OPINION
For all their blatherskite about “truth-telling”, the troughers of the Aboriginal industry persistently peddle one of the biggest, most damaging lies about Aboriginal culture. This is the lie that traditional Aboriginal culture was a peaceful, agrarian utopia. The appalling violence of contemporary Aboriginal society, when they even admit to it, we’re supposed to believe is a “post-Colonial construct”.
This is a damnable, appalling lie. Because, denying the truth condemns Aboriginal culture to a persistent cycle of violence. The first step to fixing a problem is, after all, admitting that it exists.
The evidence from both historical accounts and archaeology is clear: traditional Aboriginal was shockingly violent — like all pre-modern cultures. That violence persists today, especially in remote communities, where tribal hatreds see settlements and towns regularly ripped apart by feuding clans armed with axes, spears and clubs.
Outside authorities venture in at their peril. There are too many incidences of teachers and nurses in remote communities being attacked, raped and murdered. Remote community staff have to have escape rooms built into their housing. Police trying to intervene are greeted with showers of rocks and bottles.
And then Aborigines complain that nurses, teachers and police won’t go there.
The policing of the remote APY Lands of South Australia has been labelled “absolutely appalling” by community leaders after alcohol-fuelled violence erupted between rival families on the weekend and the police “were nowhere to be found”.
“If police don’t start putting on proper services into these communities then someone is going to get killed,” said Richard King, chief executive of the Apy Lands Council.
So, it’s not, “If our people don’t stop going each other with axes and spears”. Instead, it’s all the white gubbas’ fault for not stopping tribal goons hacking each other to death.
Why would anyone in their right minds “put on proper services” in these violent hell-holes?
Teachers and other government workers in the Indigenous community of Mimili were removed for their safety over the weekend after violent clashes between rival families.
Other government staff were removed from Kaltjiti.
“Following unrest in the Mimili community late last week, the Department for Education decided to bring forward the end of the school term at Mimili Anangu School,” a spokeswoman said.
In other words, they cleared out for their own safety. Staff, including the principal, fled to Adelaide and “have been provided with a range of support”.
Trauma counselling, they mean.
Mr King said a violent confrontation between the feuding families – a feud which goes back many years – “happened around the school grounds and around the (teacher’s) houses on the weekend, fuelled by alcohol”.
People armed with clubs and axes were facing off against each other and the young, mainly female teachers barricaded inside their caged houses were terrified.
“Police phones were just off and they were nowhere to be found; that’s not a police service,” Mr King, who is Indigenous, said.
“This is what we mean when we say we want equal and fair treatment.”
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“Equal and fair treatment” would see these thugs hauled off to jail — and then watch the taxpayer-funded “Aboriginal legal services” and other NGOs, and the city-based media, screech their heads off.
Police know exactly what will happen if they do show up: bottles and rocks will rain down on them. If they try and arrest perpetrators, they’ll be attacked with axes — and if they have the temerity to justifiably resort to force to defend themselves, they’ll be hauled before a tribunal, as well as subjected to a trial-by-media, and their careers will be over.
Because it’s all the whitefellas fault, of course. It always is.
It’s never the fault of the magic Aborigines.