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General Discussion >> Aboriginal Affairs >> Aborigine Violence http://www.ozpolitic.com/forum/YaBB.pl?num=1692623512 Message started by Boris on Aug 21st, 2023 at 11:11pm |
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Title: Aborigine Violence Post by Boris on Aug 21st, 2023 at 11:11pm
Oooops - ABC slip up
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH-Ckho65Ao |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by JC Denton on Aug 21st, 2023 at 11:14pm
i experienced it this afternoon with a few half caste creeps
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Brian Ross on Aug 22nd, 2023 at 1:55pm More bullshit from Bolt, curtesy of Matty and his mate Mr. Himmler-admirer. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Boris on Aug 22nd, 2023 at 2:47pm Brian Ross wrote on Aug 22nd, 2023 at 1:55pm:
So they are peaceful - always was always will be? You poor deluded fool |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Brian Ross on Aug 22nd, 2023 at 4:32pm |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by The Grappler on Aug 22nd, 2023 at 9:51pm
As's right - they never did nuffin' ..... never 'urt a fly they wouldn't... wonderful race the Aborigines...
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Aug 27th, 2023 at 6:21pm Intergenerational trauma, colonialism, lack of jobs. Tsk, tsk :( :( https://twitter.com/Alphafox78/status/1695557230261936543 |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Brian Ross on Aug 27th, 2023 at 10:42pm
Soren, as usual thinks that Australia is a part of the USA. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Aug 28th, 2023 at 9:04pm Brian Ross wrote on Aug 27th, 2023 at 10:42pm:
Bleks, innit. It's the bleks there, the bleks here, it's the tinted chappies everywhere. Blek power. |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Brian Ross on Aug 28th, 2023 at 9:10pm
Soren showers his Racism on us once more. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Aug 28th, 2023 at 9:15pm Brian Ross wrote on Aug 28th, 2023 at 9:10pm:
Well, it's not white Danes looting shops, is it, Bbwian. They work.... they are not entitled. They design an opera house for you (not that you would ever go to such a eurocentric abomination as an opera house or concert theatre). It's bleks in America and bleks in Australia looting mass produced merchandise, getting fat and sick on mass produced food. |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Brian Ross on Aug 28th, 2023 at 11:07pm Soren showers his Racism on us once more. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Aug 29th, 2023 at 12:31pm Brian Ross wrote on Aug 28th, 2023 at 11:07pm:
https://twitter.com/AntiWhiteWatch1/status/1696258883483025700 In WA, Aboriginal children are over seven times more likely to be the subject of a substantiated child abuse incident than non-Aboriginal children. Indeed, the levels of violence appear to be so high that there is a risk that this behaviour will become 'normalised' in some communities |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Brian Ross on Aug 29th, 2023 at 3:46pm
2002, Soren? Oh, dearie, dearie, me, such a silly sausage you are, mate. Nothing more recent to blight us with? Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::)
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Aug 29th, 2023 at 4:04pm Brian Ross wrote on Aug 29th, 2023 at 3:46pm:
What?? Did it improve in the 20 years since? Yeash.... Really? Er.... no. Over the period 30 June 2017 to 30 June 2021, there was no significant change in the rate of substantiated maltreatments for Indigenous children (ranging from 38.0 to 43.3 per 1,000 population), nor were there changes in the gap (rate difference) between Indigenous and non-Indigenous children. In 2020–21, rates of substantiated maltreatments were 6.9 times as high for Indigenous children as non-Indigenous children (43.4 compared with 6.3 per 1,000 population). Nationally, over the period from 30 June 2017 to 30 June 2021, the rate of Indigenous children on care and protection orders increased from 60 to 71.5 per 1,000 population and the gap with non-Indigenous children widened from an absolute difference of 53 to 64 per 1,000 population. In 2020–21 rates of children on care and protection orders were 10.1 times as high for Indigenous children than non-Indigenous children (71.5 compared with 7.1 per 1,000). |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by John Smith on Aug 29th, 2023 at 5:51pm JC Denton wrote on Aug 21st, 2023 at 11:14pm:
I'd bet that it's not just aborigines who want to hit you :D |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by The Grappler on Aug 29th, 2023 at 6:05pm Brian Ross wrote on Aug 29th, 2023 at 3:46pm:
YEAH!!! It's gotten MUCH worse since then!!! |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by John Smith on Aug 29th, 2023 at 6:09pm Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Aug 29th, 2023 at 6:05pm:
your senility? Absolutely. |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by The Grappler on Aug 29th, 2023 at 9:17pm John Smith wrote on Aug 29th, 2023 at 6:09pm:
Aboriginal violence, dummy ... |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Aug 30th, 2023 at 10:33am
Tinted chappies of the world, urinate!
