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White Australia Grossly Abusing Indigenous And Asian Children

By Gideon Polya

22 July, 2007
Countercurrents.org

The right-wing, Bush-ite Australian Federal Government has attempted to shore up its flagging supporting an election year by “invading” Northern Territory Aboriginal (Indigenous) communities with troops in battle dress – ostensibly to deal with “Aboriginal Child Abuse”. This is widely seen as a cynical and racist “land grab” and an exercise in bolstering the racist vote in White Australia.

The Australian National Indigenous Times devoted a recent issue (including a key analysis by me) to the sheer outrage of Aboriginal avoidable morbidity and mortality (see: “The Awful Truth”, National Indigenous Times, 14 June 2007: http://www.nit.com.au/news/story.aspx?id=11555 ) - the Bush-ite Australian Government is guilty of horrendous crimes against the Indigenous people as well as against Asian children in the Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories..

Read the official Report on Aboriginal Child Bbuse in Australia’s Northern territory, "Little Children are Sacred", and you will discover that the authors were unable to determine the extent of Aboriginal Child Sexual Abuse. However there is no doubt from shocking anecdotal accounts that is its occurring. The racism and neglect of Australian State and Federal Governments - and in particular that of the racist, extreme right wing, Bush-ite Federal Government - have created these appalling conditions.

To illustrate the sheer hypocrisy and dishonesty of the racist, Bush-ite Australian Government it is useful to examine the Northern Territory Child Sexual Abuse reality in a QUANTITATIVE way. There is no doubt from the shocking anecdotal accounts in the Report that from a QUALITATIVE perspective Aboriginal Child Sexual Abuse is occurring and must be urgently stopped. However the Report (p57) states that “it is not possible to accurately estimate the extent of child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory”.

In contrast, the Report refers to studies in AMERICA indicating that 25% of females and 10% of males experience childhood sexual abuse (Finkelhor, D. (1994), Current information on the scope and nature of child sexual abuse”, Future of Children, 4(2), pp31-53) and in AUSTRALIA indicating that 34% of females and 16% of males experienced child sexual abuse (Dunne, M.P., Purdie, D.M., Cook, M.D., Boyle, F.M. & Najman, J.M.(2003), Is child sexual abuse declining? Evidence from a population-based survey of men and women in Australia, Child Abuse & Neglect, vol. 27 (2), pp141-152).

Decent, anti-racist Australians support provision of more police, doctors, nurses, welfare workers, teachers and decent housing and improved social conditions in general for remote Aboriginal communities – communities that are deprived by Racist Governments of so many of the services that White Australians take for granted.

The “Little Children are Sacred” Report recommendation #1 asked for such services - but also said that they should be provided in a sensible and consultative way. However this recommendation has been grossly violated by the Bush-ite Government sending in the army in battle dress, seizing Land - which is sacred to Aborigines and indeed to White Australians - and acting in a racially-selective way i.e a racist way.

The biggest child abuser in Australia is the Bush-ite Australian Government under which there have been over 1,600 avoidable under-5 Aboriginal deaths, 90,000 avoidable Indigenous deaths (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15140/42/ ), 0.5 million under-5 year old post-invasion infant deaths in Occupied Iraq (90% avoidable and due to US-UK-Australian war crimes) and 1.9 million under-5 post-invasion infant deaths in Occupied Afghanistan (also 90% avoidable and similarly due to US-UK-Australian war crimes in contravention of the Geneva Convention) (see: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/13099/26/ ).

For details and documentation of gross Bush-ite Australian child abuse see “The Awful Truth”, National Indigenous Times, 14 June 2007: http://www.nit.com.au/news/story.aspx?id=11555 ; “Sydney Madonna & Aboriginal Genocide”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/10865/26/ ; “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ; the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child: http://www.ohchr.org/english/law/pdf/crc.pdf ; Thomson, N., Burns, J., Burrow, S & Kirov, E. (2004), Overview of indigenous health 2004. Australian Indigenous Health Bulletin; 4(4): Reviews: http://www.healthinfonet.ecu.edu.au/html/html_bulletin/
bull_44/reviews/thomson/reviews_thomson_1.htm
; and “Aboriginal Genocide”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15140/42/ .

The shocking thing about the continuing Aboriginal Genocide in Australia is the Orwellian reality that means that Mainstream media simply will NOT report the actuality of Bush-ite Australian Government Child Abuse at home and abroad and indeed are turning truth on it’s head by pretending that Australia’s worst child abuser - the mass paedocidal Australian Federal Government – is the diametrical opposite.


Dr Gideon Polya published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003). He recently published “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950” (G.M. Polya, Melbourne, 2007: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com/ ).

 

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