Australian governments manufactured shocking lies about Aboriginal people
THE WAY AHEAD: The new land grab Tracker, BY JEFF MCMULLEN, JUNE 21, 2013“……The Howard Government and the Labor Opposition rushed with obscene haste to pass the Northern Territory Emergency Response Act (2007) because of a manufactured crisis over child sexual abuse. The radicalism of the Intervention was concealed by the government’s media manipulation of the scandalising, shaming issue of sexual abuse.
No matter how much Mick Gooda, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Justice Commissioner, may protest on national
television programs that the Australian Crimes Commission found no paedophile rings in these remote communities, the extraordinary
collective smearing of Aboriginal parents everywhere disguised the neo-liberal assault aimed at controlling Aboriginal lands.
Canada’s best-selling author, Naomi Klein, wrote in her book, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism, how neo-liberal
governments exploit shock therapy in a brazen campaign “of erasing and remaking the world”.
The Intervention exploited a national shock over the state of Aboriginal children to introduce harsh social management of families
and a clamp on Aboriginal organisations that further undermined their control over their destiny……”.http://tracker.org.au/2013/06/the-way-ahead-the-new-land-grab-2/
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