1833, there were only 200 left due to war and diseaseThese 200 surrendered under the false promise of having their lands returned to them and were exiled to Flinders Island where they continued to die of disease and miseryIn 1847, Tasmanian Aboriginals were again transferred, further away from their homelandsIn 1876, Truganini, widely considered to be the last full blooded Tasmanian Aboriginal, died.Those Indigenous people who now identify as Tasmanian Aboriginal have mostly European ancestry and are the descendants of Palawer women who were abducted and kept as slaves by European sealers in the Bass Strait.====================================================This is my most comprehensive Quora answer yet. It's also my most important one. It's a subject I'm passionate about and, compared to your average white Australian, knowledgeable about. But I'm no expert, my answer is not in any way a last word.I'm not saying that the things most often mentioned about Indigenous people - alcoholism, domestic violence, high unemployment - are not problems in some places, but they are not actually what the overwhelming majority of ATSI life experience is all about. These stats, supposedly gathered to help them, are often used as just another way to beat Indigenous people up.When we talk about Indigenous Australians, it's as if the conversation can only be about the extremes of Indigenous experience - those who excel in some field, those at the very top, or those who have been beaten by life, those at rock bottom. It's as though the overwhelming majority of those who occupy the middle ground of everyday life don't even exist.Sometimes they look like this...Sometimes they look like this...But they're here, getting on with their lives and making the best of it.Cathy Freeman is one of Australia's greatest athletes and when she won Olympic Gold at home in Sydney 2000, the nation couldn't have been prouder. That is how successful an obviously Aboriginal person has to be to get positive attention.Still, she kept insisting on carrying the Australian Aboriginal Flag along with the Australian Flag whenever she won, and well, that just pissed a lot of people off.CATHY FREEMAN FLAG CONTROVERSY, SYDNEY 2000In the lead-up to the Sydney 2000 Olympics, Australian sprinter Cathy Freeman was warned she would risk losing her medals if she chose to fly the Aboriginal flag.The warning was a reference to Freeman's actions six years earlier, where she draped an Aboriginal flag along with an Australian flag around her shoulders for a victory lap after winning a medal at the Commonwealth Games.It was the political nature of the gesture that most upset officials. “Because the Aboriginal flag is not the national flag we would be concerned the athletes are putting themselves at risk of breaching rule number 61 of the Olympic charter,” a spokesperson for the AIC told media.The Aboriginal flag was declared a flag of Australia in 1995.Many Australians don't realise that the Aboriginal Flag has been an official flag of our country for over 20 years. Come on, cobbers - catch the f*&% up.Being Aboriginal means everything to me. I feel for my people all the time. A lot of my friends have the talent but lack the opportunity.- Cathy Freeman, after winning Gold at the '94 Commonwealth games.That Indigenous Australians have to work so hard to get positive recognition, when negative attention is never further than a headline away, reminds me of the quote by Ginger Rogers - that she did everything Fred Astaire did, backwards and in heels.For those of you still with me, just a little more on the the amazing variety of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Island culture and experience:I've mentioned remote communities a few times in connection with the social problems that a lot of people talk about. But the truth is that there are plenty of beautiful, healthy, happy kids on most communities as well and those kids are doing fun, contemporary, creative stuff.Here are The Woorabinda Boys performing their original song No More Drugs.And this is an hilarious bit from The Chooki Dancers of the Yolngu people of NT as they interpret Zorba the Greek. Many of them have no English, but they have a great sense of humour.Here is an ARIA award performance of the Oz classic Treaty by Yothu Yindi. Australians loved the song, but unfortunately, it didn't help much in getting the longed for treaty happening. So far.This was filmed at The Laura Festival ( Laura Aboriginal Dance Festival ) a biennial celebration of Indigenous culture. Most Aboriginal traditional dancing is called Shake-a-leg and tells each tribe's Dreamtime story or some other part of their oral history. A lot of older people, white and black, call all dancing shake-a-leg, which I think is kind of cute. I have been invited to dance with the words, 'Hey, wanna shake a leg?'And now, to cap it all off, a little eye candy. Hot Murri guy playing with his dij - oh my! Derek Pharms is a master of the dij.TL;DR. Again.All in all, the most important thing that you can know about Australian Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people is that they are far, far more than a great big bunch of horrific statistics. They are a great big bunch of individuals.Some of them are very traditional and some of them are very modern and the rest of them fall pretty much along the continuum between.Most of them are probably pretty much like you.They go shopping at the supermarket. They eat takeaway occasionally. They put a lotto ticket in every week. They watch Disney films with their babies and they have trouble controlling those babies once they become teenagers. Most ATSI people would be no happier that their teenagers are co-opting US ghetto culture than most white parents are, but there's not a lot they can do about it.Just like any other parent.

