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Your name says it all and I fear I am setting myself up here ‘Mothcatcher’.

I spent some time with a full blood Walpiri woman in Australia’s Red Center. She was one of the most inspirational people that I ever had the privilege to meet. To be honest, you don’t come across alot of indigenous people in the major cities of Australia. There are people who identify as indigenous and come from a mixed ethnic background and if you passed them in the street you may not recognise their Aboriginality. Many of these people express a strong connection to their indigenous roots which is admirable. I don’t understand why they don’t acknowledge their European heritage, which in many instances makes up most of their ethnicity. I also don’t understand where their hate of ‘white’ people comes from given that that’s a good part of their heritage and many of them have never been to the Center.

Dispite the world opinion of the treatment of Australia’s indigenous people, much of it comes from ignorance or from leftist propaganda. That’s not to say there are no issues, there most definitely are but it doesn’t have to be as bad as it is. Our indigenous people have free medical and dental care, free travel and free education through to university. If the child lives in a remote area then their education at a private boarding school is covered. Accommodation is also provided to them.

The reality is that many of the indigenous children of ‘The Red Center’ never go to school even when good schools are available. Many indigenous people of the outback don’t speak English. They don’t speak ‘Aboriginal’ either, in that there are hundreds of tribal languages and tribes are only likely to know the language of their nearest neighbors. Children are traditionally raised by their grandmother’s. Many of these women want to adhere to traditional tribal laws and sending these children to a white man’s school does not fit in with tradition. This is somewhat a moot point, these remote areas are hundreds of kilometers apart and the communities are small. There are no jobs to be had out there. Learning traditional skills is more useful to these people, with the added advantage of 4 wheel drive vehicles, rifles and mobile phones.

Most people don’t know that indigenous Australians hold land rights to vast areas of Central Australia and anyone crossing these lands needs a special permit and must not turn off the road. They also receive large royalties from mining companies. I personally have no issues with any of this. The problem is however that greed and corruption exist in every society. There is a tribal law that states the you cannot refuse a request of goods or money from your kin. This law is abused broadly. How many indigenous communities miss out on royalties because they don’t understand their rights according to the white man’s law because of language barriers? They don’t even know they are entitled to royalties, their own kin take advantage. Then there are those who are fully aware of their entitlements but still adhere to the tribal law of handing over what they have on request to family. I heard of an indigenous person who received more than $300,000 in mining royalties and it was all gone within a few months. Traditional law says you cannot refuse kin.

My Walpiri friend related how her father saw his first white man as a teenager. She talked of a massacre that took place resulting in the deaths of many indigenous people. She said it was in retaliation to the killing of a white man. She also said that the tribe saw this retaliation as aligning with their own tribal law. Traditional tribal law is brutal, Australian indigenous people were never subdued. If a tribal law was broken and it was deemed to be significant then people were punished. Rape and murder of whole families of other tribes including children were the most severe forms of punishment. If a woman happened across secret men’s business accidentally then that was punishable by death depending on how close they came. If an aboriginal man died of illness his wife was punished by his family for not caring properly for him. These forms of punishment still occur. If a member of the tribe were old and could not keep up when searching for water they were left behind.

Life was harsh, still is for some. If the British hadn’t colonised Australia it would have been one country or another. It was inevitable, the global population is more than 7 billion, Australia was never going to remain solely occupied by it’s indigenous population. There is little point in trying to relate the knowledge and lifestyle we have today with the early days of colonisation. Life was harsh for the colonial people too and most of them didn’t choose to be there.

Shouldn’t we be working toward how we can improve the quality of life for those indigenous people who are out of reach through language barriers by way of working beside those indigenous people who were lucky enough to have been educated and have a better understanding of how things could be?

Sorry, but it’s the leftists that gets in the way of resolving these issues and perpetuate hate.

My Walpiri friend was educated to university level, she successfully entered politics with the aim of helping indigenous Aboriginals living in central Australia. She has always lived in indigenous communities, her life story has been entrenched in the difficulties of life for the Aboriginals. She was vilified by her own people from the cities because of political differences. Instead of working with a full blood indigenous women who understood and lived the problems of her people they drove her out of politics. Nasty tactics, some indigenous, not my story to tell.

It’s easy to throw blame and the racist word around, reality and truth are so much more complicated. There is no comparison between Australia’s natives and the New Zealand natives. Effectively you are talking about assimilation, it was easier for the New Zealand native to get used to the idea of white people (like it or not), it is a small country and they would have been more exposed to each other. The size of Australia in itself made it difficult to even know where different tribes were located, they were nomads too and the locations were often located in remote areas that were difficult to reach. There was more than three hundred different tribal languages.

Life is complicated. Whatever the circumstances, the left do not want to have a conversation, they stick with the propaganda without understanding how things are, so until that changes little else will change.

“mothcatcher May 18, 2020 at 12:47 am

Certainly the maori were never subdued in the same way.”

Oh yes they were. Their language and culture were actively discouraged and banned. No-one was allowed to speak Te Reo Maori in schools for instance.