Stark wrote:Turns out you can't force people to do what you want because of crushing student debt when student debt isn't crushing? LOL.
Amazingly enough, some people volunteer to work in shitholes to make things better not because they're forced to do so. Perhaps Australia should call upon medicins san frontieres, they're used to operating in war zones and horrific conditions. If you can not get your own to care for these people perhaps you should ask for assistance.
Given how Australia has treated aborigines in the past the aborigines might be more open to receiving assistance from outsiders.
We're talking about tiny, widely separated settlements full of communities with substance abuse so bad entire fuels and liquids are banned, suicide rates so high the statistics aren't published anymore, literacy and education so bad you need to explain to them why fucking someone when there's open weeping sores on their dick might be bad, and you think doctors should be forced somehow to go there anyway?
Not
forced. The programs in the US I spoke of don't
force anyone to go anywhere. No one is
forced to enter the program. If you change your mind you need only find an alternative means to pay back your loans. Sometimes, a doctor develops a problem of their own that would make them unsuitable for being stationed in a remote area and there are means to resolve that problem. Given that doctors can almost always find employment they have the means to do so. It will take time, but it can be done. The rural doctor programs get new doctors out of debt sooner. Considerably sooner. And, go figure, some doctors have this oddball notion of
public service. Same reason people do stuff like join the Peace Corps or some other entity or charity that helps people.
I'm talking about giving people an incentive to provide a service on behalf of the government. It's no different than asking for military volunteers during a war. You have to make the compensation commensurate with the risk.
These places are so bad people who go there for briefly for unrelated reasons never want to go there again. The problem isn't just racism; it's that regional areas are full of go-nowhere, do-nothing communities where there's nothing to do but huff paint, rape your daughter and kill yourself.
And just HOW did they get that way? There is no way in hell the situation was like that prior to the arrival of outsiders on the continent, if it had been the aborigines would have gone extinct. I have no illusions that the old Australia was a paradise, it certainly wasn't, but the cultures and communities were viable.
The current state of aborigines is very much the fault of the majority Australia culture's treatment of them for the past two centuries. It is a shame upon your nation. Yes, you
do collectively have some obligation towards these people. White Australia fucked them up, took away their lands, their livelihood, and even their children.
Of course, you can just wash your hands of the mess and hope they simply die out in the near future. Problem solved, rather like those pesky Tasmanian natives Tasmania no longer has to worry about (just their mixed-blood descendants). Or you can take responsibility and keep trying to rectify past mistakes. Your choice.
I grew up in a much classier place than Mackay TYVM! I grew up in...Townsville. It's a pretty big shit hole, but it is definitely a viable regional centre. Turns out being the primary port for half of Queensland's mineral wealth makes a good source of revenue.
