Re: Racism in Australia.
To explain this simply? There are loads of aboriginals living in the south east corner of Australia. The majority live in the rest of Australia and are treated badly. Whenever this is highlighted in the media the government of the day will throw billions at those in the south east corner of Australia and make a big song and dance about it all. The problem then gets worse because the money is soon filtered down to thousands to be used for those living in the rest of Australia. Prime example is housing where those in the S/E Oz will pay corrupt builders to build houses for the rest but what has happened is those builders purchase the cheapest demountable huts that they can and transport them to then sit unconnected to infrastructure rendering them useless to live in. So the Government, Aboriginal organisations in the S/E Oz district, contractors and aboriginal activist are so busy clapping each other on each others backs while the poor sods that need the help get sweet fanny adams and so it goes on each and every fecking year. This mob in power at the moment made a Ken White as minister for the aboriginals and it seems to me that all he is doing is delaying everything but making sure that this problem remains until either the next election or they loose power and leave it for the opposition mob who will do the same bloody thing. So yes I feel for the aboriginal people as they are being screwed by both the whites and their own mob all the time. So it is not racism here in Oz just outright discrimination and corruption by those who live in the south east corner of Australia towards their fellow humans living elsewhere.
That's the way the mop flops.
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