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Green_T
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Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises'
#9112854 - 10/21/08 10:06 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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source: BBC
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Australian officials are reporting an increase in petrol-sniffing in Aboriginal communities controversially taken over by the government. The government is managing dozens of troubled Northern Territory settlements in a move to curb child abuse and alcoholism. But tribal leaders believe attempts to curb alcohol abuse could have fed a sharp rise in petrol sniffing. The chemical fumes provide a cheap high and respite from crushing poverty.
Alcohol banned
The federal government's decision to send troops and medical teams to Aboriginal communities in Australia's Northern Territory in 2006 was an emergency response to rampant alcoholism and child abuse. Alcohol was prohibited under the multi-billion-dollar rescue plan but as the flow of beer, wine and spirits dried up, some tribal elders have reported an increase in petrol-sniffing.
Aboriginal children as young as five have developed an addiction.
The abuse of petrol can cause brain damage, depression and high blood pressure as well as heart disease and miscarriages. Some indigenous communities have tried drastic measures to eradicate this scourge by sending addicts to harsh outback camps far away from temptation. The introduction of a specially designed unleaded fuel has also helped. It has been stripped of the odours that sniffers find so appealing.
Wet season
But serious problems remain and the situation in some areas is likely to get worse in the coming months. Aboriginal leaders have said that petrol-sniffing invariably escalates during tropical Australia's wet season. Many settlements will be closed off by high rivers and impassable roads, and isolation and boredom will often conspire to fuel a rise in this type of substance abuse.
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learysprotoge
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Re: Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises' [Re: Green_T]
#9113028 - 10/21/08 10:44 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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A safer alternative would be to send them weed seeds. We should set up a fund.
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wisp
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Re: Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises' [Re: learysprotoge]
#9113258 - 10/21/08 11:24 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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That alternative would work for the entire world...sadly, the politicians don't see it that way.
Petrol sniffing is a serious problem in Aboriginal communities. As the article pointed out, the ban on alcohol has only made things worse. To further the issue, sniffing petrol leads to an even higher increase in violence than alcohol does. It is a truly difficult situation and the Australian government has managed to fuck things up once again. If you saw what an Aboriginal community is like in comparison to the rest of Australia, you would be shocked. It is a world apart from the sickenly privileged white Australia - it looks far more like Africa than a developed country.
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Ozzy_shroomer
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Re: Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises' [Re: wisp]
#9114032 - 10/22/08 02:55 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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We said their Trip but the gov seems to see it as out of sight out of mind very said world we live in sometimes
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Takemeaway
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Re: Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises' [Re: Ozzy_shroomer]
#9114224 - 10/22/08 05:42 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Tripsis is 100% correct. Pertrol sniffing is a rampant problem with indigenous australians, banning alcohol and the disrespect towards the aboriginals and their communities is only fueling the fire. The government needs to change its attitude and gain a sense of compassion big time
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durian_2008
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Re: Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises' [Re: Takemeaway]
#9114467 - 10/22/08 08:19 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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If aboriginals had a working knowledge of traditional, local plants, they wouldn't need the gov't, petrol, alcohol, or MJ.
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filthee
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Re: Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises' [Re: durian_2008]
#9114550 - 10/22/08 08:52 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Sample the delicate flavours of the foods that have been sustaining Aboriginal Australians for thousands of years. The herbs, spices, fruits, berries, seeds and animals now known as ‘bush tucker’ are popping up at menus, markets and on supermarket shelves across the country.
Try bush tomatoes, quandongs, lilli pillies, muntari berries, wattle seeds and bunya bunya nuts on a bush tucker tour. While you’re there, learn about traditional remedies sourced from plants, aromatic herbs and tannin-rich inner barks. Learn to spear fish in the traditional way or find edible plants in the rainforest. Dine on native foods in our speciality restaurants, fresh from a local market, at an Aboriginal cultural festival or over a camp fire under the stars. Key highlights
* Learn how to track animals and identify native food and medicinal plants from the Malgana people in Monkey Mia, Western Australia. * Feast on native foods while kayaking along the lagoons of the Coorong in South Australia with your Ngarrindjeri guide. * Get an Aboriginal perspective on flora, fauna bush survival and traditional medicines at Tower Hill Game Reserve in Victoria. * Discover how seasons and the tides of the Arafura Sea govern the harvest of bush tucker in Eastern Arnhem Land. * Dine out at bush tucker restaurants in our major cities, including Tukka in Brisbane, Tjunabi in Melbourne, Red Ochre Grill in Adelaide, Manuka in Canberra, Deep Blue Bistro in Sydney and The Coolgardie Safe in Perth. * Hear an Aboriginal guide explain the Wardandi People’s connection to the land on a bush tucker tour in Margaret River.
