Newsgroups: aus.politics
Subject: Aboriginal policies way out of line.
From: nunn@nutmeg.ntu.edu.au (JsNO  BAR---NUNN)
Date: 30 Sep 92 00:04:29 +0900
Distribution: world
Organization: Information Technology, Northern Territory University

  First of all, like would like to say that I've got nothing against the
Aboriginal race and their indiginitive rights. Do do think that the laws
that protect them and their rights are getting way way way out of line.

  One of my Uncles 1982 told me that, the Aboriginals will have that many
rights in the future, that they will be able to walk in to your house and
claim it as a sacrid site. And you do you know what?,....them starting to
believe him.

  Laws like the Alice Springs dam, the Corination Hill, are all subjective
decisions in favour of the Aboriginals.

  Take the Corination Hill case for example. Stockmen would tell you that
they couldn't find an aboriginal within 58km's of that location back in
the 60's.  When mining companies previously mined it (or an area near their)
in 1958 not an aboriginal was to be found. That is until Bula appeared and told
a different story.

  Take the user-pays policy for electricity for Aboriginal camps. It has been
known for years that they have been moderate power abusers. NTEC (as the Power
and water authority was known back then) have been telling them for years to
go easy on the power, but with no effect. So they started charging them for
their power, and according to them, it's been the first they've heard about
it.

  With Aboriginal Deaths in custody, it was a serious case in Queensland
and NSW and I do aggree with the investigations of human rights volations.
  We must however, look at it from two perspectives. I invite any body to
come up to a township called Katherine which is 350Km south from Darwin, or
just about any other Northern Territory outback town.
The amount of flack that the police have to put up with is incredible. They
have to pick up the same old people, in the same place, copping the same
abuse from them day in, day out.
  Of course they are going to hand people like that roughly, no matter what
your colour is. Now days, if the tourist walks down the street and gets attacked,
all the police can do now is to tell the person of how silly they were of doing
such an act. If there is domestic violence, all they do now is inform the
aboriginal counseling services to influence them to stop what they are doing.


  This list goes on and on.


  In my opinion, It is fueled by greedy solicitors who don't give a flying shit
on where the countries legal structure is heading. My question is: What will
happen what the Australian government finally says "NO!". Could there be
riots?, mass killings?. Will our politicians ignore their perceived duties that
us white fella's (as they call non Aboriginal people) must carry out.
  This seriously cercerns me, and all the money and extra rigths won't
solve this problem. It's creating conflict between 1 race and the other
52 racies that are in the NT.



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                              JsNO BAR----NUNN
        "It's his last semester......give him a good pat on the back"
                                  DARWIN, NT
                          nunn@pandanus.cs.ntu.edu.au
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