Media release: Black Australia has a white future

Mr Nigel Morris, a 32-year-old horse handler from Gunnedah, New South Wales, is officially declaring his bid to run for election in 2013 as a Co-Chair of the National Congress of Australia's First Peoples as an Integrationist candidate.

Morris subscribes to the charter of the Bennelong Society, believing that the best way of helping aborigines is by including them in the mainstream of the Australian community and rejecting separate development.

“Census returns, which show a high degree of aboriginal integration such as 69% of marital unions involving an aborigine involving a non-aborigine, coupled with the fact that turnout for elections to the former Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission was typically around 20% of eligible voters, and that there is no national non-funded aboriginal voice, points to there being no such thing as a collective aboriginal identity and suggests the artificial nature of the separatist agenda being foisted on the Australian people.

“All that remains for radical aboriginal rights activists to do is to reconcile themselves with the fact their future lies not in statements of separateness but as an ethnic minority with equal citizenship subject to one law in a united Australian Federation.”

The centrepiece of his platform is the re-introduction of a sponsored migration program and cash resettlement grants for aborigines in remote areas to provide the option of urbanisation and participation in the economy and living a modern, western lifestyle.

According to Morris a great deal of the remote settlements are a lost cause as it is unreasonable to expect government or private enterprise to foot the bill for providing them with services and employment, the lack of which is a root cause of criminal activity and third world outcomes in terms of longevity, education, health and housing.

“Reports about the risks young people and women face living in the remote settlements are shocking. I think there would have to be a majority in the country one day who say they should go. I have certainly always wanted them to go since I began to think seriously about aboriginal affairs and economics and I hope they are gone by 2020.”

Morris also questions the rationale behind banning pepper spray for use by individuals for protection outside of Western Australia.

“This is an outrageous restriction on a non-lethal means of self defence. It's an ideal product what it's for, as assailants are instantly immobilised with the effects lasting for up to half an hour. I am buoyed by the feedback I am getting out there on the hustings for this stand: aboriginal women in the Eastern states say yes to legalised pepper spray.”

Morris says there should be a biological descent requirement for claimants of Indigenous status and, in as far as it allows, DNA testing, with a 25% pure blood cut off point as in Canada.

“The strongest support for tightening up the definition comes from the remaining 30,000 full blooded aborigines themselves.”

In all of Australia Morris is the only man who devotes all of his time and fortune to promoting the host culture of his country, in particular Australian National Flag Day on 3 September, securing federal funding in 2002 for the distribution of the “Our National Flag … since 1901” video kit to all primary schools.