Writing in Quadrant last November, Bubbles Segall, a worker for 36 years in Northern Territory community health, instanced these cases of violence:

“A woman is repeatedly evacuated from a remote community health centre to hospital with multiple fractures to the bones in her hands and burns to her vagina. On each of these occasions, her husband, in fits of jealous rage, has put burning sticks into her vagina and broken the bones in her fingers…

“A nurse is called out at midnight to attend to a woman who has been brutally bashed by her husband. She is six months pregnant with her first child. In a jealous, drunken rage, her husband accused her of talking to another man earlier in the evening. She is bleeding profusely from a head wound caused by a partial avulsion of her scalp. She has also sustained a partial tear to an earlobe. She is bleeding copiously from her vagina. Her husband has kicked her repeatedly in the abdomen. Her wounds are treated, she sustains a miscarriage and is evacuated by air ambulance to the nearest hospital that night.”

Segall finishes:

“These situations are not unique or far and few. They are everyday occurrences in many communities, and there are thousands of similar examples which to health workers gradually become overwhelming and disheartening.”

These instances could be called anecdotal. For those preferring data, see the NT crime statistics for 2007-12, released late last year  by the new CLP government.

www.nt.gov.au/justice/…/nt_annual_crime_statistics_2012.doc

FutureTheLeftWant wrote on Jul 18^th, 2022 at 9:46am:



I worked with them - for the Health Department - I helped them - I have PTSD from it

Solicitor/historian Joan Kimm wrote in 2004: “The intensity of this violence needs to be understood by non-Indigenous Australians. When working as a solicitor with non-Indigenous clients, I encountered infanticide, homicide, suicide, betrayals, violence, incest and other child abuse. These were tragic cases but in none was the violence equivalent to the horrific circumstances of Aboriginal violence…Aboriginal women are disadvantaged in that Aboriginal culture has become an inviolate space in our society where abuse of women often occurs with impunity because of distorted views of the respect which must be paid to Indigenous rights.”

Well - nowhere is he saying they are ALL criminals - that's you putting your words into the discussion for your own purposes.... the actual figures on the ground show that a lot more than the average population are........ figures and facts don't give a damn about the colour of your paint job...

What are YOUR solutions?  Considering you've never been there......

Have to go for a while - I know I won't miss anything of value....

History Brian - live in the here and now.

Grappler Deep State Feller wrote on Jul 18^th, 2022 at 12:26am:


Existentialism only works for the narrow minded, Graps.  I have worked with men who focus on the here and now at the exclusion of the past.   They were broken men who wanted to forget what had happened to them in the past.  Indigenous Australians had their children stolen away, with regard as to their feelings, their emotions.  They were treated as children by unfeeling white people who believed because of the colour of their skin they had fewer feelings, that they didn't love their children.  Today we have you wanting to repeat the same mistakes of the past, with the same excuses.  Is it any wonder that people Indigenous and your fellow whites think you are being Racist?  I know you are doing it to stir people, to make them to think, but you are the one who is not thinking about what you are saying.  Time for Indigenous Australians to be counted as Australians, not as some sort of alien group in our society.  Time their feelings were counted, time for them to be taken into account.  Time for you to man up and admit you were wrong.  Time to admit that you were mistaken.   The here and now is built on the past and it is the past that I am asking you to take into account in your feelings.  Can that be possible or are you going, once more, to stick with "here and now" excuse, mate?  Are you going to look like a bigger Racist?   Tsk, tsk, tsk...