No, you're the only person who is repeatedly doing that, but only so you can them fabricate an attack on others.
This is one of the most egregious straw men I've ever come across.
Shine Lawyers' team of expert class action lawyers have launched a class action against Northern Territory Stolen Generations. Click here to find out if you can join and more info.
www.shine.com.au
There you go.
Not to mention, redress schemes by a number of governments
Not sure why you've chosen to specifically ask for court cases only, but whatever
Courts are hardly the only source of truth
Not a straw man at all. The term was coined to describe the total industrial scale government driven murder of an entire people by the Nazis. This is what most people thought of as genocide before the
"Bringing them Home Report suggested otherwise.
Its this report that attempted to compare the Holocaust with the treatment of aborigines with its allegation of genocide.
The United Nations Convention on Genocide, Article 2, defines acts of genocide as those “committed with intent to destroy, in whole or in part, a national, ethnical, racial or religious group, as such”. There was
no such intent-removal of children were invariably for the sake of the child and applied to white children too.
Removal of at-risk aboriginal children was because they been orphaned, abandoned, destitute, neglected or subject to various forms of domestic violence, sexual exploitation and sexual abuse.
The fact that those removed constituted only a small fraction of the aboriginal population also challenges the 'genocide' claim.
The Bringing Them Home report describes the worst period for forced removals was from 1910 to 1970.
In this same period the aboriginal population of Australia GREW by 68%. Not a very effective genocide was it?
It is not just 'shock jocks and the people who listen to them' who contest the allegation of genocide.
Anthropologists like Ron Brunton and Kenneth Maddock, historian Keith Windschuttle, journalists like Paul Sheehan [SMH] and two ex Ministers of Aboriginal Affairs [Howson and Herron] have also criticised the case for genocide for the so-called 'Stolen Generations'.
You didn't say whether you would have denied Gunner an education, nor whether you would leave an abandoned hungry Cubillo in a camp with her dead relatives. I suppose that would be too awkward to do since pesky details like these childrens' futures dont fit the narrative.
Yes governments have paid off some applicants and at a lower standard of proof required than in a Court- just look how quickly Brittney Higgins was paid off before any guilt was established by a Court so that the government could avoid any negative publicity. Since you raised redress schemes, how many truly stolen children did Labor appointed Stolen Generations Taskforce in Victoria find just for being aboriginal? Have a wild guess; that's right, NONE, and it found that the state had 'no formal policy of removing children.'
Yes, I am aware of this class action being mounted but it has yet to win the case.
Courts weigh evidence in search of the truth and the evidence is usually of a high standard to withstand scrutiny.
In over twenty five years only one court has granted compensation for being 'stolen'.
The one successful compensation case in 2007 in SA-a bloke named Bruce Trevorrow and while he was removed because it was believed that he was neglected, this account was disputed by the local police which helped his case. Did the initial removal show an intent to destroy a group as defined by the UN Convention? Apparently not, it was because it was thought he was neglected and was taken to hospital.
Thank you for the link, very interesting and if you had read it you would have realised that the Trevorrow case was mentioned.
In its conclusion [
your source remember] it
agrees that the genocide claim is contested.
"Though
the debate about genocide continues,
[152] courts have accepted the beneficial intent of law makers and administrators, albeit misguided when judged by current standards".
AND that the intent was beneficial, not one aimed at destroying a people as per the UN definition.
