http://news.ninemsn.com.au/article.aspx?id=104598

WA teen charged with racial vilification
Thursday Jun 1 17:59 AEST

It is sadly ironic the first person charged under West Australian racial vilification laws is a 14-year-old Aboriginal girl, the Aboriginal Legal Service (ALS) says.

The teenager is one of three Aboriginal girls who allegedly assaulted a 19-year-old non-indigenous woman in Kalgoorlie-Boulder in April.

Kalgoorlie senior police prosecutor Rob Taylor said the three girls have been charged with assault.

The 14-year-old girl was additionally charged with making racist slurs, under new race-hate laws that came into effect last year.

"It is also alleged that during the assault one of them made racist remarks, so she has been charged with acts intended to racially harass," he said.

ALS WA chief executive, Dennis Eggington, said it was ironic an Aboriginal girl has become the first person to face charges that were drafted to protect minority groups.

"It is ironic that the legislation has been set up to help minority groups ... and to stop racist attacks on the ethnic community and the indigenous community - and the first case to be brought is an Aboriginal girl," Mr Eggington said.

"We will be handling this as a special test case and we would hope that the true intent of the law [ie, oppressing, dispossessing, and killing WHITES] is kept in perspective."

Mr Eggington said that faced with racism, many young indigenous people responded by giving it back verbally. [It's all WHITEY's fault, dontcha know!]

He said racist taunts to non-indigenous people did not carry the same impact as those used to denigrate Aboriginal people as less worthy citizens. [Nor, the same jail time by a long shot, I'll wager.]

The girl is expected to face the Children's Court on August 2.

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Ah yes, and what noble, WORTHY CITIZENS the dusky abo's are--almost as worthy as our own Ameri-coons.

http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,20867,19149874-2702,00.html

Raping children part of 'men's business'
Simon Kearney and Ashleigh Wilson
May 16, 2006
ABORIGINAL culture was to blame for endemic levels of sexual violence against children in central Australia, according to a Northern Territory prosecutor who cited a case in which a four-year-old was drowned while being anally raped.

Alice Springs prosecutor Nanette Rogers said "men's business" in remote Aboriginal communities often led to males freely breaking the law and committing appalling crimes.

"Men's business is a predominant aspect of life in remote communities, and young men who are initiated are given a certain status in the community and feel they are not responsible for their actions," Ms Rogers told ABC television's Lateline last night.

"In other words, they can do whatever they like.

"Young women are not accorded the same status. Males are given a higher status."

Ms Rogers detailed a range of "dreadful" cases she had prosecuted, which included a seven-month-old baby and a two-year-old toddler being raped and a four-year-old girl being drowned while being raped.

"While she was playing in the water he pulled her under and anally penetrated her and drowned her probably simultaneously," she said.

Other children witnessed the murder. "Their evidence was that they saw him holding her in the water, they saw bubbles coming up, they tried to throw rocks at him in an effort to get him to desist and then they ran back to the community to alert the grandparents," Ms Rogers said.

"It was awful, absolutely dreadful. Cases like this are really beyond the range of normal comprehension.""In normal behaviour we expect to be say murdered or sexually assaulted or maybe stabbed but not on a constant basis not in relation to horrible offences committed on really small children."

She said Aboriginal communities were suffering from tragedy fatigue, allowing horrific crimes to appear unremarkable.

"The child grows up seeing violence all around him or her and having violence done to him or her and then becomes an adult and then they become violent themselves," she said.

When a report was made to police, it was often not followed up because of intimidation of witnesses or physical violence.

"Aboriginal society here tends to be very punitive so if a witness goes into court and tells a story, they're liable to get physically punished by the offender's family," she said. "It's a punitive culture at every turn."

She said the lack of supervision of children in remote communities by parents who were often drunk was a key problem. In several cases, she said, the offenders had simply whisked the children away.

Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough said the fact that only eight out of 40 indigenous communities in central Australia with populations above 2500 had a police presence was not in line with community standards.

Jane Lloyd, the manager of the domestic violence unit at the Ngaanyatjarra Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Women's Council, said more police were needed to restore law and order in remote communities, and especially the outstations.

"There is a history and tradition of violence, especially in Western Desert cultures. It's become more extreme," Ms Lloyd said.