The first black African-born senator in Australia, Lucy Muringo Gichuhi, has boasted on Facebook of how 10,000 African students have received government-funded scholarships this year to study at Australian universities under the ‘Australia Awards’ oversea aid program (https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2018/may/02/lucy-gichuhi-says-sorry-for-posting-fake-news-about-african-students).
The Kenyan immigrant lucked her way onto a plush $199,040 per annum parlaimentary pew as a make-up-the-Diversity-numbers election candidate when she replaced the elected member who had been subsequently deemed by the High Court of Australia as ineligible to hold office through an arcane constitutional technicality.
For this unemployed former cattle-herder from the Kikuyu tribe, it was love at first sight with Australia, especially the “subsidised housing” for her family of five, the “good roads, free schools and education”, the unemployment benefit and family welfare payments [https://www.senatorlucy.com.au/offers/maiden-speech-21-june-2017].
The data-derelict Gichuhi had got her figures wrong, however. Africans made up 495 (not 10,000) of 4,000 total ‘Australia Awards’ scholarships for students from across the Pacific, Latin America, the Caribbean and the Middle East, as well as Africa.
Although the multiculturalist establishment somehow contrived to blame One Nation Senator Pauline Hanson (the Antipodean Trump) for kicking up a stink over the reported 10,000 figure (and a total foreign aid budget which burns through $3.9 billion a year), and although Gichuhi tried to dismiss her mistake as a case of her office being a “victim of fake news”, the Kenyan senator’s eager twenty-fold exaggeration of the number of her continent’s scholarship beneficiaries is really a revealing case of ‘unconscious bias’, a marker of how much the African immigrant spruiker of “the great asset of diversity” would like Australian taxpayers to stump up for her racial constituency.
Gichuhi has six more years to go (pocketing $1.2 million over the journey) in the Senate before voters get to decide on the ‘Africa First’ political platform of this ‘Diversity-pick’ policy-setter, law-maker and cash-dispenser.