Gideon Polya, “Invasion and Australia Day. Invasion Day, Australia Day. Australia IGNORES its ongoing Indigenous Genocides”, MWC News, 26 January 2009.
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Saying it in pictures, huge paintings (1.3 metres x 2.9 metres) by Gideon Polya: "Sydney Madonna": http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/3429287878/in/set-72157616584873236/ ; "My Country": http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/4289416543/ ; Bundoora Redgums: http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/4290122090/; and Bundoora Arabesque:http://www.flickr.com/photos/gideonpolya/4288353489/ .
Invasion and Australia Day. Invasion Day, Australia Day. Australia IGNORES its ongoing Indigenous Genocides
Australia Day marks the official commencement on January 26 1788 of British theft, invasion, occupation, settlement and Aboriginal Genocide in Australia – it is accordingly denoted as Invasion Day by Indigenous Australians (Australian Aborigines, Australian Aboriginals, Black Australians).
“Politically correct” racism (PC racism) is the remarkable, CONTINUING feature of Australian atrocities against Indigenous People in Australia and around the world as a particularly selfish and violent member of the Anglo-Celtian, Anglo-American Genocide Club.
Brutal British invasion, settlement and Aboriginal Genocide paradoxically coincided with the burst of liberal and humanitarian sentiment associated with the Enlightenment – just as American Independence and enunciation of “all men are created equal and have an unalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness” were immediately followed by the final genocide of remaining Indigenous Americans.
Just as British colonialism was “dressed up” as “bringing civilization” to assertedly “inferior” non‑Europeans (see: Lindqvist, S. (1992), Exterminate All the Brutes, Granta Books, London, 2002), so today the Bush-ite Australians (“Liberal-Nationals” = Libs) and neo-Bush-ite Australians (Labor = Labs) “dress up” their gross violation of Occupied Iraqi, Occupied Afghan and Indigenous Australian human rights by “politically correct” assertions of their deep CONCERN for these captive peoples and their earnest desire to bring them “democracy” and other benefits.
Politically correct racism (PC racism) of which the Australian Murdochracy and the other Anglo-Celtia Murdochracies are guilty involves declaring non-racism and even legislating against domestic expressions of racism while simultaneously horrendously violating human rights in a race-specific fashion (see “Politically correct racism in proto-Nazi racist White Australia”: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/3499/26/ ).
While Australia was a product of the European Enlightenment and was a world leader in free public education, trade unions, the eight hour working day, public heath, one-man-one-vote and women’s suffrage (for Whites) it has had an appalling history of racist violence that CONTINUES to this day.
Thus the Indigenous population dropped from about 1 million to 0.1 million in the first century of settlement and Indigenous Genocide effected mainly through introduced disease, dispossession, deprivation and massacre (the last major massacre of Indigenous Australians occurring in the 1920s). In the 20th century the Aboriginal Genocide continued through the evil policy of forcible removal of about 0.1 million Indigenous children from their mothers (the so-called Stolen Generations) and through dire poverty and effective slavery (payment in “flour and sugar” for agricultural or domestic work on their own stolen land and retention of “pocket money” wages by corrupt officials).
Until a referendum in 1967 Indigenous Australians were subject to appalling racist laws and were not even “counted” as Australians, being dealt with under Flora and Fauna legislation (see: http://parliament.nsw.gov.au/prod/PARLMENT/hansArt.nsf/V3Key/LC20070529043 ).
The reformist Whitlam Labor Government (1972-1975) abolished racism (e.g. the notorious 1901-1974 White Australia Policy) by law, notably the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act. However in 2007 the evil, racist, Bush-ite Liberal-National Party Coalition Government suspended the 1975 Racial Discrimination Act in relation to Northern Territory Indigenous Australians with the support of the cowardly, unprincipled, neo-Bush-ite Labor Opposition - despite 90% popular support for the 1967 referendum and a majority Australian desire to say “Sorry” and sympathy for the desperate plight of Indigenous Australians.
