Jakki wrote:
Just astounding , after listening to this vid all the way through . I feel as though my eyes have been opened about Australia . Had only brief blurbs about this kind of behaviour in OZ ... she was very eloquent and precise in her observations and reccomendations . Brought a strange fear for her counterparts as well as fear for her safety.
Is just almost unthinkable that any segment of any culture should have to live under those circumstances .
Especially in the 21 st century .
Unfortunately, there is a strange reluctance on the part of media here to report on things like this (and so harder for those outside the country to become aware of it)...Whether it is because it is happening so far from the cities where the media is based and so considered unimportant\irrelevent by them, because it is so "commonplace" that it is not "newsworthy", because it doesn't align with what those in the media have been led (or wish) to believe is actually occurring, or for some other reason, I don't know. (These issues aren't solely restricted to the Northern territory, either, occurring across the country (My mother-in-laws partner's "tribe" crosses the Victorian\New South Wales border, and he has discussed similar issues there, for example).
It's interesting to consider, given this is a first-hand account of the culture (40,000 years old, I believe she stated) from a member of it, why so many children in the past may have been removed from their families who were members of it by child welfare officers.