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Australia still treats its native population horribly. Nazi style horribly. Every single piece of news about the aborigines has been bad for decades, with little or no social assistance in any way.
When you accuse a human being of being an 'oxygen theif' at their trial, nazis are prevalent in society.
Fuck you, Australia.
Fair. Though this has been steadily improving and continues to improve.
No. While this was once true, it has not been true for about a century. Even the scandalous Stolen Generations, which was effectively an attempt at cultural genocide, was approached with the intent of improving the lives of Aboriginal peoples. The worst Australian policies of 50 years ago were not about rounding up and mass-murdering aboriginal people. If you throw Nazism around everywhere, you dilute the word. There is plenty of room for criticism of Australia's treatment of Aboriginal people but don't go overboard or you weaken your argument.
Nazism is illegal here:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-15/qld-man-charged-nazi-salute-at-afl-game-banned/105773522
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-04/vic-camp-sovereignty-charges/105732982
https://www.abc.net.au/listen/programs/pm/neo-nazi-leader-arrested-in-melbourne/105727024
But it is also present and we are fighting a war against it:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-01/authorities-condemn-anti-immigration-rally-perth-neo-nazi/105722068
You probably only see the stuff that makes your feed globally and yes, there is plenty of news that is bad. But there's lots that isn't as well. The last piece of news I read before this article was about Cathy Freeman being inducted into Stadium Australia's inaugural Hall of Fame list. Here: have some news that is nicer:
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-09-16/cathy-freeman-ian-thorpe-stadium-australia-hall-of-fame/105777908
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-01-04/binar-futures-basketball-adam-desmond-perth/104653506
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-05-28/uni-program-pairing-first-nations-business-owners-students/103896464
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-02-13/intense:-stolen-generations-survivor-recounts/103458314
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-09-04/school-program-aims-to-keep-pertame-language-alive/102810296
Again, let me correct you here:
https://www.servicesaustralia.gov.au/payments-and-support-for-indigenous-australians?context=60078
https://www.niaa.gov.au/our-work/grants-and-funding
https://www.health.gov.au/our-work/indigenous-australians-health-programme
https://www.indigenous.gov.au/grants
Look, I'm not saying we're perfect on this front. Hell, I don't even think I'd go so far as to say we're good on this front. But we're trying, ok?
Fyi there is no "attempt" at cultural genocide. Genocide is a crime in the act itself, regardless of the success of lack thereof in the outcome.
You aren't wrong, but they didn't think like that at the time. The racism was off the charts by today's standards. It's ghastly to look back on and the psychological damage this policy did is immeasurable and ongoing. But beyond all that, they truly were attempting to improve the lives of "the savages" as they saw it.
Oh yeah I get it. They didn't think there was anything wrong with what they did at the time. I was merely addressing one part of your own comment:
There's no such thing as "an attempt at...genocide". If the act was carried out with the intent to eradicate (even if, as was the case in Australia, they believed the eradication was in the best interests of the individuals), then the action is genocide, whether or not the targeted group actually ceases to exist.
If you think about it, that has to be the case. Otherwise we would say there has never been a genocide in history. The Nazis only attempted genocide against the Jews, Roma, gays, etc. But we don't say that, we say what the Nazis did was genocide, even though Jews, Romani, and gay people still exist today. (And likewise, the genocide Israel is currently perpetuating against Palestinians is a genocide, not an "attempted" one, which is why the common genocide denialist's attempt to point to numbers killed as a sign that it's not genocide is irrelevant.)
It's amazing how much isn't taught in school. And I know that won't be surprising to those in other colonial states like the US and Canada but we learned about US segregation, Jim Crow, read/watched To Kill A Mockingbird, but didn't know we've had the same kind of de facto segregated towns here in Australia within living history, complete with our own Freedom Ride in 1965. Luckily the union movement and communists eventually put a dent in it through boycotts and shoved the government into action.
Heads up, don't use the word "aboriginees" to describe our first peoples. It's Aboriginals or first nations for the most part.
But yeah fuck this cunt. That ruling was bullshit even for the NT
Good thing you guys dont have guns