Pauline Hanson (Queensland, Pauline Hanson's One Nation Party) Share this | Hansard source

I have grave concerns about this because, if you look at the census of people claiming Aboriginality, that they are Aboriginals, in the last census it was around about 850,000 people. In the one prior to that it was about 670,000 people. There has been an increase over five years of 23 per cent to 24 per cent of people claiming to be of Aboriginal decent, whereas the rest of the population increased by eight per cent, and that included migrants into the country. Could it be possible that a lot of people are jumping on the bandwagon claiming to be Aboriginals when they are not and claiming benefits from the taxpayer that they are clearly not entitled to? Your silence shows me you can't even answer that question because you don't know how to answer it.