10years of Closing the Gap - When is equal actually equal?
Tomorrow marks 10years since our former fool of a Prime Minister gave a national apology to the Aboriginal people of Australia. This also marks 10years of the Closing the Gap scheme, that aims to bring key areas such as life expentancy, infant mortality and literacy/numeracy up to the same standards as their white counterparts.
In the 10years of this scheme, it appears that only 3 of the 7 benchmarks are on track to ever be achieved. Also, in the year years, it has cost the Australian Tax Payers over $130BILLION dollars.
This to me in itself is a national outrage. I am all for providing an equal opportunity, and wanting all members of Australia to have the same standards of life and education. But there has to come a point where the nation draws a line in the sand and says enough is enough.
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Tony Mundine, the father of the serial twat Anthony Mundine, has called on government to scrap ALL additional funding being given to Aboriginal outfits. He says that no matter how much money is given it'll never fix the problems.
It is at that point that a parent gets to with a bratty child. The parent panders to the kid and they turn ferals, demanding more and more and getting a worsening attitude the longer it continues. The parent knows that tough love is the only way to remedy the situation.
The aboriginals demand to be treated as equal to their white brothers, I'm ALL for this. But how equal is equal? If we were to provide strictly equal social security to aboriginal people as that recieved by other Australians, the tax payer would save well over $20BILLION per year.
But what government would ever do that. Even contemplating removing a handout is recieved with hatred and threats of loosing government.
The day of reckoning is coming soon for all of these minorities and it wont be a pretty picture when it does happen.
I wonder how much of the perceived inequality is actually just a result of distance.
If you live 5000km from the closest hospital; you're going to have 'poor health outcomes'.
Just like you're going to have poor 4G outcomes and poor pizza delivery outcomes.
My thoughts exactly @mattclarke. If you choose to live in a remote location, you’re going to struggle.
I would love to escape the Sydney bubble and live in a remote beachside town in the middle of nowhere. But I choose Sydney for work, lifestyle, services etc.
Such a simple problem, made so unnecessarily hard...
But those poor health outcomes should be the same for both black and white. Instead they have aboriginal only clinics, aboriginal liason nurses, special doctors and special programs just for them. The poor white fella just gets to die.
Everyone equal, equal funding, equal life, equal death.
Well said Matt!
Closing me ? XDD
That is the key question there, how do we define it?
exactly!! To me, everyone deserves the same possibilities in life. Every kids should be allocated X amount of money for education, Y amount for other things. Location and social status shouldn't matter.
In Australia we are very priveledged, everyone really are given the same opportunity to be healthy and educated. The problem comes down to choice. People choose not to attend school, or to do dodgy things. Then they put their hand out and demand more.
Money will not fix any of these problems.
Have you seen that political cartoon with four people and four boxes. https://goo.gl/images/OH07dP
If money can’t fix this issue, how do you think they should go about it?
Yes i like that cartoon.
Basically it needs a carrot and stick approach. Currently everyone is getting a carrot and have got fat and lazy. Theres no incentive OR disincentive to work or improve you're own situation.
I'm very much a capitalist, I believe in a fair days pay for a fair days work. Socialism make people lazy and greedy. Obviously that problem extends WAY past Aboriginals its an entire society problem in Australia. Why get a job when we can just live off the dole.
I'm not Anti-welfare, i think welfare or social security is vital, but it should only ever be a security net, not a life style.
I can see your way of thinking. I think we need a system that is consistently changing to keep people from figuring out how to beat the system.
We should strive for equality of opportunity and not equality of outcomes. Irrespective of race, when the government throws money at a problem in society it seems like it always has the opposite effect and just leaves everybody worse off and the nation with a bigger debt.
Hear, hear!