Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide And Aboriginal Ethnocide By Politically Correct Racist Apartheid
By Dr Gideon Polya
16 February, 2014
Countercurrents.org
Apartheid and Genocide are utterly repugnant, whether Apartheid
1. Appalling Indigenous Australian death rate has improved.
In 2001, according to Dr Neil Thomson et al, (2004), the projected Aboriginal death rate was 2.2 % per year [1] as compared to about 0.4% for peaceful, high birthrate Developing World countries [2] i.e. the avoidable death rate was 1.8% per year or 9,000 such deaths per year out of an Indigenous population of about 500,000. By way of comparison, the avoidable death rate in Western European, Overseas European countries,
According to a recent expert review by Professor Neil Thomson and his colleagues (2012): “In 2006-2010, the age-standardised death rate for Indigenous people was 1.9 times the rate for non-Indigenous people” [3]. By 2011 the Indigenous population had grown to about 670,000 and there were 2,558 Indigenous deaths registered in 2011. Estimates of identification as Aboriginal ranges from 56% to 92%, the former indicative of 4,568 death per year, a death rate of 0.7% per year and an avoidable death rate (on a Third World-based assessment) of only 0.3% per year or about 2,000 such avoidable deaths per year, a huge decrease on the estimate for 2001. By way of comparison, annual preventable deaths (a First World-based assessment) totaled about 1,400 per year in the period 2006-2010 [3]. MacRae et al. summarized this improved death rate thus (2012): “After adjustment for the underestimate of the number of deaths identified as Indigenous, the ABS estimated that Indigenous males born in 2005-2007 could expect to live to 67.2 years, 11.5 years less than the 78.7 years expected for non-Indigenous males… The expectation of life at birth of 72.9 years for Indigenous females in 2005-2007 was almost 10 years less than the expectation of 82.6 years for non-Indigenous females.”
2. Poor Indigenous health.
The discrepancies in health parameters of Indigenous Australians in comparison with those of non-Indigenous Australians are summarized with some technical simplification below [3]:
proportion of low birthweight babies was 2x higher (2011);
fertility rate 1.5x higher (2011);
death rate was 1.9 x higher (2006-2010) and 1.7x higher (2005-2010;
hospitalization or separation rate was 2.5x higher (2010-2011);
heart condition incidence 1.3x higher;
cancer death rate 1.4x higher (2006-2010);
incidence of some kind of diabetes 3.4x higher (2004-2005);
diabetes-related deaths 7x higher (2004-2008);
high or very high psychological stress 2.6x higher (2008);
hospitaliisation for mental or behavioural disorders 2.1x higher (2010-2011);
suicide deaths 2.4x higher (2010);
notification rate of end stage renal disease 7.2x higher (2006-2010);
dialysis the most common reason for hospitalisation and hospitalization 11.4x times higher (2010-11);
death rate from kidney disease 4x higher (2006-2010);
hospitalization rate for injury 2.0x higher (2010-2011);
hospitalisation rate of women for assault was 36x higher (2006-08);
hospitalisation rate for respiratory disease 2.8x higher (2010-2011);.
respiratory-related death rate 2.6x higher (2010);
rate of low vision for adults aged 40 years and older was 2.8x higher (2008);
rate of blindness for adults aged 40 years and older 6.2x higher. (2008);
hospitalisation rate for all ear diseases 1.3x higher. (2008-10);
profound/core activity restriction 2.2x higher (2008);
notification rate for tuberculosis 11.1x higher (2005-2009):
notification rate for hepatitis C 3.6x higher (2009-2011);
notification rate for Haemophilus influenza type b 20x higher (2010);
rate of invasive pneumococcal disease was 7.3x higher (2006-2008);
notification rate of meningococcal disease was 2.6x higher (2003-2006);
notification rate of meningococcal disease for children aged 0-4 years was 4.9x higher;
notification rates for gonorrhoea, syphilis and chlamydia ranged from 5.6x to 64x times higher (2009-2011);
age-adjusted proportion of current smokers 2.3x higher (2008):
smoking during pregnancy 3.8x higher (2009);
consumption of alcohol at short-term risky/high risk levels at least once a week in the previous 12 months was 2.0x higher (2004-2005),
principally alcohol-related hospitalisation for males 5x higher and for females 4x higher (2008-2010);
the age-standardised alcohol-related deaths for males and females 5x higher and 8x higher, respectively (2006-2010);
use of illicit substances in the previous 12 months 1.6x higher (2008);
rate of drug-induced deaths 1.5x higher ( 2005-2009).
