Aboriginal activists have complained to the Australian Human Rights Commission that they feel “offended, insulted, humiliated and intimidated”, on the basis of their race, following a discussion about preventing child abuse in aboriginal communities on Channel Seven's 'Sunrise' program.

Rather than requesting a right of reply to whatever upset them, the activists opted for a whinge about their hurt feelings to the equally activist AHRC.

I am not aware of any other group complaining to the AHRC about their tender feelings when the transgressions of some of their kind have been revealed or discussed.

I don't think for one moment that these whiners in any way represent the majority.

(Source: Australian Conservatives website. The AC is seeking to have words like 'offend' and 'insult' removed from Sec 18c. Abolition of the AHRC is preferred.)

until the truth of some cultural practices are faced up to the murder, rape and abuse of young ones will continue. Another 10 month old baby dead yesterday in Tennant Creek. The multiple of agencies paid to protect these kids will continue to be funded. While abc celebrates the culture and bangs on about 'bullied' privilege women life rolls on for these kids. Jacinta Price is a champion but demonised by the industry.

3rd time question asked maybe now will get an answer.

ttbn Just a reminder you made a very controversial statement but have failed to back it up, for you here it is again.

Quote "People who are keen to display their findings by putting up references are only going to 'find’ references that support them. Fair enough, if they are that desperate to be 'right’. However, for every supporting reference they find, there will be one that says the opposite."

I would like you to point out just a few posted threads where the originator started a thread about any subject and proceeded to give the for and against arguments that related to the subject of the thread.

It would be like posting a whole debate for and against.

That includes any where you have done that.

PhilipS,
have you ever been outside your suburb ?

individual,

I don't know how mobile this Philip S character is, but he obviously cannot read. Always squealing for references, he ignores, or doesn't understand, the SOURCE in brackets at the bottom of my post.

Apparently he is unable to look anything up on his own. There is nothing secret about what I said. He is either thick or lazy. Either way, it appears he intends to make a fool of himself through a red haze every time he sees ttbn at the bottom of a post. It's his problem, not mine. I'm certainly not going to respond to his ravings, no matter how many times he sprays them about. Somehow the poor soul has now come up with the idea that I should: “point out just a few posted threads where the originator started a thread about any subject and proceeded to give the for and against arguments that related to the subject of the thread.” I don't have the faintest idea what he is rabbiting on about. Why on earth would any poster presenting his opinion want to “give the the for and against arguments that related to the subject of the thread”?

Philip,

The data on child abuse and neglect in Indigenous 'communities' isn't hard to find. What has been clear for decades now is that there is a very, very high correlation between lifelong unemployment (and the necessary and deliberate lack of education that goes with that), high consumption of grog and other addictions, gambling AND child abuse and neglect, and consequently the unacceptably high mortality amongst babies, children and young people from suicide, violent acts and malnutrition, and the short, stunted lives of those who survive.

Here's another fact you may not like: the proportion of people in custody who are Indigenous is currently round 28 %, while the proportion of deaths in custody who are Indigenous is around 23 %. It's comparatively safer for Indigenous people to be in custody than out in 'communities'.

And another inconvenient truth: how many 'Stolen Generations' cases have been brought to court, even though Indigenous people over a certain age would all have government files ? One. Bruce Trevorrow, of Meningie, SA (my late wife's second cousin, once removed). Why haven't any major law firms - Slater & Gordon, Maurice Blackburn, Leibler & Leibler - ever taken a class action to court ? There would be millions of bucks in it for them if they did AND if it was a genuine issue.

And before you go off, I'll support the Indigenous Cause until the day I die, but NEVER any lies, misrepresentations, or unsupported assertions. A just cause has to depend on the truth, and truth has to depend on evidence. No cause which relies on mistruths can stand, so I look forward to the day when Indigenous spokespeople clean up their act and face up to truths, not lies or baseless assertions.

Joe