In the lead up to recent election, Julia Gillard stated it wasn’t something she wasn’t prepared to bring up until the current Queen died and Tony Abbott has declared himself a staunch Monarchist. Regardless of who eventually gets into power it seems the republic debate is off the table for a few years yet.

This fact was recently picked up on by Australian of the Year Patrick McGorry. McGorry entered into the Australian republic debate today by claiming that ‘the nation’s political leaders are too worried about focus groups to push for a republic‘.

With minorities having an increasing power wielding capacity in our political landscape (one only needs to look at the current hung parliament to see the evidence), it’s easy to not only see where McGorry’s coming from, but also to agree with him.

…but then came the fineprint.

National issues like the proposed internet filter, immigration and the economy have long since felt like they’ve been controlled by focus groups. One only needs to attempt to suggest reform in any of these categories and it doesn’t take long before the christian family lobby groups, bleeding hearts focus groups and the mining giants respectively clamp down on you.

For publicly pointing this out and rallying the cry for a public champion to push the Australian republic agenda McGorry should be praised. It’s high time the republic movement got it’s shit together and put forward a blueprint plan of action.

Howard did a great job of stuffing up the last attempt and sadly the movement hasn’t recovered since.

Whilst I wholeheartedly agree with McGorry’s position on a republic, his additional comments on Aboriginal sovereignty left me questioning his ultimate motive.

it is hard to see how the unextinguished claims of the Aboriginal peoples to sovereignty of this country can be responded to while the Union Jack still has pride of place on our flag and the Queen of England is head of state.


Note that he’s not talking about a few Mabo claims to crown land, he actually lays out a claim to the entire country itself.

Sorry but when did becoming a republic mean recognising Aboriginal sovereignty over the entire nation of Australia? And how exactly is that going to work?

What, we trade in one mostly silent overlord for what would arguably be a much more active other? Aboriginal sovereignty as it stands shouldn’t mean too much more then it does to me.

I was born in Australia just like most of them and consider it my home. The fact that the Queen is still our head of state and resembles complete irrelevancy in the majority of Australia’s affairs and the lives of it’s citizens irritates me.

Not enough to launch a civil war over or anything but it’s always there lurking in the long term activist portion of my mind as something that needs to be one day resolved.

My plans for an independent republic of Australia however by no means includes handing over. For this reason an Australian republic is important to me. It’s certainly not however about passing off power to minority and focus groups.

The idea behind dismantling the sovereign tie between Australia is that Australia is released into the hands of Australians, all Australians. Not some select mob of Aboriginals with entitlement issues.

The last republic referendum was plagued with confusion after a successful campaign that presented a severely flawed model to the Australian public. The last thing the movement needs is Aboriginals latching onto the idea and pushing through ridiculous amendments that are guaranteed to fail on a national scale.

Aboriginals, along with all the other minority and focus groups out there looking to capitalize on the republic movement can keep their grubby little hands off it thankyou very much. A republic should and should always be for the entirety of the nation, not just a select few.

If the choice becomes an Australian republic with forced acknowledgement of Aboriginal sovereignty or maintaining the current system, well I don’t think there’s really that much else to say…

…long live the queen anyone?

It’s the fallout over Aborginal political correctness. A government too scared to hold the Aboriginal population to the same standards as the rest of us, and Aboriginals so entrenched in entitlement that they don’t see the biggest threat to Aboriginal culture are Aboriginals themselves.

Earlier this month in Tennant Creek, Northern Territory a four year old baby was found abandoned on a Friday night. The baby was found abandoned in the garden bed of a shopping mall, near an area of local pubs.

The sixteen year old mother could not be located until the following day.

It’s not entirely hard to picture what went down that night. Being sixteen and near a pub area I’m betting she wasn’t alone.

‘Hey ditch the kid, it’s Friday and I’m exhausted. Bludging is hard work, we need to go get pissed’.

‘Well what am I supposed to do with it?’

‘I dunno ey, let’s go see if 7-11 will give us a pack of ciggies for it.’

‘ey bro, want this kid. One pack of winnie blues’.

‘um…. what?’

‘carn cuz… not even a bottle’o'VB? Aboriginal kids are welfare goldmines, we’re doing you a favour!’

‘Sorry but I can’t accept your child’

‘Fine. Fucking racist. Cmon let’s go.’

‘What about my bab-’

‘OMG just leave it here in the bushes. We’ll come back and get it tomorrow.’

‘Cool. See ya tommorrow bubby.’

The good news is that the sixteen year old mother is pregnant yet again and the unborn baby she carries will be her third child. And so it is written somewhere on a tree in the middle of nowhere ‘thus the cycle of cesspool is perpetuated…’

The news report makes no mention of the mother being Aboriginal but it’s easy enough to tell.

Police say they are not laying any charges in relation to the incident and the matter is now in the hands of the department.


If the mother was anything but Aboriginal she’d have been held to the same standards as the rest of Australia. I know that as a parent if I abandoned a four month old baby to go drinking there’s no way in hell police wouldn’t be pressing charges against me.

