So the United Nations special rapporteur on indigenous affairs, Professor James Anaya, reckons our intervention in indigenous Northern Territory communities is ineffective and discriminatory - and that we are racist.
For the record this bloke represents the United Nations Human Rights Council which includes some of the most racist nations on our planet. It is a Left wing organisation with a hatred of Western nations. Its champions include North Korea, the Sudan, Libya, Somalia, Egypt and Cuba. Its cheerleaders come from our inner-city urban chattering class.
One thing is certain from the comments of this Left wing lunatic and the racist organisation he represents - they care more about their discredited ideology than they do about desperate human beings in need of help.
The Northern Territory intervention was motivated by the collapse of indigenous societies in remote welfare dependent communities. Alcohol abuse, wife abuse, substance abuse and rampant child abuse became the norm while the commentariat and their urban sycophants celebrated Kevin Rudd’s ‘sorry’ statement and discussed indigenous ‘rights’.
At the same time indigenous leaders such as Noel Pearson were more concerned about practical solutions to the politically-correct genocide occurring in their outback communities.
Intervention aimed at breaking the cycle of despair and restoring order and self-respect had to happen if we are genuine in our concern for our indigenous people. The intervention has focused on strict controls of alcohol; a permanent resident police presence in all towns of any size; insistence of 100 per cent school attendance with access to high-quality education to year 12 and beyond; 100 per cent participation in work programs on a ‘no work, no pay’ basis; and full social market rents for Aboriginal housing to be automatically deducted from welfare payments.
Those of us who have been through these communities over a long period of time wonder what took our government so long to do something about it all. However, John Howard and his successor, Kevin Rudd are to be congratulated for finally committing to the task of protecting, nurturing and rebuilding our indigenous communities.
The Australian army has a proud record in civil affairs dating back to the Vietnam War. Our servicemen and women are proud of their role in providing access to basic services, friendship to the people who have been ignored by too many for too long, and social order to helpless, lawless communities.
My advice to Professor James Anaya is to get his racist arse out of our country and do something about genocide in Darfur, Uganda, Rwanda and the serial abuse of human rights in North Korea, Cuba, the Sudan, Somalia, Libya and the other despotic regimes he supports.
One thing is for sure – our indigenous people will be fare much better without his intervention into their rehabilitation.
Tags: My Opinion
On Friday last the Organ recital at the Opera House was postponed, because the air inside was too cold and dry for the instrument to be played ‘tunefully.’
On Australia Day last, an Aboriginal Elder was slowly boiled to death in the back of a van where the inside temperature was 56 degrees.
He had no water, food, toilet or air conditioning,and incurred third degree burns from the heat of the metal floor, before he died a slow and agonizing death whilst being transported the 400k’s to Kalgoorlie.
The van was driven by two security guards who had the air-conditioning turned on in the front of the van.
After the man’s death,The CEO of the Company who supplied the van to the WA Dept of Corrective Services,, knelt in the grass and said he was sorry to the Aboriginal man’s family.
The Minister for Corrective Services cried on TV, and said she had been aware of the problem for some time, but nobody in the Cabinet seemed interested.
The grieving family of the dead Aboriginal man have asked for Justice.
Justice for this man’s family, would be the Minister for Corrective Services, and the CEO of the Company employed by the WA Government to provide the vans,be placed in the back of the same van, and driven from Laverton to Kalgoorlie in forty degree heat with no water,food or breaks for toileting, and no means of communicating with the guards in the front of the van.
If by chance they survive the trip,the Minister would then be deemed fit to serve in Government, , and the Owner of the van Company,would be fit to tender for transportation of prisoners.
If they don’t survive, the family of the dead Aboriginal man could then kneel in the grass, and say sorry to their families.
That would be Justice wouldn’t it ?
Are we are a Racist Nation?
Well as long as incidents like this keep happening, I’d say it will be a long, long time before our Indigenous people are convinced that we are not, and we don’t need anyone from overseas to tell us that.
And someone should not have to die before Federal Ministers act.
Mate, I completely agree with you. I wouldn’t go as far as calling Anaya a racist but I agree he’s a heavily misguided fool embroiled in his own left-wing, politically correct imaginary world. He’s blind to the fact that our indigenous people are suffering and that the NT intervention is finally doing something to break that cycle of poverty and abuse. And no piece of anti-discrimination paper is going to stop our doing so.