Indigenous Affairs an Absolute Mess

Every year, more money is pumped into the indigenous industry. There are more fora, meetings, committees and focus groups set up to resolve the unresolveable. Token Aborigines are put in jobs for which they are ill-prepared, under-skilled and under-qualified and doomed to failure by those who feel guilty that most Aborigines are at the bottom of the heap. Oh, and of course, there are statistical targets to meet: Equal Opportunity targets.

As government funding in one program promotes reconciliation between Aborigines and the rest of the Australian community, other government funding is spent to set up special birthing units, special schools, special medical facilities, special this and special that. A system of apartheid that is hardly conducive to reconciliation.

White Aborigines, many very comfortably off thanks to their western upbringing and claimed Aboriginality, are able to access free education, Abstudy assistance for their kids, free influenza shots, subsidised child-care, housing assistance and much more because they are from a "disadvantaged" group. Other Australians who see this are rightly resentful that people who don't need help are receiving it ... at the taxpayers' expense.

While the thousands of medical staffs, teachers, social workers, police officers, volunteer do-gooders, government departments, and numerous others bend over backwards to help the indigenous pull themselves up out of the cesspool to a better, healthier life, they sit on their fat bums doing nothing to help themselves. They have more opportunities at education, employment, dental and medical care than any other group in Australian society, but still they are statistically represented at high levels in all the bad statistics; infant mortality, early deaths, alcoholism, diabetes, kidney failure, swine fever, sexually transmitted infections and anything else you can think of.

By doing everything for them, we have taken away their desire to do anything for themselves.

We are, in part, guilty for the state they find themselves in.

If we keep doing the things we have been doing, we'll get the same results we have been getting ... none.

What is needed is for Australia's government policies to be changed so that we, as a society, help everyone in genuine need and forget about whether someone is Aboriginal or not. That will release a lot of funding now seeping into well-heeled white people who meet the definition for aboriginality.

Funding for special programs like reconciliation need to be redirected into health, education, and community development. People in communities need to be allowed to drink socially as are people in all other communities in Australia.

We must make people work to earn money, kids go to school and by forging these people into citizens like the rest of us drag them out of the quagmire.

Three questions to finish with: How is it that black people from African countries who have been through so much horror, starvation, disease, genocide etc can come to Australia and within weeks or months find jobs? How is it that they can support themselves, keep themselves clean and contribute to the community when our own black people can't? Why is it that people who claim to have lived on the land for 40-60 thousand years now need houses at great expense to the Australian taxpayers?

Are First Australians the least capable of the human races?