The relatively good news is that 35% of Indigenous adults abstain from alcohol, this being 2.5x higher than that among the total Australian population; that 84% of mothers breastfeed their children; and 88% of children aged 0-6 years in non-remote areas were fully immunised against the recommended vaccine-preventable diseases [3].
However the bad news is that among Indigenous Australians:
care involving dialysis for kidney failure was the most common reason for hospitalization;
injury is the third most common cause of death, accounting for 14% of deaths;
57% of adults were classified as overweight or obese and the level of obesity/overweight is 1.2x higher than for non-Indigenous people;
47% of adults are current smokers, this being 2.3x higher than for non-Indigenous adults; and
23% of adults report that they had used an illicit substance in the previous 12 months. [3].
3. Indigenous Australian unemployment, poverty and educational deficits.
MacRae et al (2012) point out that, according to the 2011 Australian Census data, 42% of Indigenous people aged 15 years or older were employed and 17% were unemployed, whereas 61% of non-Indigenous people aged 15 years or older were employed and 5% were unemployed; the most common occupation classification of employed Indigenous people was “labourer” (18%) followed by “community and personal service workers” (17%) whereas the most common occupation classification of employed non-Indigenous people was “professional” (22%); and the mean equivalised gross household income for Indigenous persons was around $475 per week - approximately 59% of that for non-Indigenous persons (around $800) [3].
MacRae et al. (2012) have also summarized the appalling educational deficits: “According to 2011 Australian Census: 92% of 5 year-old Indigenous children were attending an educational institution. 1.6% of the Indigenous population had not attended school compared with 0.9% of the non-Indigenous population. 29% of Indigenous people reported year 10 as their highest year of school completion; 25% had completed year 12, compared with 52% of non-Indigenous people. 26% of Indigenous people reported having a post-school qualification, compared with 49% of non-Indigenous people. 4.6% of Indigenous people had attained a bachelor degree or higher, compared with 20% of non-Indigenous people… 76% of Indigenous students in year 3 and 66% in year 5 were at or above the national minimum standard for reading, compared with 95% and 93% respectively of all Australian students… 84% of Indigenous students in year 3 and 75% in year 5 were at or above the national minimum standard for numeracy, compared with 96% and 96% respectively of all Australian students” [3].
Truancy is a major problem in Indigenous schools as revealed by the following media report (2013): “The federal government is going back to the past to persuade more Aboriginal parents to send their children to school. It will spend $28 million over two years to fund 400 truancy officers for more than 40 schools in remote communities throughout the
Professor Helen Hughes AO on gross Educational Apartheid in the Northern
Professor Helen Hughes AO on gross Australian Educational Apartheid for Indigenous children from urban welfare dependent families or remote communities (2008): “
4. Ongoing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide by racist White Australia, Apartheid
The current, continuing appalling Indigenous health and social circumstances cannot be divorced from history. As summarized by MacRae et al (2012): “Indigenous peoples generally enjoyed better health in 1788 than most people living in
The European invasion in 1788 resulted in the Indigenous population dropping from circa 1 million to about 0.1 million in the first 100 years as a result of introduced disease, dispossession from traditional lands, economy and food resources, and massacres by gangs of well-armed, horse-mounted Europeans. The remaining Indigenous populations were variously subject to racist “protection” Acts and confinement to reserves with an ethnocidal policy of removal of hundreds of thousands of Indigenous children from their mothers [8]. According to MacRae et al. (2012): “The National Inquiry into the separation of the children concluded that 'between one-in-three and one-in-ten Indigenous children were forcibly removed from their families and communities in the period from approximately 1910 until 1970” [3].
These ethnocidal and genocidal child removal policies (generating the so-called Stolen Generations) formally stopped in the decade after the 1967 Referendum that changed the Constitution (1) by extending power to the Commonwealth parliament to legislate with respect to Aborigines by deleting the caveat “other than the aboriginal race in any State” to its right to make laws about “people of any race, for whom it is deemed necessary to make special laws”, and (2) by deleting “In reckoning the numbers of the people of the Commonwealth, or of a State or other part of the Commonwealth, aboriginal natives shall not be counted”. These changes were ostensibly beneficial to Aborigines but also had the effect of removing any mention of Indigenous Australians from the Constitution [9].
