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Wednesday, January 28, 2026

Links - 28th January 2026 (2 - Indigenous Peoples: Australia)

Drew Pavlou πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ό on X - "An Australian police officer has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing death after an Indigenous teen, riding a stolen motorbike, collided with the officer’s parked vehicle. Benedict Bryant established a roadblock which the Crown argued made it impossible for the teen to manoeuvre around."

Caldron Pool on X - "A New South Wales police officer has been found guilty of dangerous driving causing death after an Indigenous teen, riding a stolen motorbike, collided with the officer’s parked vehicle."
Mickamious on X - "Aboriginal Kid steals a motorbike... Police block the road to try prevent further risk to the public. Aboriginal Kid hits the parked Police Vehicle. Police Officer is guilty of dangerous driving cause death.. Onus was on the Aboriginal Teen - He broke the law."
Just_Krystle_M on X - "This is EXACTLY what lead to Gargasoulas killing people in Bourke St. (Police had opportunity to take him out earlier & didn't out of fear of criticism). When you tie the hands of police under threat of criminal charges for doing their job (stopping dangerous/reckless drivers)πŸ‘‡"

Venom Rach ☧ on X - ">police office wasn't driving
>still convicted of dangerous driving causing death because a dumb teen of the right skin colour was too dumb to stop on seeing a road block established to stop dumb teens from driving recklessly"
Convicted of dangerous driving when the car is stationary and parked. But it's racist to enforce the law against indigenous people, so

Oksanna Zoschenko on X - "That story is analogous to someone discharging a firearm at a police officer, the gun misfiring, killing the shooter, & the police officer being charged with murder. No wonder police won’t respond to some crimes against the person, all depending on the identity of the offender."

GP on X - "There’s something seriously wrong with this fucked up country. Trying to strip the life of a man who served, instead of a piece of shit who killed themselves while breaking the law. They’d honestly rather an innocent bystander was killed. That’s the better result in their eyes."

Caldron Pool on X - "Criminals injure themselves (and others) avoiding arrest all the time. If the police are now held responsible for the criminal actions of those evading police, we’ll end up with a police force that is only willing to arrest those who voluntarily surrender!"

Andrew A. Hennessy 🍞 on X - "Aboriginal Aussies are 3% of the population but account for 20% of all murder victims.  80% of those Aboriginal murder victims are killed by Aboriginal offenders, mostly family members or partners.  There's much more currency in focusing on White perpetrators than admitting the biggest danger to Aboriginal people are other Aboriginal people. And that why I simply don't care anymore."
Tom Playford on X - "It's hard to care when the blame for the plight of the indigenous is constantly placed on the "colonists" (as Senator Thorpe would call them). When in reality the problems just don't seem to go away no matter how much money is thrown at them."
Andrew A. Hennessy 🍞 on X - "Much as DV, the money being thrown around is the goal. There's next to no interest in solving any other issue than maintaining and expanding the industry."
Tom Playford on X - "I know, right? Marcia Langton got close to the truth about ten years ago when she said the Greens preferred their indigenous drunk and helpless (words to the effect). No interest in solving the actual problem because its all too hard. Sad for the women and children who suffer."

Tom Playford on X - "Why did police command make the decision to not try and stop a speeding teenager on a stolen motorbike - where is the duty of care to the law-abiding public going about their business who were at risk of death from colliding with him?"

RAW EGG NATIONALIST on X - "We all know why decisions like this happen. For the same reason as officers get railroaded out of the armed forces for “misogyny” or “offensive” text messages in a private Whatsapp group. This is a convenient way to purge law-enforcement and the military of their traditional demographics—patriotic white men—so these organisations can be reforged and politicised in line with left-wing rule."

Gray Connolly on X - "Australians following the Minnesota day care fraud and then suddenly remembering the NDIS .... which is closing in on annual Defence spending #Auspol"
Andrew A. Hennessy 🍞 on X - "The NDIS is an obvious fraud centrepiece, but we're forgetting the elephant in the room.  Each year, Australia spends around $10-12 billion on Indigenous-specific programs alone, that's cash targeted just for indigenous people. With a total population of just under 1 million people, that's an insane amount per head.  Yet remote communities still look like third-world camps, violence stats are off the charts (most victims killed by their own mob), and "Closing the Gap" remains a annual TikTok performance.  But keep throwing billions at consultants, NGOs, and feel-good initiatives because acknowledging the real problems would mean admitting decades of this gravy train achieved sweet FA.  The Elephant's not just in the room, it's crushing the furniture and no one's allowed to notice."
Clearly, they didn't spend enough money

katy 🌸 on X - "Monash University now offers Aboriginal staff three days of paid "colonial load leave" annually to cope with the ongoing impacts of colonisation. These people are getting compensation for events that occurred in 1770! Melbourne is the wokest, most idiotic city! No wonder people are fleeing!"