Celebrating blek cultcha, innit? https://youtu.be/__4KN5P0YpI?si=E800V0rgjk3q88YQ Only 8 stabbings and 275 arrests https://twitter.com/LeilaniDowding/status/1696437805956710546 https://twitter.com/UnityNewsNet/status/1696547707232362564 https://twitter.com/GoldingBF/status/1696441940122701867 https://twitter.com/GiorgioPhilippi/status/1696598262999028185 Once again Notting Hill Carnival marred by serious violence - and attacks on Police Officers. 75 of our colleagues assaulted. Six bitten. One sexually assaulted. One in hospital. This is absolutely disgusting. No wonder our members dread policing this event. https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crime/notting-hill-carnival-police-warfield-road-b2401089.html |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Brian Ross on Aug 30th, 2023 at 3:56pm Once again, Soren showers us with his concern for violence overseas in a thread devoted to Australian issues. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Aug 30th, 2023 at 4:11pm Brian Ross wrote on Aug 30th, 2023 at 3:56pm:
The incidence of assault hospitalization and substantiated physical/sexual abuse was much higher for Aboriginal than non-Aboriginal adolescents but similar for girls and boys to about age ten, then increased much more for Aboriginal girls than boys. In the 14-17 age-group, assault hospitalization incidence was 125% higher for Aboriginal girls than boys but 56% lower for non-Aboriginal girls than boys. 4.6% of Aboriginal girls were hospitalized (30.9% more than once) for assault between twelfth and eighteenth birthdays, compared to 3.4% of Aboriginal boys and 0.3% of non-Aboriginal girls. The incidence of assault hospitalization during adolescence was over three times higher for Aboriginal children who had substantiated child maltreatment during childhood. https://bmcpublichealth.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12889-022-13982-4 What have ABORIGINES, including the Voice advocates, been DOING about the neglect and abuse of Aborigines BY Aborigines?? What will a Voice be able to say that hasn't been said thousands of times already? The real issue is not voice to parliament but ACTION BY ABORIGINES to stop the other Aborigines who are wolves to their own. |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by The Grappler on Aug 30th, 2023 at 6:45pm
4.6% of Aboriginal girls were hospitalized (30.9% more than once) for assault between twelfth and eighteenth birthdays, compared to 3.4% of Aboriginal boys and 0.3% of non-Aboriginal girls.
