Alcohol and porn banned in Aborigine areas in Australia

Last week's landmark report identified a wide range of social issues that contribute to child sexual abuse.

They included unemployment, poor health and nutrition, overcrowded housing, substance abuse and pornography.

looks like this is the administration trying to get more control over the regions dressed up as protecting the children.

all publicly-funded computers will be searched for pornographic images.

Where do you think he got it from?

Not only are they banning booze and porn, all aboriginal kids under the age of 16 will have to undergo a compulsory medical examination to check if they've been abused.

So it's poverty and alcohol abuse that lead to kiddy fiddling, right.
You are right that is really fucked up.

RESIDENTS of the Northern Territory Aboriginal town of Mutitjulu are considering banning tourists from climbing Uluru as part of a campaign against the looming federal intervention in their community.

Mutitjulu is the first township set to receive police and troops as part of the Federal Government's radical intervention plan to stop abuse in indigenous communities.

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Mutitjulu elder Vince Forrester said local residents are terrified.

“The community are bewildered as why there is a military operation against the most poverty stricken members of Australia,” Mr Forrester told ABC radio.

He said as the traditional owners of Uluru Mutitjulu residents were considering a ban from climbing Uluru as part of a disobedience protest.

“The tourist industry brings a lot of dollars into the territory and tourists all come to Uluru,” he said. “Obviously civil disobedience can come in protest form.”

Mutitjulu resident Mario Giuseppe said people in the community had also talked of fleeing into the sandhills around Uluru.

Media Release - John Howard admits Aboriginal land grab intent

"Prime Minister John Howard has this morning admitted, in response to questions by Neil Mitchell on Southern Cross radio, that "if" it comes to taking lands away from Aboriginal communities and Aboriginal people, he will adequately compensate them", WA Rights group Project SafeCom said.

"The Prime Minister's comments, given in his usual, passive, non-denial style in which he makes an initial admission, using his frequently used 'policy by stealth' methodology, have outed Mr Howard's true political intent of the dramatic 'invasion' of the army against the backdrop of health and community workers into Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory, with the otherwise valid agenda of creating safety for especially the children in those communities," spokesman Jack H Smit said.

"It is now abundantly clear, what many pundits have suspected during the last week," Mr Smit said. "The taking away of lands from Aboriginal people, and given those lands over to commercial interests and mining companies, was always Mr Howard's intent."

"We know, from the now confirmed departure of the Canadian Stephen Harper government from Canada's previous long-standing commitment to the UN Convention on the Rights of Indigenous people, and confirmed influencing of Canada by Mr Howard in this Canadian decision, where Mr Howard stands in relation to the Rights of Indigenous People," Mr Smit said.

"Now we also know what his intent is for Australian Indigenous people." Mr Smit concluded.

For more information: Jack H Smit, Project SafeCom Inc.

BLACK FRIDAY: Parliament passes NT intervention laws
Friday, 17 August 2007 12:42:57 PM

Analysis by Chris Graham, National Indigenous Times

NATIONAL, August 17, 2007: The three bills which empower the federal government to intervene in the lives of Aboriginal people in the Northern Territory have finally been passed into law.

In what will go down as the blackest days in the history of modern parliament, at 12:28 pm the clerk of the Senate announced: “There being 56 ayes, and 6 noes, the matter is resolve in the affirmative.”

The Coalition government used its majority in the Senate to push the legislation through, despite widespread anger among Aboriginal people across the nation and innumerable pleas for the legislation to be delayed so that Aboriginal people in the Territory could be consulted on the changes.

But in the end, it wasn't just the Liberals who saw fit to erode the rights of Aboriginal people. Labor joined with the government to pass the laws. And it came amid the barest of scrutiny.

The three bills - which ran to more than 500 pages and will result in massive and radical changes in the lives of Aboriginal people - were scrutinised by a Senate inquiry that sat for just one day.

That inquiry handed its findings to government just two working days later.

Only the Greens and Democrats voted against the legislation, after supporting two Appropriation Bills which push $587 million into the Northern Territory.

From today:

• The federal government can compulsorily acquire Aboriginal land in the Territory for five years.

• All Aboriginal people who receive welfare payments in regional and remote communities in the NT will automatically have 50 percent of their payments quarantined, regardless of their past spending habits

• The government can appoint an 'observer' to attend meetings of Aboriginal or non Aboriginal organisations in the Territory which provide services to the 73 'proscribed' Aboriginal communities which are ear-marked for intervention.

• The government can seize the assets of Aboriginal or non Aboriginal organisations which are providing services to communities, and direct those elsewhere.