Drew Pavlou πŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡ΈπŸ‡ΊπŸ‡¦πŸ‡ΉπŸ‡Ό on X - "The left wing government of Australia argues that the foundation of Australia was morally illegitimate and that the country rests on “Stolen Land.”  Senior Labor politicians like the Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan openly argue that Australia is a “nation of foreigners” - that there is no such thing as an Australian people, an Australian culture, or Australian nationhood.  The Labor Premier of South Australia Peter Malinauskas recently argued that Australian culture would be boring and terrible without multiculturalism, because the original people who built the nation are boring and have terrible food, music, culture.  Labor Foreign Minister Penny Wong argued in the Australian Senate that Australia was too white when she was growing up, because her and her brother were the only people with Asian ancestry at her public school.   Labor politicians seem to really dislike the British-European majority of Australia. They constantly attempt to delegitimise their history and ties to Australia and portray their culture as boring, backwards and stagnant.   To this end they have embarked on a massive program of mass migration, the largest in our national history. 10% of the Australian population now reside on temporary visas and the Labor plan appears to be that they want to give out citizenship to as many of them as possible so that they can vote and lock in further support for large scale mass migration.  On current demographic trajectories, European Australians will become a minority group within the next 15-20 years."

TheRoadknight on X - "Another child's life sacrificed.  This is why I am incandescent with rage when people say removing an Aboriginal child from danger is 'stealing' them. It leads to a reluctance to protect the child by removing them.  This poor child was removed at 4 months old, returned around six years later and strangled to death at 8 years old.  Note this fcken language: "...in "cruel irony" had only been returned to his mother 18 months prior to his death."  "Cruel irony"? How bloody dare you. It was sheer incompetence. This child was sacrificed on the altar of political correctness.  Arrest and charge everyone involved.  "The court heard Goltz had used drugs since her teens, smoked cannabis regularly and was a low-grade criminal who was on probation at the time she killed her son."  A person on probation with that history deserves her child back??  This is particularly heartbreaking:  "A victim impact statement from Zion's former foster mother, Beverly Mason, was read to the court by the prosecution.  "She said Zion was born prematurely at 25 weeks gestation because of drug and alcohol abuse during Goltz's pregnancy.  "He was on oxygen fighting for his breath," Ms Mason said.  "I find it very hard to comprehend that for the last part of his life he was made to fight for his breath again."  Name those responsible for returning him. They all have blood on their hands.  Every time, every time someone says 'stolen', say his name: Zion. And look him in the eyes.  #RescuedNotStolen  https://abc.net.au/news/2025-12-0"

Joey Mate™️ πŸ‡¦πŸ‡Ί πŸ‡³πŸ‡± on X - "IT WAS NEVER JUST ABOUT AN APOLOGY….IT WAS ALWAYS ABOUT THE MONEY…..YOUR MONEY…..
Per Shannon Deery:  “Two Indigenous groups have recently been awarded about $100m in settlement packages.  The Allan government fought to keep ministerial briefings secret from MPs voting on a Treaty — originally prepared for former premier Dan Andrews — supercharging reparations to Indigenous Victorians.  Secret ministerial briefings hidden from MPs voting on the Treaty reveals that Indigenous Victorians will be able to seek supercharged reparations through the contentious new body.  The briefing prepared for Daniel Andrews — which the Allan government fought to keep hidden until after the Treaty legislation was passed in parliament just weeks ago — also reveals two Indigenous groups have recently been awarded an estimated $100m in settlement packages.  On Tuesday, Jacinta Allan will make another formal apology to Indigenous Victorians for laws, policies and practices that contributed to injustices against them.”  VIC LIEBOR HATES VICTORIA AND VICTORIANS ……  Sack that fucking bitch….."

