‘Australia’s Killing Fields’

Posted on May 11, 2013 by KG

‘Sexually mutilated infants, toddlers raped, children sodomised, women so badly beaten they come to envy dogs. Stripped of cant and buck-passing, beyond a patronising and indulgent judiciary, remote Indigenous communities are being eaten alive by the cancers of grog, misogny and violence.
In a harrowing four-part series, Tony Thomas chronicles in excruciating detail not only the ruined and wasted lives, but the billions of dollars squandered by a bureacracy seemingly immune to realisation that Aboriginal Australians are more than handy symbols of “oppression” or bipedal fauna to be patronised.
In the name of decency, something must be done.’

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3 Responses to ‘Australia’s Killing Fields’

  1. Darin says:
    May 13, 2013 at 01:37

    Sounds a bit like the same scenario here.Mix together social welfare,lack of employment,alcohol and narcotics and you have a recipe for disaster.The break down of the family unit can happen in the space of one generation,but may take several to rebuild if ever.
    The same thing happens here on the remaining Indian reservations.Government welfare combined with lack of opportunity for employment and easy access to alcohol and narcotics means violence,birth defects and abject moral poverty for many.We’ve never treated the Indians fairly,especially the federal government.

  2. Ronbo says:
    May 13, 2013 at 03:40

    @Darin:

    You only need to do a tour of the American West to see how well the federal government took care of the American Indian. (satire)

    They are living LITERALLY on the federal plantation – with the easily predictable result of a never ending soft glove slavery.

    I’ve said for years, the federalists should give the Indian “nations” the deeds to the land they live on – and a very generous last time compensation checks – and let them decide what to do.

    Sink or swim :!:

    Fortunately, many tribes have discovered (shock!) capitalism – the Indians of Oklahoma, Florida and New York state are doing quite well in the free market with seed money provided by their casinos, thank you very much Mr. “I’m from the federal government and I’ve come to help” man. :mrgreen:

  3. Darin says:
    May 13, 2013 at 07:08

    “Fortunately, many tribes have discovered (shock!) capitalism ”

    Yup,The Mississippi band of Choctaw are one such tribe,they have done very well for themselves and are one of the state’s largest manufacturing employers as well.They never took a dime of federal money though.

    http://www.pearlriverresort.com/resort.html