That says it all...... but never fear - the voice will cure all that!!! Now then - about those figures for Aboriginal women copping a whack to the head for talkin' back or not listening.... (remember that last one - their interpretation of 'listening' is not the same as yours - they mean listen to and obey your Silverback or cop a bashing... we mean listen and evaluate on merit)... It's the world of difference between functional and dysfunctional relationships... |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Sep 5th, 2023 at 5:23pm Frank wrote on Aug 30th, 2023 at 4:11pm:
In America, gun crime is disproportionately black crime. In England, knife crime is disproportionately black crime: "London has the highest rates of stabbings, though the number of deaths fell last year. Despite making up only 13% of the total population, black Londoners account for 45% of the capital's knife murder victims, according to the London Assembly. " In Australia, in addition to Aborigines, Africans are disproportionately overrepresented in violent crimes. "African Australian youth who comprise at least 19 per cent of young people in custody despite being less than 0.5 per cent of Victoria’s youth population." In all these case, other blacks are the main targets of black violence. What is it about blacks that is so violently hated by some blacks? |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Brian Ross on Sep 5th, 2023 at 5:36pm All about overseas again, hey, Soren? Oh, dearie, dearie, me, what a WOFTAM you are proving to be. You don't care about Indigenous violence most of the time. Tsk, tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Setanta on Sep 5th, 2023 at 6:02pm Brian Ross wrote on Sep 5th, 2023 at 5:36pm:
Umm. Quote:
Tsk, tsk... ::) ::) |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Sep 5th, 2023 at 6:07pm Brian Ross wrote on Sep 5th, 2023 at 5:36pm:
Do you care, Bbwian? By tut tutting and rolling your unfocused eyes and by.... er..... that's it?? Why do you think blacks prey on other blacks in the US, UK, Australia? And we haven't even looked at Africa or Brazil. |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Setanta on Sep 5th, 2023 at 6:37pm Frank wrote on Sep 5th, 2023 at 6:07pm:
White privilege. |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Sep 5th, 2023 at 6:46pm
Israel is deporting Africans for behaving badly.
Good call. Every country should do the same - deport illegals and troublemakers. There is no argument for not doing so. https://youtu.be/ZHOYPHJqZq0?si=AFWS0CBX7Zp2kimt Uh-oh.... |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by The Grappler on Sep 5th, 2023 at 9:24pm Frank wrote on Sep 5th, 2023 at 6:07pm:
... or in Melbadishu or Hong Dah Win lately... |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Sep 6th, 2023 at 1:18pm
Northern Territory police officers were trapped, assaulted and forced to retreat from an Alice Springs town camp last week while trying to arrest a man who allegedly opened fire with a rifle at a funeral.
Last Monday, Terrence Stephen Clyne allegedly shot at people attending a funeral near Kings Canyon, 330km west of Alice Springs, in an escalation of a feud between two families. By the time police from Yulara arrived at the funeral, Mr Clyne had travelled to Alice Springs, where officers located him at Old Timers camp. The Australian understands he allegedly used a vehicle to block the police crew’s exit from the camp as dozens of his relatives surrounded the police vehicle with two officers inside. Sources say the alleged offender pointed his rifle at the officers as they tried to retreat from the location. As the officers escaped, a rock thrown through the front passenger window struck one of them on the arm. ... “This would be national news if it happened anywhere else in Australia.” Mr Finn said he believed the incident was kept quiet because the government did not want “bad stories about Alice Springs” being reported in the media “given the problems they’ve been having”. Mr Clyne appeared in the Alice Springs Local Court on Thursday morning. Judge John McBride said family disputes could escalate without warning. “People can get seriously hurt and injured,” he said. “With a family dispute in play – which of course we all know, unfortunately, can escalate very quickly – my concern is the protection of the wider community and for that reason, I‘m going to decline bail at the moment.” https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/alice-springs-cops-trapped-in-town-camp-and-assaulted-by-angry-mob-while-trying-to-arrest-alleged-gunman/news-story/9eebd071eaffc45ba70cb95bc70e0171 A hundred years ago he would have been shot dead. |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Sep 18th, 2023 at 5:39pm Intergenerational trauma due to colonialism is bollocks on stilts, as every schoolboy knows. https://youtu.be/i3qVNGCMbtI?si=yXBRdqiv9ZxOG3EA |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by The Grappler on Sep 18th, 2023 at 9:48pm Frank wrote on Sep 6th, 2023 at 1:18pm:
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Jun 25th, 2024 at 7:16am
This not because of colonialism, wacism, oppwession, discrimination or any of the of the sorry hooey.
