Bruce Pascoe ‘finally confronted’ over ‘fake Aborigine’ claims

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says “it’s finally happened” - Bruce Pascoe has been confronted on television about claims he’s a “fake”.
“SBS filmed a program on fake Aborigines and somehow got Pascoe to come," Mr Bolt said.
He said many Aborigines in the audience believed it to be a big problem that “fake Aborigines” are “taking powerful jobs in land councils and other Aboriginal organisations”.
“But there was Bruce Pascoe, listening to all this and still claiming he was a member of no fewer than three Aboriginal tribes, and then came the questions.
“But they were too gentle for me, Pascoe should have been confronted with the evidence showing he's a fake and asked to name his ancestor, but his answers were still illuminating.
“What I found interesting is the evidence - very weak - that Pascoe now gives for claiming he really still is now Aboriginal.”

[@tarnpirlane6792]

Nothing like ticking the box and not being able to be questioned about it.

[@QuantumPyrite_88.9]

Just like in America when some people claim Native American ancestry with the intentions of getting free government money, aid and assistance. Refusing a DNA test is what it is knowing that records and documentation are difficult to obtain.

[@kissmysix]

It's not a lie if you believe it.

[@michaelanderson3294]

The old gravy train.

[@walterbolter4320]

Note the term: identify.

[@happychappy492]

bit like the gender dysphoria

[@swordscot]

Last year at work we had to watch some compulsory training videos, including one on Cultural Awareness. It told us to NEVER EVER question anyones claim of Aboriginal heritage as it’s the most insulting thing you can possibly do. My suspicions were immediately raised.

[@TheAussiedrew]

It's all about segregation.

[@dave.p153]

@@TheAussiedrew no it's about a bunch of white people the want they're share of the 33 billion dollars while real Aboriginal people can't get health services in the remote communities. They want to spend all the money on symbolic crap not helping those who actually need it

[@alexsmolarek2839]

I have spent many years living and working in WA"s outback. Have come across at least two professional land title activists sporting Gold Rolex watches. I doubt they were ' downtrodden '.

[@babkeebabkus8177]

@@alexsmolarek2839 most of them have been bred out...I reckon most of those out and about in the cities and some of the most vocal are almost white people now...I once had a half caste girlfriend and my tanned skin was darker than her natural skin colour...dunno if the benefits for them go to just an 8th or even up to 16th...it's fcken pathetic....I think if full bloods look at these sad sacks of crap they just pity them for how hopeless they are...they probably wouldn't say much to them...haven't lived much in oz over the past almost 3 decades...found a better life in south east asia but I love the land...did lots of camping in tents in the bush

[@alexsmolarek2839]

@@babkeebabkus8177 I used to ' go bush' with an aboriginal....his skin was so dark it was almost blue...I shall treasure it for the rest of my life. He was a wonderful man. I still maintain contact with his sister and extended family. ..

[@IcanBePsycho]

A DNA test would sort this shit out.

[@tomcat3070]

lol there to scared to do that most most are whiter then me and I burn in a full moon

[@advanceaustralia9026]

Too many Indians would be testing positive.

[@basillah7650]

DNA testing been around for over 30 years don't why they allow the we identify as people to pretend to be what they are not.

[@johndunn4182]

Fact: Aboriginal DNA is 99% the same as Indians.

[@pwillis1589]

Sort out exactly what?

[@margaretcollins5262]

Bruce Pascoe only discovered his aboriginal heritage after his publisher told him his books would sell better if he could claim aboriginality.

[@petrusJanssens]

THE BIGGEST BS ARTIST EVER

[@craiggorman906]

This now has become an industry with so many snouts in the multi billion dollar trough!

[@anthonyscully2998]

The silence of the ABC is deafening

[@jimlofts5433]

and marcia langton - but they have won - that crappy book is now in schools and Uni - truth telling - yeh right

[@graemekeeley4497]

If you watch any ABC panel show to could be forgiven for assuming that the only topic in town is about aboriginals and no other humans but aboriginals inhabit the place

[@zeldaharris6876]

@@graemekeeley4497They manage to weave aboriginals and/or climate change into ever story. The ABC is just a propaganda outlet and needs to be shut down.

[@anthonyscully2998]

@@graemekeeley4497 I agree. They only make up three percent of the population yet they devote so much time to them. I realise that they are disadvantaged. It would be understandable if they dealt with issues such as poverty, but the ABC is more interested in issues such as land rights

[@piratepete4322]

The ABCs poster boy. The biggest delusional liar in the history of the universe.

[@followingtheword9640]

The indigenous industry attracts the grifters. Mansell was one example, Lydia Thorpe is another.

[@fabianpatrizio2865]

@chris muir it must piss her off that Jacinta Price looks 10 times more indigenous than she does :-)

[@MedusasSnakePit]

Lydia Thorpe has posted plenty of pictures of herself with her mother and aunts and grandmother all visibly aboriginal women.

[@fabianpatrizio2865]

@@MedusasSnakePit bs

[@michealmccann]

@Dima Dima What, a cooking video in a foreign language?, I gave it a dislike BTW, same with your click bait comment.

[@kilburn1313]

@Dima Dima Silly person

[@trishlangford5773]

We had a full blooded Aboriginal friend and he used to call people like Bruce Pascoe "the blue eyed blondes" Bruce Pascoe is as Aboriginal as the average Nordic. White to the core

[@bobmcdougall8981]

As an ex copper many years ago I charged a thief who had a broad Irish accent, red hair and very fair skin with stealing. He applied for, and got, aboriginal legal aid. Nothing has changed.

[@jellyonaplate1026]

My half sister has been an "Abiriginal" for over twenty years. She's 68 now and has many, many more opportunities in her life, than I have. I've been a soldier for over thirty years and have not only fought for this country but I am still fighting for myself. The difference, is pride, honour and unity for me. Please stop this ridiculous process, of them and us and those before. Let's move on as a single nation.

[@GenproEnterprises]

Thank you for your service but as long as there are two flags flying over Australia there will never be unity!

[@RustyShackleford]

I claimed to be aboriginal to get better treatment from police a few years ago lmfao. It worked.

[@GenproEnterprises]

Take the money and opportunity away from being Aboriginal and no one would identify as one, then you may get your one nation.

[@kevinsmith3671]

Thank you for your service hope you are safe and well and keep on believing in yourself cheers

[@S.huddo-db3ew]

When look at who is saying them and us it's mostly the radicals

[@garyhankinson5695]

My great grandmother was a full aboriginal. That makes me just as much an aboriginal as most of these activists claiming aboriginal heritage. I also have Scottish and English heritage. I prefer to call myself an Australian.

[@wyattfamily8997]

Well said, but the "woke folk" wouldn't accept that.

[@SvendBosanvovski]

Great point, Gary. I have thousands of years of British, Scottish and Irish heritage. My father was Brit, but I am a true blue Aussie and proud of everything we have done to make this the great nation it is.

