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Aboriginal leader Noel Pearson told a packed house at the Melbourne Writers
Festival last week that he saw little hope to break Aboriginal communities
dependence on welfare unless the political Left rethink their views on
the welfare state as it relates to Aboriginal policies.
"We are so crippled in our thinking that I don't hold out a great deal
of hope we are ever going to get there", Mr Pearson said.
"Unless
leaders of the cultural Left pull their heads out, I think it it's going to be
very hard for leaders of the indigenous community to do so," he said.
"The Left had been the greatest justifiers of this state of affairs and
we have never counted the costs," he said. "Giving handouts at the very
bottom of society is a horrible thing that produces serious dysfunction".
At last we are getting some sanity into the debate - a debate that has for so
long been suppressed by shrieks of abuse from the politically correct
"cultural Left" as Pearson calls them.
I am sure that history will savagely judge such people, from H.C. Coombes,
William Wentworth, Gough Whitlam and Malcolm Frazer to their modern-day
apologists.
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