Aboriginal People Australia

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They say they want to be treated as equals yet they are happy to claim every benefit thrown at them. The Aboriginal people of Australia get so many more benefits than the average white bloke and yet they have the Gaul to complain they don’t get enough. They complain that they don’t get a good education and how their children are more likely to go to a juvenile detention centre then to finish high school. How is it our fault? They are given various amounts of schooling s benefits like the… ABSTUDY which provides help with costs for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, who are studying or undertaking an Australian Apprenticeship. The Student Start-up Scholarship which is a payment made twice a year to help with the upfront costs

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