Opinion
Whenever Australians have to endure the dreary virtue signals of “Welcome to Country”, it’s highly likely that those waxing solemn about the so-called “world’s oldest living culture” have never had any real exposure to the culture they’re fawning over. Or, indeed, experienced anything other than some fatuous, pasty twat in a possum-skin cloak rabbiting on about “country”.
They’ve almost certainly never been to a remote community, or anywhere closer to Outback Australia than a ridiculously expensive glamping holiday a couple of hour’s drive from Sydney or Melbourne.
The grim reality of traditional Aboriginal life would certainly be an eye-opener for the prats shrieking, “Always was, always will be”. Whether it’s the horror of “promising” barely-pubescent girls to middle-aged men — and beating, even killing, them if they refuse. Not to mention “preparing” them for their “promise husband” by… well, let’s just say that it involves older women wrapping grasses around their fingers.
Then there’s the violence. Both archaeological and historical evidence testify that traditional Aboriginal culture was exceedingly violent.
It still is.
An armed attack last week on a remote Northern Territory community that sent terrified residents fleeing from shotgun blasts and left homes torched has sparked fears of retaliation and an all-out war between rival family groups.
Gotta love that “oldest living culture”.
The tiny community of Nauiyu on the Daly River, three hours south of Darwin, was attacked last week by up to 25 people armed with various weapons – including shotguns, axes and crossbows – who had driven into the community and set homes and vehicles alight, with locals describing the town, population 350, as a “war zone” […]
One stolen car was paraded through the community before being smashed into a home and set on fire, an eight-month-old baby apparently inside, although it had safely escaped when police arrived.
Police say four people attended the local clinic to have pellets removed from their skin. Another man was pictured with an arrow piercing his abdomen and protruding from his back.
Yet another video shows a group of five girls in their teens and early 20s smashing down a door and savagely beating a woman with their fists.
She falls to the floor, defenceless, while they continue to stomp and beat her. Locals say the victim had made comments online about a deceased male.
The technology may be new, but the culture hasn’t changed from the palaeolithic tribalism it’s been mired in for 40,000 years. Payback, violence, endemic warfare between rival clans — all this was part and parcel of Aboriginal culture for tens of thousands of years. These days, city-based “progressives” only ever see the sanitised, modern guff of the made-up “Welcome to Country”, and a handful of “Indigenous” performers scarfing up a lazy ten grand or more for putting on a bit of body paint and wobbling through a “traditional” ceremony before an AFL game.
The reality would shock them.
“There’s a war zone in Australia that no one knows about,” said one local, too scared to be identified. It is a commonly used term in the NT, but it had greater resonance last week, with the community at breaking point and bracing for the violence to return.
Elder Mark Casey, the oldest living Indigenous man in the area, said what happened on Tuesday last week first started after a dispute over a local footy grand final several years ago, with social media exacerbating tensions.
“They kept on fighting, it just escalated to what it is now, and now we’re here,” he said.
The Australian
They’ve been fighting for tens of thousands of years. As the memoirs of William Buckley, Watkin Tench, and other “first contact” Europeans make clear, violence was a near-constant in pre-European Australia.
So, relax: it’s just the “world’s oldest living culture” doing its thing. It’s traditional, after all.