Comments by "" (@pwillis1589) on "Andrew Bolt blasts ‘disastrous leftist ideology’ in Indigenous policy" video.

@stewy2909 it was $4 billion over 10 years to build 2700 homes, and includes roads, electricity and other infrastructure. At least try and be factual.
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My question is what evidence do you have of $30 billion being spent annually on indigenous programs? The Federal budget is $4.2 billion to the NIAA and when you add in the states and territories that adds up to another $250 million. So again my question is where did you get the other $26 billion from. Just plucked it out of your lower colon?
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So just a fact check here. In 2017 the productivity commission did a report on Federal and state spending on indigenous people. What it did was calculate the number of indigenous people (which it got wrong as it was 100000 less than the ABS census data) and then divided that number by the Federal and state budgets. So the $40 billion or $30 billion you are quoting is actually a proportion of all government money spent on Defence, Foreign aid, Medicare, public and private hospitals, NDIS, police, Universities, schools both public and private, roads and infrastructure, welfare payments and absolutely everything the government spends money on. It is a meaningless number. I have read the Productivity commission report and it is continually used by racists to disparage indigenous people and claim $billions are being wasted. This is only true if you consider spending on Defence or education wasteful. I dare anyone to read the report and tell me I'm wrong.
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That’s because there is no $30 billion spent on aboriginal programs a year. That number is a made up fantasy by racist bigots.
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That’s actually a made up fantasy number that has no relationship to reality.
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@craigshugg2332 No the Federal government budgeted $4 billion over 10 years to build 2700 homes plus roads, utilities, and other infrastructure. That is the facts.
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$40 billion annually on Indigenous programs is a lie
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@nellymoo635 I'm 100% sure it isn't true.
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@nellymoo635 I put government expenditure on indigenous people in the correct and factual context.
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@nellymoo635 The last Federal budget had funding for the NIAA, that is direct monies for indigenous programs at $4.2 billion annually. That is the correct and factual amount in context.
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@erikawindt529 I have no idea what $7billion you are referring to. No money has been spent yet and nothing has been built as this was a announcement by the government a week of so ago. So I don't really understand what your point is.
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@gregsims Mainly because for the majority of time post 1788 aboriginals were considered inferior by the governments. Next of course and which is plainly obvious is on every measurably data set, from infant mortality to average life span, indigenous people fall behind the national average. The only piece of data they leed on is how many indigenous people are in our gaols. An interesting little piece of triva was a study conducted in WA a year or so ago that found when caught by cameras indigenous people violated the traffic laws at exactly the same proportion as the general public, but when pulled over by police they were charged 7 times higher than the average public percentage. Racism is alive and well in this country and when it is gone and indigenous people have the same opportunities and treated the same then you might be able to complain about where your taxes are being spent.
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@gregsims No. I gave a fact based response to your question all you offered was mindless personal opinion. Gina Rinehart is the single largest private land owner in Australia. indigenous land ownership is not individually based as is land ownership in Western culture. As a result of the Native title act lands returned to Aboriginal groups is land they proved it court was all ways theirs. The High Court determined Aboriginals have land ownership rights exactly the same as you do under English common law. Deal with it.
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@robert3987 Too much what? Facts.
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@robert3987 Fair cop that is your opinion, however $4.2billion is about 0.6% of the annual federal budget and as aboriginals make up 3.8% of the population it seems fairly reasonable to me.
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