SadKangaroo wrote on Jun 4
th, 2024 at 6:36am:
It certainly is.
There is no doubt that they're over represented in the statistics.
The difference is, a sane and rational person would look at those numbers and want to find solutions to help them and their communities reduce those numbers.
I wish I had the answers on how to do that, but even that is getting too far ahead of ourselves.
The numbers are being put in the spotlight as a deliberate ploy to portray all members of their community, of their ethnicity, as baby raping murderers, therefore rather than working say towards "closing the gap" or providing them any sort of help towards better infrastructure in their communities, better education and employment opportunities, we should instead be punishing them, withdrawing support etc as they're unworthy "because of the numbers", all the way to pushing justification for past support for their genocide.
Usually when a normal person identifies a problem, their normal human response is to look for a solution.
In this case the problem is being highlighted to justify hate.
It is excellent that you admit that indigenous people are overrepresented in crime statistics. They only problem is that you do not seem that concerned about indigenous Australians being held accountable for their actions so that there would be a considerable drop in the proportions of domestic violence cases.
One of the ways to change this is to drop the "poor bugger me" attitude. The amount of resources being literally and monetarily given to indigenous people would be enough per individual to not be able to use as an excuse about poverty being a cause. The "I lost my land" attitude is invalid for any indigenous person under the age of 90 years old. Besides, indigenous people are owners of at least 15% of Australian land. And "I have lost my culture" is absolute rubbish. Domestic violence is part of indigenous culture as far back as time immemorial. Having a smoking ceremony, dancing around to the sound of the didgeridoo and clapping sticks and the murmuring of a tribal leader is not going to prevent indigenous people from smacking their wives and children around.
Being that I am not an accredited counsellor, I would be limited and probably unable to advise how to change people's attitudes to become more sociable. My area of intermediate expertise is psychology. But, I would say that I have about as much psychological knowledge as a second year psychology student. However, most social workers out there are just there to offer some insight into people's behaviours and offer band-aid solutions to help improve people's lives. Suppose there were any real counsellors and support workers out there that were not just trying to keep their jobs by letting their focus of attention grow, for the sake of job security. In that case, we might actually see very few indigenous domestic violence cases.
Until then, we can only assume that PM Dutton would consider equalising welfare help for indigenous people to be the same of that given to non-indigenous people. And yes, I did say PM Dutton. I cannot see Albanese making it as PM after the next federal election.
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