Hey Tony, Not all of us can live in Kirribilli

The Hoopla March 11, 2015
We now know what Tony Abbott meant when he promised before the 2013 election to be the first ‘Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs’. When the Western Australian government confirmed it was closing 150 remote Indigenous communities yesterday, the self-declared Prime Minister for Aboriginal Affairs backed the move, saying the ‘taxpayer should not have to fund people’s ‘lifestyle choices’.
WA premier, Colin Barnett, said the closure of the communities was because commonwealth funding for them would soon run out, and support for them would fall on the states.
Tony Abbott said:
‘What we can’t do is endlessly subsidise lifestyle choices if those lifestyle choices are not conducive to the kind of full participation in Australian society that everyone should have. In order to get kids to school and adults to work, you’ve got to have a school.’
‘If people choose to live miles away from where there’s a school, if people choose not to access the school of the air, if people choose to live where there’s no jobs, obviously it’s very, very difficult to close the gap. It is not unreasonable for the State Government to say if the cost of providing services in a particular remote location is out of all proportion to the benefits being delivered, fine by all means live in a remote location, but there’s a limit to what you can expect the state to do for you if you want to live there.’
The critical response condemning Abbott was swift………..
Image: The PM’s residence, Kirribilli House
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