Equals

Well as I said in an earlier post, I am now working as a bus driver. I can wear my skinhead clobber but a little concealment is required. I have to wear work pants as part of my uniform but I have my braces on them, and a Polo is part of the uniform. My boots are always there so I am half skinhead when working.

I would say 70% of my passengers are Indiginous and I wonder where the equality is in our lives. Most are healthy strong and well built but they have a pension card. A pension for what? Because they are Indiginous or because they cannot work because of illness? It's like the govenment gave up trying and now just gives them money to live. Yet I know of many Australians who are in desparate needs due to health or out of work and the government gives them nothing or bare subsistance with so many conditions they are overwhelmed.

I have made many friends in the Indiginous passengers I now carry but I cannot wonder why so many are considered pensioners when they are stronger and healthier than you or I. I am a strong believer in the assistance by governments to those who need it, but this situation is beyond a joke. If most of these Indiginous people can be classified as penshioners them the rest of Australia qualify also. It is a joke.