It’s funny, how choosey the left can be when it comes to statistics. When it suits them, they’ll bellow and shriek about a disproportionate statistic relating to their chosen victim groups. Especially when it suits their narrative about supposed “racism”. Other statistics that show the same groups in a decidedly poorer light, though, they tend to be a lot quieter about.
BFD readers will be well familiar with this phenomenon. When statistics show that Maori are more likely to be imprisoned, for instance, it’s all weeping and bodice-ripping from the NZ left. But when statistics show that Maori are heavily disproportionately more likely to commit crimes… crickets.
And when Aboriginal Australians aren’t getting into elite universities…?
Australia’s richest universities have some of the country’s lowest Indigenous student numbers, an ABC analysis shows, with enrolments at the elite Group of Eight representing little more than 1 per cent of their domestic students.
The ABC has broken down the numbers for every institution in the country using the most recent data from the Education Department, collated in 2021.
Indigenous students make up just 2.06 per cent of domestic university students nationally — well below population parity, with census data showing Indigenous people are 3.8 per cent of Australia’s population.
ABC Australia
Oddly, the ABC doesn’t break down the numbers for all ethnicities, though. Probably because they will show university campuses dominated by SE Asian and Indian students. It’s a bit hard, after all, to maintain a “racism” narrative, when so many non-whites are doing so well for themselves.
Because, who knows, then we might start to suspect that the representation of student ethnicities might have something to do with different groups’ relative propensity to work hard and place value on educational attainment, rather than rely on a handout mentality.
Nah, better to just keep up the handouts…
Education Minister Jason Clare says guaranteeing all Indigenous students a Commonwealth-funded place in university and abolishing a 50 per cent pass rule for students is “not about lowering standards”.
The government will [… ensure] that all First Nations students are eligible for a funded place at university.
Regardless of educational attainment, apparently. So, does this mean that anyone who can gin up an “Aboriginal” identity is guaranteed a university place, even if they failed high school — or even bothered to turn up to school at all?
Expect the already-exploding numbers of white “box-tickers” to increase even more exponentially.
“Almost one in two Australians have a university degree … For Indigenous students, only 7 per cent of young Indigenous students in their 20s and 30s, have a university degree.”
Again, note the carefully cherry-picked statistics: comparing all non-Aboriginal Australians with Aborigines in their 20s and 30s.
Still, even comparing apples with apples, Aboriginal Australians will almost certainly have a lower rate of university degrees.
Now, why would that be?
“If we really want to … close the gap, if we’re serious about that, then this is one way to do it.”
The Australian
Another way would be to expect the minimum of Aboriginal students that’s expected of everyone else: go to school, study hard, and get a good ATAR.
But that would mean assuming that Aboriginal Australians are every bit as smart and capable as everyone else — something the left apparently are unable to get their heads around.
There’s a distinct whiff of racism, here — but it’s not the one the left want you to believe.