[@SvendBosanvovski]

@@NooninParticular-cq6ov Yes. Recognition of a collective belonging of all who were either born within our national boundaries, or have been accepted as Australian. Here they get to contribute and and share our bounty under the protection of our laws and free institutions. A true blue Aussie is one who is unashamed of expressing gratitude and loyalty, cognisant of past wrongs, and committed to progressing a fair, diverse and open society.

[@SvendBosanvovski]

@@NooninParticular-cq6ov Lets take your proposition at face value. If it were legally necessary for the Brits have made a treaty before laying claim to the Australian continent, who would they have made it with? The Eora? What form would it have taken in 1788? And how would breaches have been enforced? Where would they be enforced? In British courts? The nation of Australia wasn't created until 1901, and fully in 1986 with the Australia Act.

[@keithmurphy4044]

Cheating .

[@stewatparkpark2933]

Sociopaths have no trouble lying to your face .

[@jimlofts5433]

same peoples claim military service etc

[@babkeebabkus8177]

@@jimlofts5433 yeah the bullsh!tting branches off into many areas...for example there would be fake assholes in new zealand claiming to be maori...there'd be fraudsters in U.S claiming to be native american...there are people claiming to be jews but they are not jews...stolen valor scumbags who wear army uniform and even claim to have fought in a war but when questioned they are proven to be lying...there's a lot of wanna be's in the world...really when you look at it the world runs on bullsh!t...just about all we are involved in is built on lies...as it is everything we see is illusion...it's all fundamentally energy and all made up of atoms and particles...in my view the mono theaistic religions are built on lies...the mormon church is built on many lies...can view something on youtube about all the things wrong with their organization...all the times they have changed things...something being a lie never stopped it from becoming a roaring success...in fact in this world if it's a big enough lie that gets accepted by growing numbers of people it can become hugely successful

[@Tyronepeader]

Bolt has proven that for years as he goes on his sweet way stoking hatred and spreading division.

[@rapscallion9333]

Also could be delusional. They will confabulate rather convincingly.

[@deanpd3402]

@@Tyronepeader Oh yeah, the left is all about unity and community...fool.

[@BooB00]

Just an idea.. but why don’t ALL of us aussies , tick the box , next census and really test this theory out

[@Ted268]

I'm indigenous, but to Scotland. Can I tick the box too please?

[@raytheron]

Hey, I love that idea! 🙂

[@wyattfamily8997]

Great idea, the buruaecrat brain would explode.

[@mikespike2099]

Yeah why not! We can "IDENTIFY" as aboriginal for census night.... just like I can identify as "dolphin" at work and use the female toilets

[@christinehede7578]

Ripper suggestion

[@crazypinkchick5557]

Keep calling out this fake BS artist Andrew ! Prove these well know ones 1st and then all the others that have attached themselves to the money train. 💗🙏

[@DocReasonable]

I'm 50% German but I don't identify as German.

[@mariafewster4127]

It's a total joke

[@DavidCorp-t8v]

Well who identify as ?

[@PiersLortPhillips]

It's always about money. Always

[@mattrichards8090]

I know 2 people falsely claiming indigenous heritage. They told me it was for the benefits, they even suggested I do the same. When I pointed out the ethical concerns with such actions, they simply shrugged and said "it's free money".

[@DavidNotSolomon]

It is not 'free money' - it money that everyone pays. Maybe they should identify on our tax returns what % of our tax money (GST included) goes to what cause? People might be shocked.

[@kathrynletchford5114]

Dob them in. They are stealing. No different to anyone else stealing benefits.

[@burglar42]

Dob em in...

[@ian7033-qj9wg]

@@burglar42 Impossible. It is illegal to question someones claim to ethnicity due to anti discrimination law.

[@kezf9846]

@@kathrynletchford5114 to who? The possibility of people faking it to claim it, was raised by Pauline Hanson in parliament....and was told the government doesn`t recognise even 1 person is faking it...

[@aplittlely]

I needed an MRI scan done on my knee 12 months ago, but because I’m over 50 and white it was going to cost me over $500. No way I can afford that on a carers pension. If I had have just ticked the box claiming to be Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander it would have been free. No such luck, still limping

[@every1665]

Isn't it great that services are offered without discrimination?

[@hannannah1uk]

@@every1665 i get sarcasm

[@chelamcguire]

Oh dear.........sounds like my country of Scotland. You've got to be a box ticker to get anything for bugger all. Us Scots are last in the queue in our own country. Wishing you well with your knee. I'm 51 and had two knees replaced, 5 months apart and this set me back almost £20,000- just checked and it's roughly 36,000 Australian dollars! I was needing the op,says the hospital BUT our National Health Service are all tits up since the covid malarkey and waiting lists are beyond the pale unless you arrived here illegally and have dark skin. Being told that I'd be seen at 65 made me swear! That counted me out, sadly. Well, take things easy my friend and keep an eye on those fly guys as there's more and more about with each passing day.

[@voxac30withstrat]

@@hannannah1uk I give out sarcasm

[@mikespike2099]

Become good mates with an "Elder" basically any aboriginal guy and get him to vouch for ya!

[@janetsaggus7408]

If this man was NOT born in Australia, he is NOT indigenous!!

[@karengomes1912]

This is what happens when governments play identity politics and schools teach our kids that being of European descent is something to feel ashamed of.

[@docdynamix]

So true it happened in South Africa

[@sectorgovernor]

True, meanwhile I find them ridiculous, I don't wonder why they want to be some other ethnic group / race

[@HWW147]

No money being Europe big bucks being on the other side

[@frankmesiti4824]

So proud of my European heritage! No problem here😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@madmick6275]

We live in a time where you can claim to be a wizard riding a dragon and your not allow to question this person's sanity so good luck getting this bloke to prove anything.

[@fyrchmyrddin1937]

As a Yank, I have to admit I'm amused that you have your own horde of grifting, lying scum falsely claiming minority ethnicity 'down under'. Here in the States we have Rachel Dolezal, Shaun White, and **Senator** Elizabeth Warren.

[@madmick6275]

@@fyrchmyrddin1937 Yeah unfortunately these fruit cakes are world wide.

[@howunacceptibleofme2145]

Spot on

[@defenderoftheadverb]

Who says you're not allowed to question their sanity?

[@madmick6275]

@@defenderoftheadverb well i guess you can but good luck trying to do publicly.

[@irallan]

I grew up in a small Western Australian community. We had the highest ratio of Aboriginals in WA south of Perth. Growing up with many as friends all I needed as a white person Scottish/English heritage was to be sponsored by them to be considered aboriginal. Basically , and this was about social security benefits, I could identify as Aboriginal if I lived with and around aboriginals.

