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War and peace: the Government’s engagement with Indigenous realities : Comments

By Andrew Jakubowicz, published 18/7/2007

The Government has a war aim, the total dissolution of Indigenous communal life and the atomisation of Indigenous communities into indistinguishable Australians.

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I live in Darwin. Two nights ago I went out for dinner with my partner at our local club. On the steps outside the club were two little Indigenous children, I would say about 2 and 4 years old. No parents around. Both children had really dirty runny noses and their skin was covered in what looked like scabies. They were eating stale old twisties out of a cigarette butt ashtray. Their parents were inside drunk. When I told the parents their children were eating from the ashtray, I was called a white p----ck.
Very sad.
Posted by jackson, Friday, 20 July 2007 2:05:42 PM
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Palimpsest,

Homeland indigenous communities have major stakeholder interests in environmental management and tourism economies and yet budgetary allocations for the former are almost entirely issued to government land management agencies, whilst the latter is subsidised to the hilt to enjoy exclusionary access advantages to publicly-owned reserves. Neither the ACCC nor other Australian Competition Councils regard the environmental functions and mandates of government land management agencies as business activities; therefore, they are not required to maintain competitive neutrality. In addition, Section 51 of the Trade Practices Act 1974 essentially provides that regard will not be had to conduct which is specifically authorised or approved by any federal legislation or by specific state or territory regulation, regardless of their exclusionary influences to fair trade upon non-government tenures.

Head-to-head, in environmental management stakes, indigenous Australia out-performs non-indigenous Australia, two-hundred to one and yet, as a nation, who do we pay to look after the natural environment? Bureaucrats, who have wavered so far from delegated function that they have become variously known as the Sparks and Wildfire Service.
Posted by Neil Hewett, Friday, 20 July 2007 2:31:13 PM
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Good one, GYM-FISH. Sorry I came to this debate a bit late - but I agree completely with your sentiments re sociology and sociology "lecturers". However, better not suggest Andy takes a change of employment in the cafeteria: a post-modernist in the kitchen would be worse than Reds-under-the-beds.

Sociology lecturers are generally arm-chair activists, who bemoan daily that the Wall came down, forcing them to transfer their Cold War rhetoric to less dramatic focii, while comfortably taking money from some unaware university. (Can't call it "wages": that implies "work" is being done.)

Hey, Andy! Do you really think the Aboriginal proletariat will rise to your call to arms??
Posted by Doc Holliday, Friday, 20 July 2007 6:43:51 PM
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Assimilation is soooooo monophonic. No one listens to that stuff anymore.

Frankgol, that is the reason they are still in the S-h-i-t. They are not listening to the people who might have a solution to their problems and they just expect it all to fall into their laps like manna from heaven, like it has been for the past 40 years.

Enough is enough mate. Wake up to yourself.

I'll bet that if you had a poll to see how many would really like to go back to how it was before the white man came along, you wouldn't get too many takers. So the only other viable alternative they have is to go to school, join the white man and get a job or do something useful instead of having a four day party every time the welfare cheque arrives.

Don't try to tell me that it doesn't happen. I have lived there, I have friends who still live their who tell me what is happening. There are also many aboriginals who have done the right thing and got on with it, but the rest are just acting like a bunch of drunken sots who unfortunately seem incapable of any redemption, and I am not talking in any religious sense.

David
Posted by VK3AUU, Friday, 20 July 2007 7:53:16 PM
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If all the "no assimilation" mob would just stop and read Jackson's tragic post again and try to imagine life as it lived by those sad little kids, they may not be such smart asses.
Children in such circumstances would be far better off away from those terrible conditions. They have no chance at all.
Posted by mickijo, Saturday, 21 July 2007 3:44:03 PM
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Our grandparents made decisions on culture.

Our parents made decisions on culture.

We made decisions on culture.

Our children make decisions on culture.

Our grandchildren make decisions on culture.

For each generation these decisions are the same and different, each with some pain, some gain.

For each generation it is what things each decides are relevant to them and their lives, what things each needs to live better the lives they want to live.

Are we living how our great grandparents expected us to live ?

Some of us make good decisions, some make bad decisions.

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Posted by polpak, Saturday, 21 July 2007 3:54:23 PM
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