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I could write pages about what a shit Scullion is. Everything from cutting Aboriginal legal Services and follow up programs when blackfellas are released from jail to turning the Tiwi Islands into a military base without telling the locals. In the process wrecking one of the few successful indigenous industries (their forestry project) in the country. It appears that expanding the Tiwi port to facilitate timber and woodchip export from the island was actually a cover to build a humungous US base. Last i heard the woodchip industry there was cactus. And the Land Council were in hock to some foreign company building the port even tho the expansion has delayed things so much the industry is collapsing. The LC were relying on it to pay back the cost of the port.
When the CDP came in under Scullion Work for the Dole requirements for people in remote communities were set at 25 hrs a week, 52 weeks a year as opposed to 16 hrs a week, 26 weeks a year for people in regional centres or anywhere else in Australia. So you work every week (with what seems like no holidays at all) for wages that are less than half the award wage. Or move to towns (where there is no work anyway usually) so you can spend less time slaving but have less iopportunity but more exposure to socially destructive situations. Forcing indigenous people into remote towns which always leads to increases in violence, drug and alcohol abuse and social dislocation. And to the removal of children from families - something thats already reaching higher rates in places than during stolen generation times.
99 yr leases that directly undermine the 1976 land Rights act that was passed by Fraser, after being started by Whitlam. Is it hard to take seriously the idea that 40 years ago Australian governments treated indigenous people more fairly (and with bipartisanship) than they do today?
Blah blah its all been said before repeatedly by others.
When the CDP came in under Scullion Work for the Dole requirements for people in remote communities were set at 25 hrs a week, 52 weeks a year as opposed to 16 hrs a week, 26 weeks a year for people in regional centres or anywhere else in Australia. So you work every week (with what seems like no holidays at all) for wages that are less than half the award wage. Or move to towns (where there is no work anyway usually) so you can spend less time slaving but have less iopportunity but more exposure to socially destructive situations. Forcing indigenous people into remote towns which always leads to increases in violence, drug and alcohol abuse and social dislocation. And to the removal of children from families - something thats already reaching higher rates in places than during stolen generation times.
99 yr leases that directly undermine the 1976 land Rights act that was passed by Fraser, after being started by Whitlam. Is it hard to take seriously the idea that 40 years ago Australian governments treated indigenous people more fairly (and with bipartisanship) than they do today?
Blah blah its all been said before repeatedly by others.