Australian Greens (Parody) on X - "This is Dr. Lara Daley from the University of Newcastle. Her latest project, funded by taxpayers at over half a million dollars, is to design Aboriginal smoking ceremonies and Welcome to Country rituals for astronauts to perform on Mars. Yes, really.  Australia is slowly becoming a failing state. We can't staff our hospitals or pay our nurses, and our regional roads look like the surface of the moon. Yet, we've somehow found $528,491 to spend on making sure the first human on Mars feels guilty for landing on a barren rock. This is where your money goes.  No joke. 2 days ago the Australian Research Council awarded Dr. Lara Daley this insane figure for "Embedding Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander knowledge in Australian space policy." The goal is to insert specific indigenous kinship and "sky country" concepts into protocols for planetary landings and asteroid mining to avoid "colonial harms" in space.  So remember this. While you struggle with soaring energy bills and the elderly skip meals, your taxes are ensuring that the first boot on Mars will kneel in the dust to ask permission from nothing. This is what you voted for. This is your future."

ADVANCE on X - "This is absolutely real. You’re paying for “culturally respectful space exploration” … “to broaden Australia’s understanding of space by recognising long-held Indigenous knowledge systems and their relevance to sustainable human activity beyond Earth”."

DNA analysis suggests first Australians arrived about 60,000 years ago
TheRoadknight on X - "So, those antecedents of Aborigines who remained in the Philippines and Sulawesi, as well as those who remained in Africa are, by pure logic, older. As such, Australian Aborigines are not 'the oldest continuous living culture in the world', since the branch of the tree cannot be older than the tree itself."
Time to censor this for anti-aboriginal racism

Street cleaner breaks his silence after being sacked for objecting to an Acknowledgment of Country - "A street sweeper who won an unfair dismissal claim after he was fired for objecting to an Acknowledgment of Country has broken his silence. Melbourne man Shaun Turner, 60, was sacked from his role as a street sweeper for Darebin City Council in June 2024 after he questioned the ceremony at a toolbox meeting. The council worker, whose father served in World War II, told the meeting: 'If you need to be thanking anyone, it's the people who have worn the uniform and fought for our country to keep us free.' 'It's getting out of hand and people are losing it, it is now being done at the opening of a postage stamp.' Council officers investigated Mr Turner's alleged 'serious misconduct' but the father-of-three doubled down and he was let go. 'As far as I know half of us are born here, I don't need to be welcomed to my own country. If people don't want to be there, they can leave,' Mr Turner told the officers. Mr Turner also told officers that Acknowledgement of Country should be reserved for more formal or international occasions. The Fair Work Commission upheld his unfair dismissal claim, with Mr Turner believing his legal win resonated with the 'silent majority' of people in Australia. Mr Turner, who voted Liberal at the recent election, said 'of course' the country had become too politically correct. 'I just feel like if you were a pale, stale male you can't go to work now and have a laugh,' Mr Turner told The Australian... He added the workplace was being overrun by 'programmed robots', with everyone having to be careful with what they say... 'When it comes to this, the first thing that happens is you are labelled racist. I may not like a lot of people but I have no problem with Aboriginal people,' Mr Turner said. 'I played football, I was brought up with people of all races in Broadmeadows. Some you get on with, some you don't. The easy thing to throw around these days if you can't win an argument is to call someone racist.' Mr Turner believes Acknowledgement of Country is unsuitable for small meetings and should rather be reserved for large events attended by international visitors. Before Mr Turner was dismissed, he attended another meeting with Council Chief of People Officer Yvette Fuller. Ms Fuller informed Mr Turner that there was a firm expectation for an Acknowledgment of Country to precede all formal meetings... Council said the use of the word 'displayed contempt to the council's Indigenous employees and community'. But Mr Clancy disagreed with the council's assessment. 'That Mr Turner holds a different point of view when it comes to Acknowledgements of Country does not, of itself, make him contemptuous of the Respondents.' Mr Clancy noted that both Ms Fuller and Elizabeth Skinner, who was the city works manager at the time, were sufficiently concerned by Mr Turner's conduct that they each contacted his Indigenous support person after the meeting to offer an apology. However, during the Fair Work proceedings, there was no evidence given to show the support person felt offended."
If you don't have Opening Prayers, God will strike you down. Blasphemy against liberal secular religion is heavily punished

