2015 perspective of ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and Aboriginal Ethnocide:
https://sites.google.com/site/aboriginalgenocide/2015-perspective .
(A). Big picture.
Before the British Invasion in 1788, Indigenous Australians had been living in Australia for about 60,000 years. There were 350-750 different tribes and a similar number of languages and dialects, of which only 150 survive today and of these all but about 20 are endangered. After the brutish British Invasion, the Aboriginal population dropped from about 1 million in 1788 to about 0.1 million in the first century through introduced disease, deprivation and genocidal violence. The last massacres of Aborigines occurred in the 1920s but no Treaty has ever been signed. Indigenous Australians were only counted after a referendum in 1967 and were finally given some protection by the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act. In 1998 about 4,000 Aborigines out of an Aboriginal population of 500,000 died avoidably every year but the avoidable death rate has declined from 0.8% pa in 1998 to 0.6% pa in 2013, with still circa 4,000 annual avoidable deaths out of a population about 670,000. Indigenous Australians are far worse off than White Australians in relation to housing, health, wealth, social conditions, imprisonment, avoidable death and life expectancy (Gideon Polya, “Film Review: “Utopia” By John Pilger Exposes Genocidal Maltreatment Of Indigenous Australians By Apartheid Australia”, Countercurrents, 14 March, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya140314.htm ).
In the 20th century up to 1 in 10 Aboriginal children were forcibly removed from their mothers, the so-called Stolen Generations. Despite the “Sorry” by Labor PM Kevin Rudd, the forced removal of Indigenous Children from their mothers is proceeding at record levels. Thus Paddy Gibson, University of Technology Sydney, (2013) : “For each of the last five years, approximately a thousand Aboriginal children have been coming into the ‘out-of-home care' system long-term. This is a higher number than were removed during any time in the twentieth century. Half of the children have not been placed with kin or relatives. We are fast approaching the Stolen Generations removal rate cited by Rudd: between 10 and 30 per cent of all Indigenous children. A 2011 annual report from the Department of Family and Community Services found that 9.6 per cent of Aboriginal children in NSW were in out-of-home care. Across Australia , nearly 6 per cent of Indigenous children are in out-of-home care. If current trends continue, the figure will exceed 10 per cent by the end of the decade. While Kevin Rudd was apologising for the past Aboriginal children were being taken in numbers greater than at any time in the 20th Century” (see Paddy Gibson, “Stolen futures”, Overland , Spring 2013: http://overland.org.au/previous-issues/issue-212/feature-paddy-gibson/ ).
Since 1788 some 2 million Indigenous Australians have died untimely deaths, White Australians have destroyed 600 out of 750 distinct Australian Aboriginal groups (and associated languages and dialects) and of the remaining 150 all but 20 are endangered, this qualitatively representing the worst genocide in human history (see Gideon Polya, “As UK Lackeys Or US Lackeys Australians Have Invaded 85 Countries (British 193, French 80, US 70)”, Countercurrents, 9 February, 2015: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya090215.htm ).
(B) 2 key areas for Indigenous advancement, specifically (1) Health and (2) Education.
There are 2 key areas for Indigenous advancement, specifically (1) Health and (2) Education for obvious reasons. The “Closing the Gap Prime Minister’s Report 2015” demonstrates unacceptable failure in both areas. http://www.dpmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/publications/Closing_the_Gap_2015_Report.pdf .
(1). Health failure – huge Indigenous avoidable mortality rate between that of South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa .
The avoidable death rate (avoidable deaths as a percentage of population per year) is the difference between the observed death rate and the death rate expected for a decently governed demographically comparable population (for details see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, that includes an avoidable mortality-related history of every country from Neolithic times and is now available for free perusal on the web : http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/ ).
The mortality rates is 1.0% pa for Indigenous Australians and 0.6% for non-Indigenous Australians (Figure 1, Overall mortality rates by Indigenous status: NSW, QLD, WA, SA and the NT combined 1998‑2031, page 7, “Closing the Gap Prime Minister’s Report 2015”: http://www.dpmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/publications/Closing_the_Gap_2015_Report.pdf ).
For non-Indigenous Australia the observed death rate is 0.6% pa which is about what is expected for a low birth rate, high life expectancy society and hence the avoidable death rate is about 0.0% (crudely put, old people die and the older the population the higher the expected death rate).
However the Indigenous Australian population (population 670,000) has a very youthful demographic and a median age of 21.8 years (cf Bangladesh 25.8, India 26.9 and Pakistan 23.2 years ) as compared to non-Indigenous Australians 37.6 years (cf Austria 43.3, Belgium 41.9 and the UK 40.5 years, countries for which the avoidable death rate is about 0.0%) (see “Estimates of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Australians, June 2011”, ABS, 2011: http://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/mf/3238.0.55.001 ; Median age, “World Population Prospects: the 2012 Revision”, UN: http://esa.un.org/wpp/unpp/panel_indicators.htm ).
