It’s dizzying, trying to keep up with the left’s spin and turn-abouts. One minute, they’re furiously silence anyone who tries to talk about appalling domestic violence in Aboriginal communities, the next, they’re wringing their hankies that no one told them about appalling domestic violence in Aboriginal communities – before they go right back to silencing anyone who tries to tell them about it.
In a week when the Australian left pretended to be shocked to learn about something they’ve been ignoring for years, ABC luvvie and professional victim Stan “The Tan” Grant is busily perpetuating the culture of silence from Aboriginal “big men”.
Conservative broadcaster Alan Jones was shut down on the ABC’s Q&A program when he raised the issue of violence against Aboriginal women.
Jones, who was Sydney’s breakfast radio king for more than three decades, noted Indigenous Northern Territory Country Liberals senator Jacinta Price’s campaign to highlight the high rates of domestic violence in remote Aboriginal communities.
“What do you do about the violence, the appalling violence, towards women in the Northern Territory? No action’s been taken about it,” he said.
This was just weeks before the ABC ran a high profile piece, claiming that the horrific violence against Aboriginal women was “hidden in plain sight”.
The ABC is guilty of the very injustice it complains about.
[Jones] used his Thursday night guest appearance on the left-leaning ABC panel show to suggest Senator Price’s accounts of domestic violence were ignored.
“Jacinta Price came to Canberra last year with horrific revelations about what was going on in the Northern Territory,” he said.
“No one, no one has opened their mouth to support her and nothing has been done.”
You’ll never guess what happened next.
Jones then asked Ben Abbatangelo, an Indigenous writer and a former Melbourne Stars Twenty20 Big Bash League cricket player for a response.
When he stayed silent, Q&A host Stan Grant, who is also Indigenous, shut down the discussion.
From there, they pivoted to the ABC left’s favourite tactic when silencing inconvenient facts doesn’t work: play the race card.
Abbatangelo had also told the panel program that Indigenous players should boycott the AFL, following racism accusations against Hawthorn coaches in Melbourne.
The anonymous “accusations”, it should be noted, come from less than a handful of people and have shown nothing to substantiate them.
When all else fails, blame whitey.
Abbatangelo argued a racist system still existed […] “I learnt not to shy away from looking white supremacy in the eye and that is the reason why I came here tonight.”
What “racist system” is he talking about? A system designed to prevent violence against Aboriginal women – a system Aboriginal women have asked for?
The Q&A program on Thursday night also discussed the end of the compulsory cashless debit card […] But a voluntary system is remaining in those areas, along with Doomadgee in Queensland, the Northern Territory and Cape York.
The system remains, regardless of government policy, because bashed Aboriginal women want it to stay, with good reason.
[Senator Price] the survivor of domestic violence favours keeping the cashless debit card […]
Senator Bridget McKenzie, the leader of the Nationals in the Senate who sat next to Senator Price during her maiden speech, argued a cashless welfare card was needed to stamp out alcohol-fuelled domestic violence by preventing government benefits from being spent on grog.
“For many, many women, this card allowed them to feed their families, make sure their children got the basics into the household without the coercive control and the cash being used for other means,” she said.
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But, as we saw when a delegation travelled to Canberra last year, the voices of Aboriginal women are of no interest to the media and political left – and especially not to the Aboriginal men who seem determined to shut down anyone who tries to talk about violence against Aboriginal women.