SR,

That handing out large dollops of cash to everyone is popular is no surprise. The term "sit down money" was generated by the aboriginals as patronising by bleeding hearts and an offensive alternative to providing real employment.

It's your ideology that is toxic and will maintain the status quo of the aboriginal population.

shadowminister,
Like just about everything involving bureaucracy & individual bureaucrats in particular, a lot of funding does not actually reach its destination.
Aboriginal causes are particularly prone to that because of the ease of erasing the money trails.
Corruption is callously disguised as incompetence so as not to attract reprimand.
Were communities be allowed to run their own affairs, a lot more good could be achieved for less funding available for syphoning !

Our power was off for maintenance all but not really a problem as most of us have little gensets.
The indigenous community up the road had two big generators provided by the power provider.
This is the kind of discrimination our indigenous have to cope with at times despite having handsome royalties coming their way regularly.

mhaze said "I always find it endlessly amazing, not to say endlessly amusing, that those who most favour the notion that the answer to every problem is more government are the first to whine when the error of that way of thinking smacks them in the back of the head."

Answer- Well put. Kudos mhaze.

The use of the term "Racist / Fascist" is Orwellian meaninglessness.

There's only one racist, the one who keeps bleating victim when others get sick of their antics.

If you want to build hatred towards a group, continually make negative comment about that group. On this thread its implied by one poster, that Aboriginal people are receiving unjustified benefits at the expense of others. This causes outrage in some readers.