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Aboriginal assimilation: the Hub of the matter : Comments

By John Tomlinson, published 29/5/2009

Rudd is just the last of the colonisers who have waged a relentless race war against the Indigenous owners of this country.

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<”I would also like to know how aborigines got to have $500 million stolen not stolen from them by church and Queensland authorities. Half a billion dollars is a fair swag.”>

Wages of aboriginals forced to work for missionaries and farmers, were paid to their supposed carers, bureaucrats, police and missionaries, who paid them flour, tea, sugar and tobacco, supposedly keeping the rest in trust. Most was stolen and the government refuses to hand over the $500 million plus, not stolen and still owed for their slave labour. They required written permits to go anywhere, buy things, get married or obtain work outside that designated by the bureaucracy.

Assimilation was forced by hunting them down, herding them into missions, forcing them to adopt European clothing, food, religion and lifestyle. The results are clear to see. Kevin Rudd is a failure in everything, except spending other peoples money on his ego. His career and beliefs represent where he is coming from and the outcome of anything he does. He promises lots, but only provides disasters, just like the rest of his ilk.

There are many aboriginal communities who've adapted their natural lifestyle to include technology and better housing. The problem is we find exploitation in all areas where people are underprivileged, no matter what their race or colour, you find this in every city and town in the world. Compacting people into enclaves for convenience is always a failure, we have to develop education, systems, services and outcomes giving people pride in their lives and not just enslaved beggars for the convenience of elitists in society.

What form of insanity drives people wanting to force everyone to live as they do, their life reality, doesn't represent positive future outcomes. So why force others into the same square hole or box.
Posted by stormbay, Monday, 1 June 2009 8:15:02 AM
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The author states: "At Wadeye, youth gangs “are based loosely on ancient divisions between the town’s twenty clans and seven language groups, but also interwoven by marriage to make them more complicated. They had kept the town in a perpetual state of hostility as historic rivalries turned to modern squabbles.”"
Hmmm, sounds like the Aboriginal equivalent of racism to me!
Posted by Bernie Masters, Monday, 1 June 2009 10:57:33 AM
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"... assimilation separates Aborigines from their Aboriginality and hence any specific claim to separate treatment on account of their prior ownership of this country. " - John Tomlinson

This is an emic perspective. The etic perspective would have six billion living on one small planet. We can divide the world into the tiniest unproductive units or we can converge and live together. Mutualism is apt to be more successful in today's world. Tribalism is unsustainable. However, that does not mean one cannot maintain an interest in one's roots.

Many Anglo Australians have a heritage of clans, especially the Scots. Incursion by the Vikings and Romans and French into England over hundreds of years changed the System. Globally, colonisation is what happens. All histories follow this familiar pattern of colonisation. In this regard, Australia was/is no different, with significant waves about every 15,000 years.

Traitionally, aboriginal Australians didn't own the Land. They were the Land. Cognatively, separation didn't exist.

The ownship of land concept comes from the Sumerians. Similarly, the concept of Estate in Land is from the Feudal System. Ownership in the sense of modern jurisprudence is not allied to aboriginality. That is not to say, ingineous people's have no prior claims. However, when claims are made,it Western law not Aboriginal law, which is being citing/exercised.
Posted by Oliver, Monday, 1 June 2009 12:29:17 PM
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"... assimilation separates Aborigines from their Aboriginality and hence any specific claim to separate treatment on account of their prior ownership of this country. " - John Tomlinson

This is an emic perspective. The etic perspective would have six billion living on one small planet. We can divide the world into the tiniest unproductive units or we can converge and live together. Mutualism is apt to be more successful in today's world. Tribalism is unsustainable. However, that does not mean one cannot maintain an interest in one's roots.

Many Anglo Australians have a heritage of clans, especially the Scots. Incursion by the Vikings and Romans and French into England over hundreds of years changed the System. Globally, colonisation is what happens. All histories follow this familiar pattern of colonisation. In this regard, Australia was/is no different, with significant waves about every 15,000 years.

Traitionally, aboriginal Australians didn't own the Land. They were the Land. Cognatively, separation didn't exist.

The ownship of land concept comes from the Sumerians. Similarly, the concept of Estate in Land is from the Feudal System. Ownership in the sense of modern jurisprudence is not allied to aboriginality. That is not to say, ingineous people's have no prior claims. However, when claims are made,it Western law not Aboriginal law, which is being cited/exercised.
Posted by Oliver, Monday, 1 June 2009 12:29:44 PM
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Leigh,
You have found the right word "acculturate" along with
forced Assimilation.

And let's forget about Aboriginal culture for a while as we build a precious few sub standard homes and try to get them to learn better English and the languages of their black neighbours that they have had problems with for a long time .

Those bush people will love those cheap belly fillers , chippies and chocolates at their local Hub supermarket, all washed down with those great sports drinks [ you know, those ones they advertise at the foooty] purchased at the drive-through .

Tomlinson's last paragraph summed up white Australians' attitude perfectly - and it's RACIST .
Posted by kartiya jim, Monday, 1 June 2009 3:34:08 PM
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The claim by the writer of the article is legitimate. If KR is a truly genuine Australian, and his sorry means sorry, really sorry, he will carry through on his promise, and give a real practical and lasting solution to the problems of Aboriginal Australians. Along the way he will do a great deal of good for the rest of the country also.

To deliver a real sorry, what KR has to do is micromanage the Attorney General and have him draft legislation to disallow as un-Constitution S 39 Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 and Order 46 Rule 7A Federal Court Rules and let lawyers help these poor people. The legal system as it is now, is a disgrace to white and black Australians, because it is racist, elitist, dishonest and does not fit within the ambit of the Constitution.

S 79 Constitution mandates that the federal jurisdiction of any court shall be exerci9sed by such number of judges as Parliament prescribes. Every reader of OLO ought to be able to understand that court is un-capitalised, and must contain judges. S 39 Federal Court of Australia Act 1976 does not do either. Order 46 Rule 7A was made illegal by s 45 Trade Practices Act 1974, so that needs to be set aside too, and then all the long injustices perpetrated on Aboriginal Australians and white ones alike, since 1976, can be addressed.

The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights is law in Australia, but cannot be enforced while Kevin says a halfa sorry. If you’re sorry, you should make it possible to get a remedy.

Look at Peter Gunnar and Lorna Cubilo, as examples of the stolen generation. In any civilized country they would have been granted compensation. Their case is here: http://www.austlii.edu.au/cgi-bin/sinodisp/au/cases/cth/FCA/2000/1084.html?query=Cubillo

O’Loughlan J took seven hundred pages to refuse, what a jury would have granted in seven days. This is a Christian country, with a Christian Constitution, and as a Statute the Gospel of Matthew 7, verse 8, says: Ask and you shall receive, seek and you shall find, knock and it shall be opened
Posted by Peter the Believer, Monday, 1 June 2009 4:20:10 PM
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