The Albanese government will haul in the board of the nation’s biggest Aboriginal justice service amid revelations its chairman beat up his pregnant partner The Australian this month revealed the board of appointed Hugh Woodbury as its chair, despite knowing he had assaulted his pregnant partner by standing on her stomach, slamming her arm in a door, shoving her to the ground and yelling obscenities at her in front of their two-year-old child. Those revelations sparked a renewed push from MPs and legal experts for the board to be “hosed out” and replaced, and for the federal government to examine funding arrangements for the organisation, which receives some $20m a year under the National Legal Assistance Partnership. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/indigenous/deeply-concerned-linda-burney-intervenes-to-resolve-naaja-chaos/news-story/7c56f8037b643cae4e79892f01ceac0b Mr Woodbury was kept in the Alice Springs Watch House with an intoxication level of 0.154BAC, served a 12-month good behaviour bond and was fined $200 without conviction after his partner reported an assault to police in 2020. The other Aborigines on the Board knew about it and still appointed him. Merit, innit. |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Jun 25th, 2024 at 7:28am Frank wrote on Jun 25th, 2024 at 7:16am:
On being elected as chairperson earlier this year, Mr Woodbury said NAAJA had a “critical role to play in fighting for just outcomes for Aboriginal people, for whom over-policing and discriminatory policies have directly contributed to mass incarceration”. He replaced Colleen Rosas, who remains as deputy chair. On his appointment, she said Mr Woodbury would bring a “unique perspective” to the organisation, arguing he was “young, smart, and passionate about empowering Aboriginal communities". https://nit.com.au/11-06-2024/11926/naaja-board-forced-to-defend-appointing-chair-person-who-assaulted-his-partner |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Grappler Truth Teller Feller on Jun 25th, 2024 at 10:42am
You only had to listen to that Mayo dork during the 'voice' campaign talking about 'punishing politicians who won't listen' = (translates) = 'you'll do what you're told, you'll listen, or you cop a hiding!'
It's the mentality of the beast. They have their own vernacular... what you think it means is not what they think it means.... you can see the orientation in thinking when they use such a term as 'punching down on the Aborigine' after the loss of the 'voice' campaign - meaning:- 'When he's on the ground you punch and punch at him... keep going...- that's what you bastards just done to us! We're down and near-unconscious and you're still beating on us... gotta try to kill us!' You need to be able to interpret this stuff. Uneducated except in houses of learning, inexperienced city dorks think the words just mean what they think they do... just what the average Aussie would think they mean.... no, suh!! Their environment is violence.... generational .... the Dead Women's Society speaks loudest... she learned to listen, ey? Let's look at 'Blacktown', Sydney suburb - for decades and over a century held to be the lowest of the low - now, of course, with house prices, it's all 'genteel' and 'flush' - and the useless bastards - the Anita Cobby type killers and knife wielders and druggo houso trash - all get to sell their house and move here and trash the place up. Called Blacktown because that's what it was.... The Black's Town ... and the lowest of the low where nobody sensible ventured after dark....and you can take the boy out of the scum pile, but you can never take the scum pile out of the boy.... And some of them moved here..... Jesus.... these governments with their artificial house prices have a lot to answer for.... :-/ |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Grappler Truth Teller Feller on Jun 25th, 2024 at 11:01am
"over-policing and discriminatory policies have directly contributed to mass incarceration"
.... and yet when I mention Aborassic Park/Abestine/Two State Solution they all scream 'racist' at me.... I think it's the perfect answer... |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by UnSubRocky on Jun 25th, 2024 at 1:03pm Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jun 25th, 2024 at 10:42am:
You only had to watch the press conference where Mr Albanese was visibly scared as he pushed the Voice proposal. I doubt that Albanese delivered the address without some hint of duress. I have met Thomas Mayo. I don't t like him. He likes to prevaricate. I asked him questions, last year, in regards to the Voice to Parliament. He just dodged answering my questions and just gave the standard answers he gives to the general public. When I asked him a scenario of what the Voice to Parliament would entail, he repeated himself. He would not elaborate what the VtP would mean in changing the conditions of indigenous lives. I swear if I worded the next question as "How would the VtP better the lives of indigenous Australians?" he would probably have answered "Yes", just to dodge the issue. I rewatched the interview Mayo had in aftermath of the Voice referendum defeat. Mayo was sulking like a child. He blamed the loss on "lies" perpetrated by Dutton, Hanson, and a few others. That was such a hypocritical thing for Mayo to say. Mayo's obfuscation campaign was what had him undone and his campaigners losing the vote. What we see of the Voice to Parliament referendum was an attempt to make indigenous people officially the owners of Australia. |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by UnSubRocky on Jun 25th, 2024 at 1:19pm
Frank's video of Douglas Murray claiming that migrants from non-European backgrounds have made their homes in Australia and have not failed socioeconomically in general. And of course, they have come from places that have experienced wars and other hardships that only indigenous people could dream about not wanting to experience.
