Monday, July 18, 2011

The Forgotten Australians - the "t" word, let's talk about it

The Forgotten Australians have found a voice via You Tube.

Initially, they were abducted by sick individuals who worked for the government during that era, then blatantly tortured and abused. Many of those victim survivors remain severely disadvantaged today, so though these videos below are pretty heavy emotional viewing, they reveal an essential truth - the true story of state wards during that Forgotten Australians era in which the public willingly turned a blind eye to abuse. Most state wards were reviled as a sub-class in big small-town Perth.

Though the government currently funds torture counselling for refugees, it seems authorities are reluctant to acknowledge the torture perpetrated by the government against the most precious and vulnerable members of its own society, in its own back yard. So, in the meantime, the-head-in-the-sand approach by the government leaves these victim survivors with standard emotional counselling for having been mistreated, which Panaia reveals could be 'nicety code' for torture. Presumably, the counselling of child torture victims would be a very specialized area of psychology, not something easily glossed over in group sessions.

With the second clip, Panaia has written a brief summary of some of the torture the children at one particular institution endured.  Please take the time to read it, you can open that You Tube page by double clicking on the clip. The author has erred on the side of caution - the physical abuses were actually quite a bit more severe and traumatic. It is really quite accurate that the sheer sickness, brutality and perversity that took place in these institutions by government employees against children is still covered over by the current government's societal niceties and benign language. 

It is noteworthy that the records these "group worker" child sex offender perpetrators invented about these children in order to cover up their offences, are still used punitively by government departments(police, prisons, parole, courts, DCP) against victim survivors caught in the justice system today, as if they were fact and not vile falsehoods. "Sorry" seems a bit disingenuous to me.