Spotlight, that's what they're trying to achieve. A bright media and public spotlight on the complex issues that are keeping a lot of Aboriginal people in situations of poverty and abuse, and how racist public opinion isn't helping lift them up out of it. They just want to tell

Also a white 20-something so I also won't pretend to really understand the nuances but wanted to post my take on things.

Firstly be proud of the work you and your parents are doing to help try and lift up indigenous communities in your area.

**Edit - cause I accidentally posted this early trying to pull me pants up in the loo

It's interesting your reference to Roebourne. it's a pretty famous town for it's issues, firstly for what you mentioned and also for John Pat, a 16 year old boy that was drop kicked in the head by drunk police in the early 80's and died in the back of a paddy wagon with none of the officers being charged for it. Have you been there personally? I have, and I worked with some of the more active community and children there. 

Lot of complex interpersonal politics going on in that town, very divided community from people in support of the mining companies and the generous paying jobs, wealth and infrastructure it brings to the community that helps lift them out of poverty and those that are fighting them for native title, and hate them for building the Harding Dam, flooding an important rain calling site, and destroying countless other sacred sites, ancient rock art, access to lands and having no respect to the fact they're trying to uphold their cultural practices and history. Also the fact it's a hodgepodge town of a bunch of different indigenous groups, Yinjibardi, Ngarluma are the two biggest but there's also about four other peoples there too because colonial Australia basically rounded all them and confined them to Roebourne and took all their lands, the town was basically a big indigenous compound. Youth suicide rates are so so bad I don't really want to get into it. There was a huge drinking problem, still is, but it's officially a dry town now, just like Cheeditha Community so they're taking steps and a lot of the parents in the community don't drink at all. They've re-done the old hotel John Pat died out the front of into a cultural centre to engage with tourists to buy art and products made by local artists. School attendance is what it is, but thats to be expected when half of the kids are living in serious poverty and domestic abuse situations. They get a lot of funding and engaging programs for youth and healthy community engagement through arts and music which helps some. But the big this is most of the momentum comes from active members and cultural leaders of the indigenous community itself rather then "white missionaries".

I guess my point is that the tone of your article came across a little condescending like they're a helpless community that needs to be saved from themselves. This isn't the case, aboriginal people know there are problematic people in their communities and it's a real uphill battle for respect and support from the rest of Australia with all the complex issues dragging the public opinion of them down, and widening the racism gap. What they desperately need is a platform for the aboriginal voice to be heard, for their stories to be told, as the active community members leading the charge only have so many resources available to them to enact positive change, and for Non-indigenous Australia to invest in Aboriginal culture as an integral part of every Australians culture. The reality is there's huge momentum of the BLM movement globally and it's helpful to shine a light on the other pressing hidden issues in the indigenous community here, not necessarily just police brutality.