[@mikespike2099]

I agree, I worked in a social services org and they had aboriginal girlfriends who would enable their anglo-aussie partners to become aboriginal so they could get extra benefits and priority housing. When the couples broke up the anglo-aussie would continue to claim aboriginal benefits because the partner had signed a form that he was part of her mob ... he could carry that paper around everywhere.

[@roxyview]

Know what you mean: my response In answer to your question on how can he sit in that room and still say he is of Aboriginal decent - listen to his words they tell how - I "IDENTIFY" and that is how many get away with putting down they identify because that is what is asked when you fill out a form "DO YOU IDENTIFY" as a Torrens Straight Islander or Aboriginal. There is NO REAL MEANS TEST because they see it as RACIST to have to prove their heritage, yet the rest of us must do so. My cousin was of Aboriginal decent (R.I.P) part blood and she was held as a highly respected Elder due to all her contributions to the community. I was once told I should claim as Aboriginal myself because all I needed was for them (a group of Aboriginals I worked with at the time, and it was them who suggest it) to agree I was Aboriginal :? I could not do that as I am White, French, Irish decent and it was a lie one which I was uncomfortable doing knowing it would be fraudulent. My cousin was part Aboriginal as my Mothers sister who was on the French side did at one stage marry an Aboriginal, hence my 1st cousin's and her children (my second cousins) could claim they were Aboriginal. Trust me when I say there are many benefits for being Aboriginal that they were entitled to including buying houses, higher educational programs along with many other benefits which they use until this day. They suffered none of the past that the original Aboriginals who were here when white settlement happened and like many today as they lived a white life style, no stigma from being Aboriginal - but they cling on to the past history to benefit many, many of them today who have never even thought of applying to be identified as Aboriginal until they know how much they could benefit and ride the coat tails as to say on the back of past history events. So yes maybe heritage checks are the best way forward for those of mixed blood (one must remember though if I IDENTIFY as French do you think that is enough without checks they would just grant me a French passport?) - I mean lets not impose that on those who are obviously not lying about their heritage as that is easy to see who is those who are of true Aboriginal decent - common sense must prevail here but so there also should be a means to confirm the authenticity, to prevent those who are abusing the system and bringing disgrace to the Aboriginal community with fraudulent conduct and stealing the benefits that are in place to assists the Aboriginal community.

[@mysty0]

@@mikespike2099 and in the same regard, just as whites are card carrying members of indigenous tribes there are some indigenous folk are outcast from their tribal groups and denied their indigenous status. They can be dark and blatantly obvious they are indigenous, but if they have stood up against shenanigans in their tribal groups corporation their status gets revoked for speaking against the corruption. Now they have to prove their indigenous status which by Australian Standards doesnt exist without association with the larger tribal group! These individuals have grown up with the same poverty, the same social setbacks as most other indigenous and would even be at a worse disadvantage being ostracized from their family group and lacking what little family support indigenous families provide. I am one of those individuals and have spoken against corruption within indigenous corporations.. and yes I even have my letter here on file telling me my indigenous status has been revoked.. please show me even one person of European descent who has any such letter telling them their genetic history has been overturned by popular opinion.. its doesnt happen, and it sounds completely ridiculous because it is.. imagine it, a letter telling you that you are no longer white.. that a group of your peers had considered it and your parentage was overturned by popular opinion/vote

[@gandalf2256]

@@roxyview quality

[@australianbirdgal2786]

@@mysty0 😂

[@argustuft2394]

Next time I fill out a form I'm gonna tick the box. I'm now a proud member of the Centrelink Tribe.

[@jamescarney6894]

Shit Yeah, I'll do the same. Thanks for the good idea.

[@bridgettecampbell1018]

I identify as a little teapot, it's the little handle that I am having trouble with.......

[@docdynamix]

​@@bridgettecampbell1018😊

[@karenvecsei4217]

Why no MOSLEM in the list?😂

[@fdbob1]

😂😂😂😂

[@tometiger47]

Even some Aboriginal Elders say there are a lot of “non Aborigines claiming to be one.

[@HWW147]

Even some Aboriginal elders them selfs have Europe blood in them but won't admit it loss of ??

[@lhallora1]

One of my ancestors was German. Another lot of ancestors were Irish. Yet another group of ancestors were English. So what am I? I'm neither German, Irish or English. I'm Australian. My husband has a very distant ancestor who we think may have been aboriginal. Our child is Australian. I don't understand how people who are 1/64 aboriginal think their aboriginal side is any more valid than their other 63 contributors of DNA. It's so divisive and racist. We're all meant to be Australian.

[@karenvecsei4217]

If you have that much Mixed Blood in Australia you would be known as a "Mongrel"

[@james_tiberius_kirk73]

Bruce Pascoe is about as Aboriginal as I am a Vulcan.

[@deanhunter1753]

Live long and prosper

[@ohasis8331]

Live long and prosper.

[@bobomac8330]

Bomber?

[@mikespike2099]

Live Long, Grow Large, and Propogate!

[@ynhickman]

🖖🏽

[@sirskeptic]

I was applying for Austudy in the 90's (on hold for well over an hour) when a lady who usually works in ABstudy answered. She was lovely and advised me to apply for ABstudy instead. She said it was 4 times the rate of Austudy. I thanked her and told her I wasn't aboriginal. She said it didn't matter, I only had to get a recognized elder to vouch for me. She also said they did it all the time.

[@mikespike2099]

In a medical magazine, I saw the most Irish-looking lass - ginger hair, pale skin, the most Anglo lass you could ever see ... and here she was receiving a big Aboriginal scholarship .... I mean there was no obvious aboriginal genetics ... maybe 1/16 0r 1/32 buried in there somewhere! i wondered if she even interacts with any mob or community???

[@mysty0]

@@mikespike2099 As an Indigenous male I'd like to reply to this.. yes there are schemes to advantage Indigenous people and progress them but for the life of me I am not able to access them, and so few that I know have. You see the vast majority of the time the schemes are delegated by whites who are actually prejudiced toward the indigenous, and like you both have pointed out, would rather hand those benefits off to whites. It would not bother me one bit if whites were screaming to shut down the majority of indigenous schemes, infact I would be right there supporting you, because its not the indigenous benefiting from them

[@jembartlett]

they also have a dedicated, toll free phone line to contact Centrelink where they get through immediately. The rest of us have to pay, and can be on hold for 2 hours or more. We don't do Indigenous people (or the rest of us) any favours by infantilising them, treating them as perpetual victims or a privileged class. Frankly, no self-respecting INDIVIDUAL should want that for themselves anyway.

[@dudeonyoutube]

@@mysty0 Apply again and tell them you identify as a beautiful lady!

[@mysty0]

@@dudeonyoutube I would probably have more chance

[@ronbennett2541]

The important word that Pascoe uses is "identify", not born or anything else that is factually based.

[@brianhogg9857]

But he is claiming that he is born.

[@opiumtrail7032]

He has no important words. He is a charlatan.

[@sandrafinbar]

It's all BS.

