Bolt: Race-based aged care rules proof of sick new apartheid forced on Australians
Few Australians realise how far this drive to apartheid has already gone, with new rules to let Aboriginals get taxpayer-funded aged care 15 years earlier than other races the latest brick in the wall.
A new apartheid is being forced on us.
On Saturday came the latest brick in the wall – new rules to let Aboriginals get aged care 15 years earlier than other races.
Yes, Aboriginals can get aged care when they’re just 50; everyone else, except the homeless and disabled, must wait until they are 65.
The Albanese Government’s Department of Health, Disability and Ageing says it shamelessly: “People under the age of 65 years can only access Australian Government-funded aged care services if they have care needs and are an Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander person aged 50 years or over.”
But why is race a factor in deciding who gets taxpayer-funded age care? Why not need alone?
Just two years ago, 60 per cent of Australians voted no to dividing us by race – no to the Albanese Government’s Voice – yet every week our apartheid wall gets higher, as if apartheid South Africa was an inspiration, not a horror.
Two weeks ago, Melbourne’s St Vincent’s Hospital was short-listed for a state health award for ensuring “First Nations patients are now seen more promptly than non-Indigenous patients”.
The hospital divides patients in emergency by race, putting every Aboriginal ahead of semi-urgent category four and non-urgent category five patients.
Last week came another apartheid brick: Victoria’s parliament passed laws for a treaty with Aboriginals and for dramatic new powers for its First People’s Assembly, a race-based advisory parliament.
So what’s the end game? Stop treating Australians as individuals? Instead, divide Aboriginals and non-Aboriginals forever, giving each their own government?
Few Australians realise how far this drive to apartheid has already gone.
South Australia also has an Aboriginal-only advisory parliament, and many states have Aboriginal-only courts, like South Australia’s Nunga Courts, Victoria’s Koori Court and NSW’s Circle Sentencing.
There are race-based jobs in universities, government and even football codes, and, of course, government race-based benefits. If you claim to be Aboriginal, you can get free medicines, free transport to medical appointments, housing, study grants, business grants and more.
Brick by brick we’re being walled off from each other, literally.
Hospitals in Melbourne and Canberra have Aboriginal waiting rooms, universities have Aboriginal-only study areas, and the City of Melbourne had posters outside its Signal arts studio telling whites they weren’t welcome: “If your blood is of the settler, please respect our request to not enter.”
Our top football codes even pick teams based on race, like the Indigenous All Stars, as if it’s healthy to pit race against race.
Two years ago, top arts groups offered Mob Tix, giving 80 per cent discounts to people claiming to be Aboriginals for events at the Sydney Opera House, Australian Ballet, National Gallery of Australia, Sydney Fringe Festival, Australian Open and the Sydney and Melbourne symphony orchestras.
Many poor or greedy Australians notice all this and exploit our sick new apartheid.
The numbers are astonishing. So many people have “discovered” their Aboriginality that about 130,000 people now claim to be Aboriginal who hadn’t in the previous two censuses.
Suzanne Ingram, of the NSW Aboriginal Housing Office, has said 300,000 of our 800,000 Aboriginals actually aren’t, and Nathan Moran, chief executive of the Sydney-based Metropolitan Aboriginal Land Council, agreed about “40 per cent of people who have identified as Aboriginal were not born as Aboriginal”.
Moran said it made him “sick to the stomach” to see them claiming “jobs, housing and scholarships they’re not entitled to which are meant for the Indigenous”.
It goes to the top. I’ve publicly named two Labor politicians and eight prominent academics who’ve claimed to be Aboriginal when genealogical records show they’re not.
Surely we should at least demand people prove they’re Aboriginal before they take benefits meant for Aboriginals.
But Aboriginal extremists also exploit this apartheid.
Just eight per cent of eligible Aboriginal adults voted for Victoria’s First Peoples Assembly, and 10 per cent for South Australia’s First Nations Voice to parliament. Most Aboriginals shun them, making them easy for radicals to hijack to push for even more of the apartheid that gives them power.
But how many Australians, including Aboriginals, truly want this?
Even with these race-based aged care “reforms”, the Albanese Government cautions providers not to use the political phrase “First Nations”, pushed by the Left to falsely imply nomadic Aboriginal tribes were “nations” and should be again.
It warns: “Many older Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people do not identify with the ‘First Nations’ language.”
No. Nor do many of the rest of us back this agenda of division.
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