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So, Australia thinks the Aboriginals are too dangerous to be allowed to drink alcohol (What's up with that?)

I know I hate it when someone outside of America talks about American issues, but what's with the race related blanketed law that Aboriginals can't buy alcohol?

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TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP Best Comment

Wrong..
You should go to an outback aboriginal community..

The woke inner city liberals from Melbourne are really good at virtue signalling..
But it don’t stop the violence and incestual rapes going on…

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TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

@Lostpoet i havnt tuned into it all in quiet a while, but im sure it goes like this.

if youre unemployed and recieve governemnt welfare. instead of cash they give you a credit card top up. and this credit card cant be used in liqour stores or for ciggs. labor party scrapped that when they took power. went back to just giving ca$h
now theres another election coming up. those who ended this credit card scheme are embarressed because violence immediatly shot up.
as aboriginal elders warned it would, and begged them not to end the scheme.

(important side note... that aboriginal elders were begging for the scheme to stay in place)
and the media not mentioning that part .. seems weird right?

now the argument is, : its racist to reinstall the card system.

Lostpoet · M

@TheOneyouwerewarnedabout Even the employed are banned. But it did say that a lot of the elders wanted to keep it enforced. The paper was talking about how there was a barrier between a bar and the aboriginals couldn't cross it. But this is me reading one article about an issue that i know nothing about.

TheOneyouwerewarnedabout · 41-45, MVIP

'they' say a lot.
from the comfort of an entire different state without ever visiting and seeing the problem for themselves..

Viper · M

Based on the very little reading I've done since I saw this post less than 5 minutes ago...

The issue is that while a smaller percentage of Aboriginals drink, the ones that do drink, don't stop drinking... and keep drinking, and drink some more... to the point they're threatening their lives or the lives of others.

And that's causing major major issues in some areas and that's why it's being banned in some areas.

Also, it's my understanding that the traditional aboriginal society is a patriarchy, where the males has more rights than the females. And like America back in the day, when males had more rights than females, if the males are going out and getting and staying drunk, that causes issues for the females as well.

In fact Australia apparently got extremely upset with this Canadian musical group...

A group that prides themselves of being able to play a ton of different instruments, and make different sounds in different ways...

But extremely upset that not only a female touched a traditionally male only aboriginals musical instrument, but she played it too.

(PS: Based on the research I did at that time, some aboriginals are now allowing female aboriginals to play the instrument under the guidance of a male, while some still don't allow a female to touch it at all, but different tribes have different guidelines for that)

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Matt85 · 36-40, M

For real? That's backasswards.

meggie · F

There is a hell of a lot of violence with the aboriginal men in particular when they drink. One huge concern with it too is the exposure of small kids to porn. The kids are raping each other or being raped by their fathers or other family members. One 12 year old girl was taken to a remote place, tied to a tree naked and repeatedly raped for 2 weeks.

deadgerbil · 22-25

First time I've heard of an alcohol ban for aboriginals. Sounds extremely backwards but idk Gonna read more about it

https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/jan/25/total-alcohol-ban-wont-solve-problems-in-alice-springs-say-indigenous-groups

Lostpoet · M

@deadgerbil I read it in the NY times.

deadgerbil · 22-25

@Lostpoet I skimmed that too

TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M

Probably Aboriginals representatives would have requested the government to not allow their kids.

Lostpoet · M

@TheOrionbeltseeker From what I read it's the Aboriginal women that think the men shouldn't drink. I don't know if the Aboriginals have any representatives.

TheOrionbeltseeker · 36-40, M

@Lostpoet Definitely, everyone has their representative in the government. Government in modern day, being democratic functions on this principle. In this case, I am not sure but representation should be according to the population one community has in the country. Not more, not less.

Banksy83 · 36-40, M

I have heard they get wasted everytime and its never a social drink its for the best

Lostpoet · M

@Banksy83 That's what it said crime rate rose 50% right after the ban was overturned it only took a year before they reapplied it. But still i don't know if you can put the actions of people on their race. Why don't they make it so if you've committed a crime then you can't buy alcohol and not because of your ancestry we don't trust you.

Monalisaa1986 · 36-40, F

Not all aboriginal people drink like not all of them go to prison or are dangerous

Banksy83 · 36-40, M

@Monalisaa1986 I think you indigenous people get stereotyped because of the few who are drunkards .I admire you aboriginal lady

Monalisaa1986 · 36-40, F

@Banksy83 I’m not aboriginal

empanadas · 31-35, M

I heard they keep self harming themselves and causing a lot of violence when they drink. Im not really familiar with their issues.

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