That and the legal age of consent in the NT is 16. With two kids already this teenage mother has been doing it since at least the age of 14. But she’s Aboriginal so we won’t worry about questioning her about that either.

Last thing we want is to drag some upstanding member of the Aboriginal community off to court for sex with a minor now would we.

In Tennant creek child abandonment is only the tip of the iceberg though. This week a child protection  inquiry was held. Local resident Jacqui Hingston told the inquiry that

“There are kids who have actually had markings on their face and I have actually seen that,” Ms Hingston said.

“I was sitting down with family the other day, and I have seen actual burn marks from cigarettes and markings on their face where they have actually been hit by a drip system, a belt and just backhanded over the top of their head.”

She said she has reported cases of abuse to the Northern Territory Government department responsible.


Yet as usual when it comes to Aboriginal cases of child abuse you can bet nothing has been done. God forbid anyone criticise the utterly useless Aboriginal Placement Principle which often sees children blindly placed in the care of drug dependant abusive relatives.

Seriously, kids are running around Tennant Creek with visible cigarette burns and bruises from beltings and nobody is doing anything!?

Just what the hell is going on in the seemingly lawless Northern Australia?

And it’s not like the government knows nothing about it either. A few years back now the Bath report was commissioned and found that

Aboriginal children were at particular risk, often consigned to carers who lived in violent or abusive homes in remote communities where standard case reviews rarely happened.


Upon receiving the report, the Northern Territory government suppressed its findings  for two years.

If people thought taking Aboriginal children and putting them in white homes was bad wait until all these currently suffering in silence abused Aboriginal children grow up.

When the time comes and the current generation of Aboriginal kids start asking why the bloody hell nothing was done, I hope the bleeding hearts of Australia have got some answers for them.Through complacency, inaction and the need for political correctness as an Australian I am disgusted that we continue to let Aboriginal children be abused.

We’ll happily entertain the idea of censoring the internet nation wide in the name of lazy parenting, but god forbid we take action and zero tolerance on the child abuse rampantly occurring daily in the Aboriginal community.

To kick start the assembly an acknowledgement was made to the traditional Aboriginal land owners of the area. As I sat in the audience watching this strange little ceremony I couldn’t help but wonder what, if anything, anyone was getting out of it.

Fast forward to 2010 and not much has changed.

Tony Abbott recently caused a bit of a stir when he had the balls to publicly raise what I suspect a lot of Australian’s have been thinking;

“Kevin Rudd is not an old-style lefty… but the Labor Party is full of people who are, and I guess this is the kind of genuflection to political correctness that these guys feel they have to make,” he said.

Mr Abbott cited Mr Rudd’s speech at last week’s Australian Medical Association parliamentary dinner in Canberra as an occasion at which a nod to the land’s traditional owners was inappropriate.

“There’s a place for this in the right circumstances but certainly there are many occasions when it does look like tokenism,” he said today.


Now I know that Mr. Abbott’s intentions in raising this point are quite possibly purely political but even so, he does raise a valid point.

Is acknowledging traditional Aboriginal landowners little more then a hollow token gesture?

I certainly think so. If you’re holding some event related to Aboriginals in particular then by all means pay your respects to the people that once roamed there. I don’t really care if you do or not but it’s your call to make.

If whatever it is that’s going on has absolutely nothing to do with Aboriginals or Aboriginal affairs, why exactly are we acknowledging them again? And why stop there, why not acknowledge the previous tenants of your residence the next time you hold a party.

Or hang a photo from the rear view mirror of the previous owner the next time you buy a second hand car.

It all does seem a bit silly.

As a young Australian the sentiment is completely hollow and beyond tokenism. It’s like saying grace at the table because your parents did despite you not believing a word of it.

Frankly I don’t really care who inhabited whatever land before I happened to be attending whatever formal ceremony was now being held on it. If they did nothing to contribute to the current state of events, other then running around hunting some kangaroos a couple of hundred years ago, then why do they deserve my recognition?

Yes the British could have handled occupation a bit better and it’s a tragedy that so many Aboriginal lives were lost but Aboriginals didn’t even have a system of land ownership to begin with. Get over it already.

In a similar vein of the abysmal state of Aboriginal welfare it seems traditional land acknowledgement is yet another example of modern day Aboriginals living in the past.

Naturally after stirring the bleeding heart hornet nest that is the cornerstone of latte politics in Australia, it didn’t take long for people to publicly disagree with Abbott’s remarks.

NSW Premier Kristina Keneally stated that

acknowledging traditional owners at official ceremonies is an appropriate way of recognising indigenous people

I’m more inclined to take advice from Aboriginal people, from elders, from our indigenous leaders, than I am from Tony Abbott on this subject.


“Hey guys, do you want us to stop acknowledging you everytime someone so much as farts in public?”

“Yeah, no we’re right cheers.”

