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Discrimination

Posted by: Michael Smith | 15 April, 2009 - 12:19 PM

I think Australia is capable of running itself without too much help from the United Nations thank you very much.

Kenny Moylan looks as much like an Australian as I do. Looks like a normal bloke in the street. He has a job - he’s in charge of the boom gate at Sydney’s Royal Prince Alfred Hospital.

He also reckons it’s important that we know he’s from the Gumbanyngirr people - the aboriginal tribe from Kempsey. Good on him - I’m proud that I come from Irish ancestry and I’m also very proud that my people have been here since about 1815.

In the past couple of days Kenny Moylan, Gumbanyngirr/aboriginal/Australian man has said a few things in support of a complaint he’s made the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination.

'The Government’s statistics say we die 17 years younger (than non-aboriginal Australians). So why have we got to wait until 65 to access the pension? I see that as an open and shut case of discrimination.'

Apparently Kenny’s not happy working for a quid and he’d like to get on the pension 10 years earlier than the rest of us.

Well Nic Patrick, the pro-bono director of the big law firm DLA Philips Fox agrees with Kenny. One of our biggest law firms, DLA Philips Fox lists many government and commercial groups as its clients.

The lawyer Nic Patrick has prepared a complaint on Kenny’s behalf to the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination. He argues that - because of their lower life expectancy - Australia discriminates against indigenous people by giving indigenous people the same pension age as everyone else.

This bloke Nic Patrick argues that Australia is in breach of its international obligations to eliminate racial discrimination and to ensure the equal enjoyment of human rights across racial groups, including the right to social security.

And the United Nations has asked us - Australia - to take affirmative action to ensure indigenous people are not excluded from social security systems 'through direct or indirect discrimination, particularly through the imposition of unreasonable eligibility conditions.'

Here’s another ripper band wagon that the usual suspects are jumping on. Aborigines of various hues are right on board here. Millie Ingram is the chief executive of Redfern’s Wyanga Elders Corporation. Millie says the cost to the government would be 'negligible'. 'There are so few of us, the government can afford to look after us from 55 onwards.'

When will someone stand up and say we are one. We are Australians. There is no such thing as discrimination. We are all equal. Why in God’s name are people so actively engaged in trying to discriminate against the bulk of us?

Blog comments

I think aborigines are entitled to a period of retirement just like the rest of us. Why should they have to wait until they are 65, when we know that their life expectancy is only 59?

Rob Thursday 25 June, 2009 - 2:22 PM
When will the Aboriginal people accept the wonderful opportunity that they have in this great land of australia to do what they want to do. They are not the subject of "ethnic cleansing" which happens all too often in other countries and more commonly same race against same race. This man's line of thinking is typical of the course that Gough Whitlam gave us when he was keen on so many forms of "cheque book" socialism to try and fix perceived problems in the easiest and most irresponsible manner.

Wayne Wednesday 15 April, 2009 - 9:23 PM
Yet another example of politically correct racism.

Liberator Wednesday 15 April, 2009 - 5:42 PM