dude i think you don't fully understand what is really going on... the Aboriginals don't want you money, the white man you vote for does. They don't want your angst, (But they seem to be getting it) wich is a result of the white man stealing from your pocket and the consequences of living it up on the white man's terms.
Perhaps this will help clarify the argument a wee bit;
Under cover of racist myth, a new land grab in Australia
Claims of child abuse are proving a fertile pretext to menace the Aboriginal communities lying in the way of uranium mining
October 26, 2008
By John Pilger
Source: The Guardian
John Pilger's ZSpace Page
Its banks secured in the warmth of the southern spring, Australia is not news. It ought to be. An epic scandal of racism, injustice and brutality is being covered up in the manner of apartheid South Africa. Many Australians conspire in this silence, wishing never to reflect upon the truth about their society's Untermenschen, the Aboriginal people.
The facts are not in dispute: thousands of black Australians never reach the age of 40; an entirely preventable disease, trachoma, blinds black children as epidemics of rheumatic fever ravage their communities; suicide among the despairing young is common. No other developed country has such a record. A pervasive white myth, that Aborigines leech off the state, serves to conceal the disgrace that money the federal government says it spends on indigenous affairs actually goes towards opposing native land rights. In 2006, some A$3bn was underspent "or the result of creative accounting", reported the Sydney Morning Herald. Like the children of apartheid, the Aboriginal children of Thamarrurr in the Northern Territory receive less than half the educational resources allotted to white children.
In 2005, the UN committee on the elimination of racial discrimination described the racism of the Australian state, a distinction afforded no other developed country. This was in the decade-long rule of the conservative coalition of John Howard, whose coterie of white supremacist academics and journalists assaulted the truth of recorded genocide in Australia, especially the horrific separations of Aboriginal children from their families. They deployed arguments not dissimilar to those David Irving used to promote Holocaust denial.
Smear by media as a precursor to the latest round of repression is long familiar to black Australians. In 2006, the flagship current affairs programme of the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Lateline, broadcast lurid allegations of "sex slavery" among the Mutitjulu people in the Northern Territory. The programme's source, described as an "anonymous youth worker", was later exposed as a federal government official whose "evidence" was discredited by the Northern Territory chief minister and the police.
The ABC has never retracted its allegations, claiming it has been "exonerated by an internal inquiry". Shortly before last year's election, Howard declared a "national emergency" and sent the army to the Northern Territory to "protect the children" who, said his minister for indigenous affairs, were being abused in "unthinkable numbers".
Last February, with much sentimental fanfare, the new prime minister, Labor's Kevin Rudd, made a formal apology to the first Australians. Australia was said to be finally coming to terms with its rapacious past and present. Was it? "The Rudd government," noted a Sydney Morning Herald editorial, "has moved quickly to clear away this piece of political wreckage in a way that responds to some of its own supporters' emotional needs, yet it changes nothing. It is a shrewd manoeuvre."
In May, barely reported government statistics revealed that of the 7,433 Aboriginal children examined by doctors as part of the "national emergency", 39 had been referred to the authorities for suspected abuse. Of those, a maximum of just four possible cases of abuse were identified. Such were the "unthinkable numbers". They were little different from those of child abuse in white Australia. What was different was that no soldiers invaded the beachside suburbs, no white parents were swept aside, no white welfare was "quarantined". Marion Scrymgour, an Aboriginal minister in the Northern Territory, said: "To see decent, caring [Aboriginal] fathers, uncles, brothers and grandfathers, who are undoubtedly innocent of the horrific charges being bandied about, reduced to helplessness and tears, speaks to me of widespread social damage."
What the doctors found they already knew -- children at risk from a spectrum of extreme poverty and the denial of resources in one of the world's richest countries. Having let a few crumbs fall, Rudd is picking up where Howard left off. His indigenous affairs minister, Jenny Macklin, has threatened to withdraw government support from remote communities that are "economically unviable". The Northern Territory is the only region where Aborigines have comprehensive land rights, granted almost by accident 30 years ago. Here lie some of the world's biggest uranium deposits. Canberra wants to mine and sell it.
