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Remembering Australian Child Slavery : Comments

By Richard Hil, Joanna Penglase and Gregory Smith, published 26/10/2007

Slavery involving Indigenous, migrant and non-Indigenous children in Australia goes back to the earliest convict days and endured throughout the last century.

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hi again to all the forgotten australians , just wanting to say yes the slavery has been going on for years but , we see the goverment is not acting for us , ,and to all out their i have stated the names of the people that raped me in the daruk boys home ,if you want that information just go to the supreme court and request a copy of the court transcrpts, as for the truth the goverment knows the truth but they won't face up to the reality of what we suffered, as ive said if it were any member of their family going through this they would be doing everything in their power but because its not no one they know they don;t care ,and the thing is that all these abuses were going on in these institutions while both goverments were in power as that of liberal and labour so don't say it is just one goverments bodies fault as it is both goverments sides who had the responsabilities at diffrent times, justice is being denide for the purpose of wanting us to be silence well not this person , ive had personal friends that give their lives by suide because of what they suffered , yes and our own faimlys suffer ,with what has happend to us , the real truth as i keep on saying the goverment of today is not wanting to act because they know the truth is daming for them , at least if they admitted to what the senate inquireies done we all might be able to live the normal life ,but its hard when every day you read another pedophile charged dating back to the seventies or sixties or the eighties or the ninties and now the year of two thousands, tell me this who in parliment of any party is going to say one of their colleages are a pedophile ,hell they even warned agropalise, the same as the police prosicutor that was charged with porn ,
Posted by huffnpuff, Friday, 26 October 2007 10:46:30 PM
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It is a sad fact that today the most dangerous place to be is in the mothers womb. This is where the greatest child abuse is taking place these days as a result of secular society. No matter how we try and justify it with unscientific nonsense it leaves blood on a lot of peoples hands.
Posted by runner, Saturday, 27 October 2007 12:00:47 AM
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STRUTURAL VIOLENCE is the worst kind of violence of all.

Put another way;

We will not ever clean up the violence in the street until we deal with the systemic and systematic forms of institutional abuse. This is the abstruse, sly, devious. hidden, usually injurious, usually invisible, insidious form of violence.

Be it general with welfare, social workers, doctors, nurses, diablities or mental health. Office managers, or because we have no access to the law.

Unfair bills and fines, inflated interests rates, politcal manipulations from a local council, the polices of individuals in business (inflated CEO wages and similar wage disparties), no demographic service funding that leads to pressure depleting communities, over zealous police or terror laws, sensational one-sided media bias, or the abuse of trust and betrayal by abusers from a religious sect or church.

Crime is Crime. Structual violence impacts the integrity of everyone, from the top, all the way down to ground.

For me, the worse crime of all is with bystanders. The people who watch, and do nothing.

Victimisation is a tricky business. I find often that it essentail that a victim does not represent themselves, because of the unjust process in the "burden to proof".

My focus is sharply on those working within the system.

The paid workers who are so often compliance, so comfortably quiet like sheep following the will of others.

These people fail to emancipate our nations policies, as they fail to ensure fair treatment and transparency for all.

My heart goes to anyone who struggles with having been abused,

I support yes, but I do not forget the OTHERs who can not speak-out.

Those displaced, unidentified nor protected.

The many who (daily) slip through the cracks.

I share the silence, and work to expose the need for greater equity, everywhere.

This is the knowledge we have, knowing, and it binds us as we attempt to sort through each case where ever we can.

For me it is with the cause of being a global citizenship, having a collective security, for which I refuse to forget.

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Posted by miacat, Saturday, 27 October 2007 4:39:48 AM
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This sure looks like another Artz grad indulging in "How can I find a perspective to display how the white Australian society I hate (but choose to live under) is rotten to the core."

The trick is to never just come out and say you hate white society, you just keep finding fault with it ad infinitum, while studiously avoiding any examination or comparison with other cultures.

In debating circles this litle trick which is used to hide your real motivations is known as "Always imply, but when challenged, deny."
Posted by redneck, Saturday, 27 October 2007 8:40:35 AM
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Millions of black Africans are now at this moment being exploited in far worse conditions.However that is alright since they are doing it to their own kind.

It is a real shame that you have to go back 150 yrs in our history to find white trash to bash.Can't we find some present stolen generations to hold up as victims,or do we just ignore the damage done by sit down money that totally destroys the fabric of many in our community to the point of total dysfunctionality.ie murdering your own offspring.Hundreds of cases are documented,yet we continue to ignore the fact that money will not solve these problems.
Posted by Arjay, Saturday, 27 October 2007 11:44:40 AM
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Arjay

Sexual abuse and exploitation of children is criminal wherever it occurs and whenever. it occurs. Nohing can be used as an excuse. No one I know supports it. We all condemn it in the strongest terms. See my book, 'Protecting Children Around the World' (Therese Fitzgerald & Frank Golding, MacMillan, 1994).

So cut out the cheap and nasty jibes: "However that is alright since they are doing it to their own kind."

If you read the Senate Report, 'Forgotten Australians' (2004) you will see that we don't need to go back 150 years for cases of child abuse and exploitation. These crimes are much closer to home.

I find your comments offensive, all the more so because they are based on stupid ignorance. People's suffer enough without your kicking them in the guts.
Posted by FrankGol, Saturday, 27 October 2007 12:48:50 PM
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