My husband wants me to escape the US and leave him with my estate of two Boulder, CO condos…..My husband, Harlan Leigh Stein, is related to multiple judges and attorneys. In my personal opinion he married me for the explicit purpose of murdering me for my estate. He was working closely with the Kapo Fixer Rabbi Deborah Bronstein of Har Hashem in Boulder CO. They are sexually involved and it backfired as she separated us. When it came time for me to say that I’m married to man of my dreams and I died by accident or suicide (women NEVER shoot themselves) I didn't. So he went for this illegal divorce, brokered by the Kapo Fixer and several attorney firms.My husband’s personal fortune stood at around $2M at the time of our divorce. He does work. But I know that there are multiple deniable victims before me. I’m not sure how much of his estate was the result of theft.At our divorce, I ended up being able to get Judge Angela Arkin to retire for the Triple Paid Guardian Ad Litem Court Scam bribe scheme. The divorce stalled then.At that time I mentioned to Dan Schubert, my upstairs neighbor and HOA president, that our association owns a huge piece of land that can be developed. I also included him in my email campaign explaining court corruption.Dan Schubert, it turns out, is part of this family. He removed the underlayment and insulation between his condo above me and mine. I wasn’t able to heat up my condo since I was bullied out of our Sedalia marital home on 1043 Cathedral Rock Drive. He later realized I’m allergic to harsh chemicals so they started spraying my condo so hard that I had to move out. When I still didn’t escape with out my estate, they started stalking me and spraying me all over the front range. Kelly Livingston sprayed me out of my job at King Soopers. They’d spray any building where I lived. They’d spray my car. My clothes. The homeless shelters.They are still at it. Mostly, they want to make sure they know where I am so I don’t become comfortable in my 2 bedroom, where they’ve lost me my tenants, and that I don’t rent it out.But here’s why I won: First, when my husband turned himself into my dream husband, complete with all details and embellishments over the course of a split second I realized my life was in danger and the Christian community bore witness for me. So I wasn't killed back then.Next, when Dan Schubert violated my right for quite enjoyment of my condo I knew enough about the court system to save both of my condos. I would have totally given it over to him in a trial if he had been less boorish.Here’s the entire ordeal. I still own my two condos. My estate is still intact. I’m ill with allergies but alive. So I won. Right?I have a group of 98 sadistic charmer sociopaths stalking and harassing me. They are judges and attorneys who are relations of my husband who is trying to steal my two Boulder, CO condos.Initially I couldn’t figure out what was going on. The world appeared insane. I know that the rates of sociopath are close to 5% but I was surrounded by 98% sociopaths. So what was the explanation?Finally I realized they are all related. That’s because they would walk their dog in the rain without being dressed for it - they were just dropped off from a car. I started memorizing their license plates and was alarmed by the sheer number of them. Now I realize that they own Flatirons Subaro used car dealership in Boulder, CO.I finally asked the police to please charge them. That’s when I realized they are all judges and attorneys, related through marriage and no police officer will stand up for them.There is also our lovely Kapo Fixer - our very own Rabbi Deborah Bronstein of Har Hashem, Boulder, CO. She’s the one transferring funds to the police, the jails, the Human Services, the Battered Women Shelters and to legislators and justices.I started an email campaign that saved me. They get recognized everywhere, despite trying to blend in. Now they just go out when it snows or it is very cold and there is nobody in the street and they run behind me and pray me with harsh chemicals that make me ill.If I recognize them in the library I put up a sign “$15M”. Instantly they are recognized and they back down, although they start spraying the entire room quite heavily.Kapor Fixer Rabbi Deborah Bronstein of Har Hashem, Boulder, CO pays the police to come and put me in handcuffs, claiming that I’m mentally incapacitated. If you can say one complete sentence you are not mentally incapacitated. Kapor Fixer Rabbi Deborah Bronstein of Har Hashem, Boulder, CO pays Mental Health Partners to play along and also in the jails.I’m taken to the ER. There is no emergency. I refuse to pay and they can’t collect. They take me to mental hospitals but they come up with impossible diagnosis - ones that take 8 weeks of scientific mental testing with a licensed psychologist. You can’t just say “hi” to someone and then misconstrue everything they say and declare them delusional.So both mental health hospitalizations and illegal jail without a warrant or intake have backfired against them. They certainly didn’t convince me that I’m not stalked and harassed…..So this is a reality that everyone in Boulder, CO is exposed to. They