Andrew Bolt: New Peninsula Health hire policy shows how Victoria’s healthcare system is doubling down on racism
In a new policy, my local hospital demands that Aboriginal job applicants get twice the chance of being hired. Which is not just racist, but dumb, writes Andrew Bolt.
The new apartheid comes closer. Now Peninsula Health, the big public health system in my part of the country, has a new policy for hiring Aboriginals.
It wants 2 per cent of its 7500 staff – including doctors, nurses, administrators and cleaners – to be Aboriginals.
Which is not just racist, but dumb, since self-described Aboriginals make up just 1 per cent of Victoria’s population.
Yes, Victoria’s public health system is doubling down on racism. First hospitals such as St Vincent’s and the Royal Melbourne say every Aboriginal patient in emergency must get at least priority three treatment – out of five – guaranteeing faster care.
Now Aboriginals also get twice the chance of being hired.
I first thought this was just a woke peculiarity of Peninsula Health, but this racist policy runs right through Victoria’s bloated public service.
The Victorian Public Sector Commission had declared that by 2022 it would increase Aboriginal employees to 2 per cent of staff.
Again, the racism of that target is even more obvious when just 1 per cent of Victorians call themselves Aboriginal. So a state public service wants not only to hire more people by their race, but to give one race twice the chance of a job.
Of course, Victoria’s public service was as hopeless at delivering that target as it’s been in delivering road and rail projects on time and on budget. As of last year, “just” 1.15 per cent of its workers were Aboriginals, excluding figures for government schools.
True, the NSW public service also has a race quota – at least 4 per cent of staff must be Aboriginals. But at least that’s more in line with the state’s Aboriginal population – around 3.4 per cent.
But you can already see where all this is going, even apart from the divisions, resentments and tribalism.
That Australia’s most famous “Aboriginal” is Professor Bruce Pascoe, with not one confirmed Aboriginal ancestor in his genealogy, says it all.
In the 2021 census, 90,000 people claimed to be Aboriginals who hadn’t in the census before. No wonder, with so many benefits on offer.
Aboriginal activists such as Suzanne Ingram and Nathan Moran say more than a third of people claiming to be Aboriginal actually aren’t.
And how many real Aboriginals are Aboriginal in any meaningful way, when the 1933 census estimated there were even then just 92 so-called “full bloods” in Victoria, and 1034 in NSW?
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