One lady in her interview after the VtP defeat was talking about "How are we going to close that gap?", as if a VtP was going to do anything. Meanwhile, she is well-dressed, well-spoken, and looks like she is not suffering any health problems. But, obviously, she is privileged enough to be able to speak her mind. I wonder what she does for a living. And if she can succeed, why cannot other people of her indigenous background also succeed? |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Gnads on Jun 26th, 2024 at 10:15am Brian Ross wrote on Aug 22nd, 2023 at 1:55pm:
It's not bullshyte. The weapons being shown were for exactly what Bolt described .... not hunting native animals but for fighting/defending against other Aboriginals. The ABC ran that show. The BS & hypocrisy aka the "slip up" was in that show. Quote the host of that show - "I can definitely feel a warrior blood line when you hold these up". What a total wank, it's cringeworthy ... monumental BS that gullible fools like you swallow hook line & sinker. |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Gnads on Jun 26th, 2024 at 10:50am Brian Ross wrote on Aug 30th, 2023 at 3:56pm:
It's as prevalent here .... or are you comfortable under that rock you call home? |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Grappler Truth Teller Feller on Jun 26th, 2024 at 12:18pm
The Aborigines here have never moved out of their small local tribe defending what territory they could grab and hold, from any intruders - approach to 'life' ... their 'horizon' is limited to grabbing and holding what they can see. Even the 'give them boys jobs' thing is cargo cult - they want the 'job' meaning the title and the income etc.... but not the work or the study required to get there..... this is a language barrier thing just like - "why is the old girl in the morgue?' ... "She wouldn't LISTEN!" ... translated that for yez before... do try to keep up ... transfer to Mayo's violent talk - 'we'll punish any politician who won't LISTEN (and do as he/she's told)' ....
That's why Aborassic Park/Abestine/Two States Solution would never work, despite Every Good Intention - you only need to look at WADEYE - where seven groups are loosely tied to a small area (why don't they just move?) and instead of working on a team effort - they continue to fight it out over which 'tribe' or small group is the boss and 'owns' the place... spears and arrows and clubs and fights daily ..... Always has been - always will be... VIOLENT ... the big guy with the big fists stands over the others gorilla-fashion.... now extrapolate that to every part of Australia where there is a demand in for a 'land claim' or anything else... give it or face a beating!!! Even a beating by the stupid 'government' backing their 'claim' as if its some absolute divine right regardless of everything else.... and (ab)using the process by using massively funded government bodies (lawfare) stacked with Aborigines and fellow running dogs steeped in the neo-Absolutist neo-Feudal Oriented 'education' system these days ... knowing it all while knowing nothing..... and wherein those who "hold the power and YOUR money get to call all the shots!" Same primitive gorilla fist in a different guise.... wolves in sheep's finest raiment woven and tailored suits... Imagine throwing every pissy little ancient empire stake out patch of 'lend' at spearpoint governed by biggest gorilla group onto Arnhem Land as the New Abestine Homeland Aboriginal State .. all 1100 'tribal groups' or so instead of a mere seven 'bands' ....... daily showers of rocks and spears etc.... until one group emerges supreme beating its chests!!! If seven pissy little groups can't co-exist at Wadeye - how could 1100 or more co-exist in Abestine/Old Arnhem Land/Aborassic Park???? |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Grappler Truth Teller Feller on Jun 27th, 2024 at 12:41pm Say More - Over 300 MISSING! |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Grappler Truth Teller Feller on Jun 29th, 2024 at 5:21pm Sir Grappler Truth Teller OAM wrote on Jun 27th, 2024 at 12:41pm:
Stirs the pot again............................... Say More - Over 300 MISSING! |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Jul 2nd, 2024 at 5:56pm
‘Can’t stick at a job’: Judge’s criticism of NAAJA chair Hugh Woodbury