recognize the judges and attorneys from my emails, they smell the sprays, the see my swollen face. Its in full swing.There is an older story about the same group of judges and attorneys.This couple bought land and didn’t develop it for 3 years. When they were ready to build, a judge married to an attorney said that they have an easement through this property, taking a third of it for themselves, because they have been walking through the property for three years.Google satellite showed that the trail they made was new and didn’t exist for three years.Back then, Colorado was shocked and appalled. A new law was passed by which one has to use another person’s property for 18 years before claiming it for themselves.This isn’t the Colorado of today. Today these judges and attorneys can’t be bothered to keep up appearances at all. They are predators and that’s all there’s to it.Just think about the democrats - the only crime is to expose their crimes. I haven’t heard even one being concerned that Clinton and Biden may be embezzling. It is a different game now.Also, in 2009 there was a scandal involving a Sunday school teacher who suffered abuse and harassment similar to mine. She did get bullied out of town. The paper could only repeat the judge’s own words, so the story is only found between the lines.My most important lesson is that if your husband doesn't want you to know why he married you, then he probably married you to kill you for your equity. he married me, assaulted me and refuses to divorce? He paid attorneys to put me in jail illegally, steal my money, take me off of the title to 1043 Cathedral Rock Dr. in Sedalia illegally, push me out of the house and then wait for me to be murdered so he can take my equity. He wouldn't spend an hour with me without taking romantic calls from our local Kapo Fixer, Rabbi Deborah Bronstein of Har Hashem in Boulder and Jdaters. We couldn't spend 20 minutes outside without a Jdater making out with him right in front of me and letting me know he needs a woman who loves him the way she does. I wasn't sure what to say "Take a number, stand in line, there are 6 more where you come from" came to mind..... He was meticulous about keeping appearances to the outside, but treated me like a dispensable. I wasn't going to be there soon. So it didn't matter what I thought. He did such a shabby job of luring me into death that when it came time for me to tell everybody that I'm married to the man of my dreams and I died by accident or suicide (women NEVER shoot themselves) I didn't. So he went for this illegal divorce, brokered by the Kapo Fixer and several attorney firms.Illegal ArrestsFirst my husband, Harlan Leigh Stein, who in my opinion married me for the explicit purpose of murdering me for my equity, divorced me. Being arrested is just part of it all when there are bribes in family matters. His attorney, David Japha, claimed that I was in contempt of court. I wasn’t. The judge put me in jail for 10 days.Then I took Judge Angela Arkin to appeals because of bribes in the Triple Paid Guardian Ad Litem Court Scam, explained elsewhere on quora. I named Judge Angela Arkin as the Appellee because that is the law. She responded by putting me in jail without a warrant. She kept me there until the deadlines to serve papers to the appeals court passed. Then she filed her paperwork in arrears once she got her jurisdiction back. She held me there for 21 days.Here’s the thing: Deputy Bain did the illegal arrest without a warrant and he had to be paid. My husband, Harlan Leigh Stein, stole my social security card and I was afraid to bank. I had thousands of dollars, gold and diamond jewelry, gift cards, an Iphone and all kinds of valuables on me. Deputy Bain came over and told me that he is arresting me for resisting an officer. He fudged the police report. I wasn’t booked. I was in jail without a warrant and without a case or any other registration. I didn’t get my bag of valuables back.Then in 2019 I took Judge Zachary Ilia Malkinson to appeals, this time he is trying to purchase my condo for a development. He put me in jail for 4 days, trying to make sign some type of an agreement with him that will show that I’m interacting with him and he can have jurisdiction again. I didn’t. Then he put me in jail for 4 more months. He realized that my condo isn’t in foreclosure. He also realized that I haven’t made arrangements to escape to Israel since then.In Israel an orthodox who moves into a neighborhood can bully the entire neighborhood out their homes if he wants to. If an orthodox walks into your business, you have to pay them protection money. An an orthodox can assault any woman in broad daylight, rape her, stone her car. There is no one to stop them. Growing up, a person in a wheel chair could spend their entire day hoping a bus driver stops for them. Each bus driver left that pest for someone else.So giving my condo away to my husband, Harlan Leigh Stein, or to Judge Zachary Ilia Malkinson and running away to Israel is not at all an option. Never was and never will be.If I file the appeal it is waste of good filing fee. If I don’t file the appeal Judge Zachary Ilia Malkinson may get jurisdiction back Nov. 24th. The daughter of the judge who lives above me in the HOA filed for a protection order against me. She has been stalking and harassing me for more than a year now. I could be in Boulder, CO or in any one of the 50 states and she’ll be right there. So I have to ride this one out here. They may think that