ABUSED Aboriginal children must be removed from dangerous homes according to indigenous leader Jacinta Price, who says child safety is more important than culture.
The backlash from Kevin Rudd’s stolen generation “Sorry” campaign has resulted in abused Aboriginal children too often being abandoned in dangerous family environments.
- "Sorry" campaign has resulted in too many abused children remaining in violent homes.
- Plight of abused kids is ignored by media & 'feisty feminists' as it doesn't fit narrative.
- Family violence will continue as long as the 'real cause' is wilfully avoided by elites.
“Anytime one of our children is raped the issue very quickly and quietly fizzles away,” said Ms Price, who is deputy mayor of Alice Springs.
“Our children should be able to grow up in households that are loving and caring and not be withheld from this because of the colour of their skin.
“Aboriginal kids are being discriminated against and told ‘you must stay in dysfunction because, apparently, your culture is more important than your human rights.”
SICKENING
Ms Price told The Australian newspaper this week that efforts by Aboriginal women to highlight these “sickening circumstances” were futile.
“We weren’t looking for gender quotas or more seats at the boardroom table.
“We’ve been seeking support to protect women and children.”
Ms Price said the plight of her community had been ignored by mainstream media and “feisty feminists”.
“Indigenous children are likelier to be victims of child abuse, neglect, sexual abuse and family violence at a far greater rate than non-indigenous children,” she said.
“The Australian Institute of Criminology reported in 2019 that ‘indigenous people were around eight times more likely than non-indigenous people to commit domestic assault.
“These crimes result in a horrific level of incarceration of Aboriginal Australians.”
She said high incarceration rates were not caused by racism and colonialism as elites and academics had insisted.
INCARCERATION
“By continuing to ignore the real causes, we cannot begin to reduce homicide, violence and sexual abuse, and in turn, incarceration rates,” Ms Price said.
“No amount of adjusting targets to reduce incarceration by developing race-based legislation will prevent crime,” she said.
“As long as there are no targets to reduce family violence and the abuse and neglect of our children, incarceration rates will continue to climb.”
Ms Price said governments alone could not solve the problem.
“To suggest we can’t solve our own problems, that we are nothing more than [colonial] victims is racism of the worst kind.”
Ms Price echos similar concerns raised by prominent Aboriginal businessman Warren Mundine late last year.
A former Federal Labor Party President, Mr Mundine said black activist groups were often attempting to divide Australians, rather than unify them.
He said the Marxist-inspired Black Lives Matter group ignored there had been 951 indigenous homicides by indigenous perpetrators between 1989 and 2012 representing 12 per cent of homicides in Australia.
“Where’s the outcry and marches for these black lives?” he asked.
“They ignore the fact that indigenous women are 35 times more likely to be hospitalised due to non-fatal family violence than any other Australian woman.
“Indigenous women are also five times more likely to be victims of homicide.”
He said indigenous children were almost eight times more likely to be victims of substantiated abuse or neglect.
“I’m frustrated that people aren’t telling the full truth about indigenous Australia and not acknowledging and dealing with the underlying problems of crime in their communities and within their families.” PC
The Indigenous People are fortunate indeed to have Jacinta fighting for them.
When the abuse of alcohol and drugs is rife in ANY community, – any family – of any ethnicity, children MUST be removed from this most horrible atmosphere and from the very real danger of physical harm. There is absolutely no parenting forthcoming from minds swamped and twisted from these addictions.
But are there enough kind foster families to take in these little refugees? Would it be feasible to have groups – communities – of small ‘homes’ for four or five children, with ‘parenting’ provided by paid, energetic couples – (similar to Rudolph Steiner establishments) – and near a large school, capable of assimilating thirty or forty children needing special attention?
Regardless of who the abused child is, they must be removed from an abusive household/family. Authorities having knowledge of abuse & fail to act, are criminally neglect. As with education & health, ALL children have the right to safety.