Foreign governments, especially the US, want the Northern Territory as a toxic dump. The Adelaide to Darwin railway that runs adjacent to Olympic Dam, the world's largest uranium mine, was built with the help of Kellogg, Brown & Root -- a subsidiary of American giant Halliburton, the alma mater of Dick Cheney, Howard's "mate". "The land grab of Aboriginal tribal land has nothing to do with child sexual abuse," says the Australian scientist Helen Caldicott, "but all to do with open slather uranium mining and converting the Northern Territory to a global nuclear dump."
What is unique about Australia is not its sun-baked, derivative society, clinging to the sea, but its first people, the oldest on earth, whose skill and courage in surviving invasion, of which the current onslaught is merely the latest, deserve humanity's support.
http://www.johnpilger.com
None of you white fellas have suffered so or have been disspossed of what is rightfully yours... ohh wait, but we
are been disspossed, every single second of the day we work for corporations. We are onwed and gorverned by corporations and we obey their law, we can't even respect ourselfs, we poison ourselfs, with our very own pollutents (Cars, Plastics, Pesticides, Food we eat, Alcohol, tabacco, drugs, etc... our lifestyle is toxic) we can't even own our own (Stolen bit of land) for up to 35 years, because a few banks say you have to pay everyone else (The elite) first.
What the fuck has our way of live got to do with the black owners of this land? How have they made our life miserable?
I mean.. what, the consequences of our lifestyles has something to do with the Aboriginals? (The oppressive capatalist all consuming society) We exist here because we stole, took and raped by force everything from them. How can we be sore at them?
They have given us EVERYTHING they ever had, everything they ever needed, everything, every single fucking thing, they had, we have taken, by brutal, totally brutal force.
Is it about money we perceive they are taking from us? Corporate tax loops, perks and wheeling and dealing, are stealing MORE money straight out of our labour, then any black man has ever taken.
Politicians are riding a gravy train until they die, they are ALL millioners. wtf???? They are scaming us, lying to us, manipulating us, exploiting us and ultimately taking huge massive wet and runny shits on our heads, on an ongoing periodical basis and we empower them by voting for them out of our own greed. That's the only reason they get elected is because they appeal to our greed, vanity, fear, etc...
oh qld have been spending tons on roads and such. tunnel etc. unskilled labourers are on $45ph no idea how much tradesmen are getting
But the age of OIL is over... why are we spending money on useless roads? To create a few short term jobs? Why not build electric railways, powered by our greatest assset, The Australian Sun. Are those roads been built by private corporations? To what purpose do they build roads designed for petro chemical cars, when the age of oil is so fucking obviously dead? Are those roads been made with shortcomings built-in, so as to generate more private wealth from tax payer capital, in the form of road extensions, lane widening, addon-packs, upgrades, etc.... That will no doubt be announced as aboslutely necessary for the good of the econnomy.
Have you ever asked yourself, why is it, I mean why exactly are we in Afghanistan? Who are we protecting ourselfs from? What are we defending? What is the true history of the conflict? What has any of this got to do with the Aboriginals of Australia?
I'll answer the last part; It has everything to do with the Aboriginals..... we don't now why we hate them so much, we have a vague idea why but don't really understand the truth of it, but we do know we have to keep them under our heal/control, by any means necessary.
Our society is a mess, our culture has been highjacked by corporate interest and ideology, we have turned into all consuming monsters. Our ecological footprint is the biggest in the world, the biggest in the world, my god are we as a culture become so arrogant, that we think we actually deserve to live the way we do, that it is our right!?
Have a look at ANY political speech from the last 20 years, and you will discover, that, that is just the exact thing politicians are saying; WE DESERVE IT!
Fuck man, this country will eat it self up before you know it, if we keep going like this. We are a fully sick consumerist society, we only believe in shopping. It is fast becoming a reality that Australians can not save themselfs from their own greed.
I challenge you to a duel mofo.... Since i can't get you onto a server to kick your arse.... lol... dispel any of my above arguments.
