IF a senior public servant is called to appear in at a Senate committee meeting, we can be sure Senator Malcolm Roberts will be the one asking the most relevant questions.
That was the case when Senator Roberts recently questioned government officials and Indigenous Affairs representatives during a committee hearing over the effectiveness and accountability of government funding for Indigenous Australians.
According to the Productivity Commission historical estimates such as its own landmark Indigenous Expenditure Report, total direct and indirect expenditure across Commonwealth, state, and territory governments to be upwards of $33.4 billion, with subsequent estimates adjusted for inflation placing this total closer to $40 billion.
Senator Roberts raises concerns that money intended to support communities is being absorbed by bureaucrats, consultants and other intermediaries rather than reaching people in need.
When Roberts questioned Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner Katie Kiss about whether current funding models were meeting community needs, Senator Jana Stewart (Labor, Victoria), who identifies as Indigenous, interrupted, asking Roberts if he was asking the commissioner for an opinion.
“I can speak to the fact that we know that there is a fair amount of financial allocation to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander services and supports … I’m not sure what you’re referring to in terms of welfare support, but I do have concerns about the fact that funding that’s being allocated to our communities and our organisations is not actually meeting the needs of our communities, and to government agencies, that’s not actually meeting the needs of our communities and that’s evident in the closing the gap targets,” the Commissioner said.
When Roberts asked the Commissioner if she was aware that half or more of the funding was going into salaries, Ms Kiss said that issue had been confirmed in expenditure and Productivity Commission reports, which prompted the touchy senator from Victoria to interrupt again, telling Roberts “I’m struggling to see the connection between your questions and the role of Commissioner Kiss”, to which Roberts responded “I think we’ll see it fairly soon”.
Roberts then asked the Commissioner if she was aware that most of the assaults on Aboriginal women in the Northern Territory and Western Australia were committed by Aboriginal men, which again prompted a reaction from the sensitive Senator Stewart: “Ah, er, no they’re not,” she said, in a condescending tone.
The Commissioner had a chuckle, and said “I’m not sure that those statistics are necessarily accurate, Senator,” which prompted another jibe from Senator Stewart: “Check your facts, Malcolm.”
Senator Roberts’ final question to the commissioner was why the lack of comment about the fact that the large proportion of incarcerated Aboriginal people who were in jail were there because they committed crimes warranting a jail sentence from a magistrate or judge.
The sensitive Victorian senator, with a pained expression on her face, interrupted yet again about asking the Commissioner for an opinion. Ms Kiss said she did “not make decisions about who went to jail and how they were sentenced” and could not comment on that.
Roberts then directed his question to Aboriginal Affairs Minister Katy Gallagher: “Minister, when will this government learn the throwing money around is not the solution. These people are living in misery, in poverty, and throwing more money at them, and throwing it to the activists and the parasites in between is not being effective.
“It’s quite clear. Social justice includes people accepting responsibility for their own actions and genuine help on the ground. What is your government going to do about closing the gap, because it’s widening now?”
The minister’s representative, not named in the text, was a rather sad sight as she attempted to bat away the question, saying “I reject the language in your question … ah yesterday the National Indigenous Finance and Public Administration Committee (another government committee) appeared and gave a lot of evidence about all the work we are doing to improve outcomes and close the gap.”
And so it goes on … another day, another committee.
Duck Shit : I was born indigenous to Australia to parents indigenous to Australia .Where were you born ? Having lived and worked with the blackfellas who many I look upon as my extended family I have seen with my own eyes what you could never relate to .
What? 44,000 unresolved Land Titles claims in NSW alone and some people want a gravy train as well? Tsk, tsk… Watch it, Oz, you’re playing with fire.
“Cover the graph before 2021 the year of the jab, the trend after 2021 is disturbing.”
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Indeed. Looks like c_vid and the injections correlate with the indigenous populations becoming more at risk to sexual violence. Most unfair, it wasn’t the indigenous Aussies who were responsible for c_vid and the injections. In fact, it wasn’t any AUSSIES responsible at all! They were all victims.
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The graph for other AUSSIES probably shows much the same increase in sexual violence seeing how so many AUSSIES wuz fkd against their will ALL at the same time.
The graph on Figure 2
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Cover the graph after 2021 the year of the jab, the trend before 2021 is relatively flat.
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Cover the graph before 2021 the year of the jab, the trend after 2021 is disturbing.
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I wonder if the trend is representative of all Australians?
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https://www.aihw.gov.au/family-domestic-and-sexual-violence/population-groups/aboriginal-and-torres-strait-islander-people
Neville, has anyone told you, that you are an ignorant twot?
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An indigenous person like yourself Neville, wouldn’t happen to receive some sort of government handout?
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I suppose grifter spongers that hang out in the three branches of the people’s sovereign government, by offering some trinkets to the natives, but the most amount to the parasites in-between, brings them into the fold.
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Closing-the-Gap has grown into a tangled web of data, a micro-managed industry of graft that has lost its way; whilst well paid looking for needles has lost sight of the haystack.
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When on a good thing.
Senator Jana Stewart you be aware of why so many darkie women live with white men is because the majority of white fellas work and educate their children to make something of themselves whereas blackfella’s have an infamous history of not working,getting drunk and assaulting their women and their kids grow up illiterate and wind up in prison or dead .
Funny, but I have a document from the first six months of 2023 detailing who got the $30 billion in government loot via the National Indigenous Australians Agency, so maybe I beat Data Driven Malcolm to it.
And that grant is obviously not the only one.
From a couple of very knowledgeable sources, the recipients spent it on $100k RAM utes and pissed it up against the wall, bought Harley Davidson motorcycles with it, and generally lived it up.
And you might all remember the questions asked of Noel Pearson, during The Voice referendum time, about the $550 million that went to his Northern Land Council over the years, and the accusation that he does not live in the Cape but in Noosa Heads, and owns several properties there.
It’s the same in Nepal, imagine the money flooding into the UN and various agencies, the people on the ground said “our family got a bag of rice, we hope there will be another bag of rice when that is finished”.
Well if there are no cameras there then I don’t think another bag of rice is likely. But if there is any chance of mass injections the odds are red-hot. All the do-gooders outfits are corrupt and barely accountable.
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