An open letter to mssrs Howard and Brough
Jul. 3rd, 2007 12:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
catsidheYou know something? You can claim all the wonderful intentions in the world when you invade your own country and demonise an entire people, but your claim to the high moral ground is somewhat tainted when it turns out that you had just broken the system that was being used to show what things could be like.
It's bad enough that a sudden and urgent need for action after ten years (well, much much more, but that's another rant) is discovered just before an election, but when you stop funding the very programs which are fighting to prevent the very behaviour you are so in high dudgeon about, it looks like you are setting up your victims to look as bad as possible before you ride in and “rescue” them.
Or was it just the sort of mind-boggling institutional incompetence we've come to expect from the incumbent Federal government?
Either way, it doesn't bode well for the well-being of aboriginal children.
Maybe the people who've had this dumped in their laps can make it work despite the ‘help’ they're getting from above. I sure as hell hope so.
It's bad enough that a sudden and urgent need for action after ten years (well, much much more, but that's another rant) is discovered just before an election, but when you stop funding the very programs which are fighting to prevent the very behaviour you are so in high dudgeon about, it looks like you are setting up your victims to look as bad as possible before you ride in and “rescue” them.
Or was it just the sort of mind-boggling institutional incompetence we've come to expect from the incumbent Federal government?
Either way, it doesn't bode well for the well-being of aboriginal children.
Maybe the people who've had this dumped in their laps can make it work despite the ‘help’ they're getting from above. I sure as hell hope so.
