The Lucky Country

I am an expatriate New Zealander living in Australia. I fully intend to get my citizenship this year and Ive been here 20 years so I feel Australian, and like many others this wonderful country opened its arms to me and gave me a new and happier life.

It is apparent however, that there is a certain sector of our society who do not feel happy to be living in Australia. I refer to our Indigenous brothers. Over the last few decades, the righteous Aboriginal cause has seemed to be overtaken and steered by self-declared leaders who appear whiter than me. Millions upon millions of tax payers dollars have evaporated, said leaders driving around in Mercedes Benz while their needy brothers still have the lowest life expectancy in the Western world.

We now face an even more negative situation than ever before in regards to Indigenous Communities. Recently our government staged an intervention in many Aboriginal communities in response to revelations of mass child abuse and general lawlessness. I am talking HORRIFIC levels of abuse, with children being gang-banged repeatedly, often with the parents co-operation and approval. . A 13 year old was raped repeatedly in her parents home, infected with 3 STDs, and impregnated. The baby did not survive.

The perpetrator of this crime received a 6 month sentence, due to the fact that the child was promised to him by her parents and in their eyes, no crime occured. A 10 year old's mother was passed out in another room while she was repeatedly raped by a gang of 7 men and youths. None received jail time, largely because no-one requested it. The White Australian courts simply have no idea how to deal effectively with a group of people who have alcoholism, drug abuse, child rape and violence so deeply sewn through their culture.

We have just had a Sorry Day where the Australian Government officially apologised to the Aboriginal children removed from their families generations ago. Ironically, many of these removed children grew up to be hard working, cultured and educated spokespeople, while the children who remained with their parents are mainly long dead from lifestyle related causes.

Now we have a no-win situation; children being horrifically abused yet remaining with their communities, for fear of a future Stolen Generation backlash. Most right-thinking people would find this absolutely aborrhent. The question remains - how do you reconcile with a race of people who seem so contemptuous of helping themselves or the weakest amongst them? Should we even be remorseful for removing children who are being abused or neglected? The system would remove a white child in a heartbeat and subjected the abusers to the full weight of the law. And most mystifyingly, the Aboriginal Leaders remain mute on this subject, concentrating instead on planning legal action to secure financial reparations for the first Stolen Generation.

Suffer the little children....