To paraphrase Lucy Lawless’s appearance on The Simpsons, whenever you see something bad happen to an Aborigine, the white man did it. Even when an Aboriginal man in an Aboriginal town camp enters an Aboriginal house, while the Aboriginal parents are whooping it up on the booze and abducts and murders an Aboriginal child – white man did it!
One of the Northern Territory’s highest-profile female Aboriginal leaders has told a parliamentary inquiry into racism against indigenous Australians the nation failed the five-year-old Warlpiri girl known in death as Kumanjayi Little Baby and her mother.
Isn’t it funny how the left-media who spent years bellowing ‘say her name!’, suddenly can’t say the name of a murdered little girl. Because, y’know, ‘culture’. ‘Kumanjayi Little Baby’ is an insult. It’s ‘Jane Doe’ in blackface.
But I’m sure that’s all the whitefulla’s fault, too.
In brief and sharp remarks on Friday, Central Land Council deputy chair Barbara Shaw ensured the federal inquiry into “racism, hate and violence directed at Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people” does not forget that a litany of service providers and government agencies knew for years that Kumanjayi Little Baby and her mother were living in dire circumstances.
“The system actually failed her (Kumanjayi Little Baby) as an Aboriginal person in this country and as a victim,” Ms Shaw said.
And which ‘system’ would that be? Perhaps the Central Land Council, which rakes in tens of millions of (white) taxpayers’ dollars every year, while families like the Granites drink themselves into a violent stupor in Third World encampments. The system, maybe, which pays Barbara Shaw an undisclosed salary, likely to be between $60,000 to $140,000 pa, to sit in an air-conditioned office while Aboriginal women and children live in shocking squalor?
Ms Shaw, a former co-ordinator of the Tangentyere Women’s Family Safety Program targeting family violence in Alice Springs town camps, did not say in her testimony that mother and daughter had lived with family violence (the little girl as a witness and the mother as a victim).
Funny about that. Because admitting that Aboriginal families are disproportionately plagued by the most grotesque violence kind of makes it a bit hard to maintain the white man did it! narrative.
Far easier to just whine endlessly about raaaaayyyccism!
Almost every witness at public hearings has spoken about racism on social media platforms. Some said young Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people were most affected by the large volumes of derision and malice towards First Nations people.
Others have told the inquiry the racism on social media had ramped up since the defeat of the voice referendum in 2023.
Notably, it wasn’t some meany-mean white person on X who abducted and murdered Sharon Granites, though, was it? Did a single person decide that, ‘Hey, we won the referendum! I’m gonna celebrate by murdering an Aboriginal toddler’?
At the Alice Springs hearing on Friday, one of Kumanjayi Little Baby’s grandfathers gave evidence about the poor state of remote communities. Robin Granites had previously given media interviews, including to the Australian, that town camps like Old Timers, where Kumanjayi Little Baby was last seen, were not safe for children.
Because of…? Social media posts? Or violent Aboriginal people?
Mr Granites told the inquiry that Aboriginal people from remote communities came to Alice Springs because they were “bored”.
“They all come into town to play their poker machines,” Mr Granites told the inquiry.
No doubt the white man forces them to do that, too.
Mr Granites told the inquiry that he believed education was the answer to many of the problems facing remote communities. If children got a good education, remote communities would thrive, he said.
There’s nothing stopping Aboriginal children getting a good education, if they want it. The Australian taxpayer pours endless money into building schools in remote communities. It’s just that they don’t turn up and their parents don’t make them turn up – and teachers end up fleeing because they’re sick of having to hide in their panic rooms every night if they don’t want to get raped and murdered.
Other witnesses have told the inquiry that underfunding of remote communities was driving Aboriginal people into towns, even though there was not enough housing for them there either.
The Australian taxpayer pours $40 billion a year into ‘Aboriginal affairs’. Four times more than gets spent on any other group.
If remote communities are ‘underfunded’, then it’s because someone’s pocketing a great deal of it.
