I have grandchildren that are 1/32 Aboriginal, they can pick and choose which school to go to, my other grandchildren must go through the usual tedious processes. Reverse discrimination is very real
I am so with you on removing race or gender or anything as a qualifier and only using need as a qualifier - the issue there is there are not enough people educated well enough to assess need and who then decided who is in more need than the other, no matter which way you cut it the processes are always unfair to somebody this goes for government handouts of any type and even child support, where blanket rules are made and the true needs are never addressed, causing conflict and division ongoing regardless. There will always be the haves and have nots in this world and the more we rely on handouts instead of hand-ups to really help people all we do is make the rich richer, and the poor poorer, and those who really need help never get it.
What’s more when we allocate funds on the basis of need not race we take our first steps towards being a non-racist nation. Every official form in this country has a question about race - greatest indictment of our racist system I could name
Revolutionary ideas, James. Receive government money according to need rather than ticking a box or filling a form out ‘correctly’ instead of how I feel today? Everyone seems to want to be on the government teat these days. So many think that it is a right to get all they can from governments, instead of it being a matter of pride that we save for our retirement ourselves, look after our children ourselves, do the best we can if we have children with a disability, and only ask for help if we need it. Staying married and not having children outside of marriage would help too.
The Giggle v Tickle case is ridiculous. Julia Gillard altering tgs Sex Discrimination Act is the blame for that.
"The Australian Human Rights Commission web page says … 'Racism is the process by which systems and policies, actions and attitudes create inequitable opportunities and outcomes for people based on race.'"
"So, by the governments own definition, billions of dollars are being funnelled to racist programs."
"If you come out as Aboriginal, you are suddenly eligible for all kinds of benefits denied before you transitioned race – employment, housing and even university entry."
This is blatant racism against non-Aboriginal Australians!!
I agree but I think it’s also racism against Aboriginal Australians. They are as capable as we are and to insist they need handouts is to belittle them and treat them as less capable than the rest of the country. Racist on both counts
Very well written, James! What a disgrace this all is!
"I suggest that at the 2026 Census all 25 million Australians identify as Aboriginal." Yes, absolutely!!! Is it too much to ask, that we all, as Australians, regardless of race, have the chance to make the most of our lives on an equal footing?!!!
If it wasn't for the Government treating one Australian different from another according to race, bureaucrats like Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council CEO Nathan Moran and Chair of the Darkinjung Aboriginal Land Council, Tina West, would not have to concern themselves with non-Aboriginals claiming to be Aboriginals in order to access "benefits", because there would be no "benefits". They would however, have to concern themselves with finding another job, because their job, which gives them access to a great sum of "benefits", would become redundant!
They get first pick at everything, it's all virtue signaling, and box ticking by companies to meet their social credit scores, nothing is earned by merit any more.
I well remember waiting for hours for attention for my young son in casualty at the Port Hedland hospital and having a gaggle of blackfellas (after a drunken brawl )attended to first Even five years old son complained loudly but to no avail.
The gob-smacking idiocy of the "self-determination" thing for aboriginality will eventually ( albeit after the country has given away millions of $$ in free hand-outs!) fall flat on its face, as human nature will ensure lots of fraudsters will be coming in for a cut. Just read the papers today to see the indigenous people themselves calling it out as many of them are starting to miss out!
I wonder just when it was decided that Aboriginal and Torres Straight people needed tax payer funds? My Great Grandmother was in a small white settlement outside of Ipswich making a home for her family. She was often scared by the half naked, spear carrying blacks who came gesturing for food. In a panic and fearing for her life she gave them bread, flour and other goodies from her pantry.
Thus was born the handout mentality for the local wandering blacks. No doubt it was a common practice around settlements in the day. At that time there was no doubt as to which was the indigenous, midnight oil, or peaches and cream!
James made an interesting suggestion. Next census, we all put Indigenous in the appropriate spot. Those of us born in Australia, are not telling whoppers, and the majority are not putting out our hands for a benefit, but it would be interesting to see how the government of the day handles the sudden mass migration into the various Aboriginal tribes.
The Kingston Trio mentions the Mau Mau "tribe" in one of its songs. The Mau Mau movement eventually succeeded in the independence of Kenya. Perhaps they can do that here as well.
Thanks, James, brilliant stuff as usual. What an unconscionable rort! And that includes the NDIS as you say. People who take advantage of a system have zero self respect and are just parasites on decent people who are paying out to these users.
But the problem comes how do you define indigenous people? Is it by blood quantum or adoption by a tribe? Singer Buffy SaintMarie has claimed to have First Nations ancestry and concocted a story of how she was an orphan and had been adopted by a First Nations tribe in Canada. She also claimed not to have a birth certificate. However, a CBC reporter went to the city clerk’s office in Needham, MA and found her original birth certificate. Both parents were Italian and had no Indigenous blood.
Your final para is literally, the bottom line, in this national fraudulence. Thank you for a cogent critique - it deserves to widely read and published.