Meme - The opinionated Black woman ~ Aunty @Theblackfemini3: "Gosford Hospital NSW.   This is so shameful.   It's very embarrassing, and I'm sure a lot of other black fullas reading this will feel the same way, too.   Some virtue signaling halfwit decided it was a great idea to put up language signs to the resus bays and the ER.   We had no words for resuscitation or emergency, so the virtue signalers decided that it was a good idea to degrade today's  aboriginal people using very basic English, lowering usand our comprehension skills to that of a 5 year old.   That's not even my language, so if the English wasn't there, I wouldn't know what it means.   I speak limited tongue anyway."
"Emergency Department Resuscitation Bays. Mana Galuring Balga. Bring back"
"Emergency Department Acute Pod A & B. Badjal Burung. Sick cave"

NSW will remove 65,000 years of Aboriginal history from its syllabus. It’s a step backwards for education : r/circlejerkaustralia - "It’s around 40-45k years tops.  The 65k years is deeply flawed. Dating is likely incorrect and it contradicts dna evidence which suggests the ancient ancestors of aboriginal Australians were in Africa / Arabia at that time.  I think they want an older is better narrative and to move disassociate the peopling of this continent 40k years ago from the extinction of the megafauna (even though that’s exactly what happened in Nz when the Maori arrived)."
"Also, modern humans have not been evenly spread across all of Australia for the entire 40,000 to 45,000 years. The pattern of migration varies significantly. Evidence suggests that humans arrived in northern Australia first given its proximity from Southeast Asia.  Compared to regions like Victoria, humans likely arrived there much later. The southern parts of Australia, were less hospitable for significant periods due to glacial conditions, which would have made nomadic life impossible. Estimates suggest that continuous human occupation in Victoria could date back to only 15,000 to 30,000 years, significantly shorter than the north.  This uneven distribution of early human presence adds another layer of complexity to the idea of an uninterrupted 65,000 - 100,000 years of occupation across the entire continent. In reality, different regions were populated at different times, there's even large regions of this continent that never has any habitation at all."
"Mate are you suggesting that the current Aboriginals were also colonisers?  That's heresy."
"There’s also strong evidence that Australia was populated by other hominids, potentially Denisovans, prior to the arrival of aboriginals.  Bruce’s book has been shown to be a work of fiction, and many claims in it lack any form of evidence. I’m extremely surprised was still being used in schools."
"I know why they do it, but it’s incredible how much effort people go to in making sure aboriginals seem completely faultless and idyllic. No no, the megafauna just did that. What? No, the tribes never had brutal conflicts . What do you mean? The north half of Australia was always desertified grassland, nothing to do with repeated intense burning of jungle and bushland."
"No, no they never killed their own babies!"
"Tourist on this sub, this is how our North American indigenous population has been largely taught about for at least 30 years, and the funny thing is our textbooks actually did make note of sometimes exceptionally brutal conflicts between tribes, disruption to other species due to overhunting, and also somewhat of their technical achievements. They very much were  working some softer metals like copper in some regions of NA. Yet our history lessons themselves skipped those pages, and instead portrayed them as perennial victims and, oddly, kind of incapable of managing themselves. By simplifying the ugly and turning them into magical people who were some how perfectly in balance with nature, they remove their humanity. Sure a lot of people love the "absolute victim", but it's an insult to their history and accomplishments. And now they are sad alcoholics and society tells us that's just how it is (which again robs them of their agency)."

Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "It’s always baffled me how articles like this and activists talk in a way that implies the people are just being randomly locked up for 0 reason, when Infact it’s because they’ve committed crimes. If they just simply stopped committing crimes, they wouldn’t be locked up?  Am I missing something here?"
Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "You’re kidding right? Most former convicts came to the country as convicts. Struggling with many of the same issues of survival.  Your wokeism and blame gaming won’t work."
Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "Because they refuse to integrate into society as a useful me.ber. instead it's monkey see monkey do gangsta wannabe shit.  They have had the rhetoric of this is our land shit drummed into them and they owe YOU everything. They are the invaders.....you know what heres reality for you  Colonists came, they had the bigger stick and conquered. FUCKING DEAL WITH IT. Don't like it fuck off across the pond to a uninhabited island and live there. Oh wait you can't because you rely on Western medicines, clothes, food, housing pretty much everything that comes with moving forward. See how long you survive without anything we "invaders" provide including money.  Alas youths are not first nation even the generation before isn't. I am first generation Australian but I have to work my ass off to be able to get stuff these people get for free.  I'm not racist I hate everyone equally and I believe nothing gets handed to you in life. Do wrong live with the consequences."
Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "Giving a bunch of people money and housing (which the government pays for when they smash it up) with no expectations and requirements to join society or the workforce. And zero audits on where all the royalties go. No wonder things are getting out of hand, would have happened regardless if they were black or white.  The only way to stop this vicious circle is to start treating them like any other Australian."
Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "Taken into custody and released on the same day only to offend the following day. Rinse and repeat."
Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "Because funding that is intended to help those in remote communities gets taken by those out to help themselves and it’s racist to suggest an audit into the funding to find out where it’s going. Having worked in remote areas, very little funding makes its way through"

