Benefits of Aboriginality

There is a lot of talk in Australia about what Pauline Hanson described as, "the Aboriginal Industry", whereby we apparently leech money from the taxpayers while doing very little to earn it. This is the kind of victim-blaming discourse we have come to expect from our conquerers.

Let's look at some of these "benefits".

Very few of us get the chance for a complete high school education.

We have 88% unemployment.

The 12% of us who actually have jobs (and I'm not one of them!) get paid, on average, 40% less than our foreign counterparts.

And the biggest benefit of all is that we get to die twenty years earlier than the rest of the population of this continent.

It is frustrating that not only do we have to endure these ongoing human rights abuses from the dominant culture, but at the same time we have to listen to the ranting of people who claim white people are the victims and Aboriginal people somehow are receiving "special treatment."

If dominant culture people want these "benefits", please feel free to take them - we don't want them. Nobody wants unemployment, welfare dependancy, disease, illiteracy, social injustice and an early death. Please, if you feel Aboriginal people are being too greedy, then take some of these "benefits" for yourself. We're happy to share.

The truth is that there is an "Aboriginal Industry", as Pauline Hanson says, which costs taxpayers millions each year. But Aboriginal people only see a small percentage of that money. Most of it goes to the Government bureaucracies that service the industry. These employ thousands of dominant culture people, whose jobs therefore depend on the perpetuation of Indigenous misery. Therefore, they have a vested interest in social injustice. Thus, the so-called "benefits" of Aboriginality continue to grow.