Well, James,you took the words right out of my mouth. As I was reading this, my thoughts were, why don’t we all say we are aboriginal and see what happens? I identify as an albino aborigine, I can do something to make my eyes red, ..let’s all be aboriginal! I was born here so I am a native
Good idea, Dianne. I could do with some extra funds. Last year my then GP was referring me for an MRI but it would have cost me $500 or so. She jokingly said I could get it for nothing if I just said I was of aboriginal out Tires Strait descent. I didn’t do that of course but that’s how easy it is to get a free ride no questions asked. Shameful!
So the Aboriginals use the word "racist" and the alphabets use the word "bigot" or "alphabet word-phobe"...but everyone is still allowed to openly mock both Christians and of course red heads. There are not words for the gingers or the Christ followers to throw out to dismiss everyone who is not tolerant ar accepting of their kind of diversity! How strange. And particularly nasty for me as both a ginger and a Christ follower. Maybe it's time I identified as an Aboriginal Alphabet person so it becomes illegal for anyone to pick on me?? Discrimination is rife in Australia...it is just not always public or directed at those we think.
My hair colour has never bothered me...it's all the insults and name calling (as demonstrated by yourself) for something that I had no say in that I am sick of. The skin tone is not overly helpful here in Australia to be honest, but we get what we get.
You know Paul, Aussies are always taking the Mickey out of one another, in a friendly way. eg. Red heads are 'bluey', Black hair, 'snowy', Italians, eye ties (I Ties) Queenslanders 'banana benders' etc, without real prejudice. A great uncle of mine was 6'6", (shorty), and his best mate 5'0" got the moniker, (lofty)! But it was the Australian way and I don't think many were offended, or they kept it quiet so as not to attract a real ribbing!
The bible says that David "was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome." By ruddy, it means that his skin was of a healthy, reddish tone. My guess is that, along with being a valiant warrior and considered quite the hero, he was very attractive and probably broke many women's hearts!!!
I have grandchildren that are 1/32 Aboriginal, they can pick and choose which school to go to, my other grandchildren must go through the usual tedious processes. Reverse discrimination is very real
No way! I couldn't make this up, but our government can make this up. That's why government is called "Government".
I am so with you on removing race or gender or anything as a qualifier and only using need as a qualifier - the issue there is there are not enough people educated well enough to assess need and who then decided who is in more need than the other, no matter which way you cut it the processes are always unfair to somebody this goes for government handouts of any type and even child support, where blanket rules are made and the true needs are never addressed, causing conflict and division ongoing regardless. There will always be the haves and have nots in this world and the more we rely on handouts instead of hand-ups to really help people all we do is make the rich richer, and the poor poorer, and those who really need help never get it.
What’s more when we allocate funds on the basis of need not race we take our first steps towards being a non-racist nation. Every official form in this country has a question about race - greatest indictment of our racist system I could name
Revolutionary ideas, James. Receive government money according to need rather than ticking a box or filling a form out ‘correctly’ instead of how I feel today? Everyone seems to want to be on the government teat these days. So many think that it is a right to get all they can from governments, instead of it being a matter of pride that we save for our retirement ourselves, look after our children ourselves, do the best we can if we have children with a disability, and only ask for help if we need it. Staying married and not having children outside of marriage would help too.
The Giggle v Tickle case is ridiculous. Julia Gillard altering tgs Sex Discrimination Act is the blame for that.
"The Australian Human Rights Commission web page says … 'Racism is the process by which systems and policies, actions and attitudes create inequitable opportunities and outcomes for people based on race.'"
"So, by the governments own definition, billions of dollars are being funnelled to racist programs."
"If you come out as Aboriginal, you are suddenly eligible for all kinds of benefits denied before you transitioned race – employment, housing and even university entry."
This is blatant racism against non-Aboriginal Australians!!
I agree but I think it’s also racism against Aboriginal Australians. They are as capable as we are and to insist they need handouts is to belittle them and treat them as less capable than the rest of the country. Racist on both counts
Yes, that is very true. It is also racism towards Aboriginals, just in a different way.
Honestly, our Government shows contempt for all of us Australians, regardless of whether we are Aboriginal or not. Disgusting!
Very well written, James! What a disgrace this all is!
"I suggest that at the 2026 Census all 25 million Australians identify as Aboriginal." Yes, absolutely!!! Is it too much to ask, that we all, as Australians, regardless of race, have the chance to make the most of our lives on an equal footing?!!!
If it wasn't for the Government treating one Australian different from another according to race, bureaucrats like Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council CEO Nathan Moran and Chair of the Darkinjung Aboriginal Land Council, Tina West, would not have to concern themselves with non-Aboriginals claiming to be Aboriginals in order to access "benefits", because there would be no "benefits". They would however, have to concern themselves with finding another job, because their job, which gives them access to a great sum of "benefits", would become redundant!
Other fake Aboriginals get govt jobs, even teaching positions teaching fake subjects at our expensive universities.
1/16 th white blacks get to wear special Aboriginal uniforms to the local high school.
Have bad teeth? Claim to be black and get a complete new set for free.
Welfare is for the deserving ( those who try to help themselves or unfortunately can't) who genuinely need it.
Aboriginal students get the first pick at teaching jobs in the NSW education department.
Try being white and getting a job with National Parks and Wild life service.
