No jobs in the desert, so why keep the towns? The Left must accept that tiny bush towns with no jobs, few services and tiny schools cannot produce the living standards they demand for Aborigines: INDIGENOUS Affairs Minister Nigel Scullion has acknowledged there may be no future for some remote indigenous communities in Western Australia as Premier Colin Barnett yesterday revealed he plans to close up to 150 of the state's 274 tiny settlements. In the end, the only viable future - or "sustainable" future, in the Left's jargon - for generations of Aboriginal children will be integration, not life as a museum exhibit. But the forces of reaction will be hard to shift: Fraser government indigenous affairs minister Fred Chaney has sent an open letter to Mr Barnett, Senator Scullion and Tony Abbott warning that if governments simply "let things rip" by withdrawing services and driving people out of remote communities without careful preparation, the outcomes for indigenous Australians "will be shameful." Actually "shameful" is what we've had for years.