Monday July 6, 2009, 4:14 pm
:( That's just horrible.... Thanks Tom!

Monday July 6, 2009, 4:39 pm
It is horrible! Sadly noted.

Monday July 6, 2009, 5:25 pm

Deplorable; and should be further exposed!

Monday July 6, 2009, 5:31 pm
I pray something is done about this. Thanks Tom.

Tuesday July 7, 2009, 1:56 pm
yet another sign for the end of times,

Tuesday July 7, 2009, 2:29 pm
Those poor women and children..the pain they must suffer. This should be a priority of Australia to re-educate the people and to offer protection. I can not point fingers, our own Country does little to help our Native peoples...but this seems even worse than what exists on our soil.

Tuesday July 7, 2009, 2:52 pm
(Not the best day for me to read this news. ..)
Can't help the tears in my eyes as I confirm this very world is the most dangerous place to live...
Tears are still in my eyes.....

Tuesday July 7, 2009, 2:57 pm
Those people are as abused as the american indians.Give them their land and help them for God's sake!

Tuesday July 7, 2009, 3:19 pm
Aussies need to demand that PM Rudd step up to support the safety of children and women abused in Aboriginal communities. Any Aussies out there who want to help their government "rise" towards taking responsibility by inititating a new petition or Pledge action please know my support will be immediate as I am sure all Care2 members response will be as well.
Tom this news has been noted with a heavy heart but not with silent resignation. Thank you for posting ... lead on !

Tuesday July 7, 2009, 6:48 pm
Abuse of women and children is absolutely terrible. There is some thought that abuse amongst indigenous peoples is a result of colonization, displacement and destruction of the indigenous ways of life.

Poor aboriginal girls and women - many were raped by the white invading men, too.

Wednesday July 8, 2009, 3:04 pm
Thanks Tom...I could write volumes on the gross abuse of Aboriginals here but this is sick enough for public viewing...

There is a video "The First Australians"...It was released last year...It is the first documentary I have ever seen (As an Australian) portraying a reasonably accurate history of the hideous abuses Aboriginals have suffered at the hands of the white man...In other words Aboriginal history was not aired on mainstream media until 2008!...It was easier to pretend they did not exist!

Aboriginal history is not taught in schools, it is not a subject one would desire to dwell upon :-)

Wednesday July 8, 2009, 8:50 pm
that is pathetic! when is the world going to wake up to the fact that the only way to have PEACE in this world is to help protect these CHILDREN (NOT just feed them) otherwise they are growing up ANGRY and violent! who wouldn't be?eh? until We quit worrying about how much money is will cost to support children in AMERICA as well as other countries, it will continue! We must stop ALL forms of abuse, including the silent ones that NO ONE wants to talk about like incest from policemen,doctors,lawyers,preachers,etc., and the addiction of sex by people who watch porn, and the effect of children being exposed to such sexual conduct on t.v., etc., it will continue, and only get worse I am afraid! blessings of peace.........Cathi

Wednesday July 8, 2009, 9:28 pm
This is just horrific. What will they be like when they are older, these kids are scarred for life! sadly noted, Tom

Wednesday July 8, 2009, 9:37 pm
It is our country's shame. "Australia Day" should not be celebrated as it is - it should be a day of commiseration. The 26th January, 1788 was a tragic day for all Aboriginal people. Thanks Tom

Thursday July 9, 2009, 12:08 am
About the same as the Reservations here in Canadian North, since the Europeans came the last 400 years have made life for our people terrible. Drugs, booze, huffing[aerosol ] cans, gasoline fumes, anything to kill the fact they are cold, abused, and neglected. All anyone says is "Oh something must be done"!! How can the women make life better when they are beaten senseless and out cold as their babies are sexually abused by men who would never have thought of such a thing hundreds of years ago. The Indigenous people of North and South America and Australia have been given no chance to regain their life, they are beaten down from every corner. Your Australia Aborigines do not know anymore how to regain their customs, their land, just their way of the old times. Do not judge them as they are now, judge yourselves for living high on the hog in detriment to them.

Thursday July 9, 2009, 5:07 am
This is truly appalling. How can this still be happening in a developed nation. The rest of the world has shown a complete disregard for the well-being of these people. The atrocities they bestow on one another are a symptom of having been abused as a people. They have been beaten down so badly they don't know how to pick themselves up. Tackling the current day problems in these communities would be difficult, but it needs to be done. Their government and the rest of the world needs to take responsibility for having helped to create the horrific conditions in these communities. Further, they should facilitate educating the aborigines about their culture and assist them to instill some pride in themselves.

Thursday July 9, 2009, 5:08 am
Truly, the shame of Australia. Thank you Topm

Thursday July 9, 2009, 6:43 am
The shame of Australia is greater than the shame of South Africa Eureka?... (well very nearly, but not quite)

Your people enslaved the black Africans and made a fortune from zero labour costs doing it...And until this day continue to do so (what nationality is your gardener?)...

Australia has nothing to be proud of but who are you to critisize oh matriach of the opressed?

Thursday July 9, 2009, 11:22 am
Unbelievable Dark Entities that hammer there indecent behavior into children of this earth..

Thursday July 9, 2009, 11:53 am
this is so awful thanks tom

Thursday July 9, 2009, 2:56 pm

David, with all due respect, two wrongs don't make a right. You constantly criticize America and other countries for human rights abuses, and rightfully so, yet you seem to be holding another care2 member who criticized your country to a double standard.

In your first post you said, "I could write volumes on the gross abuse of Aboriginals here but this is sick enough for public viewing..." then you personally attacked Eureka when she agreed with you by calling her "oh matriarch of the oppressed." Isn't that a little harsh? Abusive Ad Hominem attacks are against care2 terms of service, as I'm sure you know.

I assume most care2 members are here to try to make the world a better place, believe we have the right to our own opinions, and understand that there have been human rights abuses against indigenous people and minorities in virtually every country in the world, according to the history books.

Eureka is no more responsible for the human rights abuses that took place in South Africa then you are for what happened to the Aborigines in Australia, or then I am for what happened to Native Americans here in America. Let's all try to work together to try to right those wrongs and others wherever they still occur on this small planet we call home. :)

Thursday July 9, 2009, 6:05 pm
Horrible and so sad!

Friday July 10, 2009, 1:18 pm
tom, thanx for bringing this issue to light. had no idea these horrors were occurring in australia--so sad.

Saturday July 11, 2009, 2:56 pm
Native people's are abused everywhere and there is no "right" in this. It is up to the people who are not abused to fight for those neighbours otherwise what gets done to one group will find it's way to the rest.
We share this planet and no one owns it although there are those that would like too and are succeeding the longer we allow this to occur!

Tuesday July 14, 2009, 11:29 pm
THX. MY FRIEND.......

Tuesday July 14, 2009, 11:49 pm
I'll let that one slide Tom, But I do suspect that I know Eureka better than you? :-) Personal attacks are not my thing unless previously personally attacked! and the deserving deserve no less...:-)

Saturday July 25, 2009, 5:26 am
is hard to believe that such things happening in XXI centuary.......its make me very sad, that no one can protect those kids and young girls......