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terryfrost at 09:20pm on 24/05/2006
terryfrost at 09:20pm on 24/05/2006Ahh, the conservatives are out and about, performing their sneaky acts of censorship again. Check this one out.
PORNOGRAPHY should be banned from remote Aboriginal communities,according to an academic.
Judy Atkinson, director of the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples at Southern Cross University in NSW, said pornography was fuelling the problem of sexual assault in remote communities.
"There is a difference between a middle class couple in Canberra watching this and a group of young boys in some remote community in the NT, who have no real access to education, no access to the real world, and think that's the way that Western people behave," Dr Atkinson said yesterday.
And of course, the darkies aren't sophisticated enough to understand things if they're explained to them. Academics are silly sometimes.
A) How do you enforce such a ban? By intruding on the lives of aboriginal Australians even more?
B) Give them real access to education, health-care, the chance of a job and a future. 80% of the juveniles in gaol in WA are aboriginal -- a group who are 3% of the population.
C) The Howard Junta are treating symptoms rather than causes. Yes, there are disheartening amounts of sexual violence, drunkenness, drug abuse and other crimes in aboriginal communities. No, gaoling everyone isn't a cure. Aboriginal Australians die on average 20 years sooner than white Australians. That's a shameful thing.
I've been asked why I'm not proud of my country. Stuff like this is a good example. John Dubya Howard just doesn't give a fuck about anyone who isn't a wealthy freemason.
PORNOGRAPHY should be banned from remote Aboriginal communities,according to an academic.
Judy Atkinson, director of the College of Indigenous Australian Peoples at Southern Cross University in NSW, said pornography was fuelling the problem of sexual assault in remote communities.
"There is a difference between a middle class couple in Canberra watching this and a group of young boys in some remote community in the NT, who have no real access to education, no access to the real world, and think that's the way that Western people behave," Dr Atkinson said yesterday.
And of course, the darkies aren't sophisticated enough to understand things if they're explained to them. Academics are silly sometimes.
A) How do you enforce such a ban? By intruding on the lives of aboriginal Australians even more?
B) Give them real access to education, health-care, the chance of a job and a future. 80% of the juveniles in gaol in WA are aboriginal -- a group who are 3% of the population.
C) The Howard Junta are treating symptoms rather than causes. Yes, there are disheartening amounts of sexual violence, drunkenness, drug abuse and other crimes in aboriginal communities. No, gaoling everyone isn't a cure. Aboriginal Australians die on average 20 years sooner than white Australians. That's a shameful thing.
I've been asked why I'm not proud of my country. Stuff like this is a good example. John Dubya Howard just doesn't give a fuck about anyone who isn't a wealthy freemason.
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