Johns Says it, not me

Keating Government minister Gary Johns, now a professor at the Australian Catholic University, says what I dare not, given a court case:

People now being recruited to university as indigenous are frankly embarrassing. Many of these students would not have suffered any prejudice whatsoever and are generations apart from traditional society. "They are heralded as part of the success of a 'program' purely to keep up the numbers. The harm this sort of activity does is to undermine the work of those who actually have to change people's behaviour, not simply recruit those who would have made it regardless. The net impact of such programs is near zero.