OPINION
They couldn’t do it. They just couldn’t control themselves.
Despite vowing to maintain a “week of silence” after last Saturday’s referendum, the troughers of the Aboriginal Industry are right back at it, screeching, howling and tantrum-throwing.
What set them off?
A call for a royal commission into child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities.
A joint statement issued by the alliance – which includes the Coalition of Peaks, Reconciliation Australia, the National Aboriginal Community Controlled Health Organisation and Professor Marcia Langton – warned the Coalition the safety of children “should not be politicised or used as a platform to advance a political position.”
Kind of rich, considering they’ve spent most of the past year hectoring us to “think of the children!” when we voted last weekend.
But, apparently, nothing upsets an “Indigenous activist” more than a call to investigate why Aboriginal children are subject to such appalling abuse in their communities.
Anthony Albanese on Thursday rejected a push by Peter Dutton and his Indigenous Australians spokeswoman Jacinta Price for the government to support a royal commission and an audit into Indigenous spending programs in the parliament.
There’s a lot to hide, it seems.
And while Albo’s all over “the vibe”, with his failed “Voice”, when it comes to actually doing anything, he’s not just nowhere to be seen, he’s furiously opposed.
The Opposition Leader, attempting to suspend standing orders, argued that Australians had voted on Saturday for a new way forward and the public was “demanding action” but were “not getting it because this Prime Minister is weak (and) indecisive”.
“It is absolutely unbelievable that this government would reject now, yet again – by not even taking this motion to discuss it before the parliament – the prospect of finding a pathway forward to helping young Indigenous kids in communities like in Alice Springs, like in Tennant Creek and elsewhere – these are the most vulnerable of children in the country,” he said.
Mr Dutton said Indigenous children risked a lifetime of mental scarring because of physical abuse and “police need to act on it, and the agencies in the Northern Territory need to act, and the fact is that they are being hamstrung by the authorities in the Northern Territory to the shame of the Chief Minister”.
The revolting Greens and Teals, not satisfied with disgracing themselves by cheering on the bloodsoaked, anti-Semitic baby killers of Hamas, are now siding with the baby-rapers of the Outback.
The push for a suspension was defeated by 81 votes to 52, with all four Greens and four teal MPs – Kylea Tink, Zoe Daniel, Kate Chaney and Monique Ryan – voting with the government.
Speaking in question time, Mr Albanese said every member of parliament should find child sexual abuse “abhorrent”, and noted that it did not occur in “just one group” or in one place.
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Nobody said it did. But it occurs at appallingly higher rates in just one group.
We had a royal commission into child sexual abuse in institutions.
But apparently, Aboriginal communities are beyond the reach of investigation.
Which begs the question: why?
What, as Nyunggai Warren Mundine asks, have they got to hide?