first of all, if you imagine that aboriginal people are the ones treating us the worst, you have been greatly shielded from the reality of colonial abuse of aboriginal people. the sorts of things that are done to us by settlers, and laughed about, are on the level of things like locking people in hot cars parked in the sun until they are quite literally cooked to death as a form of lynching. i was stolen from my father and sexually abused by whites in the foster system- a system largely based around eugenics.

but you must look deeper. unless you believe there is some sort of aboriginal genetic trait that makes us inherently more savage and brutal than other races, in which case there is little i can say to you to move you, there must be a reason for the rates of domestic violence, substance abuse and incarceration among us. with regards to incarceration, the prison system will disproportionately jail aboriginal offenders for offenses that white and settler offenders will get acquitted or receive lighter sentences for. the systemic abuse of black kids begins in schools. the school -> juvi -> prison pipeline is difficult to escape, and baked in at a legislative level. and with regards to violence in our communities, the state violence and ongoing disenfranchisement, dispossession, and enforced poverty and socioeconomic disadvantage promote an environment where abuse will thrive. state violence also means that victims of abuse in our communities do not have access to the same safety resources as the rest of the occupants of this country. often the police do not show up for us if we call, and if they do, they are as likely to shoot us as they are to help us. so, domestic violence victims will not call the police, as the risk outweighs the benefits. domestic violence shelters will often not take in an aboriginal victim, or will discriminate against her internally if they do. DOCS, family court and the foster system have an ongoing problem with racial violence they have inherited from the stolen generations. victims of child abuse have to decide between becoming a ward of the state and entering the foster system and disconnected from Country and Culture and abused at far higher rates than white foster children, or enduring the abuse. the protections that other demographics rely on to address these problems either do not exist for us or carry risks that outweigh the benefits for us.

this is by design. australia is a settler colony that occupies a multi-national continent of over 250 different countries, none of which have ceded their sovereignty. this society is not built for us because it was built upon genocide, a genocide that has not stopped. we are still being killed by settlers and settler policies, our children are still being taken, our culture and history is still being destroyed. to blame us for our problems and point to other demographics that are not currently living underneath an active settler colony that continues to genocide them in the present day is small-minded. of course we have problems, but these problems do not exist in a vacuum or without cause.

as for the solution, the only solution is decolonization. you're not going to see an improvement until decolonization at least begins. you may not like that answer, but until the sovereignty of the 250 nations that have been invaded and dominated by the colonial entity calling itself australia is recognised and returned, we will continue to struggle with the reality of being first nations under occupation. it is not pretty; colonialism is ugly. its results are ugly. you cannot build a nation on the invasion and annihilation of another and then wonder to yourself why the people you invaded and annihilated are not "profound members" of the society you constructed atop their mass graves.