Deal description update:
Quote from Tennis Au:
In another first for the Australian Open, ‘Mob pricing’ will be available to Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people on First Nations Day, offering a discount of $10 on Ground Passes.
Source: https://www.tennis.com.au/news/2023/01/08/indigenous-culture…
First Nations Day Offer
Adult — $49.00 each
Kids 3-14 Years — $10.00 each
Concession — $39.00 each
You will see more of this when ALBOrigine rams the Voice thru parliament
Yea I cannot believe some of the crap I'm reading with some of these replies.
No one’s denied that reality…
You have convulated two ‘similar sounding’ points to make your point..
If you want to target poor and disadvantaged people - target them.
By making it about race, not only do you include people who do not need the help, you exclude others who do.
And your comment is extremely racist.
There are almost no aboriginals in Melb anyway.
And quite frankly how many actual Indigenous, not 1/64th, would care to attend the Tennis anyway.
Only if it was at the Margaret Court Arena 😆
Discrimination - at its best.
as someone who they're targetting, this stuff makes me sad.
It's like when companies whack up a pride flag and use inclusion to discriminate.
I've faced more discrimination in my life for being white (despite ancestory i'm white as, but I can claim i'm first nations due to one of my grandarents). The amount of times i've been abused and called a white c***, had people of other of various skin tones and racial backgrounds cite that me doing my job dealing with their poor behavior or actions is because of insert here skin tone / racial background.
You want to be more inclusive, include everyone don't divide.
You feel bad over how first nations people have been treated and the gap that divides us? awesome come out to the APY lands or remote communities, help us deal with issues that can't be talked about on tv because it's "racist" because a lot of the issues aren't PG rated and can't be solved easily.
I get people wanting to do things, but this comes down to the same crap that businesses pull when they label themselves as standing with X.
You aren't, you are just virtue signalling and trying to look good.
Howabout you give some free tickets out to families and kids to inspire them that they can do anything, how about you sponsor some kids in underpriveliged households?
Thank you for being sensical.
cheers it's january.
Get to listen to people telling us all how to think, feel and be ashamed and how to fix it with token gestures that mean nothing but manage to divide and discriminate, then go back to ignoring issues because January is when political action is hot in the media and it goes back to being largely forgotten the rest of the year.
I'm ashamed it's 2023 and we're arguing over flags and dates when people can't afford to live, domestic violence, sexual abuse is out of control and any person of indiginous background is way more likely to experience 1 or all 3 of those things.
It's a shame that we can't all just get together and do something about that. Not special treatment, not virtue signal. Real meaningful actions.
I'm going to organise a huge national sporting event and offer a discount to caucasian Australians only. I hope it doesn't cause and animosity or divide…
The Australian High Court ruled in Montgomery that the tripartite test, which previously was the standard for determining aboriginal status as defined in Mabo, no longer requires the first part of the tear to be met.
They ruled that an individual who had zero aboriginal biological ancestry must be considered aboriginal based on his claims, and therefore despite not being a citizen, this criminal who was about to be deported now must be allowed to remain in Australia because of his choice to self identify.
Based on the precedent set in Montgomery, every person who chooses to identify as such is eligible for this discount.
Last week I identified as a apache attack helicopter.
Next week I'll identify as indigenous.
Also this deal is discriminatory.
God I thought we left the helicopter joke in 2012. Apparently not.
The joke identifies as being new.
I don't think that joke was even around in 2012 lol
I was called a white honky, that's racist.😂
Discriminatory
Why?
Talk about discrimination.
In school they had laptops you could borrow. There was a dozen for students and two dozen for who identify as Aboriginal. We worked out pretty quickly to identify as Aboriginal to get them. Same with digital cameras.
How pathetic.
We want to be inclusive, so pick one minority to get $10 off?
If the indigenous they're targeting are that poor, I don't think spending $49 on a ground pass will be high on their financial agenda.
Similarly, if he's suggesting they're poor and therefore unable to financially afford tickets at all, why not offer them for free? I think we all know the answer to that question.
That's before we get in to any discussions about how they approach the attendance of various other ethnic minorities (particularly European) who go along to the Open to watch players from their countries.
Yep.
Dividing people by race, even for a discount or freebie is still dividing people by race and that just is just a piss-poor idea in my book.
‘Divide and Conquer’
Man vs Woman
Gay vs Straight
Black vs White
Islam vs Judaism
It’s their age old trick and yet, look at us middle class dummies, still falling for it as our parents did and their parents before..
Funny how that all really started during the Occupy Wall St movement. Convenient for the extremely wealthy.
@ajr5k: Unfortunately, ‘Divide and Rule’ is a documented war strategy being deployed for many many centuries now…
Colonialists did it best imo.
