Published: April 27, 2019
Indigenous Australians experience disadvantage at rates unlike any other sector of society. It’s time to stop the ‘deficit discourse’
“Fair go” is meaningless when applied to the panoply of disadvantage that First Nations peoples experience on a daily basis. For us, life in the settler-colonial state of Australia has never been fair. By every measure, as Dunghutti man Gavin Ritchie says, “my people are still chained firmly to the bottom of the socio-economic ladder”.
It’s important to recognise the influence of the “deficit discourse”: the ways that policy, power structures and public discussions portray Indigenous people in terms of deficiency, absence, lack or failure.
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