by Neville Kennard, preaching and practising capitalist

The Aborigine Welfare Industry comprises the many organisations, state and federal government departments, government ministers, aboriginal schools, aboriginal health departments … the list can go and on, all sucking on the tax-payers teat and making the aboriginal people in Australia increasingly worse off.

The state of health, of well-being, of self-respect of many aborigines is tragic. They suffer from gross unemployment.

Aborigines who escape the Aboriginal Welfare Industry fare well in the white-fella’s society. This would seem to indicate that despite certain “communitarian” customs in their tribal and traditional culture, they can adapt very easily to western ways.

The political-correctness of “aboriginality”, of language, of customs and black-fella culture ensures the Original Australians remain an underclass in the land they occupied for thousands of years.

Property Rights, the sine qua non of prosperity, is denied to aborigines in their tribal lands; they have “Land Rights” (whatever that means) but have no Property Rights. They own some land collectively (the Tragedy of the Commons) but individually they can’t own the land or the houses or buildings they may put on the land individually. They can’t sell or lease or buy or make contracts on the property as is normal and taken for granted in white-fella society. This is tragic for the personal responsibility of the aboriginal people who live on the land put aside communally for them.

It may be nostalgic and romantic to insulate the “noble savage” (a politically incorrect, patronising and unacceptable expression) from the “invaders”, but it seems to be the mind-set of the Aboriginal Welfare Industry. Or are the administrators of the Aboriginal Welfare Industry putting their own convenience and well-being before that of their “clients”?

Our aboriginal fellow-citizens in their own lands have shorter life-expectancy, worse health, lower standards of living than their white, brown, yellow brothers who practice western ways, capitalism and personal responsibility. “Genocide by Welfare” may seem a harsh and politically-incorrect expression to some, but whenever I use it, it gets recognition and attention. Surprisingly, it gets no rejection.

As with all things government does, the unintended consequences of its well-intentioned idealism and largesse has gone horribly wrong. Schooling, nutrition, health, work, integration. It is time for a major and radical re-think to save the tragedy continuing for generations to come.

There are kind, generous, compassionate people wanting to support our aboriginal brothers, but they seem to be hamstrung by really dumb political policies and regulations. Can we get government out of the way and allow things to get better, as they would do without the Aboriginal Welfare Industry?

Further reading

Helen Hughes, Mark Hughes and Sara Hudson, Private Housing on Indigenous Lands (Sydney: CIS, 2010).

(in order of appearance on
  1. Welcome from Neville Kennard
  2. Think Tanks Don't Work
  4. The Tragedy of the Tax Pool Commons
  5. Corporate Welfare
  6. Citizenship for Sale?
  7. I Don't Vote
  8. Voting: Right or Privilege?
  9. Stockholm Syndrome and our Love-Hate Relationship with Government
  10. Civil Disobedience: The Rules of Engagement
  11. Should Respect for Law Extend to Bad Laws?
  12. Jaywalking as a Demonstration of Individuality
  13. Government Likes War
  14. Collusion is Our Right
  15. Why Not the Drug Olympics?
  16. Unconventional Wisdom
  17. Tiger Farming: An Alternative to Extinction
  19. Tax Avoidance is a Patriotic Duty
  20. Kennard Writes to IPA Review Editor
  22. Separating Sport and State
  23. Your Home is Not an Investment
  24. Dick Smith, Celebrity Philanthropist
  25. A Libertarian's New Year's Resolution
  26. Extend Politicians' Holidays to Create Prosperity
  27. Entrepreneurs are Disruptive, and Bureaucrats Hate It
  28. What is a good Australian?
  29. Governments Like Employment But Hate Employers
  30. The Market Failure Industry
  31. Neville Kennard: The Tax Avoidance Imperative
  32. Wot if ...?
  33. The Tribal Chief and the Witch Doctor
  34. The Tannehills
  35. Democracy versus Property Rights and Prosperity
  37. Minarchy vs Anarchy
  38. Euthanasia and Self-Ownership
  39. The Right Policies to Fix a Depression
  40. Is Howard Our Best PM?
  41. Tax Producers vs Tax Consumers
  42. Where There's a Queue, There's a Business Opportunity
  43. Authoritarian Freedom
  44. Why Classical Liberals Should Debate Anarchocapitalists
  45. The Tyranny of the Majority
  46. If you could choose to whom you paid your tax
  47. Business Should Exploit Boat People
  48. The Immorality of Trade Unions
  49. "America" vs "The United States"
  50. Sweet Anarchy
  51. The Illusion of "Job Creation"
  52. Gold Is Money
  53. Guilty Capitalists
  54. Bureauphobia
  55. Prosperity vs Growth
  56. Capitalism vs Democracy
  57. More people = More fun
  58. Self-Ownership - the very idea!
  59. Government will murder Neville Kennard if he doesn't back away
  61. Is Taxation Theft and Government a Tax Cheat?
  62. My Journey to Anarchy:
    From political and economic agnostic to anarchocapitalist
  63. Government Needs Bad Guys –
    that's why they like wars
  64. What Is Obscene?
  65. Traffic Economics
  66. Wayne Swan stands on the shoulders of other intellectual pygmies
  67. Neville Kennard Obituary
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