Your promotion prospects increase DRAMATICALLY by ticking the Indigenous box for Government jobs. Also look how far that white women got in the swamp by pretending to be Cherokee. Oh how blind.

Hanson is simply a convenient focal point for all extremist right wing groups and that's how she markets herself.

The Alt-Right is defined as "a loosely connected and somewhat ill-defined grouping of white supremacists/white nationalists, neo-Nazis, neo-fascists, neo-Confederates, Holocaust deniers, and other far-right fringe hate groups".

Many such groups and the generally disaffected attach themselves to her because she has a political presence and gives them defacto legitimacy. They use her in the same way she uses them.

At her heart she's simply a racist and populist. Her ex-husband described how she specifically hated aborigines (who she described as one-time cannibals and a criminal class) and her mother was also an advocate of The Yellow Peril, just waiting to swamp us all.

It's the same old story - the wealthy privileged white woman living in a white society claims to be under some sort of threat and that's the language of the alt-right.

rache.

Another rant with no meaningful facts. Obviously you have no idea of Australian history.

Pauline Hanson is not alt-right as you paint the picture. She is actually old Australian culture. You have no recognition of traditional Australian culture.
There was actually a time in history before the arrival of Charlie Perkins. Surprising to a lot of people!

You may wish to expunge this past, but you really need to educate yourself before putting your mouth into gear, and making a big fool of yourself with what is becoming your classic shows of ignorance on all subjects.

Hi Runner,

You assert: "Your promotion prospects increase DRAMATICALLY by ticking the Indigenous box for Government jobs. "

Only if you're in with the elites, if you're part of the mutual back-scratching. If you're indigenous and out of favour, you're pretty much stuffed.

After all, affirmative action 'for' Indigenous people effectively cuts them out of much of the 97 % of jobs which aren't 'theirs'. So if someone is also cut out of the 3 % reserved and especially-created jobs, then their chances of getting decent employment approach zero. For the reason, I would oppose quotas and reservations, since the unspoken agreement is that you won't have access to the rest.

Joe

Hi Joe,
You assert: "After all, affirmative action 'for' Indigenous people effectively cuts them out of much of the 97 % of jobs which aren't 'theirs'"

How do you imagine that occurs?

It sounds as if you think affirmative action has degenerated into a system of quotas. But although it may have done so in America, I find it hard to believe tat the same would happen in Australia, especially with a lack of media reporting on it.

Is your post based on any evidence? Or is it just stereotypes?

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runner, these same questions also apply to you.

//After all, affirmative action 'for' Indigenous people effectively cuts them out of much of the 97 % of jobs which aren't 'theirs'.//

Hang on, what? I don't think that most employers are as racist as you seem to be implying they are. I can't think of any jobs that I've applied for where they enquired about my ethnicity. As long as people can do the job, that's all most employers will care about. And I'm hard-pressed to think of many jobs where a non-Indigenous ethnicity is a necessary job requirement. I mean, even a very traditional cultural occupation like sumo wrestling allows non-Japanese participants. So there couldn't be many jobs where simply being Indigenous is a barrier to employment.