Why would remote communities want to have internet access?

I mean, providing internet service might go a long way towards relieving social problems in those communities. But, who can afford a computer in remote communities?

Could you imagine tech support?

"Dis compooter is farked up. Wud you gunna do about it?"

History has portrayed Australia’s First Peoples, the Aboriginals, as hunter-gatherers who lived on an empty, uncultivated land, without IT. History is wrong.

In this seminal book, Bruce Pascoe uncovers evidence that long before the arrival of white men, Aboriginal people across the continent were building phone lines, transmitters, harvesting data, and then preserving the surplus and storing it in houses, sheds, or secure servers; and creating elaborate internet cafes and manipulating the landscape for WiFi reception. All of these behaviours were inconsistent with the hunter-gatherer tag, which turns out to have been a convenient lie that worked to justify dispossession.

Using compelling evidence from the records and diaries of early Australian explorers and colonists, he reveals that Aboriginal systems of dat production and IT management have been blatantly understated in modern retellings of early Aboriginal history, and that a new look at Australia’s past is required — for the benefit of us all.

Dark Elon, a bestseller in Australia, won both the Book of the Year Award and the Indigenous Writer’s Prize in the New South Wales Premier’s Literary Awards.

Gnads wrote on Dec 13^th, 2024 at 7:30am:


That is just the thing. Having a television in the homes is not good enough. They spend their days watching television, playing sports, or eating a mediocre diet. I would not be surprised if they don't do reading at all. The idea of getting through a novel would be foreign to them.

I doubt that indigenous community members would use the internet for ideal purposes. They might whack off to pornographic videos. And that might relieve the social tensions in those communities. But, as you say, the community might use the internet to upload fights that they have.

It is all about trying to get attention (and money) to relieve their boredom.

https://www.news.com.au/national/northern-territory/resign-now-babys-skull-bashe...

‘Resign now’: Baby’s skull bashed, woman raped in her sleep in latest Alice Springs crime wave

Furious Alice Springs locals have unleashed on NT leaders after a baby’s skull was fractured during a terrifying home invasion.

Fed-up Alice Springs locals have unleashed on Northern Territory leaders after a newborn baby’s skull was fractured during a terrifying broad daylight home invasion.

A man has also been charged with breaking into a woman’s house and raping her as she slept, as police scramble to respond to the latest escalation in violent crime rocking the troubled outback town.

NT Chief Minister Lia Finocchiaro and Police Commissioner Michael Murphy rushed to Alice Springs on Thursday, where they were heckled by furious local businessman Darren Clark.

“Where have you been, Chief Minister?” Mr Clark yelled in video shared to his Action for Alice social media pages.

“Where have you been? We have a woman and her baby flogged with an iron bar. You told us you were going to protect this town. Our women are scared. The place is terrified. You do nothing. You promised you would. Why has it taken you so long, Lia? Why?”

He also took aim at Mr Murphy.

“Don’t say you’ve got more police because you haven’t got the police, Murphy,” Mr Clark said.

“You haven’t got the police and you know it. Don’t come out with that fluff today. What are you going to do, shut a couple of pubs down? Absolute disgrace, Lia.

“You’re an absolute disgrace. You promised us. You promised this community. It was your election number one mandate. What have you done? Nothing. Even your local members are quiet.

“They’re silent. Have you gagged them, too? It’s time to step up or get out, all of you. This town deserves better. Off you go, go and do your political spin, we’re all waiting for it, we know what’s coming.”

In a follow-up video outside Alice Springs police station, Mr Clark accused Ms Finocchiaro of moving her press conference inside “because she doesn’t want to face the people of Alice Springs out here”.

“It’s time you resign now, Finocchiaro, that’s enough,” he said. “Step down, Lia. Hiding away in the police station.”

The Country Liberal Party (CLP) returned to power after eight years of Labor government following a landslide election victory in August.

The CLP campaigned hard on stamping out crime, with Ms Finocchiaro vowing on election night to “get on top of our law and order and crime issues”.

Two boys, aged 16 and 17, have been charged over the alleged attack on Wednesday that left the two-month-old girl with a fractured skull and a brain bleed.

The Australian reported on Friday that the pair had collectively been charged with almost 300 other offences and bailed 35 times — and were on bail at the time.

Emergency services were called to the home in Larapinta after reports two males had unlawfully entered the property about 2.30pm on Wednesday, confronting the woman who was at home with five children.

Police allege one youth searched the home while another threatened the woman as she held her two-month-old baby before assaulting her with a detachable metal freezer handle, striking her so hard it rebounded and hit the infant.

The two youths allegedly fled the scene with the woman’s handbag and vehicle keys but were located by police a short time later, with one of the teens placed under arrest.

A second youth allegedly fled in a vehicle but after a short pursuit was also arrested by Northern Territory police.

The woman and child, who sustained a serious head injury, were rushed to Alice Springs Hospital before being flown to Adelaide for further treatment where they remained in a stable condition.

Detective Superintendent Regional Crime Paul Lawson said police responded “en masse” to the alleged incident, and thanked the first responders who attended.

“This is an absolutely shocking incident,” he said in a social media video.

“I’m shocked. The community is shocked. First responders are shocked. Our thoughts go out to the victims of this incident, their families. I cannot even think about what they’re going through.”

The two boys have been charged with aggravated burglary and robbery. They also face charges of unlawfully causing serious harm, aggravated assault and theft.

The children’s father, a government employee, was at work at the time.

“It’s upsetting, it’s angering, it’s frightening, it really is,” he told The Australian.

He added he didn’t have any faith in Prime Minister Anthony Albanese being able to fix the issues in Alice Springs.

“It wouldn’t be the same if this was happening to him,” he said. “What do you say that doesn’t fall on deaf ears?”

The horrific attack comes after nine days of escalating violence in the Northern Territory town which has seen crime move away from the inner city into the suburbs.

There have been reports of abduction, sexual assault, home burglaries, home invasions and stolen motor vehicles since December 3.

See Chapter 2.....

There are going to be vigilante groups going on the hunt for any indigenous person that even dares to say "white ****". Not that I am advocating that. The free ride is over. As a conquered race, indigenous Australians should be subjected to the same rule of law as the rest of Australians.

There might be international condemnation of Australians for expecting indigenous Australians to pull their weight. But, eventually, the youtube videos will make the rounds and the world will understand.

Remote communities - move.

UnSubRocky wrote on Dec 15^th, 2024 at 12:18am:



Fine, don't move.

But they then shouldn't kvetch about being remote, ffs.  They want to live in the middle of nowhere - but with all the facilities and services (provided and paid for by other) of the middle of a city somewhere.