Its always been the way of the Wests Aristocracy to assign blame to its victims. People they have organized against, excluded and robbed. The Intervention always has been about shifting blame onto the victim and the real criminals taking control of their lives, exploiting their labor, micro managing their exclusion and extermination.
the Western Aristocracies way is to profit and survive through managed genocide - all wealth must always go to them, all blame and responsibility to the poor, or the indigenous cultures they colonize.
The Wests Aristocracy never has good intentions towards its intended victims, they are not going to allow to prosper those they have selected for destruction, so they can live well at any cost. It is all about blame assignment, the presumption of guilt on Aboriginals and the poor, that is what this charade is about. The last thing they want is these Aboriginals politicized again and protesting in the streets.
You dont have to be Aboriginal to have been cheated out of your share by carefully managed organized Corporate Greed and human inequality either. You just have to have the misfortune of being a victim of market fundamentalism and corporate segregationist regulation of the economy.
NT policy displays 'lack of belief'
THE Northern Territory intervention dehumanises indigenous people, and is the latest example of government policies that have impoverished Aboriginal people, leading educator Chris Sarra said yesterday.Addressing the National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Education conference in Darwin, Dr Sarra accused supporters of the intervention of holding low expectations of Aboriginal people.
Dr Sarra, executive director of the Stronger Smarter Institute at the Queensland University of Technology, described indigenous leaders who backed the intervention as "pet Aborigines" telling white politicians and bureaucrats what they wanted to hear.
"The NT intervention continued the pattern of signalling a lack of belief in the sense of capacity and worth of Aboriginal Australians," he said.
"It failed to acknowledge and honour the humanity of Aboriginal people in the NT . . . (who) were considered so incapable that the army had to be sent in from the outside to fix them."
Speaking at the same conference, School Education Minister Peter Garrett supported linking welfare payments to school attendance.
"It was clear in . . . consultations that people, particularly older people in the communities, want some form of action to hold to account those parents who do not send their children to school," he said.
"I know this is challenging for many of us, but we can't ignore the voices of those people, nor allow the situation to continue."
Mr Garrett said the government was looking at how the welfare quarantine trial, linking welfare to school attendance, could be "improved and integrated" with the NT approach, which suspends welfare as a last resort after other measures to support families.
Mr Garrett said for too long governments had sent "our least-equipped teachers to the schools that have the hardest job to do" and called on the states to consider "the urgency of placing our best teachers where they're needed most" in pay arrangements with teachers.
Dr Sarra said the initiators of the intervention, former prime minister John Howard and his minister Mal Brough, "presented the facade of consultation".
"But in reality, they were only in search of views that matched their thoughts about how despicable Aboriginal people in remote communities were. Today we see the Indigenous Affairs Minister (Jenny Macklin) making the same mistakes by fishing for incident anecdotes from a few people here and there to validate such diabolical and dishonourable policy processes."
Dr Sarra said the federal government should adopt the approach of high expectations it had brought to education, which signalled a belief "that one is worthy of that 'fair go' . . . and that Aboriginal people are capable of lifting themselves, given the right opportunities to do so".
"Historically, we can never really say there has seriously been a high expectations relationship in which the humanity of indigenous Australians has been adequately acknowledged," he said.
Dr Sarra also made a veiled criticism of Noel Pearson and his approach to education in Cape York, describing a teaching method championed by Mr Pearson as "a pedagogy for the poor" that would not be tolerated in affluent schools for non-indigenous students.
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