Affirmative (Action) Defence

A good reason why subsidies and funding programs should not be race based:

A YOUNG woman who claimed government funding by faking Aboriginality has been released on a two-year community-based order...

... (Emma Louise) Tatnall, of Bendigo, admitted that he had helped to make false claims totalling $11,430 through the Aboriginal Tutorial Assistance Scheme...

... Tatnall also claimed she was Aboriginal in an application for an indigenous cadetship.

A cadetship was found for her and the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations provided $15,400.

Of that, $12,000 was to go to Tatnall.

-- Nora