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Conspiracy theory

Thursday 28 June 2007, 1:51 pm

John Surname

Categories: Politics

Tags: IndigenousAustralians, JohnHoward

As The Happy Revolutionary pointed out, Howard hasn’t yet explained how an attack on native land rights and 99 year leases have anything to do with combating child abuse.

Maybe, just maybe, Howard is more interested in suring up the land for mining companies, and is using the peadophile crackdown as a front to grab votes from the soft left who have shifted to Rudd?

Who has Howard been more loyal to in the last 11 years - mining companies or Indigenous Australians?

But what heartless Australian could ever doubt the intentions of a government reacting to a report called The Little Children Are Scared?

Me for one. Duke it out in the comments.

4 Comments

Jangari (Thursday 28 June 2007, 3:58 pm) #

Right. The permit system, the repatriation of lands, ion fact anything to do with land itself is quite irrelevant to anything concerning child neglect, abuse, domestic violence, grog, porn, anything.

Indigenous people live in many different legal land situations, including Aboriginal freehold title, NT freehold title, big
towns and pastoral leases. There isn’t any correlation between any one of these situations and sexual abuse.

This, to me, indicates that this is indeed a subterfuge to secure the land interests for the mining companies, who are willing to pay big money for patches of iron-rich land, if only the traditional owners would allow it. This move looks suspiciously like they’re going to be forced to sell it if the miners’ want to buy it. It’ll probably even be at a heavily recduced rate.
Bridgit Gread (Thursday 28 June 2007, 4:50 pm) #

It reminds me of Hawke’s famous folly that “no Australian child shall live in poverty”. Howard is too cunning to make absolute promises but the mawkish sentiment about ‘doing it for the kids’ is much the same.

I’ll be interested to see if your Trojan Horse theory works out. Which would be like the Australian government claiming ownership of the Timor Gap oilfields to protect the little fishies being abused by the Timorese.
joe2 (Friday 29 June 2007, 6:14 pm) #

Mining companies are obviously the big part of an “attack on native land rights and 99 year leases”, J.S.

Also, worth considering, is tourism in outback N.T.
If the permit system is destroyed, white carpetbaggers and bushbashers will be thrilled.

There are votes in opening up, ‘land for all’.
Mikey (Sunday 1 July 2007, 10:10 am) #

Massive changes are needed to bring Aboriginal health and education standards closer to the Australian mainstream; as well as societal changes such as upward progression through gainful employment. I can’t see nicking their land will do anything. Unless the plan is to give all the koories jobs on their own land but where it is being raped by tiddlelick esq mining companies. Hey … didn’t Aboriginals last time we rode a resource boom end up working for other people on their own land too ?