http://www.australia.com/centric/trade/global/promotions/aboriginal_australia_food_medicine_en.htm
i wonder if these aboriginals sniff gas inbetween collecting bushfood and running successful tourist guide adventures?
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durian_2008
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Re: Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises' [Re: filthee]
#9114685 - 10/22/08 09:50 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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In my country, this is what gourmands eat.
I read your post and wonder whether all the activity in hunting and gathering is called "ideleness," if only for purposes of taxation.
Do people who busy themselves by living off the land really need to buy a new bureaucracy, which protects them from petrol sniffing?
Yet again, politics are only a means of engaging innocent bystanders in Hegelian dialectics.
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filthee
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Re: Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises' [Re: durian_2008]
#9114705 - 10/22/08 10:00 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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well maybe you should just be self opinionated and racist about 'your own country' then....
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durian_2008
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Re: Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises' [Re: filthee]
#9115241 - 10/22/08 12:01 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Quote:
filthee said: well maybe you should just be self opinionated and racist about 'your own country' then....
But, I'm not prejudiced in the least.
gourmand -- 1. a person who is fond of good eating, often indiscriminatingly and to excess. 2. a gourmet; epicure.
I am opinionated, though.
In the US, we have a fad. The slang word for these people is "foodies." The natives get treated like they're scavenging, but rich people are so grateful for exotic stuff like "bush-tucker" to eat.
In the wilds, I feel like I'm in a free supermarket. You set up a nice tent, serve this stuff on a fancy table cloth, and whites pay a fortune to eat the same stuff they shamed the natives for eating.
Even with no money in the picture, I believe that expert guides enjoy a vast source of natural wealth.
I think aboriginals have something worthwhile and don't realize it, because their culture has been destroyed by a government for purposes of taxation.
Aboriginals don't need to pay for more debilitating, government propaganda. They need a better knowledge of their own, rich heritage, and I hope it's preserved, before it's too late.
They even have ancient drugs, which I would prefer over petrol fumes, any day of the week.
Edited by durian_2008 (10/22/08 12:10 PM)
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Re: Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises' [Re: filthee]
#9115293 - 10/22/08 12:10 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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When your depressed, you'll find a way to fix it. Watch em do away with all the petrol sniffing, and the next month suicide rates go up. People that constantly look for escapes in reality are commonly not happy with reality. Stupied people look at these poor native australians as the problem, hmmmm... lets just be rational for ONE SECOND : WHY THE FUCK DIDNT ABORIGINALS HAVE A PETROL SNIFFING PROBLEM BEFORE? WHY DIDNT THEY HAVE A ALCOHOL PROBLEM BEFORE? THE PROBLEM IS NOT THE ABORIGINALS.... You cant do what governments do to native peoples without the outcome being depressed drug addicts that hate life and wish they were high. Everything that is natural and beautiful is destroyed before eyes that can see, doesnt it make sence that those eyes might not want to see anymore?
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durian_2008
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Re: Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises' [Re: 513orangejuice]
#9115325 - 10/22/08 12:19 PM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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Aboriginals did have their own drugs, before contact with whites.
In both of our countries, much shaming was introduced by authoritarians. They wanted to control the resources and be thanked for doing so.
By my understanding, they practiced eugenics as though it was a charity.
Hunter/gatherers of all races make a living off the land but are treated like problematic indigents if they don't generate taxes.
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filthee
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Re: Aborigine petrol-sniffing 'rises' [Re: durian_2008]
#9119908 - 10/23/08 04:46 AM (15 years, 5 months ago) |
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i must have misunderstood what you were saying earlier because these last couple of posts by you and 513 are spot on and i fully agree with you guys
Edited by filthee (10/23/08 10:48 PM)
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