The Australian newspaper has been attacking the Government's plan to reintroduce the permit system that allows remote indigenous communities to restrict access to their land.
I strongly agree that the Rudd Government needs to get rid of the Left's evil permit system. Why should Aboriginal people have the right to decide who comes onto their land and the circumstances in which they come? Grog runners, drug dealers and the white padeophiles mentioned in the Little Children Are Sacred Report need unlimited access to remote indigenous communities unfettered by a cumbersome lad permit system. What next? The right for Aborigines to decide who enters their house? Native title rights? Where will it stop?
In a free economy, businesses too need unrestricted access.Breweries, petrol stations and glue factories could all find good economic opportunities in remote indigenous communities.
How dare Noel Pearson have suggested that changes made by the Howard Government to the permit system were ideological? Clearly anything favoured by us on the ideological Right is just good common sense. We don't need to explain how the abolition of the permit system protects children from abuse. We just have to believe. There's nothing ideological in that.
The Howard Government's approach is best for Aborigines. That's why indigenous Australia is in such good shape after 11 years of the Howard Government.