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The sooner we remove race as a qualifier for government assistance, the sooner Aboriginal people will be helped.

If people were being born again as Christians at the rate they are being born again as blacks, the church would be shouting hallelujah and calling it revival.

In growth that would have made even Hillsong at its peak blush, Australia’s Indigenous population grew by 33 per cent between 2011 and 2021.

Well, praise the Lord! By whom, I, of course, mean former Indigenous Affairs Minister Linda Burney.

Burney failed to do anything in response to repeated warnings about widespread conversions to Aboriginality by people “self-identifying” without verifying their ancestry.

Amazing

According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the Indigenous population has exploded from 548,370 in 2011 to 812,728 in 2021.

The Bureau claims 56 per cent of the increase is due to “non-demographic factors”, including “changes in whether a person identifies as being of Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander origin”.

So a lot of people are baptised into black rather than born black, praise Linda Burney.

Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council CEO Nathan Moran told The Daily Telegraph he had warned Burney that non-Aboriginals were claiming to be Aboriginals in order to access benefits.

A bit like how biological men are claiming to be women in order to get a free hit at Olympic gold medals.

And just as the International Olympic Committee is failing women by refusing to define what a woman is, the Government is failing Aboriginals — and taxpayers — by refusing to define what an Aboriginal is.

At the moment, an Aboriginal is someone who ticks a box for handouts. That’s an insult to both Aboriginals and taxpayers.

If you come out as Aboriginal, you are suddenly eligible for all kinds of benefits denied before you transitioned race – employment, housing and even university entry.

Just as men can now identify as women without even having surgery, non-Aboriginals can now identify as Aboriginals without even needing to be Aboriginal.

I’m starting to think we need to give every person in the country a DNA test to sort out, once and for all, who the women and Aboriginals are.

Waffling

The National Indigenous Australians Agency (NIAA) wrote to Mr Moran on Linda Burney’s behalf, saying,

“I acknowledge your concerns about some individuals falsely claiming First Nations identity.

“You would also appreciate that, for many people, proving Indigenous heritage can be difficult thanks to poor record-keeping.”

Funny. I have difficulty proving my tax deductions due to poor record-keeping, but the government don’t give me the benefit of the doubt on that one!

I digress.

The NIAA then cited the Commonwealth’s three-part Aboriginal test, which is “widely accepted by government agencies”, though “not legislated”.

So it’s more of a nod and a wink, then.

And then the NIAA made this startling admission that should shock every Australian:

“First Nations identity is a personal matter.”

What?

First Nations identity is most certainly not a personal matter when the person wants support from the taxpayers!

According to Treasury documents, NSW spends $1.2bn a year on “First Nations targeted services and programs”.

Federal Labor has also allocated $5.7 billion to initiatives for Indigenous people and communities since October.

Your race is not a personal matter when your race is being leveraged to access billions of dollars in public money.

Oh, but the NIAA begs to differ. They concluded:

“An individual’s Aboriginal and/or Torres Strait Islander identity should be respected, and the Australian government should not seek to interfere.”

Any chance the government might show some respect for taxpayer dollars? I’m joking, of course. That will never happen.

Double Standards

As for the Australian Government not interfering, well, they interfere in literally everything else. So why not in this?

You can barely post on X without the e-Safety Commissioner gagging to interfere.

God forbid you want to connect gas to the kitchen of your new home. The Government has strong opinions on how you cook.

And there’s no chance the government will let you suck from a straw of your choice.

But when it comes to the matter of who gets to be black for the purposes of putting their snout in the trough, the government is suddenly ‘respectful’ of people’s ‘personal business’!

You couldn’t make this up.

Good luck to any politician or bureaucrat who wants to take this matter on and fix it.

Would you really risk your career by questioning someone’s self-declared identity?

Transgendered woman Roxanne Tickle won compensation after being excluded from a women’s only chat group after the convenor dared to call out the tickly subject of Tickle’s testicles.

Can you imagine questioning a born-again black?

The money, power and influence now given to Aboriginals is huge.

The money is in the multiple billions of dollars, and the power is such that one person – claiming to have heard from dead ancestors – can stop the development of a mine.

And here’s the best part. If someone questions your credentials, you only have to say one magic word to shut them up…

You can guess the word, can’t you?

‘Racist’ – a term thrown around nowadays like confetti – is about the worst thing you can have on your employer record.

So – just as when a dude with a Granny Smith-sized Adam’s apple and hands larger than Phar Lap’s heart says he is a woman, we all nod in furious agreement and assist him to find the tampons in Aisle Two – when someone says they are part Aboriginal, we all unquestioningly accept it and apologise for being on land the sovereignty of which has never been ceded.

And it’s all a game.

Mr Moran claims to have “extensive poof” that fraud is “rife” when it comes to self-identifying as Aboriginal.

Rank Injustice

Speaking of frauds, I was on a Skybus service from Melbourne Airport recently when they gave an acknowledgement of country over the loudspeaker.

You can’t get a bus in Melbourne without someone wanting to divvy up the passengers’ race.

But then the announcer asserted that:

“The sovereignty of the land was never ceded.”

So, riddle me this, Skybus race-baiters: why do you continue to operate your business on stolen land?

Frauds.

Moran is not the only Aboriginal accusing non-Aboriginals of pretending to be Aboriginals in order to get benefits for Aboriginals not available to non-Aboriginals.

Tina West, Chair of the Darkinjung Aboriginal Land Council, said:

“People are just ticking a box to get benefits at school and in health. They are not meeting the definition of an Aboriginal person. In fact, they are born-again blacks.”

Well, human nature is what it is.

If you can tick a box to get easy money, then people will tick the box. And the larger the pot of money, the more box-tickers you’ll encourage.

NDIS, anyone?

I suggest that at the 2026 Census, all 25 million Australians identify as Aboriginal. Let’s see what the government does then!

Born-again blacks are skewing the numbers so that the government cannot properly measure its progress on “closing the gap”.

And born-again blacks are diverting public money from those who actually need it.

Let’s talk about that last point for just a moment.

The quickest way to solve this massive problem of race fraud is to eliminate race as a basis for assistance, and replace it with need.

The Australian Human Rights Commission web page says:

“Racism is the process by which systems and policies, actions and attitudes create inequitable opportunities and outcomes for people based on race.” 

So, by the government’s own definition, billions of dollars are being funnelled to racist programs.

Scrap race as a qualifier for assistance and commit to helping Australians in need, no matter the colour of their skin.

You’ll create social cohesion, eliminate race fraud and — as an added bonus — might even get money to the Indigenous people who most need it.

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Republished with thanks to The James Macpherson Report.

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