They get first pick at everything, it's all virtue signaling, and box ticking by companies to meet their social credit scores, nothing is earned by merit any more.
I well remember waiting for hours for attention for my young son in casualty at the Port Hedland hospital and having a gaggle of blackfellas (after a drunken brawl )attended to first Even five years old son complained loudly but to no avail.
What a surprise. Provide people a way to get guaranteed free money, and they take it. Who would have thought?
NDIS anyone?
The gob-smacking idiocy of the "self-determination" thing for aboriginality will eventually ( albeit after the country has given away millions of $$ in free hand-outs!) fall flat on its face, as human nature will ensure lots of fraudsters will be coming in for a cut. Just read the papers today to see the indigenous people themselves calling it out as many of them are starting to miss out!
I wonder just when it was decided that Aboriginal and Torres Straight people needed tax payer funds? My Great Grandmother was in a small white settlement outside of Ipswich making a home for her family. She was often scared by the half naked, spear carrying blacks who came gesturing for food. In a panic and fearing for her life she gave them bread, flour and other goodies from her pantry.
Thus was born the handout mentality for the local wandering blacks. No doubt it was a common practice around settlements in the day. At that time there was no doubt as to which was the indigenous, midnight oil, or peaches and cream!
James made an interesting suggestion. Next census, we all put Indigenous in the appropriate spot. Those of us born in Australia, are not telling whoppers, and the majority are not putting out our hands for a benefit, but it would be interesting to see how the government of the day handles the sudden mass migration into the various Aboriginal tribes.
Now I wonder whom I could claim as my tribe?
The Kingston Trio mentions the Mau Mau "tribe" in one of its songs. The Mau Mau movement eventually succeeded in the independence of Kenya. Perhaps they can do that here as well.
They were a pretty bloodthirsty lot Axel? The Mau Mau not the Kingston Trio!!
Thanks, James, brilliant stuff as usual. What an unconscionable rort! And that includes the NDIS as you say. People who take advantage of a system have zero self respect and are just parasites on decent people who are paying out to these users.
But the problem comes how do you define indigenous people? Is it by blood quantum or adoption by a tribe? Singer Buffy SaintMarie has claimed to have First Nations ancestry and concocted a story of how she was an orphan and had been adopted by a First Nations tribe in Canada. She also claimed not to have a birth certificate. However, a CBC reporter went to the city clerk’s office in Needham, MA and found her original birth certificate. Both parents were Italian and had no Indigenous blood.
What a fraud! And a liar!
They are all thieves of the tax-payer's purse, regardless of whether they are Aboriginal or not. It's as simple as that.
Exactly!
Your final para is literally, the bottom line, in this national fraudulence. Thank you for a cogent critique - it deserves to widely read and published.
Well, James,you took the words right out of my mouth. As I was reading this, my thoughts were, why don’t we all say we are aboriginal and see what happens? I identify as an albino aborigine, I can do something to make my eyes red, ..let’s all be aboriginal! I was born here so I am a native
Albino Aborigine - Absolutely!!
Good idea, Dianne. I could do with some extra funds. Last year my then GP was referring me for an MRI but it would have cost me $500 or so. She jokingly said I could get it for nothing if I just said I was of aboriginal out Tires Strait descent. I didn’t do that of course but that’s how easy it is to get a free ride no questions asked. Shameful!
Few typos there.😸
My typing is atrocious
You can click on the ... left click on 'edit', delete the mistake and rewrite correctly, then click bottom box 'safe'
I swype and when I check the result, I don’t always see the typo.
So the Aboriginals use the word "racist" and the alphabets use the word "bigot" or "alphabet word-phobe"...but everyone is still allowed to openly mock both Christians and of course red heads. There are not words for the gingers or the Christ followers to throw out to dismiss everyone who is not tolerant ar accepting of their kind of diversity! How strange. And particularly nasty for me as both a ginger and a Christ follower. Maybe it's time I identified as an Aboriginal Alphabet person so it becomes illegal for anyone to pick on me?? Discrimination is rife in Australia...it is just not always public or directed at those we think.
I am a ginger head ( now Snow White) Christ follower, but I identify as an albino aborigine
Oh you two Ginger Meggs crack me up. You should be proud of the hue you carry. Wasn't King David a "Red Head"? No one could 'match' him either!
My hair colour has never bothered me...it's all the insults and name calling (as demonstrated by yourself) for something that I had no say in that I am sick of. The skin tone is not overly helpful here in Australia to be honest, but we get what we get.
You know Paul, Aussies are always taking the Mickey out of one another, in a friendly way. eg. Red heads are 'bluey', Black hair, 'snowy', Italians, eye ties (I Ties) Queenslanders 'banana benders' etc, without real prejudice. A great uncle of mine was 6'6", (shorty), and his best mate 5'0" got the moniker, (lofty)! But it was the Australian way and I don't think many were offended, or they kept it quiet so as not to attract a real ribbing!
The bible says that David "was ruddy and had beautiful eyes and was handsome." By ruddy, it means that his skin was of a healthy, reddish tone. My guess is that, along with being a valiant warrior and considered quite the hero, he was very attractive and probably broke many women's hearts!!!
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