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Indigenous disadvantage: time for a royal commission into why good intentions achieve so little?

23 August 2016

1:06 PM

23 August 2016

1:06 PM

It might well be Chrenkoff’s First Law of Welfare that all the poverty- and disadvantage-reducing government programs are most successful at reducing poverty and disadvantage amongst middle class bureaucrats and activists.

Unlike the universe, government seems to keep expanding indefinitely and bureaucracies, mimicking all living organisms, have as their prime urge to grow and self-replicate.

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