Leftist protesters in Australia eagerly took to the streets of Australia’s capitals – in direct, yet unpunished, contravention of COVID-19 restrictions – to parrot their latest imported American ideology. Yet, even as the rent-a-crowds happily shook their little fists and bent their little knees in supplication to a foreign conspiracy theory, and vowed that “Black Lives Matter”, they apparently had scant concern for the black lives of Aboriginal women and children.
As both Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal women, from Jacinta and Bess Price to Kerry Anne Kennerley, have found, speaking out about the very real problems of violence and abuse of Aboriginal women and children is to invite a deluge of often racist abuse from the “Black Lives Matter” left.
The BLM enthusiasts are also keeping conspicuously silent about the latest shocking crime against the black life of an Aboriginal child.
A five-year-old boy has allegedly been gang raped by a group of children – all aged under 13 – on a remote beach in an Aboriginal community in Far North Queensland.
The attack unfolded at Napranum, on the north-west coast of Cape York in Queensland on July 1, police allege[…]
The alleged attack was so violent the five-year-old required emergency medical treatment and was airlifted to Cairns Hospital, some 800km away.
What is truly horrifying about this crime, though, is that it is frankly not that exceptional.
The nearby community of Aurukun is something of a Somalian failed state. Rivers of taxpayer money have been poured into the Cape York Partnership – labelled a “failed social experiment” by Federal MP Warren Entsch in 2016. It’s hard to find reason to disagree with Entsch’s assessment. Despite being the pet project of star Aboriginal activist Noel Pearson, even he likens the place to Afghanistan.
Hundreds of people brawled in the streets in January this year. The school has been closed and staff airlifted to safety after repeated carjackings and attacks by machete-wielding gangs of children.
Worst of all, though, is the shocking level of sexual violence, especially inflicted on children – and too often hidden behind the excuse of “culture” and “victimhood”.
Aurukun, about 40km south of Napranum, was at the centre of nationwide outrage in 2006 when a 10-year-old girl was gang raped by nine men aged between 13 and 25[…]
Although the men all pleaded guilty to a litany of sexual offences, the judge spared them jail time[…]
The alleged Napranum gang rape is the latest of a series of horrifying cases in remote Aboriginal communities.
A 27-year-old man was sentenced to 13 years in prison in March for raping a two-year-old girl in Tennant Creek in the Northern Territory while her mother was sleeping in a crime that shocked Australia.
Yet the response from Aboriginal officialdom is too often to try and keep the problem from public view. Former social justice commissioner Mick Gooda talks about “confidential briefings” on endemic child sexual abuse in Aboriginal communities that, he says, almost made him throw up – but that he is “not allowed to reveal details” of.
Why? What possible justification is there for keeping these horror stories secret? Apparently, to direct scrutiny away from Aboriginal communities. Yet:
In 2016, a Griffith University study headed by Professor Stephen Smallbone examined the prevalence of sexual abuse in Indigenous North Queensland communities.
It found sex crimes in Aurukun were occurring at a rate 6.6 times higher than the rest of Queensland, with the average age of victims just 14.
The report also revealed that sexually transmitted diseases were spreading at an alarming rate.
Syphilis infections were detected to be 56 times above the state average.
The report found 29 children younger than 10 had contracted the sexually transmitted disease.
Many Aboriginals have had enough. Women like Jacinta Namipijinpa Price rail against both the “racism of low expectations” of city-based activists and the “big men” using the excuses of culture and victimhood to cover up shocking abuse.
When will our nation’s leaders have the guts to uphold the human rights of Aboriginal children? When will they stop listening to protestors demanding to change a date? When will they stop listening to demands for a ‘Voice’ and ‘Recognition’ instead of treating Aboriginal children like Australian citizens and saving their lives?! What are they waiting for?
Far easier, I guess, to change a date than to change a culture of abuse.
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