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Statistics for consideration:

According to the last census there are 25,422,788 Australians. Australia’s Census count has more than doubled in the last 50 years, with the 1971 Census counting over 12 million people (12,493,001).

The 2021 Census counted nearly 25.5 million people (25,422,788) in Australia, excluding overseas visitors, on Census night. This is an increase of over two million people (2,020,896), or 8.6 per cent, since the 2016 Census.

Of these 812,728 are Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islanders. That’s 3.2 per cent of the total people counted. This is an increase of over 25 per cent (25.2 per cent) since the 2016 census.

The proportion of Australian residents that are born overseas (first generation) or have a parent born overseas (second generation) has moved to above 50 per cent (51.5 per cent).

It is estimated that of the 812,728 Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander population, about 20% live in conditions that require attention of some kind and could be considered to be below standard. That comes to about 162,546 people that may be considered to be in need of some kind of “assistance”.

At present, the annual cost to the Australian taxpayer for special treatment and welfare to these Australians is $39 Billion ($39,000,000,000). That is more than the cost of Medicare.

That works out to $159,954.7 per individual. Every year. On that basis, a family of four persons costs the taxpayer $639,818.80 a year. Just a bit over half a million dollars a year. Whether or not it is taxable, it’s a lot of dough. If it is not being received at ‘grass roots’ level, where’s it going?

The whole thing is ridiculous and if it gets up, the activists will be holding the rest of us to ransom forever!

Will the recipients of this largesse have to prove that they really are Aboriginal???
 

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