Source: Bringing them Home – Chapter 6 Human Rights and Equal Opportunity Commission Report, Bringing them Home, Report of the National Inquiry into the Separation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Children from Their Families April 1997.
#Stolengenerations hit an early legal land mine in #Tasmania
26 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, law and economics, politics - Australia
The Best-Concealed Conspiracy in Australian History
26 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in economic history, economics of crime, law and economics, politics - Australia
Source: KEITH WINDSCHUTTL Why There Were No Stolen Generations (Part Two). Quadrant (January 2010) at http://quadrant.org.au/magazine/2010/1-2/why-there-were-no-stolen-generations-part-two/
Did banning alcohol in 1837 fit in with deliberate genocide?
25 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in discrimination, health economics, politics - Australia, Public Choice
Laws banning the sale of alcohol to aboriginals were first passed in 1837. Later that century the ban was extended to opium. In time, all states and territories banned the sale of alcohol to aboriginals.
Australia figures prominently in the Journal of Genocide Research. The black armband theory of Australian history alleges genocidal intent towards Australian aboriginals by the state and territory protectors of aboriginals and their accomplices. Then why the ban on alcohol and the opium?
There were strong temperance movements in Australia in the first half of the 20th century. They achieved considerable political success. Their intention was to save their fellow Australians from the demon drink.
Why then was a policy of alcohol prohibition extended to aboriginals when the state protectors aboriginals were apparently according to the black armband theory of history practising genocide?
A credible theory must make risky predictions and strictly forbid certain things if its fundamental thesis is valid. Temperance movements were well-intentioned attempts to save their fellow man and, in particular, husbands and sons. The pubs closed at 6 for white Australians and were not open at all for aboriginals.
Why was this well-intentioned policy to save people from the demon drink extended to aboriginals in an era of genocide against aboriginals? Certainly, genocidal governments of that time would have known that binge drinking would have helped kill off the aboriginal people. Did they just miss a step? Keep missing that step from 1837 until 1972?
Something does not add up here? Drinking was seen as a serious social evil. The supposedly otherwise genocidal state and territory protectors of aboriginals sought to protect aboriginals from this serious social evil.
Genocidal state and territory protectors of aboriginals, if it is true they were intent on a genocide, must be expected to do little or nothing to promote aboriginal welfare. Yet they sought bans on alcohol and opium.
George Orwell on why the Australian @Greens want to change Australia Day
20 Jan 2018 1 Comment
in politics - Australia, Public Choice
Ok for @amnestyOz to imply #Manusisland is a S***hole?
15 Jan 2018 Leave a comment
in development economics, Economics of international refugee law, politics - Australia, politics - USA
You cannot criticise Trump and the Pacific solution to boat people coming to Australia at the same time? Both Trump and Amnesty International agree that certain developing countries are not very nice places to go to and the people there are rather rough and intolerant of outsiders.
Source: THIS IS BREAKING PEOPLE HUMAN RIGHTS VIOLATIONS AT AUSTRALIA’S ASYLUM SEEKER PROCESSING CENTRE ON MANUS ISLAND, PAPUA NEW GUINEA by Amnesty International Australia at https://www.amnesty.org.au/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/Amnesty_International_Manus_Island_report-1.pdf
1916 Conscription plebiscite pamphlet is still basis of Australian national security policy. New Zealand’s too. (Keep war at a distance; have a great and powerful friend).
02 Dec 2017 Leave a comment
Why no boat people via PNG? Why from Indonesia?
14 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in Economics of international refugee law, International law, politics - Australia
The northernmost tip of Australia is 5 km from Papua New Guinea. Instead, boat people take off from Indonesia in leaky boats too unseaworthy to get to where they are going, much less be turn backed, to land on Christmas Island which is an offshore territory. A strong swimmer could get to the State of Queensland from Papua New Guinea on a good day. A decent paddle boat would do the job.
If the PNG authorities tolerated people smuggling, their relationship with Australia would be jeopardised. On the other hand, there is plenty of votes at the ballot box in Indonesia from sticking it to Australia. Little wonder that a substantial part of the Pacific solution to illegal maritime arrivals by boat people is bribing Indonesian authorities to crack down on people smuggling.
.@Greens policy would have meant many more drownings of boat people
14 Nov 2017 Leave a comment
in Economics of international refugee law, politics - Australia
Source: THE RIGHT WAY FORWARD ON REFUGEES HUMANE, EFFECTIVE, LEGAL The Greens’ plan for a genuine regional response and safer pathways.
The most recent policy of the Australian Greens drops the above ideas about an open border but has other weird things like a skilled refugee visa. Very odd for a social justice policy. Obviously all well-founded fears of persecution are not created equal. The university educated deserve more protection. Good luck assessing a claim for asylum within 30 days, much less an identity check.
The callousness of the compassionate green left
30 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in Economics of international refugee law, politics - Australia, politics - New Zealand
PS, the boat people that the left never mention
Most demanding part of #Citizenship7 High Court judgement
28 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
Renouncing your citizenship could include a trip back to the old country of your parents or grandparents that you have never ever visited. Have do you decide if it is too dangerous? DFAT travel warnings, individual threats of harm or just the level of bribes you have to pay to get anything done.
.@sarahinthesen8 @SenatorMRoberts and beneficiaries living better than kings of 200 years ago; dumb and dumber alert
16 Oct 2017 Leave a comment
in economic history, politics - Australia
You probably enjoy a better life than John D. Rockefeller did 100 years ago. Rockefeller lived in a big draughty house with lots of servants. Cars were primitive as was medicine. No refrigerators, washing machines or other domestic appliances we take for granted. Running water, much less safe tap water were brand new inventions at best. He lived a long life. The odds of getting to the age of 15 when he was born were probably better than 50%.
People forget how horrible the good old days before the Industrial Revolution really were.
The great increase in life expectancy of all classes of people should never be underrated.
Utopia, you are standing in it! 
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