Inappropriate assistance

Ettalong Beach Memorial Club will employ five indigenous people as part of the Department of Employment and Workplace Relations wage assistance program.

The program subsidises employers who provide work for unemployed indigenous people.

The last place unemployed indigenous people need to work is a booze and gambling club.

The last place that should receive subsidised wage assistance is a club adequately subsidised by losers (on the pokies) who pour their money into its 200 or so poker machines.

The least a wealthy club should do is pay the full wages of its workers.

If this club is not wealthy - why isn't it?

John Collins, Woy Woy