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When jail looks like a lifestyle option : Comments
By Jennifer Clarke, published 19/7/2006The 'abolition' of 'customary law' will do little to reduce violent Aboriginal crime.
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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.