PM’s $4 billion commitment to Indigenous housing will ‘make poverty permanent’ [Video]

Sky News host Andrew Bolt says Prime Minister Anthony Albanese’s recent announcement to bolster rural Indigenous communities with $4 billion to build housing over ten years will ensure the “poverty” remains “permanent”.

“If the Prime Minister’s plan to spend another $4 billion would really fix Aboriginal disadvantage, I would say yes,” Mr Bolt said.

“But what Anthony Albanese announced today is $4 billion to make poverty permanent, it is such a disaster, driven by blind ideology, Albanese today announced the federal and Northern Territory government will spend $4 billion over ten years to build up to 270 houses a year for Aboriginals.

“The critical thing about these houses is where you build them and that is the problem, these houses will be in remote communities where there is almost no work, no good well-paying jobs and few role models for the children to show them what getting an education, going to school, could lead to.

“This really then, is part of a destructive leftist fantasy that traditional Aboriginal way is the best. To pay for Aboriginals to live out bush as, kind of, museum exhibits even though statistics are clear, Aboriginals in remote areas are the most likely to suffer terrible rates of unemployment, domestic violence, children skipping schools – these houses will keep Aboriginals exactly where their children have least hope, it dooms another generation to live in poverty.”