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When jail looks like a lifestyle option : Comments

By Jennifer Clarke, published 19/7/2006

The 'abolition' of 'customary law' will do little to reduce violent Aboriginal crime.

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Neil

The accrued knowledge of Western culture includes biology, chemistry, geology, geography, meteorology, physics, etc, etc, etc - a bit hard to descibe it as "unscientific tosh".

While I don't condone SCOTTY's remarks which are fairly/very offensive, how exactly does the knowledge of survival in the Australian semi-desert on a meagre diet of spinifex, beetle larvae and insect viscera benefit Australia in comparison to the knowledge that has been gained by advances in medicine for example? My chances of being placed in a situation in the "Aussie wilderness" where I might be kept alive by an indigenous person on your suggested survival diet are next to zilch, however my life has certainly been improved by drugs developed in the 20th Century. I had pneumonia as a child and was very sick - I'm glad that penicillin was at hand then and not insect viscera or beetle larvae as the remedy.
Posted by EnerGee, Sunday, 23 July 2006 12:55:22 AM
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Scotty,

There's only about 15,000 pure blood Aboriginals left in this country, most of which live in Arnhem Land etc. in the north.

Relatively few white fellas visit remote Aboriginal communities. Where did you learn about Aboriginal culture?

Did you know that there was between 500-700 different Aboriginal dialects spoken in Australia at the time the Arthur Phillip and the convicts arrived?
Posted by Ev, Sunday, 23 July 2006 5:48:15 AM
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If Jennifer Clarke is writing about The 'abolition' of 'customary law' will do little to reduce violent Aboriginal crime in Australia.

Then why did she use the American term of jail instead of The Australian term of Gaol?
Posted by Kwv, Monday, 24 July 2006 2:02:07 AM
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I have recently moved to Mount Isa and am struck by the amount of indigenous families that are referred or are listed as "in need" of government department "help".

Pride in our culture, regardless of which one we identify with is the major reason we follow the rules set down by our culture.

How is it then that "whiteys" are predominantly the ones who decide the rules of a culture they do not belong to but take great pains to show that they understand?

I am white and believe in the saying "live and let live and when dead, God can sort it out"
Posted by WHITEY, Thursday, 10 August 2006 2:16:31 PM
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