Tourist Boycott of Australia

As many of you know, the Australian government recently announced plans for severe interference in Aboriginal communities, including compulsory medical checks on children for signs of sexual abuse, and moves toward taking control of native land (via Vox ex Machina). It’s easy to picture what such examinations involve, and whether these measures would ever be imposed on communities of white children in the first world. And the results we’ve seen from moves to take over land “for the good of” indigenous people are well known too — including the U.S.’s own far worse policies in Iraq and Afghanistan, or our “Indian Schools” (see photo link). So far as sexual abuse is concerned, the record of the Stolen Generation is more than enough to disqualify the colonial government as a remedial force.

Colonization needs to stop. Please read about the International Day of Action.

Please also support the Tourist Boycott of Australia, and write to the Australian government at these addresses to let them know your position.

[UPDATE: I should have linked directly to the ANTaR site too. (Thanks Lauredhel of Hoyden About Town.)]

A sampling of links on the issue:

1. Whenua, Fenua, Enua, Vanua
   Dear Brothers and Sisters of Our Nearby Land of Aotearoa
   Robbie Thorpe Black GST/Camp Sovereignty NDA Melbourne Press Release
   Tamakimakaurau Tautoko
   Kiwis Prepared to Be Arrested Over ‘Disgusting’ Howard Crackdown
   I Won’t Apologise to Howard — Hone Harawira
2. Women of Color Blog
   Abusing into Goodness
   What Would It Be Like to Have This Done to Us?
   Sexual Abuse, the Lost Generation, Australian Aboriginals
   
3. Hoyden About Town
   UPDATE: Howard’s Wedge
   UPDATE: Aboriginal People “Scared Stiff”, and Workforce Challenges: More Reactions to the Howard War on Indigenous Autonomy:

   Mark Wenitong, president of the Australian Indigenous Doctors’ Association, appears to have learnt about this plan in the newspapers just as the Northern Territory government did.

   UPDATE:Fear, Funding, and Failure to Listen: Today’s Indigenous News Roundup
   Blood and guilt: Federal jackbootery roundup
   Triple J youth radio’s “Hack” panel on the NT indigenous plan: Davis, Wenitong and Doyle

4. Fatima and Ahmed’s Son Ridwan Laher
   Tourist Boycott of Australia
   Australian Fascist
   Howard Admits to Land Grab
   Australian Genocide
5. Pudgy Indian
   It’s a Fucking Land Grab
   Nuclear Waste on Darky Land in Australia
6. She Who Stumbles
   Australia Recolonised
7. Signposts
   Aboriginal Sexual Abuse
8. Theory of the Offensive
   Altogether Now
9. Intelligenta Indigena
   International Day of Action: Stop the Genocide on Aboriginal Land
10. Intercontinental Cry
    Action and Dialogue in Australia
11. Larvatus Prodeo
    Indigenous state of emergency: one week on
12. Vox ex Machina
    More on Howard’s Crackdown
    Indigenous Australians Threaten to Shut Down Uluru
    Tourist Boycott of Australia
13. The Age
    It’s Not About Race: PM
14. Stuff.co.nz
    Crackdown on Aborigine Child Sex Abuse
15. World Socialist Web Site
    Official Response to Aboriginal Child Sexual Abuse in Australia: More Law and Order, at World Socialist Web Site
16. ABC News
    Indigenous Groups Issue Response to Abuse Plan
17. UPDATE: Germaine Greer, in the Guardian
    Worlds Apart (Thanks RickB of Ten Percent.)
18. UPDATE: Polemica
    The NT Inquiry’s Recommendations
19. UPDATE: More links from Hoyden About Town
    NT Plan Read ‘ems: “white man’s burden”, Howard’s poll plunge, and reactions from Pat Turner and Lt Gen Sanderson
    Living Black
    More on Howard’s Indigenous Emergency Measures
    Who Do We Trust More to Do It Right?

Image du Jour: Please Leave Jackboots Here
Some of These Things Are Not Like the Other Ones: A Quiz

If a person is white, their criminality is attributed to some other factor. White felons are not considered to be examples of how dreadful, dangerous, and animalistic white people are.

20. UPDATE: Mark Lawrence
    The White Man’s Burden: Howard’s Attack on Aboriginal Self-Determination

UPDATE: This is just a quick sampling, I’ve surely missed many important articles. If you have some that I missed, please leave a comment and I’ll add them.

UPDATE 7/13: I added a photo and a link to an Amnesty International report on the terrible “Indian School” programs in North America. Children as young as four or five years old were taken from their parents to serve as hostages, forbidden to speak their own languages, forbidden visits by their parents, many of them dying of disease or being beaten or sexually abused. The story resembles that of the Lost Generation. One of those infamous schools was in Carlisle, PA, not a long drive from where I live. Thanks to The Angryindian for bringing this message about assimilation closer to home.