Category: Aboriginals

Abo Alcohol Prohibition Campaigner is an Oxymoron

Aboriginal campaigner Bernard Singer’s tree fight fine

Andrew Dowdell, Court Reporter: The Advertiser | August 01, 2008

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APY Lands chairman Bernard Singer has been convicted and fined over an assault at a Far North community earlier this year.

Singer, 41, today admitted to punching another man during an argument over the cutting down of a “sacred tree” on the lands in May.

The alcohol prohibition campaigner had denied the assault but pleaded guilty to aggravated assault and misuse of a motor vehicle midway through his trial in Coober Pedy Magistrates Court.
Abo Alcohol Prohibition Campaigner is an Oxymoron
The court previously heard that Singer had a …

SA White man ‘eaten alive by dogs’ at Abo community

The Advertiser | July 30, 2008

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A SOUTH Australian man killed in mysterious circumstances in the Northern Territory was eaten alive by wild dogs, his family said yesterday.

The fatal mauling is believed to have been the work of the same dogs that bit off a woman’s ear two months ago.

Michael Hardy, 26, a visitor from South Australia, had been driving back to Adelaide after coming to the Territory to visit his brother, Peter, in Darwin.

He was found dead near the entrance to the Hidden Valley town camp in Alice Springs last Thursday.

Police are mystified about …

Priest Wants Government to Do More for Aborigines to Prevent Crime

David Cappo blasts government inaction over Gang of 49

Maria Moscaritolo: The Advertiser | July 28, 2008

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THE new Families and Communities Minister has conceded her department has more to do in addressing the Gang of 49 crime culture in Adelaide.

Earlier today, the man charged with addressing the social ills behind the Gang of 49 – Monsignor David Cappo – said government departments were not doing enough to help.

Father Cappo, the chairman of the State Government’s Social Inclusion Board, singled out the Family and Communities Department as not doing enough and not working quickly enough.

Jennifer Rankine, …

Whites Murdered After Domestic Disputes with Non-Whites – Or – Once You Go Black, You Never Come Back!

Murder charge after stabbing death at Welland

Andrew Dowdell, Michael Milnes: The Advertiser | June 27, 2008

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A WELLAND man was acting in “self defence” when he fatally stabbed his mother’s defacto partner with a kitchen knife on Thursday night, the Port Adelaide Magistrates Court has heard.

Lazaros David Hajistassi is charged with the murder of 48-year old James Vincent Farquhar, who died from stab wounds at the Frederick St home at Welland.

The court heard Hajistassi had confronted Mr Farquhar over an ongoing domestic dispute with his mother when the fight broke out just after 11.30pm.

Police prosecutor …

Racist Aboriginal ‘White Revenge’ Rapist to be Released

The Advertiser | June 20, 2008

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AN Aboriginal man who committed a series of racially motivated rapes is set to be released into the community.

The Court of Appeal today ruled Travice Allan Edwards be released from jail under a 10-year, 28-point community-based supervision order.

Edwards was 23 in 1994 when he was sentenced to 14 years’ jail for the rape of three females – the youngest aged just 12 – a year earlier.

The court was told he would persuade them to travel with him in his car before taking a detour into a forest, where he would …

‘Sorry’ Excuse for Aboriginal Violence

‘Sorry’ excuse for mob violence

Phoebe Stewart: NT News | February 20th, 2008

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2008/02/20/3404_ntnews.html

‘Sorry’ Excuse for Aboriginal Violence


PRIME Minister Kevin Rudd’s national apology to the stolen generation (Australia’s indigenous children raised by the state) has sparked a spate of racial violence in Darwin.

Five people had to be admitted to hospital after one brawl. The Caucasian men were attacked by a group of 10 Aboriginal men, who demanded that their victims “say sorry”.

A 28-year-old Territory woman watched helplessly as her friend was king-hit and kicked to the ground outside a Darwin 24-hour eatery on Sunday morning. She said three men ran at …

Complaint Lodged Against White Supremacists

Nine News | May 22, 2002

ATSIC made an official complaint to Queensland’s Anti-Discrimination Commission about racist leaflets allegedly distributed by a white supremacist group in Rockhampton.

David Wragge, the Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Commission’s central Queensland chairman, said the leaflets should become a test case for the state’s new racial vilification legislation.

Under amendments to anti-discrimination laws last year, the Beattie Government outlawed the use of racial and religious hatred to incite violence.

The new laws make unlawful any public statements that incite hatred towards, serious contempt for or severe ridicule of a person or group on the …

Laws to Affect Creativity

The Morning Bulletin (Rockhampton) | April 17, 2001

The white supremacist group The World Church of the Creator (WCOTC) [now the Church of Creativity] is making headlines in Queensland again, this time as one of the groups most likely to be hit by tough new racial vilification laws due to be introduced next month.

Both the World Church of the Creator and the Ku Klux Klan have been under police investigation in Queensland and NSW over the past eight weeks following two racially motivated incidents.

In Rockhampton the WCOTC was being investigated after the Palmtree Wutaru Aboriginal Land Corporation was …

Australia Goes After White Supremacists

Patrick Barkham | The Guardian (UK) | April 17, 2001

http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2001/apr/17/patrickbarkham

Two Australian states are to introduce laws to try to stop racist threats. There is growing evidence that white supremacist groups are renewing hate campaigns against aborigines in some provincial towns.

Under legislation drafted by Labour governments in Queensland and Victoria, individuals who publicly incite racial or religious hatred could face up to six months’ jail, while companies could be fined up to $A30,000 (£11,000).

“It is a clear statement – both to the small minority of violent racists, and to overseas observers concerned about recent racism in Australia …