In Aboriginal culture, it’s called ‘humbugging’: pestering relatives and tribal acquaintances for money or goods, with no intention of paying it back or reciprocating. This blatant begging is passed off as a ‘traditional practice’, which has a grain of truth, given that marginal pre-contact tribes sometimes shared resources as a necessity. Today, though, it’s nothing more than lazy, greedy coercion.
And it goes on at all levels of Aboriginal Australian society.
In fact, the bigger the Big Men, the greedier the Gimmigimmiwannit tribe gets.
Anthony Albanese’s First Nations ambassador has billed taxpayers more than three quarters of a million dollars for travel in just two years in the role and has travelled for a year’s worth of working days.
Just why the hell does Australia have a ‘First Nations ambassador’ anyway? Not only does it appropriate an American buzzword that has absolutely no relevance to Australia – after all, the first and only nation in any meaningful sense of the word on this continent was and is the Commonwealth of Australia – it necessarily carries a nasty tacit message.
An ambassador, after all, is a diplomatic agent accredited to a foreign government or sovereign as the resident representative. In other words, Aborigines are a foreign country to the rest of Australia. Albanese is trying to inveigle by stealth what was resoundingly defeated by referendum: the establishment of an Aboriginal ethnostate.
Leaving aside the essential nastiness of such an appointment, now that he has it, Justin Mohamed clearly intends to enjoy it.
Mr Mohamed has spent $230,085.73 on international travel and $98,795.55 on domestic travel since his appointment in March 2023 to February 2025, the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade said.
His staff spent $291,686.45 on international travel and $109,710.52 in that time.
That adds up to $730,278.25.
Mr Mohamed is also on a $948,937.50 contract with the government reportedly for 2½ years, which is equivalent to about $380,000 a year.
In response to a question on notice from Senate estimates, the department also provided details of the 46 trips Mr Mohamed had taken in those two years.
The lengths of those trips add up to 261 days, equivalent to the number of working days in one year.
Destinations on those trips have included New York, Geneva, San Francisco, Dubai, Paris, Hawaii, Fiji, and Solomon Islands.
Like so many sucklers on the taxpayer teat, these greedy troughers make sure to get the whole family on the gravy train.
Mr Mohamed is married to Narrunga Kaurna woman Dr Janine Mohamed, Deputy Chief Executive Officer, First Nations at the National Disability Insurance Agency (NDIA).
The NDIS. Of course it’s the NDIS: the biggest government-run scam in Australian history wouldn’t be complete without a grasping trougher scarfing up as much of the gibsmedat as she can.
It’s not all winning for the money-grubbing cargo cultists, though.
The Federal Court has handed down its long-awaited judgement in a four-year climate case brought by Torres Strait Islanders.
Elders Uncle Pabai Pabai and Uncle Paul Kabai took the Australian government to court on behalf of their community, arguing the government has a duty of care to protect them from climate change. They also asked the court to legally recognise the cultural loss and harm they are experiencing from sea-level rise and climate-induced flooding.
But the court declined to recognise either duty or to legally recognise cultural harm.
Because they’re both a load of steaming monkey bollocks.
