ABC Lateline Expose Shows Stolen Generation Was Really the Saved Generation 19/5/2006
ABC Lateline Expose Shows Stolen Generation Was Really the Saved
Generation
The expose on ABC Lateline Monday May 15th, 2006, on the depredation of Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, illustrated the hypocrisy that has surrounded the Australian indigenous question for the last 40 years.
The so-called stolen generation were in reality children who were taken away from conditions like those portrayed in Lateline and brought up in white communities for their own protection.
If children are taken now out of these communities to remove them from danger will they be labelled another "stolen generation"?
Four decades of Native Title, ATSIC, land rights, tent embassies, do-gooders, bleeding hearts, allowances for "cultural sensitivity", Black Deaths in Custody inquiries and billions of taxpayers' dollars thrown into the black hole of the aboriginal racket have done nothing to assuage the child-rape, wife bashing, murder, drug addiction, alcoholism and petrol sniffing that have become the curse of such remote aboriginal settlements. In fact all these pantomimes have achieved is to allow the situation to get worse.
Since the expose three days ago, you will notice, in typical Australian political fashion, nothing has occurred except political point-scoring, name-calling and a demarcation dispute between the Northern Territory Government, Northern Territory Police and the Federal Minister for Indigenous Affairs.
Nothing of benefit will, in fact, occur as long as the law is not enforced equally for all, wherever and whenever it is broken, and as long as political grandstanding takes the place of the true civic service our parliamentarians were elected to perform.