Yet you're the type of person to have issues with feminism, with LGBTQ people, and so on.
@Techie4066: I don’t have any issues with any person of any orientation, you are wrong as usual.
Common @Techie4066 L
This is bit like the Pepsi ad with Kendall Jenner. Saving black lives with a can of Pepsi or a discount to the Tennis.
Promoting special treatment for one people over another? This never ends well.
Promoting special treatment for one people over another Always was Always will be racism.
Wow. Wouldn't have thought a small discount for our first peoples would trigger so many OzBargainers.
Next Samsung Education post I'll have to down vote because it discriminates against me, despite being a student of life.
I started writing a few replies to responses but gave up because it seemed fruitless. But I will just say this thread is an absolute mess and I wish people had more empathy.
I agree. What about the seniors discounts? Nobody seems to complain seniors get 5% off Wish cards.
Seniors aren't a race. If it was "aboriginal seniors only get 5% off" or "white seniors only get 5%" off then it's racism.
That's the issue here.
I don't understand why one form of discrimination is acceptable but another isn't. Age discrimination is still a form of discrimination.
@bargain_knight: https://www.ozbargain.com.au/comment/13249049/redir
Summed up well by Bugs bunny and King tightarse.
Besides this isn't a deal on Seniors card.
@bargain_knight: It's not a form of age discrimination because they aren't saying 'you're old so you can't have the job'. That's age discrimination. Senior discounts, are a form of socio-economic targeted assistance. Most seniors are unable to work and were not working during the period of compulsory superannuation contributions that we are now accustomed to, hence they often fall in a lower socio-economic category due to lack of savings and if you've ever seen your tax contribution breakdown, are the largest strain on our economy as such (allocated the largest amount of benefits). This deal is straight up discrimination against a race, and only stands to cause greater racial divide as can be easily sighted right here on OzB. People aren't happy, rightfully, and sadly anything good that the AO marketing team thought they would do by making this silly deal, is being overshadowed by the greater issue of discrimination. But that is what happens when you get a group of likeminded 'woke' people in a room, caressing each others egos, nobody hears a different opinion and everyone thinks they are right on the money!
Perhaps research a little more about discrimination to understand it fully, but I thought old mate above you was actually being pretty @Clear…
@bargain_knight: We all grow old.
We all have a chance to be unemployed.
We can become students.
How do I become Aboriginal if I'm not one already? Here lies the discrimination.
It’s like talking to a 6 year old…
The irony of the most ‘virtuous’ types being the most ignorant is just something special.
Maybe Ozbargainers just really detest racism of every type?
Nope only when it knocks on your door. It feels real!
Well its going to be knocking very loud soon if ALBOriginal gets his way.
Everyone was once a student but not everyone was once an indigenous Australian most of the case.
So many triggered snowflakes here lol
So being upset about racial discrimination makes people a 'snowflake', does it? I wonder what constitutes something worth getting upset to you? I bet it could be WW3 with billions dying and you'd still be all 'dRiNk SoMe CeMeNt AnD hArDeN uP LoL'…
Giving a +, hopefully I haven't triggered anybody. Have a great day and touch grass everyone!
This was always going to be a difficult one to post..
I really don't know what is worse? People who think it is ok to charge different prices depending on race. Or people who call potato scallops, potato cakes.
Defiantly potato cakes. All other names outrageous.
Only 'jandals' is more annoying
Spelling "definitely" as defiantly has to take the cake as most annoying of all.
hahaha yes, I agree
wait, nope, "jandals" is still more annoying
People who have never cared about tennis or discrimination have suddenly become human rights advocates. Wonder why 🤔?
Just snuck ‘discrimination’ in there like no one would take notice…
Who are these people that don’t care about ‘discrimination’
It always helps when you provide a reasoning rather than just writing some concise drivel.
Just snuck ‘discrimination’ in there like no one would take notice…
Nothing gets past your sharp senses does it. I'm sure the guy saying there will be record car thefts is a bastion of racial equality.
But I am not talking to the guy who’s saying ‘there will be record car thefts’
So I am asking you for a second time now, what are these group of people that ‘don’t care about discrimination’ like your saintly self does.
Why say it in the first place when you can’t even back up your own rubbish
Do you atleast want to take back what you said or am I just gonna get more digression from you?
Can't tell if you're referring to OzB or the Tennis Aus CEO.
Because we care about fairness, not the tennis? Isn't that obvious?
Well its going to be more of an issue very soon if ALBOriginal gets his way.
And if you can't see the connection then you're just not trying.
Load of shit
Who is aboriginal though?