The observed death rate in decently governed Developing Countries with a demographic similar to that of Indigenous Australia is about 0.4% per year (see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/ ). and thus the avoidable Indigenous death rate is 1.0% - 0.4% = 0.6% as compared to 0.4% pa for impoverished South Asia and 1.0% for impoverished sub-Saharan Africa but occurring in one of the world’s richest countries (per capita income $83,000 per head per year) i.e. 0.6% of 670,000 = 4,020 or about 4,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably from deprivation every year.
(2) Education failure – Educational Apartheid disaster (see “Educational Apartheid”: https://sites.google.com/site/educationalapartheid/ ).
The “Closing the Gap Prime Minister’s Report 2015” demonstrates utterly unacceptable levels of truancy and utterly deplorable failure of a substantial proportion of Indigenous children to meet educational benchmarks (The “Closing the Gap Prime Minister’s Report 2015” demonstrates unacceptable failure in both areas. http://www.dpmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/publications/Closing_the_Gap_2015_Report.pdf ).
This ongoing disaster is happening in one of the richest and better educated countries the world. Australia has committed $125 billion to the post-2001 War on Terror in which 1 Australian was killed by a terrorist within Australia (Sydney, 2015) but 13.3 x 4,000 per year = 53,000 Indigenous Australians have died avoidably and 10 million Muslims have been killed by the US Alliance through violence or violently-imposed deprivation (see Gideon Polya, “Horrendous Cost For Australia Of US War On Terror”, Countercurrents, 14 October, 2012: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya141012.htm and “Muslim Holocaust Muslim Genocide”; https://sites.google.com/site/muslimholocaustmuslimgenocide/ ).
(C). 4,000 Aboriginal avoidable deaths annually versus 8 terrorism-related deaths in Australia in 37 years.
Careful analysis of the comparative Indigenous mortality data in analysis of Figure 1 in the “Closing the Gap Prime Minister’s Report 2015” (see: http://www.dpmc.gov.au/sites/default/files/publications/Closing_the_Gap_2015_Report.pdf ) reveals that the Indigenous mortality rate has only fallen from 1,200 per 100,000 people per year in 1998 (Indigenous population about 500,000) to 1,000 per 100,000 people per year in 2013 (Indigenous population 670,000).
Given a baseline mortality rate of about 0.4% pa for decently run Developing countries with a high young demographic such as that of Indigenous Australia, this translates to an avoidable mortality rate of 0.8% pa in 1998 (4,000 avoidable deaths pa) and 0.6% in 2013 (4,020 avoidable deaths in 2013). The avoidable death rate is about 0.0% pa for White Australia, North America, and rich Western European countries (for details see Gideon Polya, “Body Count. Global avoidable mortality since 1950”, this including an avoidable mortality-related history of every country since Neolithic times and now available for free perusal on the web: http://globalbodycount.blogspot.com.au/2012/01/body-count-global-avoidable-mortality_05.html ).
The 4,000 avoidable Indigenous deaths each year are inescapably linked to Lib-Lab neglect and to the terror hysteria-driven fiscal perversion whereby the Lib-Labs (Coalition and Labor Right) have committed to a $125 billion long-term accrual cost to Australia of the US War on Terror and killing 10 million Muslims abroad through violence or imposed deprivation instead of seriously trying to save thousands of Indigenous Australian lives at home (about 54,000 Indigenous Australians have died avoidably since 9-11) – Lib-Lab Australian state terrorism indeed (see Gideon Polya, “Australian State Terrorism - Zero Australian Terrorism Deaths, 1 Million Preventable Australian Deaths & 10 Million Muslims Killed By US Alliance Since 9-11”, Countercurrents, 23 September, 2014: http://www.countercurrents.org/polya230914.htm ).
(D). Some definitions.
Australian Aboriginal Genocide. Article 2 of the UN Genocide Convention states: “In the present Convention, genocide means any of the following acts committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnic, racial or religious group, as such: a) Killing members of the group; b) Causing serious bodily or mental harm to members of the group; c) Deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part; d) Imposing measures intended to prevent births within the group; e) Forcibly transferring children of the group to another group.” UN Genocide Convention (see: http://www.edwebproject.org/sideshow/genocide/convention.html ) (There have been about 2 million untimely Aboriginal deaths since 1788, and currently 4,000 avoidable Aboriginal deaths each year or 52,000 since 9-11).
Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide. Ethnocide is the wiping out of languages and cultures. (Before the British invasion here were 350-750 different Australian tribes and a similar number of languages and dialects, of which only 150 survive today and of these all but about 20 are endangered, notably by continued nation-wide child removal policies, Federal Government policies against remote communities, the WA Government policy of eliminating up to 150 remote communities and the NT Government policy minimizing education in the first language of Aboriginal children).
Politically correct racism (PC racism). Politically correct racism (PC racism) is declaration of non-racism coupled with active or passive policies leading to race-specific harm (as exampled by endless White Australian declarations of "love" for Indigenous Australians while tolerating or supporting policies leading to the appalling outcomes summarized above, ongoing Australian Aboriginal Genocide and ongoing Australian Aboriginal Ethnocide).