Indigenous Australians cost taxpayers double what's spent on others, says report

It's amazing. Every time a government forms a committee to look into  the "disadvantage" of the "disadvantaged", the disadvantaged are shown to be highly advantaged - yet they still can't look after themselves. The Australian Aborigines had more than $40 000 per person spent on them in the last financial year compared to non-indigenous (yet tax paying) Australians who came in at $18 351 per person. How do you like dem apples? Yet, we still need useless boards and committees and "human rights" groups - all sucking off the the tax payer sweet-teat - to look into their affairs to see if they are being disadvantaged! How about the Aborigines pull their finger and sort themselves out and the goody-two-shoes Australian government stop molly-coddling them and let them earn their own way - just like the evil non-indigenous people do? Let them also go to school, study and fend for themselves. Why must the same pattern be repeated generation after generation? We keep on paying when there is clearly NO benefit to either side - especially the Aborigines. They mostly lie around drinking, assaulting, fighting, sexually abusing their own people and children - that's what they do as a day job. Yet, the tax payer continues to fund their lifestyle. Someone is going to have to show some tough love and get rid of these blasted committees and boards and human rights dream-jobs and actually do something constructive. Just how much more money does Australia throw at a problem that is never going to go away in paid bribes and White guilt? No more welfare until kids behinds are sitting on school benches. And that's just the start....

A NEW report shows taxpayers spent more than $40,000 on every indigenous Australian in a year - more than twice that paid for every non-indigenous person.

The 2010 indigenous expenditure report released today shows that for the year 2008-2009 expenditure “related to” indigenous Australians totalled $21.9 billion, or 5.3 per cent of total general government expenditure.

While expenditure on non-indigenous Australians is estimated at $18,351 per person, expenditure on indigenous Australians per head of population is estimated at $40,228.

The report comes on the back of increasing violence and dysfunction in Alice Springs, with the former indigenous affairs minister in the Howard government, Mal Brough, telling The Weekend Australian the Northern Territory intervention wasn't working or creating lasting social change.

The new report reveals disproportionate funding for indigenous Australians as compared with non-indigenous Australians across a range of categories, and is likely to raise questions about the outcomes that are being achieved for indigenous peoples.

In terms of educational expenditure, $3.3 billion or 5.8 per cent of spending goes towards services related to indigenous Australians. This means, in terms of educational spending, an estimated $2.40 is spent per indigenous person for every one dollar spent per non-indigenous person.

Expenditure on indigenous health services was also estimated at $3.8 billion, or 4.8 per cent of government expenditure in that area. The per capita breakdown again reveals that for every dollar spent on health services for non-indigenous Australians, $1.95 is spent on indigenous Australians.

The cost of employment services for indigenous Australians was estimated to be $4.4 billion, representing about 4.3 per cent of government expenditure in that area.

In this category, the report estimates that for each indigenous person $8062 is spent on economic participation services as compared to $4578 per non-indigenous person.

And the discrepancy is replicated in expenditure on housing services, with the report finding that $4246 is spent for each indigenous Australian as compared to $1781 for non-indigenous Australians.

The report is the first of its kind and was agreed to by the Council of Australian Governments to assist policy makers in reducing disadvantage for indigenous Australians.

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