I’m running away to Israel but they are SOOOOOOOOOOOOO wrong!!!So those are 4 or 5 arrests that I remember……Out of court settlementsThe courts have some type of a statistic that make it look as if most divorce cases end up in agreement outside of court….. That is actually code for bribes….. I don’t know if the statistic is accurate, but the percentage of out-of-court agreements equals the percentage of bribe schemes…Here’s how it works:Whatever the husband owes the wife, the judge will give the husband a half-off deal. The wife will get nothing. It will become registered as an agreement.A friend of mine arrived at her Permanent Orders Hearing. Of course, it wasn’t recorded and the transcripts are fabricated. Permanent Orders Hearings are supposed to be about numbers, and dividing the estate. The courts don’t want these numbers to be counted anywhere.My friend’s illegally appointed guardian ad litem, Virginia Fraser Able, filed a list of “witnesses” for the “hearing.” These were non other than the attorneys and other party. There was nothing there except defamation, intimidation and shaming.Then Virginia Fraser Able asked my friend: “what day was it when you married.” She said “Wednesday.” Virginia Fraser Able now yelled: “Fraud!!! I checked and it was a Monday!!!!!”The minute order “suggests” that my friend brought in fraudulent financial documents and hence it was decided instead that the parties meet and settle out of court…..Now here’s something to learn: guardian ad litem make $270 per hour. There is a cut in it for the judge, on top of the two attorneys that participate and also give a cut. The just also orders bribes. In my friend’s case, Virginia Fraser Able got $20k from the state. The judge ordered the husband to pay the same $20k to Virginia Fraser Able again, this time on behalf of the judge. My friend was about to pay the $20k a third time, on behalf of the chief judge and justices, just so they can declare the case closed and sealed.Prior to the Permanent Orders “hearing” Virginia Fraser Able removed rings from my friend’s hand and gave them to her dying husband’s daughter, who started the divorce in order to get the house and had power of attorney. She also entered my friend’s resident with the daughter and other attorneys and helped themselves to everything she owned.My friend was now told that she could participate in a meeting in which some of her stolen stuff would be returned. My friend didn’t realize that Virginia Fraser Able had already been dismissed form the case as an illegally appointed guardian ad litem. At this meeting, Virginia Fraser Able was my friend’s very own attorney. Attorneys don’t need contracts and they don’t have to tell you they are your attorney at all. My friend got her precious dresses that she brought with her from Bavaria and paid $20k in attorney fees to Virginia Fraser Able to silence the chief judge and justices.My friend signed a document by which she agrees to accept her stolen dresses back. This was her Legal Separation Agreement, without her knowledge. The case states that the parties have reached an out of court.When it was time for my Permanent Orders Hearing Virginia Fraser Able, my illegally appointed guardian ad litem, filed a list of “witnesses” for the “hearing,” and when these were non other than the attorneys and other party, I knew what was coming.Judge Angela Arkin illegally arrested me to prevent me from filing financial documents with the case. In jail I was told that my husband and Virginia Fraser Able and the other attorneys would be entering my residence and helping themselves to whatever they wanted.The judge then held a Permanent Orders “Hearing” while I was still illegally incarcerated. I was told that I can participate in a meeting at which I could get some of my stolen stuff back. The minute order indicated that because of my incarceration the parties decided to settle out of court. Virginia Fraser Able was dismissed as a GAL and now entered an “update” to her personal information - except that it wasn’t clear what the update was…. there was nothing here. Virginia Fraser Able got $27k from the state. My husband was ordered to pay her the same on behalf of Judge Angela Arkin.I refused to arrive at the meeting. I was told that it was held. I was told that I must instantly drive to Lakewood where Warren Marshal of G & G Guns was holding my gun. I would have to sign a background check before I could receive my own gun back, but all fees were already paid…..Warren Marshal refuses to give me my gun back unless I sign a Legal Separation Agreement that grants me nothing but my gun as my part of the marital estate. I would also be charged $27k in attorney fees for Virginia Fraser Able - on behalf of the chief judge and justices.I’m still married after 7 years in divorce…. the marriage only lasted 3 years…..I filed a Motion for Mistrial Investigation and Judge Angela Arkin retired. I now have a similar motion against Judge Zachary Ilia Malkinson in Boulder County and hoping he’ll recuse or retire.Partially Recorded HearingsIn Colorado it used to be that hearings had to be recorded - that is according to the Colorado Appeals Rules #10. I discovered that Judge Angela Arkin partially recorded all of my hearings. She had my husband, Harlan Leigh Stein, pay for a transcript of the ruling part only. If you submit the ruling part only then the ruling is automatically upheld. But if you get an affidavit from the court clerk stating that the judge fudged the recording then the ruling