[@burglar42]

Next week ge will identify as a black woman!!!! 🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@garrybatt5250]

And he said his ancestors were in those regions. No birth history facts that point to aboriginal descent. I can’t call myself Scottish, Irish, English although my great grandparents come from there.

[@jason9414]

The very word "aboriginal" means "non-original" so regardless of how long they claim to be here, they are not from here. "Indigenous" on the other hand means "born of that place", so regardless how long or black or white, if you are born in this country, you are an indigenous Australian. Plain and simple.

[@christenem-cc6nz]

Pascoe has ticked the box and now he has been exposed

[@MartyP-lr7vw]

Looks like he could trace his roots back to Father Xmas from the North pole and it would be more credible !

[@matthewmeuleman5979]

He does look like depictions of Saturn/ chronos, just missing his scythe and a half eaten baby.

[@chrislane3932]

Funding over last 8 years adds up to 1/2 million per aboriginal person. How much goes to administration versus actual aboriginal people

[@urbanfrog8466]

The easiest way to settle the argument is with a DNA test. Our family had 'tales and rumours' of Native American heritage. My mother decided to get one of those DNA tests that traces your broader genetic heritage, and it was found that we had Spanish, Scandinavian, Denesovian, etc, but no Native American genetic heritage, so that settled that argument.

[@wyattfamily8997]

Unfortunately the results of those tests are available to multiple law and other organisations so I'm not interestd in giving them ANYTHING as they've demonstrated over the last few years how aggressive and violent they can be.

[@pshehan1]

As a scientist of partial indigenous descent who offered to testify for Mr Bolt in his court case, the accuracy of ethnicity tests is contestable, regardless of what companies selling them may claim.

[@alsmith9853]

Hello Elizabeth Warren!

[@urbanfrog8466]

@@shanescott5148 Firstly, your grandfather fighting in WWII and a picture of him marching in Sydney does absolutely nothing to prove anything to do with ancestry or genetics, your statement makes no sense at all. Secondly, yes you can tell if you have indigenous ancestry through DNA testing - tracing ancestry and human migration is one of the things it used for.

[@harryricochet8134]

Is she still crying about Donald Trump calling her Pocahontas?🤣😂🤪

[@mattblack9069]

You always hear the term"Our Misery" you get sick of hearing that.

[@godfreypoon5148]

When you think about it, we're ALL aboriginal.

[@orusandornots1915]

If you aren't allowed to question someone or some group, they are in power.

[@MrGetwellsoon]

RIP Kyrie Irving

[@glennmaillard5972]

By that reasoning, as Pascoe is being questioned, he can’t be in power!? 🤔

[@QuantumPyrite_88.9]

I'm guessing Pascoe has no intentions of having a DNA test performed. He looks Lily White to me.

[@falconmclenny7284]

I think it's disgusting he pretends to be abodiginal by not combing his hair and having a scruffy beard. Racist fark he is.

[@ianmcculloch8531]

Do you mean old "Ginger" with the whiskers? LOL

[@dplant8961]

Hi, Folks. Funny thing about that - when I was in third year high school in 1959, the whole school attended a lecture given by an Aboriginal tribal leader. As part of the lecture, I DISTINCTLY remember the speaker saying that there were only about SEVENTY SEVEN THOUSAND Aboriginal people in Australia at that time. And there are supposed to be 800,000 Aboriginals today, just over TWO generations later. Man, THAT is REPRODUCTION onna GRAND scale. Just my 0.02. You all have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.

[@advanceaustralia9026]

I have a Time Life book on Australia published in 1965. Australian population was 90% AngloCeltic (British Isles), 9% European and less than 1% ‘others’ including Asian (mostly Chinese) and Aboriginal. Even 77,000 aborigines is a very high Estimated number considering in 1965 the Australian population was 11,388,000.

[@wyattfamily8997]

The number has grown as the $ paymets thrown at aboriginals have.

[@dplant8961]

Hi, . @Wyatt Family . Do you mean that they saw all the dollar signs, figgered it out, and started reproducing like crazy????????????????????????? LOL. I dunno what the 'roolz' are now but it used to be that you only had to be accepted as an Aboriginal by the Aboriginal community to qualify as an Aboriginal. IF that is still the case, how many people have hopped on that bandwagon????????? I think a good few kew-ree-yuss minds would like to know. Just my 0.02. You have a wonderful day. Best wishes. Deas Plant.

[@pasbert4812]

In 1959 the world population was still just under 3 billion , we are now over 8 billion . Australian population in 1959 was 9 Million . we are now 26 Million . so your post is uninformed and moot

[@advanceaustralia9026]

@@pasbert4812 shut up commie.

[@marksakowski9272]

No to land grab. NO to the "VOICE"!!!!!!

[@JimJamJuicy]

As if he’s aboriginal how ridiculous

[@papersplease]

The way he conducts himself, as if in a perpetual state of self-reverence.

[@deanpd3402]

Sacheen Little Feather has also been exposed. Psychologist Dr. Grande reckons she was a narcissist engaged in self-promotion, in her "for the good of everyone", campaign. Pascoe is doing exactly the same. Narcissists have a long history of conning many.

[@oceanbreeze1440]

It's called "white privilege"

[@sabejreid2072]

AGREE 100%

[@frankcoates4609]

Andrew?

[@credenza1]

He exhibits the dour characteristics of his native ancestry. The Scots have always been a very staid mob.

[@anthonysutherland4108]

British Empire brought diversity to the Australian continent. Shouldn't they be applauded?🇬🇧🇦🇺

[@falconmclenny7284]

Farken oath mate.

[@jenniferharrison8915]

Community, development, literacy, solid buildings, farming, exploration, mining, housing, schools, hospitals, welfare and charity, horses, sheep, cattle, banking, insurance, exports, imports, land care, international relations, freedom and safety! A welcome! Etc!! 👍

[@leecoops2002]

They took the children away brother. don't ever ever forget that !

[@jenniferharrison8915]

@@leecoops2002 What children and why? We both know that the children were mixed race, and they had to help these children learn about their other culture and be protected from racial and parental abuse, they were removed to be schooled, etc, out of Christian charity! This removal may need to happen again, unless their families and community fix the issues first! Get over your self indulgence and incomplete view of the past, have you any idea what other families have suffered overseas? How deprived millions are in the world right now? What's happening in other communities right here in Australia? The poverty and need is not in "your" past? Where is your empathy?? Did you know that France (Napoleon) wanted Australia, Japan wanted to destroy Australia, China still wants Australia, etc! Aboriginals are very lucky that Captain Cook got here first just before the French! 🤕

[@DianaMcFerran]

​@@leecoops2002yes ones being abused, they were saved not stolen

[@streetlight3860]

There is no end to victims in Australia

[@scoldedcat]

Ain't that the truth !!

