Angry with good reason

Angry Anderson, the much-illustrated frontman for high-decibel rockers Rose Tattoo, is not, perhaps, a name most would expect to find in Quadrant‘s online pages, but his sentiments certainly are. He writes:

… We’ve all hung in there, all these years, never begrudging the billions of our hard-earned taxes going into the Aboriginal industry in the belief that they would make a difference. They haven’t! We entrusted those dollars, when asked, to be put into the hands of Aboriginal people or those nominated by them after being told that ‘they’ know best, well have we received bang for buck? No, we haven’t!

What we have seen recently is that some of these representatives, both individuals, departments, companies, and some of those elected into our parliament have become obscenely wealthy on our taxed dollars. It would seem that very few of our dollars are reaching those most in need! But again, according to those within the industry, it somehow is our fault and it can only be fixed if a ‘Yes’ result is achieved with the coming referendum.

Well let me state clearly I don’t believe them! So it’s a NO from me! For decades now that very industry of radical voices have tried to blame, shame, and bully us into believing that we are the problem. Well I’m saying now, loud and clear, I have never accepted that! I do not accept that! I never will accept it!…

Angry’s full thoughts on the Voice can be read at Michael Smith’s blog.