All's Not Well After 60.000 Years of Aboriginal History. By Uncle Monty.

All's Not Well After 60.000

Years of Aboriginal History.

By Uncle Monty.
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Failure to mention Australia's Aboriginals,

is like trying to paint a picture of Oz with-

out the oils and bushes to start to paint

on a blank canvas. The Aboriginals have

suffered historically so much at the rough

hands of the first European settlers here

and much like their American counter-

parts now called Native Americans or

better known as The American Indians.

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While I know abit about White America's

hideous treatment and out and out discrim-

ination against their Native Americans, I

know almost nothing about the Aboriginals

other than what I've read about them in

tourist guides and what I just read in today's

edition of the mass circulation daily newspaper

called "The Australian," with its indepth report

by staff writer Caroline Overington on the

pitiful and horrible state and condition of some

Aboriginal children. I was absolutely shocked

at what I read. Caroline's story also left shivers

down my back after reading her graphic report

entitled "Horror of abuse among children."

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"THE rape of toddlers by other children is

commonplace in Aboriginal communities and,

in one case, a girl was attacked so violently

she has to wear a colostomy bag," so

wrote Caroline Overington's opening

sentence that rivetted my attention right

away. Raping toddlers by children? Is

that really possible, I asked myself? It

sounds quite unbelieveable to me, but her

report doesn't spare us from even more

gruesome details of children-on-children

and children-on-adult crime:

a) Packs of boys aged as young as 10

have raped drunk Aboriginal women

who had collapsed in the street.

b) Animals are also among the victims.

c) A 12 year old boy interfering with a

three-year old, a 13 year old boy interfer-

ing with a five year old and a 15 year old

interfering with (another) three year old.

d) One boy showed pornographic DVD's

to other children so they could re-enact

the scenes, and another, aged 11, gave

sexually transmitted disease to two

pre-school girls.

d) "The recent NSW Aboriginal child

sexual assault taskforce reported that

sibling sexual abuse is rife," reports

Caroline Overington, too.

And, e) In Brisbane, two 10 year old

boys raped a four year old boy. In central

Queensland, two juveniles and an adult

raped a three year old girl. At Aurukun,

an 11 year old boy was repeatedly

sexually assaulted by a gang of children

who spent their days watching porno-

graphy and smoking marijuana. While

at Balgo, NSW, an 11 year old male

forced two pre-school girls into having

sex with him and then infecting both

of them with his STD's.

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Such gruesome details were provided

by Dr. Wendy O'Brien and her report

issued under an Australian Crime Com-

mission yesterday that had gathered

evidence from the testimony of those

involved with Aboriginal issues and

from the courts where such accused

children are handled by juvenile court

prosecution.

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The more I read the news report, the

more I discovered the present break-

down of Aboriginal law and morality

stems from more than close to four

decades of such rot in the native

culture that now sees children doing

the kind of things most other non-

Aboriginal children do not usually

do because they live in a society

that is far removed from the

"horror of abuse among children."

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I do not condemn such problem

children living in an Aboriginal culture

that they have not devised nor have

much control over. They are perhaps

as much the real victims as their crime

victims living in such isolation and mar-

ginalization inside an otherwise modern

Australian society that is rooted in

the historical injustice against such

Aboriginal people. I can and do con-

demn the savage crime, but not the

people who have been living in national

victimhood since the beginning of those

Europeans that first came by brutal force

themselves as transported convicts and

social rejects to what was then the first

British Penal Colony called Australia

and Tasmania.

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Still here in Oz, Uncle Monty.

+Eve of Advent, 2oo8.

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Just got this lovely email from my

London dear friend Jill Ferguson:

"Monty, it's great reading about your

adventures in Oz. Sounds like you are having

a wonderful time. I envy you the warm weather

and suntan ... send some of it our way will you!
I hope the (World Homeless) Games are a big

success next week and I'll look forward to cat-

ching up with your blog again before BT cut

off my connection. Take care and keep

having fun. Love Jill (in London).

Nov. 28th, 2008.

>> All my love Jill, my dear. Monty <<

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