Of course the continuing Aboriginal genocide is just PART of the continuing genocidal history of PC racist White Australia. Australia was founded as a penal colony in part to strategically help secure the British position in India against the French. Australia was thus important to British Occupation if India and was accordingly complicit in excess deaths in “British” India totalling 1.5 billion over 2 centuries and horrendous British-made famines, notably in what should have been famine-proof Bengal from the Great Bengal Famine of 1769-1770 (10 million dead) to the World War 2 Bengal Famine (4 million deaths; associated with horrendous sexual abuse of starving women and girls; possibly due to a deliberate British scorched earth policy; and unlike the contemporaneous Jewish Holocaust, almost completely “rubbed out” of history by lying, racist, holocaust-denying British academics and writers) (see “Jane Austen and the Black Hole of British History”: http://janeaustenand.blogspot.com/ ).
Australia “was there” for Great Britain in the British wars in China, New Zealand, the Sudan and South Africa in the 19th century; in World War 1 in European, Pacific and Middle Eastern theatres (notably the invasion of Turkey that precipitated the 1.5 million victim Armenian Genocide – April 24 is Armenian Genocide Day for Armenians and April 25 is celebrated as Australia’s most important holiday, Anzac Day, commemorating the heroic but unsuccessful Australian and New Zealand Army Corp - i.e. Anzac - invasion of Turkey at Gallipoli in the Dardanelles in 1915); and in World War 2 .
Post-war Australia was still intimately linked to British imperialism under a Common Head of State (1950-2005 excess deaths in countries for which the UK was a major post-war occupier total 727 million) and post-1950 was involved militarily in ALL US Asian Wars - 1950-2005 excess deaths in countries for which the US was a major post-war occupier total 82 million; excess deaths in post-1950 US Asian Wars total 24 million, the breakdown being roughly 1 million (Korea), 13 million (Indo-China), 4 million (Iraq) and 6 million (Afghanistan) (see William Blum’s “Rogue State”; “Body Count”: http://mwcnews.net/Gideon-Polya ; and “United State terrorism” on MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/17139/42/ ) .
In the 21st century PC racist White Australia quite rightly makes a lot of noise about the Japanese killing 1,000 whales each year but is SILENT about the horrendous Indigenous Genocides in which it CONTINUES to be complicit. Thus 9,000 Indigenous Australians die avoidably each year out of an Indigenous population of about 0.5 million; 90,000 Indigenous Australians died avoidably in the 11 years under the Bush-ite Coalition Government; the “annual death rate” of Indigenous Australians is 2.2 % (2.4% in the Northern Territory) as compared to 2.5% for Australian SHEEP (see “Aboriginal Genocide” on MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/15140/42/ ).
Post-invasion excess deaths in the Australian- and US-occupied Occupied Iraqi and Afghan Territories total 1.5-2 million and 3-6 million, respectively; post-invasion under-5 infant deaths total 0.6 million and 2.2 million, respectively; and Indigenous refugees from these devastated territories total 4.5 million and 4 million, respectively (see: “US mass infanticide” on MWC News: http://mwcnews.net/content/view/19275/42/ ). Even worse, if you include its world #1 coal exports, Australia is the world’s #1 developed country for “annual per capita CO2 pollution” and is a major climate criminal country complicit in a mounting climate racist, climate terrorist climate genocide that is set to kill 6 billion people by the end of the century according to Professor James Lovelock FRS (for detailed , documented analyses see “Climate Emergency, Sustainability Emergency”: http://climateemergency.blogspot.com/ and “Rudd Australia Report Card” for Australia’s involvement in the Iraqi Genocide, the Afghan Genocide and Climate Genocide: http://ruddaustraliareportcard.blogspot.com/ ).
The ugly reality is that Australia is a Land of Lies, Flies and Slies (slies being spin-based untruths). Notwithstanding ostensible “democracy”, Australia is ruled by powerful, secretive, mutually-loyal, fraternally-associated Pacmen (Prosperous Anglo-Celtic Men). Further, Mainstream media and politicians in the Australian Murdochracy are dominated by the “Dirty Digger”, former Australian, US citizen, media mogul and king-maker Rupert Murdoch.
The lying, racist, holocaust-ignoring, genocide-ignoring Mainstream media (including the notably decent but highly intimidated and neo-con-subverted Australian Broadcasting Corporation, the ABC) will simply NOT report the involvement of racist White Australia in Indigenous Genocides, in the passive mass murder of its Indigenous Subjects both at home and abroad.
On Australia Day – Invasion Day to Indigenous Australians - White Australia celebrated its prosperity, achievements and sporting prowess but IGNORED its continuing involvement in horrendous, ongoing Indigenous Genocides.