Abbo kids want contraceptive implants removed to get baby bonus

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/07/26/323257_ntnews.html
ABORIGINAL girls as young as 11 have asked to have birth control implants removed so they can become pregnant and receive the baby bonus.
A health worker has told how they witnessed two girls, aged 11 and 12, asking for their implants to be removed only to be told "no" and that they could no longer get the baby bonus payments if they were to have children.

A school girl at Ali Curung, between Darwin and Alice Springs, said she would be the last in the community to receive the now abandoned baby bonus payment. The girl this week said her payment was due in December.

Mothers and grandparents are forcing their teenage daughters to get birth control implants in a bid to reduce unwanted pregnancies.
Mother-of-two Desmina Miller, 18, said girls as young as 11 in Ali Curung community, 150km southeast of Tennant Creek, had the implant.

"A lot of young people got it. Some don't like it - they want to have babies," Ms Miller said.   

"Sometimes parents tell the nurses, they tell the nurses if their granddaughter or daughter is running around in the night, they tell the nurses to put the implant in."


Abandoned baby pushers, soiled nappies, broken glass and beer cans lay strewn next to the dirt road weaving through the community.

Ms Miller said girls in other communities sometimes wanted to get pregnant to receive the Federal Government's baby bonus.

The baby bonus funding for eligible mothers with newborns or adopted children under 16 will be scrapped by March 1 next year.

Under the bonus, stay-at-home mothers with incomes under $150,000 received $5000 on the birth of their first child and $3000 for each subsequent baby.
Another young mother said she thought the baby bonus should be reinstated.

The mother was in a group including a 15-year-old mum who were warned by a passing police officer not to drive their vehicle with the number of adults and children that were in the car.
Young mother Indira Small said she had her first of three children at the age of 16 "because of the culture".

Now 22, she began using the birth control implant after her youngest child, 2, was born.
"Three kids is enough," she said.
Federal Government data shows little change in the number of pregnancies in remote communities since the scrapping of the baby bonus, according to records at the Ali Curung Clinic.
A health worker said the contraceptive implant, effective for up to three years, suited the lifestyles of women in the community.

The worker said women under the legal age of consent sometimes requested to have the implant even if they were not sexually active.

The worker said young women were also requesting the birth control implant after seeing their friends become pregnant.




Why don't they just dip the contraceptive implant in poison before they insert it into these black clowns? Do the world a favour. They can't look after a kid at 11!

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

.. and you can tell what they all want the baby bonus for with this picture eh?
http://www.ntnews.com.au/article/2013/07/25/323215_ntnews.html
THE rivers of grog are rarely quite as visible as in this picture, taken in the small community of Peppimenarti, where a winding pile of cans has begun snaking its way through the social club yard.


The glittering golden river of XXXX cans has been gradually building outside the club for at least a year.
One woman in the community said the cans were stored there until residents could take them to Darwin to collect their 10 deposit through the cash-for-containers scheme.
She said money raised from the cans would be used to help pay for school excursions.
Only about 200 people live in Peppimenarti but the social club also serves residents from nearby Port Keats, Palumpa and 15 outstations.
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Jenny Macklin imposed strict restrictions on the social club shortly after the Intervention in 2007.

[Rev.Cambeul]

money raised from the cans would be used to help pay for school excursions.

How about money spent on the cans being spent on something more useful for their community?

[Br.IanVonTurpie]

money raised from the cans would be used to help pay for school excursions.

How about money spent on the cans being spent on something more useful for their community?

hmm got me thinking about an old joke.
There is this guy who goes into a gun store and he asks for the most powerful handgun available, the store attendant produces a Magnum and then says "This is a really powerful gun , what exactly are you going to shoot with it?"
The customer says "Oh! some cans".
The shop keeper says you don't need a gun this powerful to shoot cans down.
The customer says "THAT'S WHERE YOU ARE WRONG.. I WANNA SHOOT:- MEXI-CANS, PEURTORI-CANS AND JAMAI-CANS."

[Rev.Cambeul]

An Australian visiting the US of A goes to the ACE AL' IN ONE SHOOTING RANGE and says, "I wanna shoot me some of those American bo's of yours."

The American behind the counter says "Sho' thing my Oss-see mate from Downunder. What would you like? A cross-bow?" The Australian shakes his head. "A long-bow?" suggests the American. The Australian again shakes his head. The American thinks, scratches his chin, digs under the counter and brightly says, "How about one o' these here gen-you-wine Native American bows?"

The Australian getting frustrated says, "Look mate, I don't think you understand my lingo, so I'll try to explain it in a way that you should understand: find me some gen-you-wine Native Americans and strap them to the target, because I wanna shoot me some gen-you-wine American ABOS!"