Of course Aboriginal leaders are going to support the continued show of recognition of their people, no matter how far removed from Aboriginal rights or relevence the event being held the recognition is presented at.

The question being raised isn’t whether they are comfortable with it but rather does it mean anything to the rest of the Australian population.

I mean traditional land ownership acknowledgement at an Australian Medical Association dinner… really?

Next in line to swing the bat was Curtin University Centre for Aboriginal Studies director Anita Lee Hong.

Hong made a public announcement calling for an apology from Abbott citing

It’s a way that non-Aboriginal people can show respect for Aboriginal people, building on our heritage and our ongoing relationship.


I’m all for respect as I see no point in disrespecting people for the sake of it. However just what exactly are we respecting by acknowledging at a medical association dinner that Aboriginals once ran around the area?

Then there’s the issue of respect being a two way street and all. I mean it’s not like non-aboriginal people do nothing to show respect towards Aboriginals. What exactly do Aboriginals do apart from going around telling the people of Australia ‘it’s not enough’ and demanding we pay them more money?

Why pretend like Aboriginals have a choice in the matter or that we’re actually going to listen to them if they objected to whatever event we asked them to attend and throw their blessing behind.

‘Sorry guys, we’ve had to call off this years Australian Medical Association dinner because the traditional land owners didn’t approve’.

Token acknowledgement indeed.

And what must it be like from an Aboriginal (non leader) perspective. It’d kind of be like Britain taking control of the Australian parliament and then requesting we attend every dinner party, afternoon tea or shopping mall opening to acknowledge the now defunct Australian parliament.

I don’t really see how modern day Aboriginals are benefiting from this acknowledgement at all. It’s not like we’re all going to forget who was living in Australia before the British arrived. I mean history is still taught in schools right?

If Aboriginals are worried people will forget they roamed Australia for 40,000 years before the British arrived then make it a question on our citizenship test or something. If you want acknowledgement as a race then how about doing something acknowledgeable.

Simply existing just doesn’t cut it.

On one side of the fence you have the traditionalists. People who place Aboriginal heritage above all else, including the welfare of the child in question.

On the other are people like me who, and you don’t have to be a rocket scientist to see it, think that the system is horribly broken. Amongst a decrepid sea of apologist policy, castrated government departments and a bunch of old tribal members blindingly out of touch with reality stands the current situation with Aboriginal children.

In this environment it’s easy to see why for two years the Northern Territory government would hide a damning report of a truly failed policy.

The Bath report was suppressed for two years presumably because it didn’t fit in with the Australian government’s apologist ‘everything is going ok’ public image.

Sure Kevin Rudd got up and said sorry but all that achieved was a bunch of old Aboriginals whinging about the lack of monetary compensation that was forthcoming afterwards. From the rest of us then came the annoyance that the government  apology was merely symbolic and failed to address any of the current issues facing this troubled community.

With everyone running around too scared to intervene or remove Aboriginal children from abusive parents and relatives the current climate these kids live in appears to have been swept under the carpet.

Amongst other things the Bath report found that;

Aboriginal children were at particular risk, often consigned to carers who lived in violent or abusive homes in remote communities where standard case reviews rarely happened.

Barely any Aboriginal carers underwent a registration process, and the Government’s bureaucrats warned it that a “sense of complacency” governed the assessment, review and management of cases of children placed in the care of a relative.

Dr Bath found the Aboriginal child placement principle – which states that Aboriginal children should be placed with a relative or other Aboriginal carers if possible – sometimes took precedence over child safety, and that the standards applied to foster carers were followed with much greater rigour than with relative carers.


This is all from someone who was actively charged with reviewing the current situation and making recommendations to the Australian government.

So what did the knuckleheads in power do?

They hid it for two years and pretended everything was fine.

I’m not for a second going to suggest throwing money at the situation is going to fix it. But can somebody in power please grow a pair and start the ball rolling on what needs to be done?

If anyone else in Australian society abuses children directly or is charged with their care and is clearly not fit there are penalties put in place. If the parents of Aboriginal kids are deadbeats and their relatives are no better then the culture itself has failed them and it’s time to go.

Mind you if there’s suitable Aboriginal carers in the area willing to take the child/children in then I don’t see why this can’t happen.

What we have here is a predictable chain of inaction that will ultimately lead us down the path of a whole new generation of Aboriginals either growing up into adults and perpetuating the cycle of abuse, or worse still getting out of their childhood hell holes and wondering why nobody did anything to help them.

The problem is that by then it’s too late. A whole new generation of Aboriginals will feel cut off and failed by the system that governs the rest of us.

Ironically the most vocal opponents of such change are the people supposed to be in favour of Aboriginal welfare and rights.

Aboriginal or otherwise child abuse is child abuse and cultural tradition should never take precedence over the law of the land. Australia doesn’t tolerate honour killings, polygamy or the random violence that occurs in other war torn countries, so why are we as a society and government so continually lenient towards Aboriginal offenders?

