...."Rudd wastes billions on Aboriginals, still no progress.
The biggest lie ever manufactured in Australian history is the perpetual notion that somehow current Australian’s are financially responsible for the welfare of Aboriginals.
It is followed closely by the notion that current generation Aboriginals are somehow doomed to a life of booze, cigarettes and child abuse because they are genetically unable to move on with their lives.
The end result of both of these lies is the biggest sink of billions in Australian taxpayer money in the history of this country. And for what?
A government report released today, ironically titled “Overcoming Indigenous Advantage‘, informs us that aboriginal child abuse is at record highs, more aboriginals then ever before are commiting crime and being jailed and all those unsustainable jobless aboriginal communities up north are just as unsustainable as they were 50 years ago.
Well suprise bloody surprise.
They wanted a public government apology: They got one.
They wanted more handouts then ever before: They got them.
We ask them to get off their arses and become productive members of society: They call us racist.
And so the never ending cycle goes. The good news for Aboriginals is that it appears set to continue down the same well travelled path. Despite the writing on the wall clearly showing that throwing money at unsustainable remote communities with zero job prospects does nothing but promote rampant drug abuse and child molestation, Rudd’s answer to the damning report is:
It is unacceptable and it requires decisive action. (It) means we have to redouble and treble our efforts to make an impact… we must turn the corner.
Hip hip hooray!
The wasted billions have allegedly been squandered in the ‘closing the gap’ programs. These programs are designed to ‘close the gap’ between the general population statistics and those of Aboriginal communities. Things like life expectancy, probability of getting abused as children and jail rates are all taken into account.
Statistics aside, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that if non-aboriginal Australians were stuffed into camps in the middle of nowhere with no jobs available our life expectancies would plummet too. Not to mention crime rates would soar and I’m sure with a lack of policing things like child abuse would be on the rise too.
Sadly yet again another opportunity to blast this white elephant out of Australian society is missed and instead we just throw even more money at Australia’s least productive citizens. Money that I’m sure could be better spent in a time of financial crisis and record unemployment.
I mean jesus christ, if people thought sub prime mortgages were a bad investment, giving money to aboriginal communities is like selling soggy cardboard box homes to the homeless for millions, lending them the money to buy and expecting them not to default on the repayments.
We are never going to see a return on investment as long as we continue to permit unproductive welfare dependant camps to exist. Send a few bulldozers up there and offer to bus them back into civilization, or let nature take its course.
People, Aboriginal or not are never going to establish a sense of worth, productivity or self respect as long as they have all the time in the world to reflect on just how useless they are and are handed out free money for doing so.
In a sense Aboriginals are right when they harp on about the rest of Australia being to blame for their problems, only the past has nothing to do with it. It’s what the government does here and now that hurts them the most.
September 16th, 2011 at 1:21 am Almica(Quote)
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March 16th, 2012 at 1:12 am Waste of time(Quote)
So true!! I was born in a community, grew up in Darwin and now again live in a community. Here is some facts.
Royalties are not taxed. A guy her gets almost 400k per year, one of his relatives died and he asked the council for money for the funeral. The current intervention housing in my area started out at 750k per house, and ended up at 1.25m per house.
3 have been handed over one required major electrical repairs 6 hours after being received (kids bashed the caged junction box with sticks) all three are unhygienic, one sticks of rotting animal and requires kitchen refurb.
A guy came to work the other day saying he has to stop working because his ex wife knows his pin and has his card so he can’t earn anymore bcos she is stealing it. The employment rate here is 1-3% and those mob don’t come to work and if they do not usually on time and it’s accepted. When they can’t be bothered anymore they get on the dole.
Some prick old guy got on the loudspeaker and was blaming the council and it’s employees for not doing enough about children destroying the community and stealing, b and e. Another prick is trying to start a movement for armhemland to succeed from Australia but they expect to still recieve health housing and the dole.
Fucking useless abo’s Australia has got to stop being racist. That doesn’t mean we have to sore more for people who are black.
Do you know that aboriginals get free private health insurance??? I work full time, sometimes 2 jobs and I gotta wait 8 months for a operation. If one of my great great great grandparents was English, I can’t go to England and get an English paspsport, it doesn’t matter if I identify as English or not, I am not English.
Same like abos. U are only aboriginal if both your parents are aboriginal. Otherwise you are of aboriginal descent. Anyway anybody born within the last 200 years is Australian.
They rules apply to Australians regardless of colour. If Australian welfare is good enough for you. Then the responsibilities that provide those rights are good enough for you.
Armhemland should be fenced off and left for traditional life. If you live there it is under aboriginal law. There is no welfare no nothing, u can live traditionally and if u don’t like that then u move to the city like everybody else and u get a bloody job.