Individual,

Glad to see you're improving.

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It is quite obvious that the Aboriginal police officer did not kill the wombat in the traditional Aboriginal context of hunting for food. It is an act of senseless cruelty to one of Australia’s unique, emblematic wild animals.

Hopefully, the staging of this gratuitous act of cruelty and the publicity it has received will lead to the legal protection of the species, not just in South Australia but right throughout the country – as is already the case in Victoria.

That said, there are even worse scandals that occur every week in Australia :

• At least one woman is killed every week by a partner or former partner

• Intimate partner violence is the greatest health problem for women aged 25-44

• Violence to Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander women is 3 times that of other women

• Health and welfare costs due to violence to women represent $21.7 billion a year

All that violence is, of course, condemnable and illegal, but it continues unabated and largely ignored.

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Dear Banjo,

And much worse is the fact that women are accused of
being liars and not deserving to be believed despite
the evidence and statistics being presented. We currently
have a Government Inquiry in the family law system -
whose Deputy Chair is Pauline Hanson and she believes that
women lie. And the Chair of that inquiry is a conservative
MP very much pro marriage no matter what the conditions -
so you can image how objective this inquiry is going to be
and how many people are going to be willing to testify.

Dear uncle Joe.

My post was full of cynical scepticism. Avoided blaming culture, since post- modernists believe there is none, and avoided appropriating blame. This was achieved by ignoring right and wrong by removing the moral argument.
Your correct to interpret and identify the distinct scent of post- modernist philosophy in it.
That's good, I achieved my aim.

But Joe, I consider myself removed from it. Since I pivot on a belief in God, and hold fast to the joys of the metaphysical realm.
More so than yourself, who self confesses as an atheist. Which puts you closer to Friedrich Nietzsche, who launched his post-modernist ship down the godless slipway, to be crewed by atheists off into the modern world.

Dan

Well Joe, earlier I posted this; "I do not believe there is anything "culturally" that can be associated with the actions of this off duty copper Mr Cock. The majority of Aboriginal people would be disgusted with his behaviour, just as the rest of the community are. Not fit to wear the uniform of a police officer."

Being a true friend of the "aboriginal folk" as you claim, yet you only read what you want. Like your website which regurgitates the biased racists words and opinions of white authority. Not one word from any "aboriginal folk". Why is that Joe?

Indy it is now obvious that when you claimed "I (Individual) actually saw a real Aboriginal man a few days ago & it made me wonder why we never get to see any like him on TV commenting on indigenous matters"

That was a lie, you made it up to give you a puffed up sense of superiority, and then with the help of another friend of "Aboriginal folk" Joe, you tried to back peddle. You know as much about the vast majority of Aboriginal people, their beliefs and opinions, as you know about the other group you like to denigrate, public servants, your ignorance is astounding.

I can only imagine what is your ideal Aboriginal spokesperson.