Call me racist or whatever else you want but all I know is that the experience some Aboriginal children go through would never be allowed for children in greater Australian society.

Yet by calling for this equality somehow I’m the racist.

If I make the call for equality now in the best interest of Aboriginal children, at least in ten or fifteen years time I can say I wasn’t sitting around with my thumbs up my arse making cultural excuses for Aboriginal child abusers.

After holding a competition across Australian schools to design the Australia day ‘doodle’ (a design to replace the Google logo on the Google website), a design was chosen which featured the Aboriginal flag.

What should have been a proud day for Aboriginals and recognition through the largest online search portal in the world quickly degenerated over what anything Aboriginal boils down to;

Money.

So the story goes after student Jessie Du’s design was chosen as the winner Google contacted Thomas to use the flag as the flag itself is copyrighted for use in commercial situations.

Some to’ing and fro’ing ensued and eventually negotiations broke down. In Thomas’ own words, the reason?

“They didn’t make me an appropriate offer.”


Thomas described the amount offered as “a pittance” but both himself and Google have declined to state exactly how much was on the table.

In any case one of two things happened here;

a. One of the most profitable companies in the world offered a local Australian artist a couple of hundred dollars to use the Aboriginal flag.

b. One of the most profitable companies in the world offered a local Australian artist a sizeable amount. Due to the fact that the company is one of the most profitable in the world, the artist thought he could get more and it backfired.

What it all comes down to is exactly how much was offered, or the broader question, should anything have been offered at all?

Google make money from advertising on their search results, there’s no argument about that but surely the use of the Aboriginal flag is more beneficial to Aboriginals then Google itself.

It’s not like ‘Aboriginal’ is a money making keyword as far as advertising goes or that Google is going to make a bucketload of money showcasing the flag on their search page.

In return for using the image Aboriginals get recognition in that I’m sure out fo the millions (billions?) of searches conducted each day more then a few people are going to be curious about the image and click on it.

The irony of the whole situation treads further into ridiculous territory when on Australia Day itself we had around 100 Aboriginal protesters campaigning outside Parliament house for ‘greater recognition’.

In the digital age it’s pretty hard to beat your flag being showcased on the world’s largest search portal. That is of course if your just after recognition though.

Prime Minister Kevin Rudd may have issued his formal apology to the stolen generations shortly after he took office but many in the indigenous community believe his words have not been backed by action.

Les Coe called on all indigenous people across the country to come together to fight for indigenous rights and welfare.


Methinks somebody has confused action with monetary compensation.

When I see the Australian flag, in any context (political protest and flag burning aside), I always get a ping of pride inside me. Not Southern cross bogan swastika pride but just that feeling of my country and belonging.

Perhaps even more so now that I’m overseas, although I’m far from ever becoming an ‘Aussie Aussie Aussie, Oi Oi Oi!’ embarrassment.

It’s a shame that what could have been the greatest global recognition of Aborigines in Australia for years was caught up in the bitter monetary stigmata that seems to be at the heart of any Aboriginal issue raised today.

Underpinning any sign of good will or constructive progress on Aboriginal issues are stories like this. I guess in part because they showcase the true colors of those involved.

Not red white and blue, green or gold or even black, red and yellow, but rather the colors of the Australian currency.

Google made headlines earlier this week when they announced they’d had enough of being compromised by the Chinese government unidentifiable Chinese nationals definitely not working for the government.

In response to these attacks Google pledged that they would no longer be censoring internet search results made from Google.cn.

Despite internet filtering being relatively easy to circumvent, having search engine results filtered at the source was a major setback for online freedom of speech.

Less then 24 hours later however came the announcement that Google Australia would be censoring the entry for Aboriginies on Encyclopaedia Dramatica.

It seems that internet censorship isn’t fit for the Chinese but Australian’s are more then willing to bend over for it.

For those of you not in the know Encyclopedia Dramatica is the Wikipedia equivalent for the notorious online community 4chan. 4chan is essentially a massive anonymous imageboard and has been the source of a lot of internet sub culture over the years.

The page in question is Encyclopedia Dramatica’s entry for Aboriginals which, like the rest of the site is loaded with satire.

The decision to drop the entry came after Australian Steve Hodder-Watt launched legal action against Google. He found the Encyclopedia Dramatica entry after entering the search string ‘Aboriginal and Encyclopedia’ into Google.

I’m not a big fan of blunt racism just for the sake of being racist but underneath the deliberate offensiveness there is somewhat of a hollow ring of truth. Well, at least as far as drug abuse goes.

When asked why Hodder-Watt launched the action he replied,

It portrays indigenous Australians in the most unsavoury light possible, and you wouldn’t want a child stumbling across it.


If parents were doing their job properly then kids shouldn’t be able to access sites like Encyclopedia Dramatica to begin with.

Like I said I’m not saying the site isn’t racist but unless racism is explicitly refused classification (currently no such system is in place) who does Hodder-Watt think he is dictating what Australian’s can and can’t see?

