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Many Australian Aborigines live in Third World conditions; the “annual under-5 infant death rate” is over 3 times higher for Aborigines than that for White Australians; 1 in 5 Australian Aborigines have diabetes (mostly type 2 diabetes) which has huge attendant problems such as cardiovascular complications, kidney problems and blindness; the Australian Aboriginal life expectancy is 17 years less than that for White Australians; and a top Australian diabetologist has warned that Indigenous Australians may actually die out by the end of the century. The deficient medical expenditure statistics are reflected in an “annual avoidable death rate” (annual excess death rate) of Indigenous Australians is 2.2-0.4 = 1.8% as compared to 0% for New Zealand and for White Australia, 0.4% (South Asia), 0.5% (Occupied Iraq), 1.0% (non-Arab Africa) and 1.8% (Occupied Afghanistan). 1.8% per year of 460,000 times 11 years = about 90,000 Indigenous Australians have died avoidably under the 11 year rule of the Coalition Government. The Indigenous infant death rate is over 3 times that of Australia as whole. The difference translates to over 146 avoideble under-5 Indigenous infant deaths annually or over 146 x 11 = about 1,600 avoideble under-5 year old Indigenous infant deaths under the Coalition Government. However to illustrate the sheer hypocrisy and dishonesty of the racist, Australian Government it is useful to examine the Northern Territory Child Sexual Abuse reality in a quantitative way. There is no doubt from the shocking anecdotal accounts in the NT Report “Little Children are Sacred” that from a qualitative perspective Aboriginal Child Sexual Abuse is occurring and must be urgently stopped. However the Report (p57) states that “it is not possible to accurately estimate the extent of child sexual abuse in the Northern Territory” while documenting that 34% of females and 16% of males in Australia as a whole experience child sexual abuse (Dunne, M.P., Purdie, D.M., Cook, M.D., Boyle, F.M. & Najman, J.M.(2003), Is child sexual abuse declining? Evidence from a population-based survey of men and women in Australia, Child Abuse & Neglect, vol. 27 (2), pp141-152). No doubt there is significant Aboriginal child sexual abuse and other horrendous problems that need to be addressed by urgent provision of exactly the same services that are provided to White Australians– decent infrastructure, decent housing, security, police, justice, nurses, doctors, teachers and other welfare workers. Those defaming Indigenous Australians for child sexual abuse in the absence of concrete figures are simply lying in a racially-specefic way– it is akin to the deadly anti-Jewish anti-semitic canards of past millennia (e.g. “drinking the blood of Christian children”) and indeed to the current anti-Arab anti-Semitic and Islamophobic carnards (“terrorists”, “extremists”, “fanatics”, “militants” ) that are routinely trotted out every day in the Australian and Western media. Those indulging in this race-specific propaganda have no idea as to whether the incidence of Aboriginal child sexual abuses is greater or less than the appalling figure for Australia as a whole. Let’s be clear about what this legislation does and how it grossly violates Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948 (specifically Articles 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 17, 19, 22 and 30;. NT Aboriginals will be circumscribed about what they can read, see, drink, consume and purchase in ways that do NOT apply to White Australians and their Land (Sacred to Indigenous Australians) and their Communities will be seized and controlled by the Federal Government - a contemptible, racist Government that presides over 9,000 avoidable Aboriginal deaths annually and which still refuses to say “sorry” for the past horrendous Aboriginal Genocide and Ethnocide. Indeed the Aboriginal Genocide continues – it took 90,000 lives in the last 11 years alone of rule of Australia by these racist, Bush-ite extremists. A friend of mine from the tiny and vulnerable Lipari (Aeolian) Islands off the tip of Italy observed that the World War 2 experience instructs that we are all Jews. Just imagine the deserved national and international outcry if these obscene, racist laws were applied to Australian Jews. My family was wiped from the face of Europe by the racist Nazis – our homes and lands are still expropriated in the Old Country. The post-Holocaust crie de coeur of “Never again” means “Never again to any people”. My wife is a Black Australian – I will make sure that the world is informed of this return to the pre-1975 Racist White Australia in gross violation of Australian anti-racism legislation and of International anti-racism Conventions. Sanctions and boycotts worked against racist Apartheid régime in South Africa which had an “annual avoidable death rate” of 0.4% (1993) as compared to 2.0% for Northern Territory Aborigines in Racist White Australia today. The Racist White Australians – on a bi-partisan basis – are now imposing human rights-abusing racial discrimination on these vulnerable people in addition to this ongoing carnage. The World needs to act urgently to stop the egregious racism of Racist White Australia and to stop the ongoing Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide – there must be zero tolerance for racism.
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 Dr Gideon Polya, MWC News Chief political editor, published some 130 works in a 4 decade scientific career, most recently a huge pharmacological reference text "Biochemical Targets of Plant Bioactive Compounds" (CRC Press/Taylor & Francis, New York & London, 2003), and is currently writing a book on global mortality ---
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