Frank wrote on Aug 30^th, 2023 at 10:11am:



Abos ripping off Abos......AND other Australian TAXPAYERS.



Q.
Why are many Aboriginal people calling for 'Truth Telling' ?
[i.e. what is their real motive ? ]

Hoist with his own petard
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hoist_with_his_own_petard



And, do all Aboriginal people really want 'Truth Telling' ?

On that question, what about the 'friends and families' of Ms Atkins, Ms Evans, and Ms Rosas ?

Are THEY too, calling for 'Truth Telling' ?

And i'm wondering,   ...do their 'friends and families' welcome the exposure.....of apparently corrupt practices, by persons within their close community ?

If not, why  not ?


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In an article, in the OP.........

"Ms Atkins used company funds to acquire clothes, artworks, flights and cars – including a $129,000 Range Rover;"

"Ms Evans secretly paid $20,000 directly into Ms Rosas’s bank account, in breach of the agency’s funding agreement;"

"Ms Rosas appointed her nephew as acting CEO, and a friend as head of HR – a position that was not publicly advertised;"

Yadda wrote on Nov 11^th, 2024 at 10:23am:

Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Nov 11^th, 2024 at 11:40am:



On a similar thought path.......
ISLAMIC law [Allah's Law] mandates that a thief will have his hand cut off.
[.....as a consequence of being a thief]

But i don't think that you will ever see a one handed moslem.

I never have.


WWW search.....
one handed muslim         [images]

The obvious conclusion ?

The devout moslem [the follower of ISLAM] is a moral person.    ....he never steals.

Correct ?



SO RETURNING TO THE PROBLEM.....

QUESTION;
How can a society of men effectively discourage thievery ?

Simples.

ANSWER;
There must be a real consequence......for all individuals, who are apprehended and convicted of thievery or corruption.

Because......if there is no consequence for 'doing' theft......then, as we all witness, almost every day, in Australia....
....without any consequence, many people will be led by their own natures, to simply steal from others,
whenever such an 'opportunity' arises.

AGAIN........



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God's Law.......

Exodus 20:15
Thou shalt not steal.

And if a person does, there is retribution [a consequence] [in the moral law of God].

Exodus 22:1
If a man shall steal an ox, or a sheep, and kill it, or sell it;
he shall restore five oxen for an ox, and four sheep for a sheep.

i.e.
So in a sane world,    ......there is a prescribed penalty, for wrongdoing.

"But if ye will not hearken...."      

     Leviticus 26:14-21


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Proverbs 14:34
Righteousness exalteth a nation: but sin is a reproach to any people.


"Glory follows virtue as if it were its shadow."
- Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Statesman

Thanks to Brother Brian for his learned comment ... I put to the house that we leave the question of Aboriginal fundings entirely in his hands, so as to secure his retirement packaging ... and also to ensure that its failure is complete .....all in favour?

On a more realistic note - sadly - it looks as if the Children From Paradise are just not able to handle their money in the big old White Man's World - so some trustee might have to take over its running ..... and extract costs... just remember what I told yez YEARS ago about such things - and yez all realise now .... a massive proportion of any funding vanishes into 'administrative costs.

Let me give you a perzample...

The Eld Gel gets $11,000 p.a. funding from aged care ... she gets 1.5 hours a fortnight house cleaning ..... the worker is paid $30 an hour or so = $45.... times 26 fortnights = $1170 ................... the administration picks up - wait for it..... (she won't let me near the paperwork - frightened it might cause trouble if I blow the whistle) per DAY she is on the books, whether or not work is actually done ....... anyway - her total expenditure to date out of the allocated funds is over $4000 - so admin is costing somewhere near 75% of actual expenditure on her care package.

Now then .... to look at Aboriginal fundings..... royalties, cash grants, handouts, special stuff handed around like chaff in a high wind..... AlboMoney etc .... every time a handful of that lovely arrives at the doorstep of the Head Honcho - The Silverback - that honcho needs to take out mega salary and perks, feed supplicants and mates for jobs etc in fine style, and then the rest is available for distribution to those at the sharp end who need it most......

It would require (gasps) an AUDIT to actually see where all this funding is going.... I mean ... how many Land Cruisers can a Silverback realistically buy for each cash flow?  So where does the rest go?  For each cashflow to the Silverback - a salary etc is drawn... just like some 'board member' in The Club of less than 200 who draw from each corporation a separate stipend  .... so when you have The Top Silverback (and family - ask the Aboriginal women who gets all the lovely) handling it all - the African Chief - he's in luxury land.

You see what I'm getting at here?  No wonder some are yelling for an audit as a start.... and some real solutions - which may involve some paternalistic group handling 'their' money for them  so as to avoid all the corruption and waste.... and to ensure it gets to where it is supposed to go.... which, of course, leaves the building of prisons short... (ah - The Park - there's a solution)....

You are mistaking disadvantage as you see it for Corruption.

A persons doesn't need to be disadvantaged to be corrupt - two separate issues..... and clearly The Silverback is in no way 'disadvantaged' - rather the opposite....

thegreatdivide wrote on Nov 13^th, 2024 at 10:02am:



Parasitic symbiosis.

Still lost - OK then - we'll withdraw all extraneous funding to groups where the Silverbacks are allowed to control the funds, and they can apply individually for assistance at Centrelink.

Agreed?

I can see it now.... the Silverback Enforcers will come on down and levitate any funding from mothers and children under the 'share and share alike' 'cultural aspect' .... then they'll do what they always do - trade the goods and funds for the young women for the night or so, and for power within the 'community', to run the drugs trades, and all that ...

Don't be naive ... there's a special place here to discuss your Comparative Cynicism.... start by accepting that you know nothing....  start with a blank mind - that's what a few here already do and still persist with.....

Former Cape York Land Council chief executive Dion Reece Creek, 39, has been charged with 38 counts of fraud, stealing, computer hacking and making false declarations relating to his two years running the influential native title organisation.

Mr Creek oversaw the $1.2m, taxpayer-funded consultation process with traditional owners that paved the way for thousands of square kilometres of Cape York to be elevated to the UNESCO World Heritage Tentative List in June last year.

The proposed World Heritage listing was quietly resurrected in 2023 by the then state and federal Labor governments.

A previous push for World Heritage listing on the far north Queensland peninsula was abandoned a decade ago after local Indigenous leaders raised concerns that the accompanying introduction of new environmental and cultural protections would stifle economic development.