The reformist Whitlam Labor Government of 1972-1975 improved the situation further by passage of the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act. However the racist Liberal Party -National Party Coalition Government with the support of the racist Labor Party Opposition specifically excluded Northern Territory (NT) Aborigines from the protection of this Act in legislation approving the racist 2007 Northern Territory National Emergency Response (NT Intervention) in response to allegations of rampant child sexual and other abuse. No prosecutions for child abuse arose from the Intervention were made in the 5 years after Australian armed forces “invaded” Aboriginal Communities [10]. Indeed the expert “Little Children are Sacred” Report set up to investigate child sexual abuse allegations in the NT found (p57) that “it is not possible to accurately estimate the extent of child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory's Aboriginal communities”, but nevertheless the Indigenous Community was specifically and extensively singled out and defamed in this respect in the Mainstream media and Parliament. In contrast, the massive sexual abuse of Australia children as a whole was of course ignored, even though the “Little Children are Sacred” Report reported (p235) that 34% of Australian women and 16% of men have been subject to sexual abuse as children [11]. Further, the Howard Government implemented only two out of ninety-seven of the Report's recommendations (preferring the racist, military and human rights-abusing Intervention).
According to Wikipedia: “ In the late 18th century, there were between 350 and 750 distinct Aboriginal social groupings, and a similar number of languages or dialects. At the start of the 21st century, fewer than 150 indigenous languages remain in daily use, and all except roughly 20 are highly endangered. Of those that survive, only 10% are being learned by children and those languages are usually located in the most isolated areas” [12]. In the
Look-the-other-way
New South Wales Greens MP David Shoebridge states (2014): “These are the facts for NSW: The number of Aboriginal or Torres Strait Islander young people in out of home care in NSW increased from 3,865 to 6,060 between 2007 and 2011. This was a 57% increase in 4 short years. Today more than one in 10 Aboriginal children are in out of home care in NSW. This is the highest rate of any State or Territory in
At this point it is appropriate to consider the UN definition of genocide: Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention states that “In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” [17].
Concluding comments.
In a comprehensive example of this Australian denial, the 2-volume Cambridge History of Australia, that was recently launched by the Australian Governor General, fails to acknowledge Australian involvement in 30 genocidal atrocities [21]. This amnesia and entrenched looking-the–other-way White Australian culture stems from politically correct racism (PC racism) involving, for example, assertions of “love” for Aborigines, Iraqis, Afghans, Humanity and the Biosphere while nationally participating in the 21st century alone in what must be described (with deaths from violence or imposed deprivation in parentheses) as an Aboriginal Genocide (2 million since 1788) [8], an Iraqi Genocide (2.7 million since 2003) [22], an Afghan Genocide (7 million since 2001) [23], a worsening global avoidable mortality holocaust (18 million avoidable deaths from deprivation each year) [2] and a worsening Climate Genocide (10 billion predicted to die this century due to unaddressed climate change with Australia one of the worst annual per capita greenhouse gas polluters) [24]. PC racist White Australia adopts the attitude that if you don't mention it then it doesn't exist.
On 12 February 2014 the neoliberal Coalition PM Abbott made the following key points to Parliament in launching the latest “Closing the Gap” Report addressing key health, education and socio-economic differences between Indigenous and non-Indigenous Australia: “I can report that our country is on track to achieve some of the Closing the Gap targets. The target to halve the gap in child mortality within a decade is on track to be met. We are already close to meeting the target to have 95 per cent of remote children enrolled for pre-school – and should soon know what percentage are actually attending as well as just enrolled. And the target to halve the gap in Year 12 attainment by 2020 is also on track to be met. That's the good news. The bad news is that there's almost no progress in closing the life expectancy gap between Aboriginal and other Australians – which is still about a decade. There's been very little improvement towards halving the gap in reading, writing and numeracy. And indigenous employment has, if anything, slipped backwards over the past few years. We are not on track to achieve the more important and meaningful targets. Because it's hard to be literate and numerate without attending school; it's hard to find work without a basic education; and it's hard to live well without a job. We are all passionate to Close the Gap. We may be doomed to fail – I fear – until we achieve the most basic target of all: the expectation that every child will attend school every day” [25].
Yet the laudable commitment of the Abbott Government to spend $28 million to address Indigenous child truancy [4] is small change in comparison with the Coalition Government and Labor Opposition commitment to the $125 billion long-term accrual cost, so far, of the Zionist -promoted US War on Terror [26]. Yet while 4 Australians have died within
Not addressed is the appalling statistic that while Aborigines represent 3% of the Australian population they represent about 30% of the Australian prison population [28].
