Melbourne Symphony Orchestra’s administration, so financially embattled during the pandemic, stood down its musicians in 2020 to avoid bankruptcy. The same orchestra now offers discount tickets for Aboriginal patrons, plus those of Iroquois, Itza, Inuit and any other what-have-you descent. It is a tokenistic, infantilising and totally reprehensible gesture
So called Mob Tix , which give up to 80 per cent discounts to Indigenous Australians for elite cultural events such as ballet and opera, have been slammed as racist .
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