Each day, 41 Aboriginal people in the NT are being taken into custody. How did we get here? : r/australian - "We didn't listen to the Police. We didn't listen to the nurses complaining about indigenous sexual assault in alarming numbers.  We didn't listen to the Indigenous Elders that spoke in a non-pc way begging for help with the rampant alcoholism and SA happening in remote communities.  Instead, we just threw insane amounts of money into think tanks and into academics pockets who live in inner city suburbs on the east coast.  To quote Flanders dad, "We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas""
"Remember when Dutton went to Alice and said crime and abuse was getting out of hand and everyone on the left called him a liar?  Here are a couple of ABC articles condemning Dutton for his comments about crime increasing there.
Opposition Leader Peter Dutton says violence and crime still at crisis point in Alice Springs - ABC News
Peter Dutton's comments in Alice Springs show why so many Indigenous communities don't trust politicians - ABC News
The ABC didn't exactly do the people of Alice and NT any favours by downplaying the issue because they want to throw barbs at Dutton. Albo is now too afraid to go to Alice Springs on his recent trip to NT because he knows the reception he would get."

63 Indigenous heritage claims in backlog despite $18m in funding - "Forty-six applications under three key sections of the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Heritage Protection Act filed prior to 2025 have yet to be settled, according to records obtained by this masthead using freedom of information laws. Eight were first lodged with the Environment Department before 2020. Adding in applications made last year, unresolved matters under these sections stood at 63 on December 31, even though the 2024 federal budget gave $18 million “to reduce the backlog”. New applications in 2025 included objections to the Brisbane Olympic stadium and two raising the “threat of drilling exploration” at a remote South Australian tenement once owned by billionaire Clive Palmer... Regis Resources is currently challenging a 2024 decision by then minister Tanya Plibersek to accept evidence of a Blue Banded Bee Dreaming story, which halted the company’s already-approved NSW gold mine project. The Albanese government spokeswoman said it was important to protect culturally significant sites."

