Thursday, June 21, 2007

In Australian News

I can’t remember the last time I bashed the Australian government, so here’s a story:

Australia is to ban alcohol and pornography in Aboriginal areas in the Northern Territory in a bid to curb child sex abuse. (BBC)

Because, you know, if you ban alcohol and pornography no child will ever be harmed again. This is a classic case of controlling people’s lives under the banner of “saving the children”. If the government is so concerned about this why not ban alcohol and pornography across all of Australia. What’s the matter? Doesn’t the govt care about abused white children as much as Aboriginal children? Oh wait, white people can control themselves but Aboriginals can't. True, true.


I'll bet the Harper government (Stockwell!) is watching this carefully.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Bash away!!!!

A local perspective - we're coming up to an election - the government are doing VERY badly in the polls - they have to been seen to be doing something, anything....and Howard is always looking for whats called a 'wedge' issue. In 2001 and 2004 it was terrorism and the Iraq war - they have no credibility with that anymore (WMD? What WMD?) so Howard will happily play the race card, if thats what it takes (he's done it before)- all under the banner of 'doing something'.

We're trying to work out how this will work and how having compulsory medical checks for all aboriginal children will stop child abuse. Well, I could go on, but you get the drift.