I applaud Google for taking steps towards opening the internet up in China despite the likelyhood that unless they back down then the end result will be pulling out of the country.

What I can’t understand is why they’ve gone and decided to restrict our search results. Hypocritical much?

If you’re offended by content online then by all means petition the host of Encyclopedia Dramatica to remove the offensive content. Launching government funded legal action via the Australian Human Right Commission just creates a dangerous legal precedent.

What about my human right to access legally published information, regardless of how offensive it might be?

‘Hey jewboy, can you do me a favour?’

‘uh..what?’

‘See those nigger tv snack teddies, I want you to throw a bag on the ground and stomp em. STOMP EM!’

‘you’re not serious…?’

‘ey dun listen to those gookface pocky, what you wan’t to do is teach those Oreo’s a lesson. Interbiscuit relations is not on and somebody has to teach those skanky white fillings a lesson.’

‘a lesson? the only lesson that needs to be taught here is that you nigger teddies aren’t welcome here. This aisle is full, piss off back to your own country of origin.’

‘ey jewboy I’m still talking to you!’

‘HOLY CRAP TALKING BISCUITS…wait you guys know I’m not even jewish right?’

The above might be a strange surreal world to some of you but for Sam Watson, director of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander studies at the University of Queensland, it’s just another day fighting prejudice in Australian supermarket aisles.

Sam Watson lives in a world of racist biscuits.

Despite being on Coles’ shelves for three years, today Coles Supermarkets announced they’d be changing the name of their Creole biscuits due to “claims it is racist”.

I’m the first to admit when I first read the story I had no idea what a Creole was. I thought maybe it was an ancient Greek island but it turns out it’s a derogatory word for people who have mixed European and African ancestry. Oh, and it’s also the name for widely popular spicy cooking that originated out of Louisiana in the US.

What’s more probable, Coles named a food item after a popular food name or that they wanted to send a racist message to the European-Afircan community?

Unlucky for us, possibly  the only person in Australia who knew of Creole’s racist connotations decided to make it his personal quest to badger Coles until they agreed to change the name.

Because you know really, this is clearly the most pressing issue affecting Aboriginal and Torres Straight islanders today. I mean christ, I’ve never had the courage to just come out and say it but on the back of Mr. Watson’s (seen on the right there with a ‘Black Australia movement’ tshirt) victory I’m just going to let it rip.

WHY DO THEY ALWAYS USE WHITE SUGAR ON BISCUITS?!

Seriously, is brown sugar just not good enough? What is this crap and who’s responsible. BROWN SUGAR RIGHTS NOW!

While Creole biscuits might be crossing the line, it’s reassuring to know that after a hard day’s work of White King’ing my bathroom and Black & Gold disinfecting my kitchen I can still sit down with a black tea and enjoy some Coon cheese and relax.

Instead of wasting research time on stupid things like racist biscuits perhaps Watson could take a look at some more pressing issues. Like perhaps the fact that:

• An aboriginal youth is four times as likely to be the victim of domestic abuse.
• Indigenous children make up 40% of all hospital admissions for children aged 0-4.
• An indigenous baby is 1.8 times more likely to be neglected or abused.


Just this morning a four year old boy was admitted to Darwin hospital.

The lifeless body of a six-week old baby who was allegedly brutally bashed was rushed to Royal Darwin Hospital this morning.The boy who had reportedly blood on him was pronounced dead upon his arrival at the hospital about 4am. It is believed the boy’s family was known to child protection services.


Whilst the article doesn’t mention the baby was of aboriginal descent, statistically there’s a very high chance he was. In any case, the government’s response?

Ms McCarthy said she was confident with the department’s work and leaks within the agency would be investigated.


Instead of addressing the problem they’re more worried about how embarassing information was leaked and how it can be prevented in the future.

Rudd himself isn’t any better with the announcement today that he is planning a formal government apology for the ‘Forgotten Australians’. Seriously, didn’t we clear all this crap up with the government apology to the Stolen generation?

Apparently not.

This time around we’re apologising to “the survivors of some 500,000 children who found themselves institutionalised in orphanages and homes between 1930 and 1970.”

Child Migrants spokesman Harold Haig said the apology was only a first step.

“There would need to be reparation and restitution … so that child migrants finally get justice.”


Just like the stolen generation apology, greedy opportunists are already getting ready to circle the government with their hands held out. Who’ll fit the bill? Why the taxpayer of course.

In fifty years time I hope somebody gets up in parliament and makes an apology to the current ‘Stolen (from) generation’. I mean Jesus Christ if we thought the stolen generation was bad wait until the neglected kids of today wake up and start asking questions about why nobody did anything to save them in the name of political correctness and non-intervention.

With child protection laws woefully inadequate, child abuse out of control and the Rudd running around apologising on behalf of Australian’s to any minority group he can find, it should be people like Sam Watson leading a charge against blatantly inadequate policy.

But no, instead Watson is off fighting racist biscuits.

We’ve pumped billions into their failed townships and remote communities.

