That aside, I couldn’t agree more with the main thrust of your argument - the intervention is ham-fisted and was launched for very cynical reasons. But if you amend some of the human rights breaching provisions within it, you have a reasonable government initiative aimed at improving the lives of desperately disadvantaged Aboriginal people (and point made in another piece I wrote for today’s edition of Crikey).

From pedantic to the bleeding obvious. This was a plan cooked up over 48 hours, as Crikey has identified. It is flawed and far from perfect. That does not mean it should be abandoned, but rather strengthened. I’m perfectly willing to give plenty of benefit of the doubt to our pollies; any good work in remote communities will take years to show genuine change.

So I will remain hopeful that our elected representatives can do the job they promised; and certain that Crikey will be keeping a very close eye on their actions, as well as the reportage of all other media.

LIKE A HOLE IN THE HEAD!

Reinstate ATSIC and let us run our own affairs! You right wing culturally insensitive NAZIS!

You whitefellas (especially in the mainstream media) are culturally insensitive and don’t understand the needs of the indigeous like us at ATSIC. How dare you think of our living, breathing children when its your fault they’ve been abused (and its not that bad anyhow…..probably good for’em…… In fact come to think of it its the federal governments fault) ESPECIALLY when an evil weasel named Howard is threatening our elite jobs? oops!…. sorry I meant our culture?

My message to Mr. F Hodder: NEVER SURRENDER! DO NOT ALLOW THE WELLBEING OF YOUR PEOPLE TO GET IN THE WAY OF YOUR HATRED OF HOWARD! Despite the fact he has been voted out…..HE IS THE ENEMY!!!!! PHUCK THE KIDS!!!!!!!!!!!!

In the week before the announcement the Aboriginal community I work for got visited by FaCSIA staff, three of them informed us that they had recently been employed as ‘solution brokers’. They were there in a supporting role to the bells and whistles all dancing Hitler’s Henchmen show band telling us that your funding is cut - how Orwellian is that!

None of the journalists who contacted the organisation I work for, or who I contacted and tried to provide a back ground briefing, had read the report from the Inquiry into child abuse in the NT. What’s more they didn’t care, it was an easy grab to run with the idiocy and lies that gushed out of the various Governments and oppositions PR machines - just like tossing out chips for the media pack to pounce on like a flock of seagulls.

A journalist from the Advertiser rang and wanted my employer to put her into contact with someone from the community who ‘understood the issues in a personal sense’ because she was doing a story in the Sunday Mail. She was asked if she wanted a personal response to Howard’s invasion of the NT, or if she wanted a personal response from someone who had been abused as a child, she tried to dodge around the answer but in the end clarified that it was the latter. How’s that! she wanted the organisation I worked for to put her into contact with an abused person to give her her easy feed for the week, she wanted the organisation to commit a profound breach of confidentiality and trust.

For Howard et al of course it was only a cheap wedge to chock open the doors into the next election, for Brough he was riding Howard’s push to enhance his chances in the forthcoming Liberal Party leadership stakes as well. It was just unadorned, naked political ambition, and Rudd just tried to de-wedge the wedge by saying “me too” in the same naked, unadorned exposé of naked political ambition that is only outmatched by his naked political cowardice.

It was all so pornographic. The pollies were busy exploiting the already exploited and abused children to try and get elected so they could have another go at phucking over the Indigenies when they got back into Government, and the journalists were exploiting the now already doubly exploited and abused children for the base reason of its easy, a story with legs that required no effort, no creative writing - just sound grabs.

This is what the Report says about paedophiles:
“In reality, despite the vast majority of typological studies conducted with samples of offenders who are convicted, hospitalised, or receiving psychotherapy, there is no paedophile profile: The only common denominators appear to be an offender’s lack of sensitivity to the child’s wishes and needs, along with a willingness to exploit the child for the abuser’s own gratification, profit, or selfish purposes.” (Wurtele and Miller-Perrin (1993:20).

Collectively the bastards behind the ‘invasion’ were (and some remain) the largest pornography production team in history since ?? Pol Pot?, Bosnia?, Rwanda?, Hitler?.

So here is what we should see:

Geraldine Doogue salaciously interviewing Johnny boy who’s saying ‘we’ll ban pornography’ and ‘compulsory medical assessments for all NT Indigenous children under 16’ and he’s drooling and being butt phucked by Mal in a jockey suit complete with whip going hard in the home straight shouting ‘go you good thing go!’, while in the background in a fluffy soft focus scene Fran Kelly as Dorothy from the land of Oz, Claire Martin as madam lash, Kevin Rudd in his Tintin outfit and Tony Abbott in a barbed wire joker suit frolic in a pink bubble bath and bash each other about the head with wet spaghetti filled balloons - and all the of them are in the cross hairs of a smart metal thing that homes in from on high and blots them out on the vinegar stroke; all in slow, slow motion and across the screen resolves into focus these words from the twisted dwarf ‘Why? because little children are sacred’.

Poor buggers in the NT and elsewhere, everybody wants to phuck ‘em over.

So on that happy note I’ll leave you.