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This book is a new vision of the most divisive political issue in Australia today
Aboriginal politics are now dominated by demands for reconciliation, self-determination, and acknowledgment of culture. But these concepts – defined and promoted by an urban elite of educated Aboriginal activists – hide the bigger truth that most people of Aboriginal descent today are already integrated into the wider society and are doing well, if belatedly. More importantly, the Aboriginal industry fails to address the needs of the 20 per cent minority of their population who still live in despair. Those who remain in remote and rural Australia are being asked to build a new Jerusalem on poor lands with ancient cultural habits. This captive minority needs to reach out, literally, but the politics of their leaders keeps them locked where they are.
On November 27, 2022 Mannkal Economic Education Foundation launched The Burden of Culture at Mannkal’s Christmas Party at which Gary Johns made an address.
A review from former Deputy Prime Minister John Anderson can be found here.
A review of The Burden of Culture by Rocco Loiacono in the Spectator is available below:
Dismantling the Aboriginal Industry
Australia is not a black and white society, Aborigines are less black, and the remainder are less white. Aboriginal colonisation, the attempt to engineer a reverse takeover of Australia through a language of untouchability, reconciliation, spirituality, recognition and acknowledgment, does not address the needs of the minority of Aborigines, perhaps 20 per cent of the Aboriginal population, who are living in despair. They have been asked to build a new Jerusalem with depleted human capital on poor lands and with ancient political and cultural habits. This captive minority needs to reach out, literally, but their leaders are preventing them from doing so.
The Aboriginal industry aims to isolate their captives more than 230 years after the rest of the world discovered Australia
and changed it forever. This is a cruel neo-colonial endeavour as destructive as the colonial endeavour, but without the
payoff of a better life. The industry hides the bigger truth — that most Aborigines have integrated into the wider society and are
doing well, if belatedly.
Gary Johns was a minister in the Keating government. He was Commissioner of the Australian Charities and Not-for-profits Commission 2017-2022.
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