[@trufflesufflephatboy3437]

Tell me about it 🙄 it's pathetic

[@diyfamily6848]

To claim you're Aboriginal when you are not, must be an insult to the genuine Aborigines.Taking it even further, should you not also have to prove what percentage you are and the benefits be proportional, if Australia is going to go down the apartheid route. This whole thing is very sad because there will be no reconciliation and no true Austalians if we do not all become colour blind and get on with being Australian.

[@dannypeters8126]

Yes it is an insult and also his not the only one doing it sadly enough, there are others and also in the Government sector,not mentioning names but will eventually get caught out in a matter of time.🖤💛❤️🖤💛❤️

[@RichardSmith-i5o]

Anyone claiming to be aboriginal needs to take a DNA test!!

[@ameliamohsin8430]

I'm an Aboriginal, now give me privilege or you're racist! Come on Lydia, your confession is next.

[@ce244]

I guessed he was a fake from the start, the way that people lapped it up was laughable.

[@peterJanssens-r7t]

you are right as i am more white than this idiot but then he hates work so he bludges of the hard working people of this country and pay tax so this grub can sit at home and do nothing

[@peterRobinson10101]

to be fair he makes a poor liar. He did not deliver a very convincing testimony.

[@nswpublicservant]

My Irish ancestors who suffered in chains on arrival, that continued for hundreds of years of poverty and government intervention (boys homes, prison and war), where is my 'intergenerational trauma' diagnosis?... Where's my Gold pass to not be accountable for anything I do? The entire industry is there to give a few Aboriginal families everything to keep quiet, the rest nothing and all the tax payers money divided up between 'budgets' of the grossly overpaid public servants.

[@maxrockatanksyOG]

I have been saying the same thing; my family came over as prisoners (Irish), we never received shit except hard work

[@karenvecsei4217]

But aren't you related to Jacinta Price. She's Irish

[@karenvecsei4217]

​@@maxrockatanksyOGIf your Irish you must be related to Jacinta Price?

[@billcopley3685]

I heard a story of a pensioner seeking hearing aids. She was told by a doctor that the better brand was available free if she identified as Aboriginal and if she did he was not allowed to question her assertion.

[@mazilys]

The real definition of racism

[@bunyip250]

As a bunyip I can say that we were here first and then aboriginal people showed up and started taking our land and food. At least they didn't take any jobs, that's not their style.

[@paulveenings6861]

Ouch 😂

[@russdrummond7292]

Yep. It’s becoming a very lucrative gravy train. “All aboard!”

[@happygirl8298]

He sounds just like Meghan Markle. Have you heard that Meghan Markle is 43% Nigerian even though she’s only 28% black? It’s amazing! The laws of physics and mathematics do not apply to narcissistic sociopaths.

[@mikespike2099]

amen and amen

[@lynbull2982]

Just imagine having Bruce Pascoe as your university professor! Boring! And he is only an ‘honorary’ professor. Did not do the hard yards!

[@easemailboxes]

I nominated myself as an indigenous, Chinese Muslim on the census... who wouldn't?

[@karenvecsei4217]

What Census? Sounds like you provided false information

[@every1665]

I'm white and my Australian heritage goes back 5 generations. Can I be 'indigenous'? How far back does one have to go?

[@falconmclenny7284]

Were you born here? Then you are native, it's as simple as that.

[@mysty0]

Im Black.. and I have a letter on file telling me my Indigenous Status has been revoked by popular opinion.. regardless of my family tree and heritage.. regardless of the fact my first language was an Indigenous one.. regardless of the fact one look at me and you can see I am Indigenous... Imagine, a letter arriving by mail telling you your status has a white male has been reviewed by a group of your peers and been revoked.. it sounds ridiculous for a white male to receive such a letter but you people think this is acceptable for Indigenous people.. that you can vote away their lineage? Ridiculous!

[@deanpd3402]

@@mysty0 The good thing about this video is to see that First Nations are finally beginning to stand up to this nonsense. You are all being used and I am stunned that you allow this to happen. It's almost like blacks just welcome someone who has sympathy for them no matter how much those bastards are using you.

[@henryjanicky4978]

No if you successful and educated then no indigenes...

[@mysty0]

@@deanpd3402 we are all being used, and the fact you are ignorant of the political mobilization of your own outrage speaks volumes. We are powerless, always have been.. any illusion of power is a game being played by more powerful figures. So telling us we are allowing this to happen? Let me give you an example of the ignorance of whites like yourself. Some time ago Mining Companies were invading Indigenous Lands to drop Core Samples.. any attempt to speak out against this was drowned out by the outrage of pretentious whites like yourself.. how dare Indigenous people have any notion of Private Property! The hypocrisy of you people! Ok, so in your outrage you silenced Indigenous Tribes and the Courts ruled Mining Company were free to gallivant wherever they may roam. So they roamed onto Private Farms belonging to whites, and now suddenly you hypocrites were Outraged yet again. How dare Mining Companies invade Private Farm Land.. but the damage was done, you had Voted for the Vetoing of Private Property Rights So who are the used dimwits now? I wont hold my breathe awaiting your enlightenment, it will never come. So proud and arrogant in your superiority complexes that you are blind to your own folly!

[@kellyco4139]

Perhaps Lidia Thorpe is his Sister ?

[@TheRealBobSmith.]

Lidia is Maltese.

[@Design_no]

@@TheRealBobSmith. like a cat

[@dave.p153]

That's bloody funny good on ya

[@anitakerry3032]

🤣😂😂😆😄❤❤❤

[@7s29]

I spoke with an elder many years ago. I'm not aboriginal, but he asked me if I was born here in Australia, I told him I was born in Sydney. He then told me that in also indigenous to this land, makes sense to me.

[@mbnz0174]

Same shit with the Maori industry here in New Zealand. Benefits, healthcare etc. Blonde hair, bluedeye kids applying for scholarships because of some supposed Maori heritage.The real tragedy is that it's taking the money away from the people who really need it. Public services should be there for those that really need help, whatever their skin colour. How did Australian and New Zealand governments sink so low to be complicit with such blatant racism? It's a disgrace.

[@karenvecsei4217]

What are you doing in Countries with Black people if you don't like them?

[@stevepearson6173]

He must be aboriginal he’s living in Dreamtime one perpetual lie

[@karenvecsei4217]

Are you related to Noel Pearson?

[@davidskinner274]

The sooner we recognise existing law in this country that we are all equal, period, no favours or hand outs unles by genuine need and not by race the better

[@wyattfamily8997]

Never happen we're too far down the rabbit hole now.

[@marcusbarnes5929]

It will never ever be fair. Some people get all the free help. And others have to pay for it all.

[@frankcollins4743]

Period? As an American, are you qualified to comment?

[@davidskinner274]

@@frankcollins4743 I'm an Aussie, mate

[@frankcollins4743]

@@davidskinner274 Oh, why do you speak American then, MATE? Rhetorical question, flog.

