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https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/genocide-patrick-dodson-condemns-austra..."Former Labor senator Patrick Dodson has condemned the country’s Aboriginal youth incarceration rates and child removals as an ongoing genocide against First Peoples and an “embarrassing sore” on the nation.
“It’s an assault on the Aboriginal people. I don’t say that lightly [but] if you want to eradicate a people from the landscape, you start taking them away, you start destroying the landscape of their cultural heritage, you attack their children or remove their children,” Dodson said."
“This is a way to get rid of a people.”
Dodson said there was no other word for it than genocide.
“It’s to destroy any semblance of any representation, manifestation in our nation that there’s a unique people in this country who are called the First Peoples,” he said.
Indigenous families are overrepresented in child removal statistics. In 2024, more than 44% of all children in out of home care were Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander. In Dodson’s home state of Western Australia, Aboriginal children make up more than 60% of all children in care. First Nations children are also 27 times more likely to be in detention than non-Indigenous children and young people.
The Yawuru elder, whose traditional country centres around Broome, spoke to Guardian Australia before the release of his Reconciliation Memoirs, an annual event held by Reconciliation Australia in which they produce the memoirs of a longstanding champion of the reconciliation movement.
Often referred to as the “father of reconciliation”, Dodson has tracked these worsening statistics in his decades in public life. He served as a commissioner on the 1989 royal commission into Aboriginal deaths in custody, as chair of both the Central Land Council and the Kimberley Land Council, and as co-chair of the parliamentary inquiry into constitutional recognition, before being nominated for the Senate in 2016.
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He retired from politics last year due to ill health, but has not given up the campaign, calling on the prime minister, Anthony Albanese, to use his overwhelming victory in the federal election this month to press ahead with a national truth-telling commission and a treaty process, despite the failure of the voice referendum in 2023."
Those three priorities – a voice to parliament, national truth-telling, and a Makaratta commission to oversee treaty-making – were outlined in the Uluru statement from the heart in 2017.
Albanese has previously said he endorses the principles of truth-telling and treaty-making but stopped short of committing to establishing a commission.
Dodson said now is the time to revisit the issue – and stressed that doing so would not undermine the referendum result.
“He’s got time. It’s time for us to take stock,” he said.
“There are two other destinations. They can all be pursued by way of legislation, but that requires commitment and will not only of the government but of the people.”Well, Pilgrims - he got a couple of things right ... the rate of Aboriginal youth incarceration is a shame - on their Elders, parents, and tribes.
He should have stopped right here:- "Former Labor senator Patrick Dodson has condemned the country’s Aboriginal youth " - started to take responsibility for their wrongdoing instead of just taking the money for nothing he has accumulated so much of out of the treacherous White Man's Way.
They're over-represented in child removal - and the youth crime rate is still offthe planet ... imagine how much worse it would be - along with many unnecessary deaths etc - if such a large number were NOT removed for more than good reason, after a lengthy and comprehensive investigation before any action can be taken.
As for 'genocide' - their numbers continue to grow at a rate far above normal for their representation in the community - he is a bare-faced liar.
The hypocrisy of the Aboriginal Aristocracy knows no bounds.
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