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Watch full film here: vod.journeyman.tv Jan 2008 Sending in soldiers and the police to ‘stabilise’ indigenous communities and check children for sexual abuse was always going to be controversial. But months after Australia’s Federal Government seized control of 73 bush townships, banned alcohol and porn and overhauled welfare payments, what impact are their actions having? Are these ‘harsh measures’ justified or is this ‘another step in the undeclared war against Aboriginal people’? Night time in the Aboriginal community of Maningrida. Gangs of “lost children” roam about unsupervised. “Nobody cares for them and they’ve got nothing”. Some don’t look older than eight or nine. “Parents are not taking control because some fathers are on drugs, alcohol, smoking ganja. These kids are learning violence and drug use from their parents”. Last summer, an inquiry uncovered horrific levels of paedophilia in every aboriginal community inspected. Declaring the situation a “national emergency”, the Australian government took back control of land given over to Indigenous rule. The army was sent in and new leaders imposed on communities with sweeping powers to seize the assets of Aboriginal organisations and expel anyone. Produced by ABC Australia Distributed by Journeyman Pictures
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@Kirstenmilton Actually they still had issues they have just evolved into new ones.
@tanushinki I was lucky enough to grow up with my mother but my father used my siblings as a cash cow for government mon ey. He lived in a beautiful government funded house and partied it up on the weekend while my siblings were starved and punished at school for having dirty clothes, not wearing uniforms and having no books. I agree with you, It is definately not just an aboriginal problem. I would very much welcome the same restrictions for all Australians.
Dissapointed I couldnt watch the whole documentary but very interesting for a start.
Get a job, dont rely on handouts and you can spend your money how you want to.
Welfare is a not a right.
You should be grateful that your children can get free education and you get free health care and houses, and if you want more you have to work hard.
Thats what happends everywhere else in the world.
In 90% of this world if you dont work you die because not all government can afford to give money for people to live.
@tiBbLeX
Mate never a truer word been said, I worked in the Aboriginal industry for many years and I watched terrible nepotism and corruption in places like Balgo, Bentinck Island, Oombulgurri etc etc.
The do-gooders just turn away.
This has been the only example of real help I have actually seen where the money is not squandered by the Aboriginal councils.
I realise the opposition was just becuase the grog was cut off but sadly some people cannot be helped, this is so in this case.
@timewarlord an excellent example is when the govt wanted to build them new houses, after they trashed the old ones, the aboriginies were asked to move into temp accomodation for a few months, they cried and called it the new stolen generation. If you want to live rent free in a government built house, then expect that the government is going to repair or rebuilt those houses on occasion.
@timewarlord The depressing fact is the majority of aboriginals expect a free ticket, if you try to help in anyway they call it discrimination, give them money, they drink it, smoke it or sniff it, let the kids starve and then in alot of cases rape the kids. Buld them homes they gut them and use the interiors for fire wood,
I think you’ll find that sadly you cannot help a people that don’t help themselves. Yes the wite man destroyed their culture, that dosen’t mean they should have a free ticket to sit about whining over it for eternity. I applaud the government for doing something, how many more aboriginie babies had to be raped before the authorities took action!
im white and my parents drank, smoked ganga and gambled… its not just an aborigional problem… white men do whatevr the fuck they like and nobody questions them.
@Apachepower1 I’m sorry that you were offended. However, the video was about Aboriginals and therefore the fact that I stated was relevant in the context.
@CyberWendus Still, you marginalised Aboriginals, and that’s not cool.
@Apachepower1 I don’t think that my comment was nearly as racist as some of the other comments about the video.
@Apachepower1 The different average cognitive abilities (IQ) for the different racial groups around the world is proven fact based on many different studies of IQ tests on these different groups of people. I didn’t say I disliked aboriginals. I just stated what has been proven from almost every different study of racial characteristics.
@CyberWendus I THINK YOU’RE IQ IS LOW MOTHER FUCKER FOR BEING RACIST AGAINST A WHOLE NATION. YOU JUST WANT TO PUT IT OFF ON ABORIGINALS BECAUSE YOU’RE SO FUCKING STUPID
anyone that pitties these fucks is not educated, i have been out doing work that is supposed to be housing them, they live in squalour because thats what they obviously want to do, theyre given brand new houses and thats what they do to them within days they have them pulled apart burned down and destroyed, then somehow its white man that did it, get fucked theyre idiots
Aboriginals have low genetic IQ.
Australian aboriginal race are dirty filthy race of people without meaning, understanding of love and respect for fellow man.
“Out of the 1000s of kids checked less than 6 cases were pursued.”
Firstly I speak for myself. My remarks are my own. Where did I give my endorsement to this government intervention? Government bungling and blame shifting is not an indigenous culture nor an Australian issue. The prevailing system was endemic to the problem in the first place, when the ‘Little Children Are Sacred’ report was released and the shit hit the fan. The indigenous communities have been largely self managed for decades.
The fact is my ancestors probably didn’t live, behave or engage in social life, much differently than yours, and those that were criminal were more likely to have originated from england. So if YOU are going to pull the race card, you are benefiting from ethnic cleansing. When england deported it’s criminals rather than reform them and re-assimilate them. If England did that, how much more chance would the average English citizen have of criminal ancestry? It’s bigoted in the same way racism is.
“Chances are your ancestors were grog drinking and lice ridden too but they benefited from the wealth of the land.”
Chances are if you are alluding to Australia’s convict heritage, chances are you are being a Douche. My paternal ancestors at least, were settlers but that far back you’d have to count dozens of ancestors. I have no more chance of criminal ancestry than any Australian of my age. Not that it’s relevant as we are not debating an ancestral (or even a race issue for my part).
“Bizarre to hear an Australian (?) taking the p*** out of someone elses proud heritage too.”
Really?… heritage? WTF did I say about heritage? The culture and heritage of indigenous Australians is beautiful, but that doesn’t stop them from enjoying modern life. In which case we all have to live within modern social systems and economics. You can’t return to a tranquil racially pure hunter gather state and yet retain the benefits of education and integrated modern societies. Missed again much?
“Oh yes, Australia the economic superpower.”
How is that relevant?
“How much of Australia’s wealth has stemmed from or stems from the land ?”
Oh! I see where you are going. Well Mancini, the ability for ALL Australians to enjoy modern life with cars, houses and medicine, stems from education and not directly out of the soil funnily enough. Economic commodities benefit everybody regardless of colour. You seemed to have missed my point. What education will exist in aba7629 independent state?
@skepticoz
Oh yes, Australia the economic superpower. What a fine producer of… err.. soap operas. How much of Australia’s wealth has stemmed from or stems from the land ? where did you get that from again ?
Bizarre to hear an Australian (?) taking the p*** out of someone elses proud heritage too. Chances are your ancestors were grog drinking and lice ridden too but they benefited from the wealth of the land.
Out of the 1000s of kids checked less than 6 cases were pursued.
@MiKKA335
Give them the tools, the legislation and the education and see what happens
It would be nice if the aboriginals actually showed some initiative, instead of just waiting for someone to come and do it for them.