Letter to PM re Economically-unviable Aboriginal communities

Dear Ms Gillard,

You should stop all welfare payments to Aborigines in economically unviable remote communities - they don't deserve it.   They don’t deserve to be treated as second-class citizens (at best).  They don’t deserve a continuation of  over ‘200 years of unadulterated humiliation’, as Oodgeroo put it.

Pay them a ‘cultural maintenance payment’ equivalent to a working wage, and in addition, arrange to send them WHATEVER THEY WANT to set themselves up to become (predominately) self-reliant and fully self-determining again, as they were for the past 60,000 years (apart from the past 223 years of occupation and complete subjugation by the invaders of their lands.)

Your Indigenous Affairs Minister’s job is simply to facilitate that, so that they can re-build their lives and cultures on their own (being the onoy people who can), which are worth infinitely more than all the money in the world.