We’ve tried letting them govern themselves.

We gave them an official government apology over how they’re ancestors were treated.

All this and still practically zero productivity, more whinging and demands for more money.

After reports of rampant child abuse and alcoholism were publicised the Liberal government decided enough was enough and put in place what’s called the intervention. In a nutshell the idea is that Aboriginals are forced to buy food and essentials with their dole money instead of drugs and alcohol.

For the most part it seems to have worked, infact it seems to have worked a little too well. Some aboriginals are so disillusioned that they’ve appealed to visiting UN delegate James Anaya.

A GROUP of Australian Aborigines has asked the United Nations for refugee status, claiming special emergency laws to curb alcohol and sexual abuse in the remote outback have turned them into outcasts at home.

“We’ve got no say at all. We feel like an outcast in our community, refugees in our own country” said Richard Downs, a spokesperson for the 4000-strong Alyawarra people in central Australia when he spoke on state radio.

The intervention, launched in June 2007 to stamp out widespread child sex abuse, had taken away indigenous rights, Mr Downs said.


So certain Aboriginals are feeling like outcasts over not being able to abuse children and drink themselves silly?

WELL GOOD.

Finally maybe the message is starting to get through.

And what’s all this nonsense about indigenous rights and the intervention. What do Aboriginals seriously expect us to respect their claims that they have a right to abuse children? Yeah sorry Richard not the best argument for your people there that one.

Unfortunately the UN is probably only going to scratch the surface and point the finger at Australians again and probably recommend we just throw more money at the problem and let Aboriginals manage their dole payments themselves again.

I mean it’s easy as an impressionable outsider from the UN to rock up, see the appalling conditions these people bring upon themselves and just blame the government. Everywhere else in the world the local minority seem have gotten on with life but oh no, not our precious Aboriginals.

Personally I lost most of my respect for the UN when earlier this year they entertained reccomending to governments that blasphemy be made illegal. Even more respect was lost when the Durban conference, which is supposed to be about combating global racism was again hijacked by Islamic states and used to bash Israel.

I really feel sorry for those Aboriginals trying to make it in this world with the rest of us. It seems there are simply no limit to the depths certain Aboriginals will sink to in an effort to get back the old gravy train of welfare with no personal responsibility or commitment they were on.

The glory days are over guys. Even if you are declared refugees what’s that going to achieve? If the global spotlight is shone on these failed communities do you really think anybody is going to see anything different to what the rest of Australia sees?

How insulting that Aboriginals who have it so good believe they are on the same level as those genuinely fleeing for their lives. I’m not talking about the asylum shoppers who jump on a plane to Indonesia either, I’m talking about the genuine ones who flee with nothing to wherever they can get to and are just happy to not be dead.

Really, not being able to abuse children and alcohol puts you in the same basket as a genuine refugee? Please.

We hear this old chestnut trotted out time and time again when the issue of Aboriginal welfare is discussed. Despite educational subsidies, health care subsidies, virtually no criteria for welfare payments, free housing and a whole host of extra support from government services, it seems there’s always something else to whinge about.

Back in 2007, six hundred and forty two million dollars were put aside for the Strategic Indigenous Housing and Infrastructure Program. This program was created to build houses in unsustainable communities and then …something something… everyone would find jobs and live happily ever after.

To date not one house has been built under the program and Aboriginal groups have started to circle the government demanding to know why.

To be fair to the Aboriginal groups it does seem rather shameful on the government part that after promising such a large budget, nearly two years later they’ve done nothing about it.

Sure they’ve probably held committee after committee and meeting after meeting on it but the bit that people care about, getting a free house hasn’t really happened.

The government argue that the money is there and what’s holding progress back is the refusal for Aboriginals to sign the government on with long term leases on the land. We’re not talking small potatoes money here either, recently one hundred and twenty five million was knocked back by an Aboriginal community.

For land that has no agricultural value, is in the middle of nowheresville and has no infrastructure the money is ludicrous. When Aboriginal people complain about being stuck in places with no choice in the face of such offers clearly there’s huge questions of credibility in their claims.

Personally while I’d prefer the government avoided making such grand gestures and continuing to prop up failed communities with taxpayer money I can’t help but feel a little left out. Sure I might live longer, enjoy a better education and job availability but is that something I’ve achieved or more the product of choosing not to live in the middle of nowhere?

The advantages most Australians enjoy are available to Aboriginals, just not in the trashy environments they choose to live in. And it’s not just restricted to Aboriginals, I mean if I went out and lived there I imagine my health would eventually take a pounding too.

This I believe is probably why the government have been slow to act on building houses for these people. It’s true the economic crisis cannot be blamed for inaction dating back to 2007 but it’s not like the Rudd government aren’t known for stalling and holding committees for months before deciding on anything.

Take the National Broadband Network for example, last I heard we can expect to have a rollout sometime in 2090. Maybe.

