Many people internationally are shocked at the recent stoning of a wombat in South Australia.

The action has highlighted the use of traditional Aboriginal customs and if some are still considered relevant or acceptable in 2019.

Some have justified the stoning, by saying: "Throwing rocks at wombats was "one of many methods" local Aboriginal people used to kill them for food."

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2019-10-03/sa-police-officer-throws-rocks-at-wombat-in-video/11570502

Will culture and human practice only change through force and pressure? An online petition on this issue so far has nearly up to 125,000 signatures and some politicians have spoken on the matter.

Should change though really come from within ones own self after an admission and realisation that some cultural practices are not healthy to pursue?

Culturally, you're supposed to giggle while you're bashing a wombat to death with a rock. Notice the highly-skilled and cultural stealth with which he crept up on that dangerous animal ?

Do you reckon he then ate it ? Or left it off the side of the road and went off with his mate, giggling, to KFC or Macca's ?

What a worthless turd.

So intersectionality has some problems: are we supposed to support modern-day Aboriginal 'custom' or animal protection ? Or maybe just ignore it all ?

When i lived in one community, i had some chooks, with chicks, one black one and about nine or ten yellow ones. Guess which chick the kids there killed first ?

Joe

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Nathan j he got caught being a drongo
He now needs to come up with a story and this seems not to be true
The grin on the idiots face shows he enjoyed senseless death and is unfit to wear the uniform

and then there is giving young girls to old uncles. That also was a traditional custom. Thank God for the Judea Christian influence that slowly weeded out barbarity. Now we have socialism with no moral conscience, everything goes except of course Christian teaching.

Major "Moogy" Sumner a Ngarrindjeri elder was only
one of many in the region who said it was
"unacceptable" that this act was being considered as
a traditional hunt. He joined many who said that
animal cruelty is animal cruelty - and that is what
this act was.

He explained that whenever they do go out on a hunt
it is done in a respectful manner and the wombat is
killed quickly and humanely and there is no disrespect
to the animal.

Wombats are a protected species and the special dispensation
that's been given to the Indigenous in South Australia because
of cultural issues is now in danger of being taken away if
they allow this sort of behavior to continue.

This unthinking callous act by the off-duty police officer
gives not only his people, but the police force a bad look
and should be condemned for what it was. A dispicable and
cruel act that should not be tolerated. It was not a
traditional hunt. And blaming the Indigenous people for it
is simply not right. The man needs to face up to what he
did and admit it was wrong.

as much as I hate cruelty to animals it is a sick world when this man is criticised rightly for cruelty but the butchering of unborn babies is common practice. Shows you the power of media.