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Funding to Aborigines Chicken Feed

A leading director of the Anglican Board of Mission Australia had depicted Australian Anglicans donation towards to Africa compared to Aboriginal was a disgraced.

On the 19th May 2006, Richard Hoy a director of the Anglican Board of Mission Australia had stated it was ‘disgraceful’ Australian Anglicans donation to Aboriginal was ‘chickenfeed’ compared to donation to Africa, reported the Sydney Morning Herald. This came after his trip to Darwin where he had to reject an Aboriginal college request.

After returning from Nungalinya College in Darwin, he felt embarrassed and humiliated to say the church could not fulfill its promise to the college of $25,000 to fund half a lectureship at the college, reported the Sydney Morning Herald.

Although knowing he would be in strives for making these comments, he could not keep quiet saying: “The money we give was chickenfeed. The church's approach had been anaemic. As a churchgoer, I asked, where the hell was the church? What was it doing to bring (Aboriginal poverty and abuse) to the attention of the public?”

Linda Kurti, national director of the Anglican Board of Mission, said Mr Hoy spoke as a private citizen and not on behalf of the board.

Graeme Mundine, the executive secretary of the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Ecumenical Commission, had painted a dire situation facing his people everyday saying: “All key social and economic indicators showed that Australian Indigenous Peoples were living in poverty: our children were twice as likely to die in infancy, and we suffered from more preventable diseases, higher unemployment, lower house ownership, lower engagement with education and we were six times as likely to be murdered.”

Jim Wallis aware of the scant attention paid to domestic poverty in any country including Australia stated: “In the U.S.A the world richest country, the issue of black poverty was downgraded where poverty from foreign countries was more ‘sexier’ compared to those at home.”

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