What I think has most likely happened is that while their intentions were good back in 2007, after planning, discussing and yada yada whatever else governments do, when the time came around to coughing up the money they realised there were more pressing matters at hand.

Aboriginals on welfare don’t contribute to society or the economy, they don’t produce anything and any money you throw at them gets sucked into a black hole never to be seen again. In the face of a declining health care system, crippling public transport infrastructure, water shortage worries and housing crisis’ in our capital cities to name a few of the problems we’re facing, does it really surprise anyone building free houses for deadbeats has taken a back seat?

Especially when this is invariably how they wind up;

Up the road, a dozen people slump across the porch of a tiny, graffiti-stained house. Inside, a ceiling fan loses a battle with the rancid smell of the garbage and feces that litter the bathroom floor.

Palm-sized cockroaches skitter across the shower, and the two bedrooms are crammed with tattered mattresses where some of the home’s 18 residents sleep.


No it’s not a made up stereotype, it’s an accurate description of what Australian taxpayers get for their money when investing in ‘closing the gap’ for Aboriginal communities.

Scattered towns and communities exist all across Australia full of welfare supported deadbeats and layabouts. The featured video below showcases the best of one such community, Halls Creek.


Again, this isn’t an isolated incident.

So can someone tell me why the hell the government would even want to build houses for these people?

Even if we forget about the taxpayers return on investment for doing so, why is it that the massive inequality programs such as this create are never addressed?

Most Australian’s dream of owning their own home one day. For most of us that means working hard, taking out a mortgage and and maintaining the property.

Why is it then that just because I’m Aboriginal I can not only demand free housing but then have the balls to stand up and complain when the government doesn’t maintain the property free of charge?

Really, this is that what Aboriginals are complaining about these days?

An economic drain of a craptastic community in the middle of nowhere with no job prospects, little infrastructure, water problems, alcohol and drug abuse with shiny brand spanking new houses is still a craptastic community.

It’s high time the government stood up to Aboriginal groups and started to demand a return on investment to the millions we pump into these failed communities every year.

The jobs aren’t coming, the booze won’t stop and the kids are just going to continue to die younger until you start taking responsibility and constructive lifestyle choices of your own.

Stop deluding yourselves and wake up.

It is followed closely by the notion that current generation Aboriginals are somehow doomed to a life of booze, cigarettes and child abuse because they are genetically unable to move on with their lives.

The end result of both of these lies is the biggest sink of billions in Australian taxpayer money in the history of this country. And for what?

A government report released today, ironically titled “Overcoming Indigenous Advantage‘, informs us that aboriginal child abuse is at record highs, more aboriginals then ever before are commiting crime and being jailed and all those unsustainable jobless aboriginal communities up north are just as unsustainable as they were 50 years ago.

Well suprise bloody surprise.

They wanted a public government apology: They got one.

They wanted more handouts then ever before: They got them.

We ask them to get off their arses and become productive members of society: They call us racist.

And so the never ending cycle goes. The good news for Aboriginals is that it appears set to continue down the same well travelled path. Despite the writing on the wall clearly showing that throwing money at unsustainable remote communities with zero job prospects does nothing but promote rampant drug abuse and child molestation, Rudd’s answer to the damning report is:

It is unacceptable and it requires decisive action. (It) means we have to redouble and treble our efforts to make an impact… we must turn the corner.


Presumably this means we’re just going to double, if not triple our financial commitment to failed Aboriginal communities and hope for the best.

Hip hip hooray!

The wasted billions have allegedly been squandered in the ‘closing the gap’ programs. These programs are designed to ‘close the gap’ between the general population statistics and those of Aboriginal communities. Things like life expectancy, probability of getting abused as children and jail rates are all taken into account.

Statistics aside, it doesn’t take a genius to work out that if non-aboriginal Australians were stuffed into camps in the middle of nowhere with no jobs available our life expectancies would plummet too. Not to mention crime rates would soar and I’m sure with a lack of policing things like child abuse would be on the rise too.

Sadly yet again another opportunity to blast this white elephant out of Australian society is missed and instead we just throw even more money at Australia’s least productive citizens. Money that I’m sure could be better spent in a time of financial crisis and record unemployment.

I mean jesus christ, if people thought sub prime mortgages were a bad investment, giving money to aboriginal communities is like selling soggy cardboard box homes to the homeless for millions, lending them the money to buy and expecting them not to default on the repayments.

We are never going to see a return on investment as long as we continue to permit unproductive welfare dependant camps to exist. Send a few bulldozers up there and offer to bus them back into civilization, or let nature take its course.

People, Aboriginal or not are never going to establish a sense of worth, productivity or self respect as long as they have all the time in the world to reflect on just how useless they are and are handed out free money for doing so.

In a sense Aboriginals are right when they harp on about the rest of Australia being to blame for their problems, only the past has nothing to do with it. It’s what the government does here and now that hurts them the most.

This comes on the back of news of an Aboriginal corporation going into receivership due to “significant number” of alleged “breaches of law”.

