As predicted, conservative nutjobs are at it
again
This is from Miranda Devine who famously gave us David Hicks is guilty because he pled guilty line. She obviously missed the point that Hicks didn't get a fair trial so we won't know how much his involvement really was.
Observe some snippets
But for a Government big on symbolism, the message is that the minister is listening only to the usual suspects from the old rights-based Aboriginal power establishment, who have vested interests in the rotten status quo that has been so disastrous for so many Aboriginal children. So disastrous that researchers in the latest Medical Journal Of Australia seriously advocate a mass antibiotic program in remote communities because of the soaring rate of sexually transmitted diseases among children
Ah, the usual "symbolism vs practical" false dilemna fallacy. For some reason conservatives like using this line so much. Apparently spending a few days crafting a speech and 15 minutes saying it must be a really big effort for Kevin Rudd, such that his government can't actually do practical things. Well I guess since Howard couldn't even do that, it must seem like a big effort doesn't it to the Right.
So dysfunctional that the former indigenous affairs minister Mal Brough tells of one community in which eight six-year-olds were raped by older children, aged eight to 10. In another, recent health checks identified 300 rat bites on children.
Yet when Opposition Leader Brendan Nelson began listing the unpalatable, well-documented facts of Aboriginal misery during his apology speech on Wednesday, he was attacked.
These dumbshits still don't get it. The apology was primarily to acknowledge wrong done to the stolen generation. Complaining about other problems in Aboriginal communities is a red herring.
I suppose right wing retards might "get it" if someone started complaining about the Iraq war stating that its premise was based on lies, while people were celebrating Anzac day or Rememberance day. But I wouldn't hold my breath as they seem to have evolved the mutant ability to ignore blatant double standards. Except when other people do it.
"They do not want to hear the truth because it's so offensive and insulting," says Brough, the former army officer whose passion to actually fix problems in dysfunctional Aboriginal communities drove the Northern Territory emergency intervention. The aim was to re-establish social norms the rest of Australia takes for granted, by inserting police, preventing alcohol and drug abuse, performing medical checks and instituting income management.
The irony of the pot calling a kettle black. Hey Mr Brough. You conservatives have refused to hear the truth about the stolen generation, even cravenly attempting to say the number of Aborigines taken doesn't constitute a generation. You don't want to hear the truth because you find it offensive and insulting that your glorious Australian history actually has periods where you shouldn't be proud of, and even be ashamed of.
For those who don't remember, Mal Brough was the attention whore minister. When he became apparent he would lose his seat he begged Kevin Rudd to "think of the children" line (or similar premise) in reference to the Government's intervention into Aboriginal communities.
After 75 days in office, Macklin has not visited a single remote Aboriginal community. Her spokeswoman stressed on Friday that, as Opposition spokeswoman, she travelled to 15 communities last year and gained "a lot of corporate knowledge" to inform her decisions.
After 10 FUCKING YEARS in office the Coalition could not even say a single sorry. Yet we are supposed to come down hard on a government which has already done more in a few months than Howard did in ten years. Give me a break.
Also notice throughout her right wing rant where she aportions blame. When Labor is in power, the fault lies with the Rudd government not doing enough. However if the Coalition is in power, the problems in the Aboriginal communities are the fault of ... yeah well she certainly doesn't blame the governmen.t Got to love that mentality. Never mind that the Howard government had 10 years to improve these problems while Jenny Macklin has only been minister for 75 days. But its never too early to criticise the opposition, so speaks the Right.
The first test of the Government's commitment will be whether Rudd invites Brough to join his new bipartisan Policy Commission on indigenous reform, as Nelson requested. The former minister will no doubt be troublesome but no one can question his knowledge and passion. Nelson should make it a condition of his own involvement.
No, the first test would be whether the Government actually improves things like standard of living, education and health for Aborigines and deals with the paedophile filth hiding in them. Not some symbolic bullshit like having Mal Brough join the team. Oh, hang on a minute. I thought you guys were interested in practical rather than symbolic measures.
But maybe we can have Brough join the team, after he takes acting lessons from Hilary Clinton. Then we might see a grown man cry next time he blabs on about thinking of the children. Oh wait, Mick Malthouse already beat you to it.
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