BELLACIAO - Australian state terrorism - 1 million preventable Australian deaths since 9-11 - Dr Gideon Polya

22.9.14

BELLACIAO - Australian state terrorism - 1 million preventable Australian deaths since 9-11 - Dr Gideon Polya: In 2000 about 9,000 Aborigines out of an Aboriginal population of 500,000 died avoidably every year but this had declined to about 2,000 annual avoidable deaths out of a population about 670,000 by 2011. Indigenous Australians are far worse off than White Australians in relation to housing, health, wealth, social conditions, imprisonment, avoidable death and life expectancy [16-20].

Australian Aborigines suffered Genocide at the hands of the European invaders in the 19th and 20th centuries. The Indigenous population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million in the first century after the invasion in 1788, mainly through violence, dispossession, deprivation and introduced disease. The last massacres of Aborigines occurred in the 1920s. Throughout much of the 20th century there was a policy of forcibly removing Aboriginal children from their mothers, a systematic genocidal policy involving the removal of perhaps 0.1 million children. This practice ostensibly ended in the 1970s and Labor PM Kevin Rudd made a national “Sorry” in 2008. However the forced removal of Aboriginal children from their mothers is now occurring at an historic high [20]. The continued deliberate deprivation of Aboriginal Australians amounts to a White Australian policy of passive Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide. The Howard Coalition Government with Labor support removed Indigenous Australians in the Northern Territory from the protection of the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act and in the so-called Intervention violated NT Aboriginal rights in a race-based fashion, this drawing censure from the Australian Human Rights Commission.