The question gets more and more complex as true 'aboriginality' is diluted down with each successive generation.
If you are 1/128th aboriginal are you aboriginal? What about the next generation at 1/256? The one after at 1/512th?
The following at 1/1024th? Does really matter at all by then?
Like my school example. Last full blooded Aboriginal Tasmanian died in 1876. How much is truly left now?
Truganini ? If I remember my Tasmanian school history.
What's really odd is that commenters like yourself recognise that Indigenous people died as a result of colonisation (in this case, introduced disease in Tasmania), and in the same breath criticise mixed-ethnicity Indigenous people for accessing benefits and insinuate that disadvantage wouldn't be felt today.
I'm not sure how anyone could find my school example not be discrimination and to be perfectly acceptable. There were no aboriginal kids to use them, so really they're sitting there being wasted and no one could use them because they're not the right race.
Indigenous people died as a result of colonisation (in this case, introduced disease in Tasmania),
Disease and genocide unfortunately. So much of the latter is undocumented but spoken about by all the big families.
I'm aboriginal at heart.
What the heck is "true 'aboriginality"?
i would like to identify as a Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander.
my pronouns are ……………………………………
Revoked my vote, thought it was $10 tickets, not $10 off. Need to learn to read.
wtf, that deal is garbage. i thought it was $10 too
fml
i no longer identify as Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander
Why?
Tickets for the men's final start at $1299.
You might score one for only $1289 !!!
surely nobody pays $1200 to go to this garbage ?
@pharkurnell: Tennis can RIP post Federer era. Nadal almost done too. Both men's and women's draw going fwd is absolute garbage.
Bloody hell people, it's $10 off a tennis ticket. What is wrong with people that $10 off a ticket needs to turn into the great racial debate of 2023?
That said, this is just Tennis Australia trying to promote themselves. They give the $10 discount not because people can't afford to go otherwise ($10 isn't why more people of Aboriginal descent aren't going to the tennis), but because it'll encouraging them to come on the same day and create a better photo op. I'm far more disgusted by that.
We didn’t make it a race debate - the Australian Open did …
Racism is not OK.
These comments are trash.
Reminds me of the Grindr deal that got posted, disgusting comments compared to similar Tinder deals.
Statistically speaking, our indigenous folks are likely to earn less money and die earlier, if the Aus Open wants to give them a discount, good for them, and for everybody else that this deal doesn’t affect in anyway, get the (profanity) over it.
Statistically speaking, our indigenous folks are likely to earn less money and die earlier
Why shouldn't poor white people get $10 off?
I was called a white honky, that's racist.😂
Totally agree about the poor part.
The prices at the tennis are for elites.
Flashing a commonwealth support card ought to get you in (or at least $10 off).
@Cucumber123 Your comment is trash, and you support racial divide by agreeing with this silly marketing sentiment. By the literal definition, you are a racist…
Racist
Pfff wow really?! What a joke! Imagine getting a discount for being Asian decent?! ACCC would have a field day regarding discrimination laws.
There was/is a saying in Cairns the way to go was to cover your face in black shoe polish, the just sit back and rake in the benefits.
Free Schooling.
Free cab home after a night on the piss
Free housing (which could and was used for firewood in the lounge room)
etc etc
And yes, I lived there for 5 years and so can speak authoritatively
I can only find the cheap tickets valid for Australia Day.
Boo
The ones who think these lands belong to the aboriginal people, can very well go back to the UK. Otherwise, you are just a hyprocrite at its finest.
I'm not Caucasian, and I was born here (bloody parents wouldn't let me choose where I was born - how inconsiderate). I wonder whose land I supposedly stole?
You are okay if you dont claim these lands belong only to the indigenous people.
Thats the way, keep driving that wedge between the black and white by only looking after one side.
I indentify as proudly white.
they could offer me $10 and still wouldnt give a shit
Some pretty toxic replies here. Disappointing
Agree, a lot of toxic lefties freaking out that not everybody shares their racially divisive 'woke' opinions.
Yes, nothing more toxic than overtly racist types disguised as ‘liberals’..
Racist and discriminatory. I didn't think they'd have the provision within the anti discrimination act to be allowed to do this. Anyone know if it's legal?
It's only racist against non-Aboriginals so its fine.
So many weird takes for something so small….
![[VIC] $10 Discount on Ground Passes for Aboriginal / Torres Strait Islander Visitors @ Australian Open](https://files.ozbargain.com.au/n/74/751474.jpg?h=e624caa2)
Discounting Australian Open tickets by $10 does not fix or address the problem in the slightest. It’s virtue signalling at its finest. If these individuals are that underprivileged I doubt the $10 is going to make a difference. This is just woke.