Andrew Bolt: Apartheid alive and well in Victoria
THE announcement that young Aboriginal offenders won’t be sent to adult jails, but whites will, shows apartheid is alive and well in Victoria, writes Andrew Bolt.
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AUSTRALIA has become so racist that we now have apartheid in our justice system. Victoria proved it this week, ruling that adult jails were bad for young Aboriginal criminals but fine for whites.
This latest step towards legal apartheid occurred after juvenile criminals trashed the Parkville Juvenile Detention Centre in yet another riot.
Victoria’s Socialist Left Andrews Government decided to move the most violent to the Barwon maximum-security jail, but the Victorian Aboriginal Legal Service protested.
On Tuesday the government made a deal: juveniles identifying as Aboriginal would be returned to the Malmsbury or Parkville youth jails, but up to 15 non-Aboriginal ones would stay at Barwon.
One form of prison for Aborigines, another for whites.
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That racism was even formalised in a document drawn up by the Department of Health and Human Services and made an order by the Supreme Court.
It states: “I undertake on behalf of the (department secretary) that she will not authorise or cause the removal of any Aboriginal child to any youth justice or remand centre established at Barwon … ”
As a teenager I was taught to hate South Africa for its apartheid and to admire the words of the great Martin Luther King: “I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the colour of their skin, but by the content of their character.”
I thought my generation would never forget and never surrender those ideals.
I thought Australians would stay true to what we loved to believe of ourselves: that we treated people alike, no matter their money, colour or creed. All that counted for us was that they had good hearts.
But what’s happened to us? Have we gone mad? We now have Aboriginal-only courts, Aboriginal-only benefits and Aboriginal-only services. We even have Queensland students sued for complaining against segregation at their university, after one was kicked out of a computer room reserved for Aboriginal students.
Worst of all, both the Liberals and Labor plan to change our Constitution to divide us by race, with people identifying as Aboriginal given more legal rights. How could we have become so racist?
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