[@uyt6uyt5]

Ancestor fluidity: I think I am, therefore I am.

[@kyrenwhelan2593]

Too many claiming aboriginal to get financial perks!Really LOW😬

[@annajames229]

"Identifying" as something or someone doesn't make you so. Facts and the truth make's it so.

[@tobyfitzpatrick3914]

It makes filling out Centrelink forms so much easier: Q1) Are you Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander? Yes? Go to Question 64

[@timgraham4573]

Brilliant strategy!

[@easemailboxes]

Well done Bolt. You have uncovered the last living Tasmanian aboriginal. Truganini lives!

[@popeyebob9007]

Bruce Pascoe would be a great candidate for Who Do You Think You Are. At least assistance would be given to this man to trace his ancestry and heritage.

[@zeldaharris6876]

What a great idea. Pitch it to the studio. I bet their viewer numbers would increase substantially.

[@VH-gw3qi]

@@zeldaharris6876love it 😂

[@kiqueenbees]

Even I would watch it. Maybe have a vote like they do with talent quests, and, get their production costs back.

[@gary53]

There need to be more like him called out on this...If for nothing more than to direct funding to people in need...

[@grahamjohnson7383]

Fake phoney ,should be jailed ,and pay the money back..

[@markdoolan7282]

I worked years ago with a Phillipino who was on aboriginal benefits. Nobody checks for fear of offending. Pure and simple if you are generously less than an eighth , only an eighth ,let that sink in emotional people you should not be claiming you are an aboriginal over all the other bits that define you and under No circumstances should you be entitled to special discriminatory welfare and other free benefit kicks that other races have to subsidise you for.

[@wyattfamily8997]

"Victimhood" is profitable, that's why the number grows faster each year.

[@ian7033-qj9wg]

I worked with the state government and knew a person who was Malaysian ancestry and told them he was indigenous. There is no proof required if you said you were indigenous. Opportunities opened up in front of him despite not being that bright.

[@puzzicad]

Sounds like Thomas Mayo(r)

[@pushagainstthezeitgeist4968]

Well then again, if a man can “identify” as a woman then surely a white fella can identify as a plenty good fella Aboriginal. As a matter of fact, I’m pretty good at lighting fires in the bush; at the right time and conditions mind. And I can pretty well always find water in the bush by following galahs. So that settles it! I’m doing a Brucey and “coming out.”

[@ohasis8331]

I identify as a black transgendered woman so I don't have to explain my white skin and genitalia.

[@DavidNotSolomon]

Yes, following another galah.

[@JimJohn5555]

This bloke has made Australian tolerance a total joke and a farcical concept.

[@wyattfamily8997]

And profitable...don't forget that.

[@bono1961]

As a Transgender, Non-binary, Muslim Aboriginal I take offence to Bruce Pascoes claims and demand a national sorry day accompanied with appropriate taxpayer compensation. Welcome to Country.

[@mattmacca3990]

What a revelation.. who’d have thought. 🤦‍♂️

[@Retiredroamers]

People can identify as anything they want now, why is “aboriginality” off limits?? I was born in Australia so I am aboriginal of this country like millions of others, though claiming to be one is not something I aspire to…

[@gavinbottcher9174]

Me neither.

[@paddlesmcbean2366]

Me either.

[@every1665]

Being aboriginal is a full time job. You get paid just for being one.

[@ohasis8331]

My ancestry is Irish, Scottish, British, Spanish, Scandinavian, all documented. This is of academic interest only. I was born and raised in this country, I am Australian and have no wish to claim anything else.

[@babkeebabkus8177]

identify as a gay rare pink kangaroo that got separated from his group of roos in the bush and jump around the city to get recognition and some people might actually support u!!! everything is so fcked up why not go all the way with it?

[@apteryx7080]

My partner has aboriginal heritage, verified, he doesn't go around claiming to be Indigenous, he grew up in white man world, doesn't feel he has any right to start saying he's "part Aboriginal" and claiming that as his heritage. My sister in law, a rampant lefty, discovered she has some long ago aboriginal heritage, and she can't shut up about it.

[@chadjcrase]

Anything beyond grandparents doesn't actually count as an ethnic identity, only ancestry, or heritage as you say.

[@spaton85]

Australians have Aboriginal Heritage everyone just needs to stop carrying on about it either way. ie to be Australian. No one is part anything. Australian is an ethnicity.

[@CarolFremel-my4hs]

Pascoe is a greedy go-getter

[@glenbelson5485]

His grip on the gravy train door handle is slipping.

[@warrendargusch5873]

Pascoe is another reason to vote NO!

[@peterbusby2213]

Finally calling these people out, Come in spinner!

[@ranaekeithly9187]

A simple DNA TEST would tell if he had Aboriginal ancestry or not. It could be proven for anyone now a days

[@dave.p153]

The big problem is the scientists still are going on with his crap that they come from Africa meaning all the Indian bloodlines which would have come from the Aborigines but the other way around would upset the testing

[@georgebronte840]

That's not going to happen because there will be much embarrassment in the ABC, education department, publishers and libraries as well as other individuals who never for one moment questioned this individual's bona fide.

[@wyattfamily8997]

You can't expect organisations like the ABC to actually do research and want to report the truth, they haven't worried about that small detail for decades.

[@roxyview]

TRUE: In answer to your question on how can he sit in that room and still say he is of Aboriginal decent - listen to his words they tell how - I "IDENTIFY" and that is how many get away with putting down they identify because that is what is asked when you fill out a form "DO YOU IDENTIFY" as a Torrens Straight Islander or Aboriginal. There is NO REAL MEANS TEST because they see it as RACIST to have to prove their heritage, yet the rest of us must do so. My cousin was of Aboriginal decent (R.I.P) part blood and she was held as a highly respected Elder due to all her contributions to the community. I was once told I should claim as Aboriginal myself because all I needed was for them (a group of Aboriginals I worked with at the time, and it was them who suggest it) to agree I was Aboriginal :? I could not do that as I am White, French, Irish decent and it was a lie one which I was uncomfortable doing knowing it would be fraudulent. My cousin was part Aboriginal as my Mothers sister who was on the French side did at one stage marry an Aboriginal, hence my 1st cousin's and her children (my second cousins) could claim they were Aboriginal. Trust me when I say there are many benefits for being Aboriginal that they were entitled to including buying houses, higher educational programs along with many other benefits which they use until this day. They suffered none of the past that the original Aboriginals who were here when white settlement happened and like many today as they lived a white life style, no stigma from being Aboriginal - but they cling on to the past history to benefit many, many of them today who have never even thought of applying to be identified as Aboriginal until they know how much they could benefit and ride the coat tails as to say on the back of past history events. So yes maybe heritage checks are the best way forward for those of mixed blood (one must remember though if I IDENTIFY as French do you think that is enough without checks they would just grant me a French passport?) - I mean lets not impose that on those who are obviously not lying about their heritage as that is easy to see who is those who are of true Aboriginal decent - common sense must prevail here but so there also should be a means to confirm the authority, to prevent those who are abusing the system and bringing disgrace to the Aboriginal community with fraudulent conduct and stealing the benefits that are in place to assists the Aboriginal community.

