Aboriginal Media Hoax
Australian Government Lies And Anti-Aboriginal Propaganda From Minister For Indigenous Affairs
Australian politicians are constantly being caught out in their lies and outrageous claims against the Aboriginal community, and yet the propaganda continues.
Recently Gregory Andrews, head of Australia's Communities Engagement Branch in the Office of Indigenous Policy Coordination, appeared on a current affairs TV show masquerading as a "youth worker", with his face covered and his voice altered to keep his identity secret. In this fictional role, he reported a number of obscene, sensationalist fabrications about an Indigenous community where he claimed to have lived. This is just a small part of the deceitful propaganda campaign the government has waged against the Aboriginal community, which involves misleading Senate inquiries as well as the media and Australian public.
In this particular case, the lies have been about emloyees at the resort at Uluru, paedophile rings and petrol sniffing rackets in Aboriginal communities, youth hanging themselves from a church steeple (entirely fabricated!), and an exodus of elders from remote communities. Another bit of propaganda that is being peddled is that this witness is now under police protection to shield him from threatened reprisals - casting Aborigines as the "restless natives" and violent aggressors to deflect attention away from the lies that have been exposed in Mr Andrews' testimony. Well, it worked. Nobody in Australia seems remotely concerned that government propagandists are impersonating community workers on television in order to lie to the public and slander Aboriginal people.
But the propaganda didn't stop there. Mal Brough, the Minister for Indigenous Affairs, jumped on the band wagon and called an emergency law and order summit to tackle violence and dysfunction in Aboriginal communities. One of his false claims was that police had "...picked up a million dollars in cash, illicit cash, which was the proceeds of sale of illicit substances into one small community." This is laughable to us - there is no such thing as a "stockpile" of cash in Aboriginal communities. No family I know would allow any amount over fifty dollars to remain undistributed longer than five minutes! If the Minister For Indigenous Affairs knew the first thing about Aboriginal people, he might have chosen a different lie to sell.
The Minister has since been forced to admit this lie, but the damage has been done. The name of the game is getting the propaganda out there, getting the public outraged and afraid about Aboriginal communities. Nobody is aware that the actual drug bust was of a European man in the capital city of Darwin - not Indigenous gangsters in a remote community at all.
This same minister regularly appears on TV programs with unsubstantiated stories about organised paedophile rings across a network of Aboriginal communities. When he is challenged he once again admits the lie, but nobody cares. After a brief wait, he's back again with the same claims. These stories are designed specifically to demonise Aboriginal people in the media, preparing the public to accept the ominous "harsh measures" that are being promised amidst all the rhetoric and outrage.
