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Aboriginal empowerment : Comments

By Bruce Haigh, published 6/9/2016

And there are those who are down and out racists, cruel and crude or those who are conniving and calculating who want to repeal section 18c of the Racial Discrimination Act.

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The NT Aboriginal Land Rights Act 1976, which gave Indigenous people control, mediated via land councils, over their lands, has come into direct conflict over the years with the interests of mining operations, pastoral leases, neo-liberal economics and White paternalism.

When left to their own self-determination, outback Indigenous communities have, at times, managed to negotiate on an equal footing with mining and pastoral companies and to build their own communities based around their cultural traditions and connection to the land. But White superiority, paternalism and neo-liberal interests have continually interfered with this process.

The well-documented descent of dispossessed indigenous communities worldwide into alcoholism, domestic violence and child abuse has been used as a weapon against them.

The most outrageous example is the 2007 NT Intervention against child abuse, which even roped in the military to support its banana republic aims. Hundreds of children were submitted to sexually abusive examinations and their parents and minders had their benefits quarantined.

New laws put in place (some before the intervention occurred) scrapped the pastoral and mining permit system (and, thus, the opportunity for Indigenous communities to negotiate with, and benefit from, mining and pastoral interests) and stripped Indigenous peoples of their right to determine who enters their community. New leasing agreements were put in place to grant generous government contracts to property developers to build houses on Indigenous lands and determine their own rents.

This is just one example of how the bureaucratic state, steeped in its sense of righteous superiority over inferior peoples, has deliberately destroyed Indigenous self-determination. The narrative is always framed as one of social dysfunction – of helping people who are already beyond help.

What to do? What to do? We only have their best interests at heart, but they just don't want to help themselves
Posted by Killarney, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 1:32:16 AM
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Loudmouth

Yes, of course, many Indigenous youth have made significant inroads into the White system and attained the pinnacles of White academic achievement. Some were brought up in outback Indigenous communities, but most were urban Indigenous and part-Indigenous people already divorced from their culture generations ago.

This is not a criticism of their situation or their achievement. However, as with Whites, not all Indigenous people have the personal qualities or opportunities to achieve success in the White world.

The worst problems afflicting Indigenous communities are in the Outback and that remains the benchmark of Indigenous advancement.
Posted by Killarney, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 1:47:45 AM
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Once again, Bruce Haigh displays his racism towards the white race by blaming us for the dysfunctions of the aboriginal race. Hitler did the same thing with the Jews.

Australia once had a sensible paternalistic attitude towards native people because we realised that they were people emerging from the stone age into the modern world. Then the socialists of the world got the stupid idea into their heads that "all people are equal". They demanded that native people in Australia were equal to whites, and that they should get total equality with whites. That meant the right to drink alcohol, and we all know how that ended up.

Next came an aboriginal "parliament" called ATSIC, which was so corrupt it could have taught every President-for-Life in Africa a thing or two about how to put your hands in the till. Then the Bruce Haigh clones demanded a sort of "self determination" for aboriginals. That is, that they be left alone to live on their tribal lands, with their own flag, and the Aussie taxpayer footing the bill. We all know how that turned out too.

With tribal areas turning completely anarchic, and with six year olds being treated for sexually transmitted diseases, the Howard government (with Labor opposition approval) instigated the "Intervention". This meant by-passing the self appointed native "big men", with long beards, black hats, and sticky fingers. That this is eminently sensible is obvious to everybody but the left liberal ideologues like Bruce. To admit that it is right, is for Bruce, to admit that he was wrong. And that is one thing a left liberal will never do.

That is why Bruce supports 18C. He knows that if people are allowed to discuss aboriginal dysfunction, they will eventually come to the conclusion that the ideal of human equality is the biggest load of bunkum since the ideas about virgin births, multiculturalism, and a classless society. And just like every other ideologue with a bankrupt ideology, from the Inquisition, to the Anti Discrimination Board, to the Politburo, Bruce wants to the shut up any discussion on the issue.
Posted by LEGO, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 8:23:50 AM
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Thanks Dan. You've been lucky: all the CDEP programs that I've ever known have degenerated rapidly and determinedly into welfare programs. Sometimes I think welfare-oriented Aboriginal people (maybe all welfare-oriented people) have a genius for doing that to any promising initiative.

David, I don't know if that is high praise or a grave insult, but to be lumped with Bill Leak is high praise indeed.

Hi Pete,

Yes, I look forward to, say, a health-oriented Ph.D. called something like 'Diet and Exercise: the Missing Links', rather than 'Bush Foods my Auntie used to Eat', which should be sub-titled: ' ... but is too bloody lazy to go out now and collect them - where's a social worker when you need one ?'

Killarney,

' .... dispossessed indigenous communities' ? Do you mean in the cities ? Or out in remote areas, where Aboriginal people have native title, AND experience the worst depravities ? Hmmmm, Aboriginal children living on their own land, AND experiencing abuse, violence, neglect ? Gosh, how can that happen ?

And your rather snide, praise: ' .... many Indigenous youth have made significant inroads into the White system and attained the pinnacles of White academic achievement.... ' is breath-taking: the 'system' and 'achievement' is for everybody - why should Indigenous people be excluded from them ? Do you realise how racist your comments could be interpreted ? Apartheid died decades ago, Killarney.

In the south (pardon all those Indigenous people who have survived for living on and heavens ! even 'achieving'), people have, since the War, seized opportunities and broken down barriers, to enter arenas which racists once thought of as exclusively their own, including universities. Perhaps, as you hint, they shouldn't have but I'm sure each one of them would say, Killarney, kiss my arse.

Some 120,000 Indigenous people have now been to universities - forty thousand have graduated, fifteen thousand are currently enrolled. It's not a 'White system' any more, Killarney, and it never will be again. Suck it up.

And you probably think you're on the 'Left' ? Christ help us.

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 12:06:31 PM
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Joe, not just a passing thought, but how long do you think it will be before the urban "Aboriginal" with one percent of black in his/her DNA is going to be allowed to continue with this charade which allows them to access all the benefits that are denied to white kids. I mean Abstudy as against Austudy. Is this real?

http://www.gwb.com.au/onenation/truth/edu.html

David
Posted by VK3AUU, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 2:20:43 PM
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Hi Big Nana,

Sorry, I missed your comment. Yes, I agree with everything you write. As usual :)

David,

That could be at least ten years out of date, and I haven't kept up, but some of those payments are still available.

Cheers,

Joe
Posted by Loudmouth, Wednesday, 7 September 2016 5:23:23 PM
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