The head of Australia’s largest Aboriginal legal service has been condemned by a judge for failing to hold down a job, sparking fresh criticism of his appointment, and raising serious concerns about his competence. North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency chair Hugh Woodbury has faced growing calls to step down after The Australian revealed he bashed his pregnant partner by standing on her stomach, pushing her to the ground, slamming her arm in a door and calling her a “c..t” in front of their two-year-old child. https://www.theaustralian.com.au/nation/cant-stick-at-a-job-judges-criticism-of-naaja-chair-hugh-woodbury/news-story/908208cb0a9184bf071a1b7e6c0c9c32 And that's the CHAIRMAN of the biggest Aboriginal LEGAL servive. Leading by ****ing example, bruvva. Jobs for all, printa da money, closa da gap. Voice, voice. |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Captain Nemo on Jul 8th, 2024 at 10:38pm |
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Title: Re: Aborigine Violence Post by Frank on Oct 21st, 2025 at 10:27am Frank wrote on Sep 18th, 2023 at 5:39pm:
Intergenerational trauma due to colonialism is bollocks. Over the past decade, sections of our media have taken up and publicised a serious medical disorder affecting the Australian community. Those of indigenous descent are said to be suffering a traumatic condition caused by British colonisation. The passage of time, generational succession and racial intermarriage do not alleviate this affliction, because the medical condition is passed down through families. This syndrome is responsible for many Aborigines suffering diminished mental health and thereby becoming wedged in social disadvantage. It is the root cause for chronic depression, alcoholism, drug dependency, eating disorders, poor educational achievement, family dysfunction, domestic violence, sexual abuse and suicide. The worst thing about this debilitating disorder is that it was caused by events involving forebears, sometimes whose names are unknown, many years ago. The Healing Foundation is a government-funded body set up in 2009 to support initiatives which redress the historical removal of indigenous children from their families. The focus is on developing trauma-focused welfare services in Aboriginal communities. Fiona Cornford, the Foundation’s CEO, has a background in welfare administration, while her organisation’s board members include professionals from social work and public administration, plus Aboriginal activists and an academic. All identify as indigenous. No medical specialist in Aboriginal health sits on the board or is listed in senior management of the Healing Foundation, which is incorporated as an unlisted public company. There is not even a token GP. It is unclear if any medical professional or clinical psychologist expert in the diagnosis and treatment of trauma has input into the Healing Foundation’s $632 million programs funded by the Australian government. Stating it uses “Aboriginal healing” to achieve positive wellbeing outcomes, the Foundation’s website is vague on medical practicalities. It explains that Foundation workers visit indigenous communities, meeting with local people “to define healing, understand the impacts of colonisation in their local context, discuss their healing needs, share information about healing work in their communities and develop healing strategies”. The words doctor, diagnosis, treatment and medication are conspicuously absent from this patter. Instead, “healing” is explained as “a holistic process, which addresses mental, physical, emotional and spiritual needs, and involves connections to culture, family and land”. Trauma victims are cured through special “healing centres” which “incorporate traditional and western practices, [and] operate with Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander spirituality and culture at their core”. These are bureaucratic weasel words which suggest much while not stating whether each person gets a medical examination, or what treatment options are available. One would think diagnosing who is traumatised, and how severely, were essential first steps in tackling the incidence of trauma in indigenous communities. But the orientation is upon hazy “Aboriginal healing”, not on delivering tangible medical results in improved mental health. .... “Whenever people claim to have trauma,” he said, “just ask two questions. First, who diagnosed it? Second, what treatment has been prescribed? If you can’t get straight answers, we’re not talking about genuine medical cases.” |
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