A Brief History of Generational Thievery
The Australian - Child safety failed rape girl
A senior departmental official yesterday told The Australian that the child involved was sexually abused at age seven and, as a safety measure, was put with various foster families, eventually ending up in 2005 with a non-indigenous family in Cairns. But she was returned nine months later to Aurukun, where she was gang-raped by the nine males.
“These non-indigenous people were fantastic - ensuring she went to school, and the father actually took a year off his work to personally supervise this girl,” he said. “But two new social workers were appointed to the north and they expressed the view, which was repeated many times to the investigating committee, that putting an indigenous child with white foster parents was another stolen generation.
“They convinced the department with this rubbish and the girl was taken from Cairns to Aurukun - back to where she was being abused previously and where she had contracted syphilis as a little child - and she was unsupervised, with the result that she was constantly raped.
You want a stolen generation? How’s this for a stolen generation:
The Times (May 16, 2006) - Child rape dossier may force U-turn on law for Aborigines
IT IS a catalogue of atrocities that has shocked Australia and prompted the Government to declare Aboriginal people incapable of deciding their own destinies.
A two-year-old Aboriginal girl was raped by a drunk relative who took her from outside her house while her mother was out, also drunk.
A six-year-old girl was raped anally by an 18-year-old Aboriginal petrol-sniffer at a waterhole. She drowned as she was raped.
Another Aboriginal man raped a seven-month-old girl after taking her from a room of sleeping adults. The baby needed surgery under general anaesthetic for her injuries.
A two-month-old baby was stabbed by her father as he attacked his wife.
A violent father had frequent sex with his daughter as she shared a bed with her mother, and made her pregnant.
A couple married their 14-year-old daughter to a man in his late 60s whom she did not know. He took her away by force. She later told police: “I told that man I was too young for sex, but he didn’t listen.”
ABC (Oz) (May 20, 2006) - One in 10 Indigenous men raped, survey
A survey of Indigenous men shows 10 per cent had been raped and a third of them have been touched against their will. …
Researcher Mick Adams says the rates of abuse are 10 times higher than in the rest of the population.
“What we found is that a lot of men had said they had either been interfered with in different sort of forms and 80 per cent of the men had not told anybody up until we did the interview,” he said.
Mr Adams says it is likely the sexual violence is contributing to high suicide rates among Indigenous men.
The Australian (May 20, 2006) - Male rape rife among Aborigines, by Michael McKenna
ABORIGINAL boys are 10 times more likely to be raped than other Australian males, in a generational cycle of sexual violence that continues under a shroud of secrecy.
A groundbreaking study of indigenous men’s health, completed last week, has unearthed a culture of abuse against males that comes on top of the widely acknowledged crisis facing Aboriginal girls and women.
The Australian (May 22, 2006) - Excuse of tribal law to be axed
Mr Brough’s comments come after an Aboriginal elder in the Northern Territory, who claimed customary law gave him the right to bash and have anal intercourse with a 14-year-old schoolgirl promised to him as a wife, lost a High Court bid to overturn his three-year jail sentence on Friday.
Mr Brough said it was an outrage that the 55-year-old man was originally sentenced to just one month’s jail by Northern Territory Chief Justice Brian Martin last August, after the judge accepted that the defendant believed tribal law gave him the right to teach the girl to obey him.
Most are products of the 1980s, when the Hawke government increased spending on fringe settlements and encouraged the out-station or homeland movement, in which many Aboriginal communities withdrew from larger population centres into isolated areas, ostensibly to revive Aboriginal culture and practise self-determination.
The brainchild of the policy was Labor’s long-term adviser H.C. “Nugget” Coombs, whose manifesto was the book Aboriginal Autonomy.
He wanted Aborigines to have a separate economy based not on capitalist notions of industry, agriculture and mineral development which he regarded as exploitive and environmentally degrading, but on “sustainable development, stable populations, limited-growth economies and an emphasis on small scale and self-reliance”.
The Australian (September 13, 2006) - Foster parents damned for ‘middle-class’ values
A COUPLE who wanted to teach foster children not to take drugs or skip school were accused by bureaucrats of trying to force “middle-class” values on them.
Rae and Traill Adams, both in their 60s, quit as foster parents last year after a series of disputes with Queensland social workers over the expectations they had for foster kids. Mrs Adams said a social worker told her: “Rae, you expect every child to be able to eat caviar and some can only have Vegemite.”…
Mr Adams said bureaucrats were “not interested in promoting education for these children, nor were they interested in the children themselves. They are interested only in returning children to parents because it gets them promoted”.
The Australian this week revealed that an Aboriginal couple from NSW were “black-listed” as foster carers because they had taken a sick child to see a GP. The couple thought the toddler might have been sexually abused.
Gavan and Alanna Rose, who own an indigenous art gallery in Sydney’s Darling Harbour, were told that by doing so they had abused the child’s human rights.
When they later tried to adopt another indigenous baby they were told they had “too high” expectations for the child, because they had said they would be willing to support the girl if she wanted to go to university.
Mrs Rose said she was told this was “unrealistic”.
How’s that for “stolen”?
(All links point to my archives in case any of them are broken.)
December 11th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
“Aboriginal Affairs” (or the “Aboriginal Minding Industry” (Minding => Mining), as it was known in conservative circles) has been under the complete control of the multicultural left for 30 years. It could almost be a laboratory experiment on the efficacy of their ideas, apart from the human tragedy.
The thrall to PC/multiculturalism in this area was just starting to lift starting a year or so ago, as your links show. I wonder if the whole thing will now sink back under the radar? If it were up to the MSM it certainly would, but there are new voices abroad these days, so perhaps there is some hope.
December 11th, 2007 at 6:23 pm
If it were any other situation, these two girls (for girls I’m sure they are) would be thrown in jail for doing this to this poor girl. As it is, they aren’t even named, and the six or seven “boys” (aging as high as 26, I heard) got slapped on the wrist, which I guess got some people fired. But still, the family courts records are sealed in Britain, and no matter how serious the transgression against the family or the safety of a child, the social workers are never named and go on working in the system without anyone ever knowing their true character. It’s a complete travesty. And yet no one seems remotely bothered by it. Except when something this egregious happens, on the Australian side, or when the occasional editorial is written, quickly to fade into the ether, on the family courts side.