Clare, I would not take the Show "Dumb, Drunk and Racist" too much to heart! I find the Show and its one-eyed presenter incredibly biaised and infuriatingly ill-informed! The young, Indian students who appear on the Show are absolutely gorgeous and, quite frankly, very willing to perceive that everything they are being told does NOT represent the full story. Why is it that only white people are accused of racism? The episode on how hard done by our aborigines are is totally unfair. When will aborigines (and others) learn that racism is a two way street - the experience of open hositility by members of the Alice Springs aboriginal community was exactly what we (as white tourists into Alice) experienced. I will never, ever go to Alice Springs again! There is no mention of all the millions of dollars of taxpayer money provided to various aboriginal community programs. I found it absolutely incredible that ordinary Australians are blamed for an individual's dependency on drugs and alcohol - do you want to know who IS responsible? Look in the damn mirror! This is the land of opportunity so do what we all have to do, ie get out of a welfare mentality, get a job and stop believing that the world owes you a living. What happened 200 years ago is in the past - it was a tragedy but aboriginal families were not the only ones effected. Thousands of young English children were sent out to Australia (by the English and Irish governments) on their own from the late 1940's right through to the early 1960's and placed in horrific institutions where many of them were horrifically sexually and physically abused. This is what happened in those days - it was terrible, it was tragic and it was widespread. Now the aboriginal communities need to do what those little English and Irish children have done, get over it and move on! Shows like this do not help the healing process .. they just open old wounds and prolong long-held racist beliefs based on misinformation.