So one side of the fence are arguing that they need more money, sorry “intervention” and on the other side of the fence we have Aboriginal coprorations being shut down for abysmal management of supplying resources to their own communities.

Wayne Bergmann: "MORE MONEY PLEASE!"

Wayne Bergmann, Kimberly land council chief claims that “Nothing of any substance has been done by the Rudd Government that will dramatically impact on the wellbeing of Aboriginal people in the Kimberley.”

I agree wholeheartedly, nothing has been done nor will it be done until aboriginals in the Kimberly show any initiative of their own to justify spending additional taxpayer funds on unsustainable communities. The government apology was just that, an apology. It was certainly not an ‘admit all’ ticket onto the gravy train of more free money that some aboriginals seem to have deluded themselves into thinking it was.

As for running your own businesses and winning jobs on your own, Aboriginals can’t even run their community stores succesfully; how the hell are they going to win jobs and set up their own businesses? And what jobs exactly are they trying to win in their remote communities?

Last I checked there wasn’t any employment opportunities when you live in the middle of nowhere in a government fund propped up unproductive community. Businesses? What a joke, the only profitable business in these communties would be a 24 hour alcohol, cigarette and spray paint store, and realistically how many of them can we have competing against eachother.

Just how unsustainable are the communities?

Well let’s have a look at Alice Springs, where the where the Tangentyere Council are holding it’s own people for ransom over fears it will lose power over it’s own people to the government.

Tangentyere has let slip six deadlines — the most recent this week — that would have put $60 million to work repairing and normalising the camps. Tangentyere wants to be the major service provider to the Aborigines in Alice Springs, and fears it will lose its power. It seems to believe the camps are on Aboriginal land, which they are not.


Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin will not take them on. There is a small group within the town-camp hierarchy who have developed powerful Sydney-based allies and who want to embarrass the Government with a UN human rights action over control of the town camps, and the intervention itself. Meanwhile, the town camps continue to fester, which is the real human rights tragedy.


What an utter disgrace, the government is too weak to confront the council meanwhile the people living in the camps suffer. Without government assistance these remote camps disintegrate into delapidated human rights disasters.

On one hand I think the government needs a good solid kick up the bum in dealing with Aboriginal affairs but on the other hand I can appreciate how hard the lefty apolgists in can make it for the government, ironically they are the ones that continue to promote the feeling of hoplessness people living in these camps suffer from. Bryan from the IrishTimes drives the point home;

Incredibly, it seems as though the Rudd government is being accused of pursuing a line of thought that isn’t too far removed from the one which led to the abduction of Aboriginal children so that they could be raised ‘properly’.


Here’s another example from Andrew Bolt on just how impotent our government is when it comes to dealing with Aboriginals;

Two years ago a 24-year-old man broke into a house near Yamba and went to a room where a four-year-old girl was sleeping.

He stepped out of his underpants and stripped the girl, who told him to go away. The man instead digitally penetrated her and masturbated.

Now let me tell you the jail time the NSW District Court imposed. Not a day.

You may already suspect, as I did, why such a shocking crime got such a light sentence.

Yes, the judge says he merely took into account the man’s remorse, his plea of guilty, and the lack of premeditation of a rape that was “a moment of drunken madness”.

But for me the words that rang loudest were these: “(The rapist) is a man of Aboriginal origin …”


Hopeless.

The government and legal system seem to be utterly incapable of standing up to the Aboriginal community, infact the only thing they seem to be able to do is apologise, apologise, apologise.

Aboriginals from the Kimberelys (in red) want to compete in the mainstream jobs market. What mainstream job market?

Marty Sibosado, from the Kimberley Futures coalition of Aboriginal groups asks, “How does an individual then break the cycle of welfare dependency? How do they gain an education, gain some skills to compete for a job in the mainstream market?”

For a start, how about moving into mainstream society? Nobody is going to give you mainstream market jobs when you live in the middle of nowhere so stop deluding yourself that it’s going to happen.

If Aboriginals want the same employment opportunities as mainstream Australia they need to get realistic and become part of mainstream Australia. If I go move out into the bush nobody is going to listen to me cry about unfair disadvantage in finding work… why?

BECAUSE THERE’S NO BLOODY INDUSTRY IN THE MIDDLE OF THE OUTBACK.

Infact the Australian government will actually penalise me for moving to an area that lowers my employment prospects. Talk about discriminatory double standards. Penalise the rest of Australia for moving to areas with no job prospects, but it’s ok to actively encourage Aboriginals to do so.

Wake up Aboriginals, the Australian economy is crashing all around us and people who contribute to the economy are losing jobs all around us. You’re deluded if you think giving Aboriginals more money for more taxpayer funded booze and cig parties is anywhere near the top of priority lists for Federal government, let alone the now failing resource-boom dependant state government of Western Australia.

Time to stop blaming every Tom, Dick and Harry for your troubles. If you want more taxpayer funds how about showing us some initiative and joining the rest of Australia, we’re ready to welcome you with open arms.