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Australia to ban alcohol and porn... for aborigines
You're talkin about censorship?
How about some racism, to go with it?
Take this:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070621...alia_aborigines
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CANBERRA, Australia - Australia's prime minister announced plans Thursday to ban pornography and alcohol for Aborigines in northern areas and tighten control over their welfare benefits to fight child sex abuse among them. Some Aboriginal leaders rejected the plan as paternalistic and said the measures were discriminatory and would violate the civil rights of the country's original inhabitants. But others applauded the initiative and recommended extending the welfare restrictions to Aborigines in other parts of the country. Prime Minister John Howard was responding to a report last week that found sexual abuse of children to be rampant in indigenous communities in the Northern Territory. The report said the abuse was fueled by endemic alcohol abuse, unemployment, poverty and other factors causing a breakdown in traditional society. "This is a national emergency," Howard told Parliament. "We're dealing with a group of young Australians for whom the concept of childhood innocence has never been present." Howard announced the measures for the Northern Territory, an Outback region where the federal government retains powers it doesn't have over Australia's six states. He urged state leaders to apply similar tough rules in their jurisdictions. The federal government can change laws in the territory with an act of Parliament, where Howard has a majority that ensures he can implement his policy. Australia is home to about 400,000 Aborigines. About 60,000 live in the Northern Territory, often in isolated, impoverished communities where jobs are scarce and substance abuse is widespread. The land was returned to them over the past 30 years and accounts for about half the Northern Territory, which is about twice the size of Texas. The plan angered some Aboriginal leaders, who said it was the kind of government behavior that has disenfranchised Aborigines and created the problems in the first place. They also complained they had not been consulted; the government had not previously indicated it was considering such action. "I'm absolutely disgusted by this patronizing government control," said Mitch, a member of a government board helping Aborigines who were taken from their parents under past assimilation laws who uses one name. "And tying drinking with welfare payments is just disgusting." "If they're going to do that, they're going to have to do that with every single person in Australia, not just black people," she said. Howard said the sale, possession and transportation of alcohol would be banned for six months on the Aboriginal-owned land, after which the policy would be reviewed. The child abuse report found drinking was a key factor in the collapse of Aboriginal culture, contributing to neglect of children and creating opportunities for pedophiles. Hardcore pornography also would be banned, and publicly funded computers would be audited to ensure that they had not downloaded such images. The report said pornography was rife in Aboriginal communities and that children often were exposed to it. Under Howard's plan, new restrictions would be placed on welfare payments for Aborigines living on the land to prevent the money from being spent on alcohol and gambling. Parents would be required to spend at least half their welfare on essentials such as food, and payments also would be linked to a child's school attendance. Howard also called on state governments to send police to the Northern Territory to address a shortage on Aboriginal land there and offered to pay their expenses. The child abuse report was commissioned by the Northern Territory government and is widely regarded as credible although it attracted some critics. It was unable to quantify the extent of the sexual abuse problem, since anecdotal evidence suggested much of it went unreported. Conducted by an indigenous health worker and a government lawyer, it found children had been sexually abused in all 45 remote communities visited. The abusers were both Aborigines and non-Aborigines operating in or near their communities. The report made 97 recommendations, including boosting procedures for reporting and monitoring offenders, and addressing widespread poverty and alcoholism. Australia's original inhabitants suffer far higher rates of poverty and substance abuse than the rest of the country's 21 million people, and their life expectancy is 17 years shorter. For years, white men were banned from marrying Aboriginal woman, and mixed-race children were taken from their Aboriginal mothers to be assimilated into mainstream society. Though many found employment in the cattle and sheep industries, they were paid less than whites, sometimes working just for rations. Unable to achieve economic independence, many have become welfare dependent. |
wrong forum 
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| Originally posted by Omega_M wrong forum |
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| Originally posted by Marc Summers They shouldn't give native americans alcohol either |
wow... and I thoguht the USA was having racial problems 
Its just english speakin folks 
these are all real names of towns in Australia: Wee Waa, Poowons, Borrumbuttock, Suggan Buggan, Boomahnoomoonah, Waaia, Mullumbimby, Ewylamartup, Jiggalong and Tittybong
Enjoy
misguided :/
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| They shouldn't give native americans alcohol either |
Xeno is correct.
It's not racist at all. There is a problem, and it's being fixed.
It would be like if America banned guns from being sold in Harlem or another ghetto to stop shootings.
I don't see why they should ban porn though; that shit is healthy.
Recently they converted to petrol (gas to you Americans) that you can't get high off up in the north where all the Aborigines live. Already it's had a very positive result.
p.s that article is incorrect. They are not banning porn and alcohol for "Aborigines". They are planning to ban it in certain towns with high populations of Aborigines. I suppose that equates to the same thing, but anyway...
That being said, banning access to porn and alcohol for a racial demographic in your country won't solve your problem. This I can promise you. Americans have countless instances in the only-400-year-old history of our country that will corroborate this.
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| Originally posted by iammesol wow... and I thoguht the USA was having racial problems |
Sorry, fixed my post.
Banning it in certain towns will help the problem.
If you live in America, you find it hard to understand the distances in Australia. You guys think Texas is big, right?
In Australia, there is ONE PERSON who owns a ranch the size of Texas.
In these very, very remote towns in the north, if you stop trucking alcohol and porn in, they will have no way to get it. They don't have the transport to drive 1000 miles to get it.
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| Originally posted by Beat Blog If you live in America, you find it hard to understand the distances in Australia. |
But we have a higher population density.
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| Originally posted by Beat Blog In Australia, there is ONE PERSON who owns a ranch the size of Texas. |
Also in the USA, only ONE PERSON owns Texas :|
fuck you. One person doesn't own texas.
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| Originally posted by Perfect_Cheezit But we have a higher population density. |
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| Originally posted by metalgearsolid fuck you. One person doesn't own texas. |
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| Originally posted by glass His Name Is Doug and He Will Save Us all. |
I bet a few AUTA's hate aborigines.
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| Originally posted by metalgearsolid kiss my hairy ass. |
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| Originally posted by glass Kiss Doug's harry ass and you shall be saved |
You're all racist fucks.
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