is automatically revered.I discovered that and also the same advertised online. The Supreme Court did not take this sitting down. Very soon there were orders from the Chief Judge posted all over the courthouse “Your hearing may be recorded of it may be transcribed.”At the same time, my illegally appointed Guardian Ad Litem, Virginia Fraser Able filed fraudulent transcripts to my Register of Action. A friend of mine who also had the illegally appointed Guardian Ad Litem, Virginia Fraser Able, said that her transcripts were also fraudulent. So I suspect that the Supreme Court had deregulated transcribers somehow. I was actually able to get a transcriber in jail before that. They never let you get in their money making way.In Colorado you could only use one transcriber - the one chosen by the court. But you could also designate “Recordings Only” in your Designation of Record on Appeals if you felt the transcript was short in some way.I had Judge Angela Arkin yell at my husband during a “hearing.” She then went back to her normal voice, except full of “compassion, “ and stated that the Court Deputy in charge was tired and that we would end the hearing now and continue on another day.It was not until I came home when I realized that Judge Angela Arkin was generating a transcript in which it sounds as if I have bouts of psychotic attacks. It isn’t actually enough to record psychotic attacks to appoint a Guardian Ad Litem to someone. It has to be professionally diagnosed over a period of 8 weeks with a licensed psychiatrist using scientific mental testing. But I worried about it. I worried a lot.I also learned that the reason Judge Angela Arkin stopped the hearing then was that her ruling part was going to be completely contradictory to the entire hearing. She wanted a new Court Deputy in court who would not be aware of the contradiction between what the witnesses said and what the judge surmised out of it.So at this point it is impossible to get recordings or proper transcripts. It is only possible to impress the Written Record of the Register of Action with your Position Statements to show the judge is taking bribes. But now in Colorado the police has also been deregulated. I have a feeling that they’ll deregulate psychiatric evaluations too. They are talking about improving mental health a lot - and once the secret is out they’re going to find a new way to make money.So that’s why there are transcripts - for the purpose of Appeals. Appeals look at procedural mistakes by the judge, which may be revealed through reading of the transcripts.Supposedly a hearing is a chance for you to present your case and show evidence. However, the courts don’t want any regulated people speaking at hearings. They want “experts” to be able to lie any which way. You’ll also find that no “expert” will testify on behalf of a pro-se party. The money has to go through the judge. There are kickbacks and the result of the “hearing” are predetermined.If there is a police deputy in court the judge will cut the hearings into parts such that each deputy hears only one part and don’t realize the ruling contradicts the hearings.If people were allowed to file 3 Expert Opinion in writing then that would save the hearing altogether. That’s why it would never happen. Kickbacks.Here’s an example of Judge Angela Arkin playing with the transcripts, back when recording was the lawJudge Angela Arkin “determined” that I’m mentally incapacitated. She diagnosed me with every mental disease on earth and some more. No real standardized testing or a licensed psychologist. Just her own bribe greed.I was in a contempt of court hearing. I was not in contempt of court and it was an illegal hearing. But Judge Angela Arkin likes to cut those into several hearings so that the court deputies change and don’t realize her rulings contradict the hearings.She put my husband, Harlan Leigh Stein, who may be a family member, on the stand. She started yelling at him at the top of her lung. Then in a calm voice, as if talking to a child, she said that the court deputy is tired and therefore we will close today’s hearing and meet again at another date.That’s when I slipped. I thought these charmer sociopaths are seriously disturbed individuals and felt sorry for her.On coming home, I realized my mistake - Judge Angela Arkin was actually playing with the transcripts. She wanted to “prove” that I have psychotic attacks. In reality it takes 10 weeks or standardized testing with a licensed psychologist and then a hearing to “determine” psychotic attacks. But these charmers don’t always know what their victim knows or doesn’t, so they’ll try anything.I realized that I slipped into insanity - I should have spoken into the microphone simultaneously with the judge. I should have identified myself and stated that this is the judge yelling.I was terrified. I wondered whether the court deputy present would testify for me. Anyway, as a pro-se party I was allowed to file Position Statement with my case at the court’s clerk’s window. So I mentioned what Judge Angela Arkin did. So I never heard about it again.Instead, the case took a turn to the worse…..There is no freedom of speech.The paper can only repeat what lying attorneys - in all branches of the government - say. They cannot say the truth. They have to keep the people interviewing on their side, so they cannot confront them at all.Facebook ruined it for Killary the Clintonite so the Democrats are taking strong steps to prevent all education from Americans.