Australia's annual defense budget is $40 billion, while our welfare directed at 'aboriginal" people is $62 billion. There are an awful lot of sticky fingers who want to get control of that incredible amount of money.

The present ploy is to appeal to the sons and daughters of the well off who today are so enamoured of the new fashion of virtue signaling. Today, it is just so trendy to despise your own country, people, and culture, and instead pretend to be the protectors of the "oppressed."

So we get all of these sugary "statements" from "aboriginal" people who have already learned that identifying with one race in Australia can get you massive benefits. One of the latest, is to "close the gap" which never closes. What this means, of course, is that the good old Aussie taxpayer should shovel even more money at the Aboriginal Grievance Industry so that the self appointed 'aboriginal" leaders can get even richer.

And you can bet that every trendy lefty will be holding their hearts and thinking how virtuous they are supporting all of those poor aborigines living in self imposed squalor in their apartheid areas where people of other races may not tread.

Well Lego, it’s much simpler than that.
The problem with closing the gap “Whitest” style is; nothing takes the native out of the native. Tribal attachments.

Trampling on their own gains by trampling on each other, is an endemic tribal attachment.
ATSIC, formed by a white alcoholic and dismantled by a white supremacist in 2004, over the allegations of corruption. (Now there in itself is an oxymoron). IE ATSIC called out for corruption by corrupt politicians leading a corrupt political system called Democracy. ( But then again, how dare insignificant me suggest politicians are corrupt; if they were corrupt, they’d be in jail wouldn’t they…ahem..not when their job is to make the laws watertight, with permanently open back doors for themselves)?

How we do struggle with this problem on the ground.

Dan

We can not close that "Gap" when so many on all sides profit from leaving it wide open !

For better or worse, these are my observations:
So called aboriginal persons are generally more european than otherwise.
There would be very few 'full-bloods' left living in this land.
We cannot allow a handful of such persons to control the rest of the population?
Whatever harm was experienced by the ancestors of these persons, we weren't there, and they weren't there.
They can have no grievance against us, and we have no obligation to them, because of anything that happened a long time ago.
It was their ancestors who lost control of the land that they occupied.
A new group took over, and now calls the shots.
That is simply a fact.
Whether right or wrong, we cannot change it now. We cannot change history.
In the present day, laws generally cope with difference in our society.
No one needs to break the law seriously, so no one needs to be jailed for a crime.
It is a personal choice, based on how we think and act.
Laws do need to be adjusted and upgraded from time to time, as the standards in society change.
If we treat 'aboriginals' differently, with special laws and considerations, we are being divisive, and hence harmfully racist?
So we should come back to basics, and keep steadfastly to the idea of one country, one peoples, one set of laws, one flag.
And sports persons playing overseas will represent this country, not some other personal concept.
I am aware that a great deal of money has been spent on this 'divisiveness'.
I wonder where it has all gone.
If it hasn't been frittered away, all of those on the receiving end should be millionaires by now?
Another observation is that if persons behave differently, they will be treated differently.
When in Rome, we should do as Rome does?
'White' Australians need to start being truthful with themselves too.
It is time to think hard about basic truth, and draw back from this stupidly divisive path we are taking.

Ipso Fatso,
It's good to see there are still people out there with the skill of observing without having to resort to take "sides". Cheers !

I'm certain no one here would be commenting without having read the full statement, but just in case:

https://www.referendumcouncil.org.au/sites/default/files/2017-05/Uluru_Statement_From_The_Heart_0.PDF