[@robert3987]

Unfortunately, no one is obliged to do a DNA test.

[@AVMamfortas]

Follow the money and NEVER question a VICTIM Hahahahahaha

[@roxyview]

TRUE: In answer to your question on how can he sit in that room and still say he is of Aboriginal decent - listen to his words they tell how - I "IDENTIFY" and that is how many get away with putting down they identify because that is what is asked when you fill out a form "DO YOU IDENTIFY" as a Torrens Straight Islander or Aboriginal. There is NO REAL MEANS TEST because they see it as RACIST to have to prove their heritage, yet the rest of us must do so. My cousin was of Aboriginal decent (R.I.P) part blood and she was held as a highly respected Elder due to all her contributions to the community. I was once told I should claim as Aboriginal myself because all I needed was for them (a group of Aboriginals I worked with at the time, and it was them who suggest it) to agree I was Aboriginal :? I could not do that as I am White, French, Irish decent and it was a lie one which I was uncomfortable doing knowing it would be fraudulent. My cousin was part Aboriginal as my Mothers sister who was on the French side did at one stage marry an Aboriginal, hence my 1st cousin's and her children (my second cousins) could claim they were Aboriginal. Trust me when I say there are many benefits for being Aboriginal that they were entitled to including buying houses, higher educational programs along with many other benefits which they use until this day. They suffered none of the past that the original Aboriginals who were here when white settlement happened and like many today as they lived a white life style, no stigma from being Aboriginal - but they cling on to the past history to benefit many, many of them today who have never even thought of applying to be identified as Aboriginal until they know how much they could benefit and ride the coat tails as to say on the back of past history events. So yes maybe heritage checks are the best way forward for those of mixed blood (one must remember though if I IDENTIFY as French do you think that is enough without checks they would just grant me a French passport?) - I mean lets not impose that on those who are obviously not lying about their heritage as that is easy to see who is those who are of true Aboriginal decent - common sense must prevail here but so there also should be a means to confirm the authority, to prevent those who are abusing the system and bringing disgrace to the Aboriginal community with fraudulent conduct and stealing the benefits that are in place to assists the Aboriginal community.

[@williamchandler2558]

You can identify as anything you want to be,and get a reward for it.

[@Ratkwad]

I think i will start ticking the do i identify as a aboriginal box and see what happens

[@ReturnOfTheJ.D.]

Some Aboriginality is always visible in part. I once met someone who was half African-American and half-Aboriginal. There was no way you couldn't see the Australian Aboriginal features, but there were African features also. It's generally an unmistakable look - you can't fake it.

[@bellabell737]

Elizabeth (Pocahontas) Warren in the US.

[@brianshook3289]

Pokahonkie

[@rightlyso8507]

@@brianshook3289 Liawatha

[@dave.p153]

You think you got problems over there these people were in Australia 40000 years before the Neanderthals in France died out they are a very very old race of people and about as wild as it gets there were no Aborigines on the panel at all

[@rightlyso8507]

@@dave.p153 Well, here in the States, Warren falsely claimed that she's an Indian as she was able to take advantage of certain benefits that she gained for being a Native American. I believe it was started in the 1980s that Native Americans were given some sort of sovereignty over their lands. They are able to be autonomous from the tax system, have their own system of legal jurisdiction with in areas etc. Many have become fantastically wealthy by opening gambling casinos on their lands. I believe that one only has to claim having one-eighth Native American blood to be classified as one. This was all done in some sort of reparations payback. I'm surprised Elizabeth Warren didn't pursue that route. However, I guess she figured that she'd make bundles more money being in government!

[@hannannah1uk]

@@rightlyso8507 didn't she get into Harvard on the Race ticket? Arguably taking a place away from genuine NA. Trump calls her out unceasingly: Pocahontas! 😄

[@thesisLAx]

DNA. DNA. DNA. The markers are distinctive.

[@TheEverest72]

The man may be on to something here! I live next door to a family who, are from India. I like cricket, tea and eating curry. There’s every chance I’m related to Gandhi! I’m as white as snow, however I put that down to climate change, mobile phone masts and, a forced social attitude that has made me more white! I just checked the chronology, it fits in with him, being my great grandfather (If I slightly tweak a few years or so)

[@arfajob4246]

I'm with you but you do realise that Gandhi is not popular in today's India? Times are changing political views over there. The man revered in the west by many is now considered down home to have been a sellout/British apologist, the first muslim hindu. Really mixed up you know? Maybe go with Ramana Maharishi : (30th Dec 1879 - 14th Apr 1950) He was right into "who am I." Check him out dude. ☺☺ Blessings.

[@hannannah1uk]

@@arfajob4246 A Hindu assassinated Mr. G.

[@arfajob4246]

@@hannannah1uk An Indian did the crime. A mindless senseless act which destroyed a noble man, regardless of the politics. nobody remembers the killer.

[@kevinrusso6849]

enjoy your curries my friend

[@deanpd3402]

My freckles are proof of aboriginality. I'm Aboriginal to Ireland.

[@zinklock8985]

I am 50 years old and have lived in the US all of my life, in the early 1980's My father told me if I ever had a paper handed to me asking for My race/ethnicity check every box except for white, dad knew this was coming back then and people called him paranoid.

[@thelamington8195]

Blind Freddy could have seen this was inevitably going to happen.

[@kooringagnd]

Why would anyone admit to being related to Pascoe?

[@ohasis8331]

Fetish value?

[@chelamcguire]

When I heard the names Dudley, England then the name Pascoe I instantly thought 'Stuffing' - as in turkey stuffing. In the UK there's a company that makes stuffing and they're called Pascoes. Quite befitting this circus clown. He needs to go stuff himself and leave the Aboriginal people alone. However, he's making good money out of his lies and rubbish so he'll never stop. Believe me, we've got crazies in the UK too - we get boa loads of illegals coming over the English channel from France at 1,000 - 1,200 per day and 95% are males of 'fighting age'. They end up in local schools claiming to be 14/15 years of age, mixing with youngsters and then the odd one or two eventually do evil things to them. When a murder/rape has been carried out, then and only then, do our govt. demand a medical to be carried out to get a take on their age. We have had males as old as 34 years of age in secondary schools saying they were teenagers.

[@williambarnes3868]

Surely the simple way to show whether someone is a genuine member of the Aboriginal Group is a blood test or genetic test which would show deinitively a persons ancestry.

[@wyattfamily8997]

Now you're talking facts, and they are Kryptonite to the "woke whiners"....and the ABC

[@ian7033-qj9wg]

The best way in my opinion is to treat everyone in this country equally and then no need for any testing.

