@rehctub

i agree with your responses

very fair

Piss it up against a wall, well there could be worse options. Think of the publican or the butcher down the road if that person did not have an abo; pension. It all ends up back in revenue.

579, while I accept the money ends up in circulation, the problem I have with all welfare waste, is that it's mostly the kids who miss out, simply because many parents choose booze &cigs, gambling, even drugs at times ahead of the needs of their children because after all, the children are the intended recipients of a large portion of that welfare and they have no control over it.

Yes a fair portion comes back, but it doesn't address child poverty.

My point is welfare is for the needy and for one to receive such generous hand outs while in a functioning income earning relationship, simply for being Aboriginal is wrong.

Welfare is also intended as a 'hand up' to help people in need, not a 'hand out' which it obviously is in this case.

With some 200 plus years having past since white man came, at what point are these people going to stand on their own two feet and stop their reliance on unbalanced welfare hand outs.

Dear rehctub,

I don't know the precise circumstances of your colleague
and his partner and what
qualifies them to receive the benefits that you're
referring to. I'm sure there must be something more
to it than what you know. Opinion polls repeatedly
show large sections of the population favouring cuts in
welfare spending or favouring plans to "make welfare
recipients go to work." We're regularly being told that
welfare is a terrible burden on the taxpayer (welfare
represents a tiny percentage of the federal budget).
Why do these attitudes persist?

There is an ideology in this country that holds that
everyone has the same chance to get ahead. Therefore
it stand to reason that - if those who get
ahead can claim credit for their success, then those
who fall behind must, logically be blamed for their
failures. The disadvantaged are therefore supposed to need
incentives to work, rather than help at the expense of the
taxpayer.

There are few complaints, however, about how we pay out far more
in "handouts" to the nonpoor than to the poor - in the form of
tax deductions, and hidden subsidies, rather than the direct form
of cash payments.

Ah well, perhaps we need to look at the system that we have
created in this country and decide whether we need to
preserve, modify, or change it completely, so that its more
equitable for all concerned. Afterall if we created it - we
can surely modify it as well.

@foxy

i concur

Dear rehctub,

I've just come across a website that might be of some
interest. There's a chapter in it on whether
Indigenous people get extra funding that might be worth
reading. We're told that generally Indigenous people
receive the same level of public benefits as non-Indigenous
people and that they do not get extra funding just because
they are Indigenous. However, there are specific government
programs that have been introduced to help those economically
and otherwise disadvantaged.

http://www.humanrights.gov.au/publications/questions-and-answers-about-aboriginal-torres-strait-islander-peoples

It's worth a read.