Frank wrote on Mar 4
th, 2023 at 4:32pm:
(Pearson) has been a key player in the Indigenous policy space since the early 1990s. Through the establishment of the Cape York Institute for Policy and Leadership during 2011 to 2016 alone his efforts have attracted more than $47m in government funding for the design and implementation programs to advance communities.
Note: it's only in the last few years Pearson has become aware of the JG concept, which he now advocates.
Quote:With her influence, (Pat) Turner has convinced the Albanese government to increase investment toward Closing the Gap by $242m.
She has been a vocal advocate for more financial investment into Aboriginal disadvantage despite the more than $30bn investment made year in, year out, regardless of who’s in power.
$30 billion?
quick google);
"Taking into account the $300 million allocated for Indigenous housing and the $177 million underspend in 2021–22, the October 2022–23 Budget provides $1.1 billion more than the March 2022–23 Budget for Indigenous Australians-related matters, averaging $4.2 billion per year over the forward estimates. Quote:If we want to make a difference in the lives of our most marginalised, we have to begin by putting a stop to treating Aboriginal Australians differently.
Indeed, and that means getting unemployment levels among blacks down to the same level as non-blacks.
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The best form of welfare is a job"....who said that?
Quote:The structures that have existed and failed, despite the billions of dollars of investment, are systems that have been built on the ideological premise that Aboriginal Australians are to be treated differently and separately and are inherently disadvantaged as a result of racial heritage.
Correct, but the problem of systemic unemployment - among the most disadvantaged groups - is not being faced by the nation.
Quote:The abovementioned powerful voices are clear evidence that any human who can gain an education can take advantage of what our nation has to offer and this is not a determination of race. None of these leaders required a voice to parliament to succeed.
That's the Conservative argument that the disadvantaged are responsible for their disadvantage.
Quote:I will continue to argue that we need to forensically audit the current systems that have been funded to “close the gap” to determine the successes and discard the failures. As long as an industry exists to “close the gap”, the gap will not close.
Correct: and such an audit will reveal the necessity for a JG, rather than continuation of the poverty industry.
Ie, we need a JG, not an "industry to close the gap".
Quote:Constitutionally enshrining the very voices that exist within the structures that perpetuate the ideological notion that Aboriginal Australians are inherently disadvantaged, is constitutionally enshrining failure: Jacinta Price
A confused statement: some whites are also positing black disadvantage; and some blacks ARE disadvantaged by race - hence the gap.
Price's mistake is to claim disadvantage is solely a personal failing, which is wrong; it is also an economic systemic failure most badly affecting the most disadvantaged.
Quote:She is spot on. The Voice would cement into the Constitution precisely those who have created and are maintaining the gap. It is in their interest.
..ie, in the interest of the poverty industry, and the dysfunctional neoliberal economic system which Price supports.
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