[@matthewmeuleman5979]

​@@ian7033-qj9wg too right. DNA testing people is a waste of money. Extra aboriginal benefits serve two purposes for the government. One is to divide the conquered whites against the conquered blacks. The other is to make their victims dependant on their oppressors via finance and aid. By the indigenous being dependant they are being limited from achieving their true potential, which would ideally be to unite with the rest of the people and take back the country from the corporate beast swelling us out to foreign interests.

[@Dave-ww5tl]

Get them to eat a widgets grub

[@charmaynebruce6215]

A close relative of mine tells Doctors she identifies as an Aboriginal so she doesn't have to pay for prescriptions. Another extremely unscrupulous woman I know, scored Abstudy for her daughter by claiming the same. Appalling!

[@elainehodge9415]

Agreed, should not be allowed but what more do you expect the way the stupid woke want things!!! They should never should have got a foothold because of what they are doing to our young people!

[@gone547]

Just one of many. DNA checks for questionable claims needed now. Taxpayers money at stake here. So many getting away with so much while the country turns to crap.

[@lesteraizlewood8457]

I think that people are almost fearful of calling out the impostors for who they really are because they are scared of being persecuted as a racist. They would rather let things go unnoticed or unpunished just to keep the peace. The government is definitely like this as well, we are ruled by a hopeless system that is getting worse every year.

[@DavidNotSolomon]

Well identifying as an Aborigine makes you immune from being called a racist.

[@user-nj3os7hp1p]

It's called intimidation. Revolting.

[@gloriapascoe2614]

Who are the imposters

[@crosseyedone7960]

The issue is only going to grow until a decision is made on what actually makes one an Indigenous person of this land.

[@dave.p153]

Absolutely it's time we told these silly young girls in Melbourne that enough is enough I've even had them tell me full bloods don't exist and yet they walk past my place everyday

[@jimlofts5433]

respect the pronouns haha

[@DatsunBloke7357]

If you are born here you are indigenous. If your ancestors where here before the English arrived then you are Aboriginal not hard. You know what we are all Australian no labels just Aussie

[@falconmclenny7284]

@@DatsunBloke7357 tell them that, but they just love to hate us for... I dunno, reasons?

[@DatsunBloke7357]

@@falconmclenny7284 Because they are racist it's as simple as that.

[@alistairdimmick2886]

Sounds like he's pretty honest in his responses

[@EricDutton-r3i]

I studied a subject in Aboriginal History at university. Marcia Langton was a lecturer and Bruce Pascoe was a tutor to the best of my knowledge. I had a conversation with Mr Pascoe about nothing in particular....just some minutae. I did have a sense he was a little on the radical side of things

[@1lorko]

Meanwhile; I know a woman, her intellectually disabled, Aboriginal, teenage mother worked on a sheep station, she was raped by the station owner some time in the 1960's. My friend (the offspring) was put up for adoption in another state. She was never told the truth and she herself was then raped by her adopted father who she thought was her real father... In her 50's she began to learn the truth about her origins, but she can't prove it because everyone involved is dead. If ANYONE deserves government support its her... But she gets NOTHING!!! Because DNA test are not the standard but they should be! I suppose too many grifters, like this guy would be exposed if DNA were to become the standard.

[@falconmclenny7284]

But DNA tests are raysisist mate, didn't ya know? You just gotta believe them or you're a bigot.. I'm not sure how that logic tracks but that's what it is.

[@mysty0]

Thank you for sharing this story. Its stories like this that I am trying to highlight in my comments. Even if she did get a DNA Test it means nothing in Australia, because the convention is that you are accepted by your Tribal Group which are governed now by their respective Corporations. These Corporations are corrupt as hell and anybody who dares speak up about the corruption can and will have their Indigenous Status revoked by the group in power. In this Nation walk tens of thousands of Indigenous people who, regardless of skin color, are not considered indigenous by Australian Law. In contrast many whites are in fact card carrying indigenous because they slept with somebody indigenous. The ridiculousness of this Nations standards or a joke. I am infact one of those who has a letter on file stating my Indigenous Status has been voted upon and revoked.. why? Because I dared to speak up against the corruption in my Tribes Corporation and the tiny minority controlling power sought to silence my Vote and Influence at further Councils. It is people like the one you mention and others in my position who are not only ostrasized by White Australia but by their own Indigenous Families lacking any support in life who fall through the gaps and Australia is happy to overlook them in their outrage and hatred of the Indigenous

[@DavidNotSolomon]

@@mysty0 The grubs - don't worry - there is a God and there will be justice. Turn to Christ to provide for you and protect and He will give you want you need if you come with a repentent and loving heart.

[@mysty0]

@@DavidNotSolomon by turn to God you mean swear fielty to the Church of England and render myself a pawn of the Crown. To grovel before some man in a Cult who lusts after the wives of men. The Church is the biggest White Power Structure on the face of the Earth.. infact when you preach the Gospel you mean the Advancement of the Church of England and its Crown.. your Church and the Beast upon which shoulders it rides will be cast into the Bottomless Pit as Prophesied

[@DavidNotSolomon]

@@mysty0 I attend Presbyterian Church - it has no human hierarchy and no links to any earthly crown.

[@m0dezer0]

Why is it a problem? Would Pascoe still do the same thing if everyone is equal in Australia? What is his motivation for claiming so? I think his behavior is a symptom of an underlying problem which is hard to talk about.

[@dave.p153]

The professional committee members don't want the money going to the full bloods in the bush so they're fighting tooth and nail to justify the money being given to them

[@falconmclenny7284]

I'll talk about it. They are professional victims and raysisits. But they protect their raysisism onto us, while we are silenced, it's absolutely despicable and why nothing will ever be solved.

[@zeptepiantraveller]

Please elaborate on the "underlying problem that's hard to talk about", thanks.

[@falconmclenny7284]

@@zeptepiantraveller they are their own worst enemy. Drunks, drug addicts, bad parents, live in the middle of buttfark nowhere and give their poor kids no opportunities aaaaaannnnddd..... they are incredibly raysisist towards their fellow Australians.. but we can't talk about that become colonisation or some such nonsense.

[@matthewmeuleman5979]

It's political magic, accuse him as though he is the only one doing it. It's hard to talk about because if you say anything against the status quo, you get branded a racist, even if you think such hand outs are actually detrimental to the well-being of the recipients, as it makes them dependant on a system that has obliterated their people. How many people claiming to be aboriginals are descendants of people who took part in systematic murder of aboriginal? Many of their ancestors took place in collectively shattering a continent of independent people, into a dependant welfare state.

[@gregbutcher_musicplacecheck12]

Can you blame him, like the other thousands you say might be doing the same thing? Think of all those extra benefits and handouts you can get. believe me, there are dozens of handouts, all paid for by average Australian tax payers.

[@Tyronepeader]

There's nothing quite like downward envy.