What can decent people do? Decent Australians should (a) inform everyone they can, and (b) vote 1 Green and put the Coalition last. Decent folk around the world should urge and apply Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) against all those complicit in the ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide, just as they urge and apply BDS against Apartheid Australia-backed Apartheid
References.
[1]. Thomson N, Burns J, Burrow S, Kirov E (2004) Overview of Indigenous health 2004. Australian Indigenous Health Bulletin, 4(4), October-December 2004: http://archive.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/html/html_bulletin/bull_44/reviews/thomson/reviews_thomson_1.htm .
[2]. Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, this including an avoidable mortality-related history of every country since Neolithic times and now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/body-count-global-avoidable-mortality_05.html .
[3]. MacRae A, Thomson N, Anomie, Burns J, Catto M, Gray C, Levitan L, McLoughlin N, Potter C, Ride K, Stumpers S, Trzesinski A, Urquhart B (2013). Overview of Australian Indigenous health status, 2012: http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/health-facts/overviews .
[4]. “Abbott Government to spend $28 million on truancy officers to help raise Aboriginal school attendance”, Sydney Morning Herald, 20 December 2013: http://www.smh.com.au/federal-politics/political-news/abbott-government-to-spend-28m-on-truancy-officers-to-help-raise-aboriginal-school-attendance-20131220-2zorj.html .
[5]. Helen Hughes, “Indigenous education in the
[6]. Helen Hughes, “The Centre for Independent Studies submission to the Review of Higher Education Access and Outcomes for Aborigjnal and Torres Straits Islander People”, 18 November 2011: http://www.cis.org.au/images/stories/submissions/sub-review-of-higher-education-access-outcomes-181111-hh-sh.pdf .
[7]. “Educational Apartheid”: https://sites.google.com/site/educationalapartheid/ .
[8]. “Aboriginal Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/ .
[9]. “Australian referendum, 1967 (Aboriginals)”. Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_referendum,_1967_%28Aboriginals%29 .
[10]. “Northern Territory National Emergency Response”, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northern_Territory_National_Emergency_Response
[11]. “Little Children are Sacred” Report: http://www.inquirysaac.nt.gov.au/pdf/bipacsa_final_report.pdf ).
[12]. “Australian Aboriginal languages”, Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Australian_Aboriginal_languages .
[13]. Brian Devlin, “The status and future of bilingual education for remote Indigenous students in the
[14]. “Kevin Rudd's Sorry Speech”, Sydney Morning Herald, 13 February 2008: http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2008/02/13/1202760379056.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap2 .
[15]. Paddy Gibson, “Stolen futures”,
[16]. David Shoebridge, “Stolen Generation continues – time to break the silence”, 13 February 2014: http://davidshoebridge.org.au/2014/02/13/stolen-generation-continues-time-to-break-the-silence/ .
[17]. UN Genocide Convention: http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/genocide/convention.html .
[18]. Credit Suisse, “Global Wealth Report 2013”, 2013: https://publications.credit-suisse.com/tasks/render/file/?fileID=BCDB1364-A105-0560-1332EC9100FF5C83 .
[19]. Gideon Polya, “
[20]. Gideon Polya, “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”, now available for free perusal on the web: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com.au/ .
[21]. Gideon Polya, “Review: “The Cambridge History Of Australia” ignores Australian involvement in 30 genocides”, Countercurrents, 14 October 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya141013.htm .
[22]. “Iraqi Holocaust, Iraqi Genocide”: http://sites.google./site/iraqiholocaustiraqigenocide/ .
[23]. “Afghan Holocaust, Afghan Genocide”: http://sites.google.com/site/afghanholocaustafghangenocide/ .
[24]. “Climate Genocide”: https://sites.google.com/site/climategenocide/ .
[25]. Tony Abbott, “Statement to the House of Representatives –Closing the Gap”, 12 February 2014: https://www.pm.gov.au/media/2014-02-12/statement-house-representatives-closing-gap .
[26]. Gideon Polya, “Endless War on Terror. Huge cost for
[27]. Gideon Polya, “50 ways Australian Intelligence spies on Australia & the world for UK, Israeli and US state terrorism”, Countercurrents, 11 December 2013: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya111213.htm .
[28]. “Aboriginal prison rates”, Creative Spirits: http://www.creativespirits.info/aboriginalculture/law/aboriginal-prison-rates .
[29]. “Boycott Apartheid
Dr Gideon Polya has been teaching science students at a major Australian university for 4 decades. He published some 130 works in a 5 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis,
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