These days, politicians and their hired bureaucratic help seem to favour “solving” non-problems and ignoring actual problems. Think, virus-chasing, climate “emergencies”, republicanism and getting more women into politics. Non-problems, all. One way of looking at this strange behaviour is to go down the rabbit hole and join the conspiracy researchers. One key to the puzzle lies in the word “industry”. For many years, we have had what members of the Bennelong Society and other smart people have called “the Aboriginal industry”. This is an interest group dedicated to the prolongation of “Indigenous problems”, especially victimhood. As always, politicians avoid addressing real problems, like Indigenous health, jobs and education, and focus on non-problems like the alleged lack of an Indigenous “voice”.
Excellent, thanks Paul. "Industry" is a useful framing.