Meet Australian Aborigines–They Make African Americans Look Like A Model Minority - "When Cook and his men landed in Australia in 1770 and met the Aborigines they couldn’t believe what they were confronted with. They recorded that they were “savages,” “barbaric” and even “stupid”.” And this wasn’t just casual racism. They knew the people of Hawaii well and, though they regarded them as childlike, perceived them in much more positive terms... Despite the Aborigines sometimes being referred to as “blacks,” only Amerindians (“Native Americans”) are more genetically different from Africans than the Australian Aborigines.” [Which population is most genetically distant from Africans? Amerindians, By Razib Khan, GNXP (Discover Magazine) August 19, 2010. Indeed, whites are actually closer genetically to Aborigines, although still very remote. And, paradoxically, African pygmies and Bushmen are genetically the most different from Aborigines, although occupying a similar hunter-gatherer niche, a phenomenon observed elsewhere in nature.” [On Genetic Interests: Family, Ethnicity and Humanity in an Age of Mass Migration by Frank Salter, 2006, p. 68] Aborigines have do fascinating evolutionary quirks, such as the ability to survive extremes of temperature, sleeping naked out of doors below freezing.” Genetic mutation helps Aboriginal people survive tough climate, research finds By Caitlyn Gribbin, ABC, January 29 2014]. Although their environment is inhospitable, it is invariant—baking in the day and cold at night—and they’re strongly evolved to these extremes, so little planning is necessary. But, consistent with the perception that the Aborigines weren’t very bright, we now know that at some point in their history they’d had sufficient ingenuity to be able to build relatively sturdy boats and make their way to the Torres Strait Islands, but by 1770, they had lost this knowledge. Indeed, the Australian archaeological record is replete with evidence of technological regression: some Aborigine tribes once farmed, some traded with Papua New Guineans, some tribes even “forgot” how to make the boomerang. [The curious case of the people who forgot how to fish, by Adam Benton, Evoanth.Net, April 15, 2014]... British psychologist Richard Lynn, in his seminal study of race differences in IQ, Race and Intelligence: An Evolutionary Analysis, brings together all of the available studies on the intelligence of modern Aborigines. They have an average IQ of 64, compared to about 70 for Sub-Saharan Africans, 85 for African Americans and 100 for whites... Like Native Americans, but unlike many African blacks, they never developed alcohol, leaving them strongly prone to alcoholism... while American Blacks are 12% of the US population and 38% of its prison population.“ Aborigines are 3% of the Australian population and, in 2009, 25% of its prison population.”... In the UK, it has been found that 4% of whites and 10% of blacks have mental health problems—particularly schizophrenia in the case of blacks.” It has been estimated that this is true of over 50% of Aborigines.”... Left in their own “Indigenous Protected Areas,” the living conditions of Australian Aborigines are extraordinarily poor, especially considering that, annually, $43,000 is spent on every Aborigine, compared to $21,000 dollars on everybody else.”... between 1910 and 1970, roughly a third of Aborigine children—those whose backgrounds were the most abusive—were removed from their parents and raised in foster homes, to give them some kind of chance. This worked in the sense that, placed in cities, the Aborigine income and standard of living was higher than that of those who were not removed. They had about the same educational success as the “non-removed”—but the non-removed would have been from more stable backgrounds in the first place. By the 1980s this paternalistic policy was being roundly condemned as removing these children, now known as “the Stolen Generation,” from “their cultural heritage”—ignoring the fact that this heritage seems to include physical abuse, alcoholism, and high infant mortality. By 1998 the virtue-signalling frenzy was such that Australia held a “National Sorry Day” for the victims. The authors of the 1997 Bringing Them Home report on this policy described what had happened as “genocide.”“... The Booker Prize-winning Australian novelist Peter Carey has stated that, as an Australian, ‘You wake up in the morning and you are the beneficiary of genocide.’” [Guardian November 17, 2017 ]. But in reality, it is the Aborigines who should wake up in the morning and realise that they are the beneficiaries of a society and economy that they could never have created on their own."

Speak not of the evil: Aboriginal violence then and now - "It is not polite to say that pre-contact Aboriginal society was abusive to women and generally violent. This would undercut the long-standing official view that current violence in Aboriginal communities reflects colonial dispossession and on-going victimhood. For example, a fact sheet from the federal government’s Closing the Gap Clearing House says that, as is typical for Indigenous populations elsewhere, Aboriginal disadvantage “is a consequence of the historical and continuing impact?of colonialism and dispossession, which has left many (Aboriginals) impoverished, marginalised, discriminated against, in a state of poor physical and mental health, and with inequitable access to necessary public and private services." Aboriginal lawyer Dr Hannah McGlade in “Our Greatest Challenge” similarly blames colonialism: “The linking of Aboriginal culture to family violence and child sexual assault diminishes the grave harm inflicted on Aboriginal people through colonialism…the way in which colonization systematically deprived Aboriginal people of basic human rights.” But feminist author Stephanie Jarrett, in her introduction to “Liberating Aboriginal People from Violence, says, “It is important to acknowledge [the"> link between today’s Aboriginal violence and violent, pre-contact tradition, because until policymakers are honest in their assessment of the causes, Aboriginal people can never be liberated from violence...Deep cultural change is necessary, away from traditional norms and practices of violence.” Bess Nungarrayi Price, in her foreword to Jarrett’s book, says, “My own body is scarred by domestic violence...We Aboriginal people have to acknowledge the truth. We can’t blame all of our problems on the white man...This is our problem that we can fix ourselves…”... Paleopathologist Stephen Webb in 1995 published his analysis of 4500 individuals’ bones from mainland Australia going back 50,000 years. (Priceless bone collections at the time were being officially handed over to Aboriginal communities for re-burial, which stopped follow-up studies).[15"> Webb found highly disproportionate rates of injuries and fractures to women’s skulls, with the injuries suggesting deliberate attack and often attacks from behind, perhaps in domestic squabbles. In the tropics, for example, female head-injury frequency was about 20-33%, versus 6.5-26% for males. The most extreme results were on the south coast, from Swanport and Adelaide, with female cranial trauma rates as high as 40-44% -- two to four times the rate of male cranial trauma. In desert and south coast areas, 5-6% of female skulls had three separate head injuries, and 11-12% had two injuries. Web could not rule out women-on-women attacks but thought them less probable."

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