This report examines the proposal as a complex issue involving both the present circumstances and past history of individuals and whole communities; socioeconomic possibilities and situations; types of discrimination and disadvantage (eg 'stolen generations' and related trauma); suggests decriminalisation of public drinking/drunkenness laws; and implementing the recommendations of the Royal Commission into Aboriginal Deaths in Custody to keep Aboriginal people out of custody, thus increasing (by 10%) their potential for employment; 9 Tables; descriptive appendix; reference list