Frank wrote on Apr 17
th, 2023 at 11:23am:
The nub:
These activists have been pushing at an open door for 50+ years with governments and the courts largely giving them all they ask for …..and what happens to the disadvantaged Aborigines? Their squalor, neglect, delinquency, crime have only increased.
Yes, the activists - misled by mainstream economics - think giving demoralized people 'sit-down money' will improve community functionality.
It won't: the costly poverty industry (....I mean "welfare" industry) attests to that.
You've got to establish personal agency through providing above-poverty work, organised at the local level.
Quote:But they will surely heed voice opponents such as this paper’s Paul Kelly, Greg Sheridan and Albrechtsen if they suspect the voice will get powers to advise governments in all aspects of public policy. Think climate change, tax policy and foreign affairs for starters.
Two of the country's most gruesome ideologues: Janet (and Judith Sloane) on neoliberal free-market Thatcherite economics; and Sheridan on Conservative Judeo--Christian ideology.