Some Aboriginal groups want visitors banned from climbing Uluru (Ayers Rock) in Australia’s interior.

Are they justified in this – or is it, as some suggest, just a hollow symbolic gesture.

Does it really matter? Perhaps the most important thing to remember about the Uluru debate is that it isn’t very important.

There are major problems with regard to Australia’s Aborigines and this is not one of them

Prime Minister Rudd mentioned the other day something more significant—namely that Aboriginal children are 6 times as often abused as other Australian children. (AAP, 3/7/2009)

The Australian Federal Government has, since 2000, been spending, year in, year out, 10 million dollars every day on Aboriginal affairs – yes, every day.

Yet thousands of young Aborigines still suffer neglect and violence.

Why?

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These child victims tend to have one thing in common. Their parents are not married.

86 percent of Australian Aboriginal children are born out of wedlock. In the Northern Territory, 95 percent are born out of wedlock.

Perhaps the thing most needed for the welfare of Aboriginal youth is to get Aborigines to adopt the Christian cultural concept of stable marriage.

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Marriage is, first and foremost, a Sacrament of the Church. Being a Sacrament means that it imparts God’s grace to the participants.

Because living together as a couple isn’t always easy, the input of God’s grace is vital to dealing with temptations and set-backs.

Multiculturalist mythology teaches that Christianity is just one set of beliefs among many. Those swallowing multicultural dogma must struggle in grace-depleted households and will — in most cases — come unstuck.

  Meanwhile it would help if white “Christian” Australians set an example of being, themselves, married and stable.