Andrew Bolt: Kids are dying to validate ‘myth’ of the stolen generations

AN Aboriginal girl – this time just two years old – was put in an induced coma in hospital after allegedly being raped. This toddler should have been saved, writes ANDREW BOLT

Hilary Hannam, a former NT Chief Magistrate (pictured in 2013), said claims that authorities were too quick to remove Aboriginal children were ‘hard to believe’ after what she had seen

AN Aboriginal girl – this time just two years old – was put in an induced coma in hospital after allegedly being raped.

This toddler should have been saved. Relatives and locals said they warned often enough, and police and social workers knew her Tennant Creek home well.

For God’s sake, can this finally shock the ABC and activists out of their reckless campaign against removing Aboriginal children from dangerous homes?

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Just a week ago, on ABC Melbourne radio, Greens MP Lidia Thorpe complained that 17,000 Aboriginal children were in out of home care.

“It’s just ludicrous. Saying sorry (for the ‘stolen generations’) says that you’re not going to do it again and we still continue to see our children being ripped out their mothers’ arms…

“There are a lot of cases where they should have remained with their families.”

ABC TV this month promoted the same don’t-remove-them complaint.

A presenter first claimed that “up to 100,000 children” were once stolen from Aboriginal parents simply to be “assimilated”.

False. Activists cannot identify even 10 children “stolen” just for being Aboriginal.

Indeed, the Federal Court ruled it could not find such a policy in the NT, and courts in Western Australia and South Australia could not find one, either. Yet the ABC then interviewed a “stolen generations survivor” who complained that this alleged child-stealing was still happening: “They have to stop taking our kids.”

The ABC never explained that these children – like the “stolen generations” – were actually taken to save them from being neglected, starved, bashed or raped.

Aboriginal children are actually 10 times more likely to be hospitalised and – no coincidence – are also nearly 10 times more likely to be taken into care.

But Thorpe unwittingly gave the game away when she raged that “I can’t see any difference” between the “stolen generations” and child removals today. To admit that Aboriginal children are removed for good reasons today might force the Left to admit the “stolen generations” were removed for those good reasons, too.

Kids roam the streets of Tennant Creek in the early hours of the morning. Picture: Gary Ramage

That’s why, I believe, the ABC keeps sympathetically interviewing people urging us to save fewer Aboriginal children.

The Grandmothers Against Removals, for instance, warned us against repeating the “stolen generations” and said we could trust other Aborigines to step in and save children from bad parents.

Sweet dream. But officials who must deal with the brutal reality have warned again and again that these children aren’t saved, and the“stolen generations” preaching is deadly.

Last year Hilary Hannam, a former NT Chief Magistrate, said claims that authorities were too quick to remove Aboriginal children were “hard to believe”, after what she’d seen.

“I think departments are far too hesitant to take action,” she said.

In 2016, Western Australia’s Chief Justice, Wayne Martin, said the same: “There has been an over-reaction to the stolen generation, which has resulted in people being too willing to allow Aboriginal kids to remain in environments that they would not allow non-Aboriginal kids to remain in.”

The cost of leaving Aboriginal children in danger for the sake of the “stolen generations” myth has been monstrous. In Queensland, officials took an Aboriginal girl from her loving white foster parents – no to another “stolen generation”! – and returned her to the dysfunctional Aurukun community, where she was pack raped again.

In Darwin in 2007, welfare officers left a 12-year-old girl they found crying on the floor of her home, after being told by her part-Aboriginal foster carers she was scared she’d be taken away. So she died the next day, covered with ants in the dirt outside, with a litre and a half of pus in her leg.

In NSW as far back as in 2003, five-month-old Mundine Orcher died after what the coroner called a “systematic attack” in the care of relatives, with a Child Death Review Team later wittering: “A history of inappropriate intervention with Aboriginal families should not lead now to an equally inappropriate lack of intervention for Aboriginal children at serious risk.”

Yet it still happens.

Just this month Victoria’s first Aboriginal children’s watchdog, Andrew Jackomos, quit, angry after seeing so many Aboriginal children die.

“’I hate seeing Aboriginal kids being removed,” said Jackomos.

“But there are times when they have to be removed for their own safety and they’re not. These kids may have been alive today if the system had acted according to procedures.”

So when will the Left stop promoting the lie that too many Aboriginal children are removed, rather than too few?

How many children must die to save the “stolen generations” myth?