<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->But then such stuff from christists can be from any era, 1409 or 2009 matters little.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->Absolutely.
Good to post the news. Not everyone may have had the educational misfortune of having read it before. People deserve to know. Shows how the term 'medieval' is a distraction.
About this:
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Apr 17 2009, 04:56 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Apr 17 2009, 04:56 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is NOT secular, though it is meant to look that way. They are trying to create a generational cycle of paedophilia by creating the first generation of victims who are meant to become offenders (as per news from 2 or 3 years ago, this christianism-created cycle became a big problem among some Australian Aboriginal townships).[right][snapback]96485[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Clarifying.
1. Where it started -
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/Pubs/RP/19...99rp27.htm
Parliament of Australia
Parliamentary Library
<b>Research Paper 27 1998-99
From Dispossession to Reconciliation </b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Inquiry estimated that <b>between 1910 and 1970 the number of indigenous children forcibly separated ranged from about one in ten children to one in three, depending on time and place, and that most indigenous families have been affected, in one or more generations, by the forced removal of one or more children.</b>
(I think this is a reference to the "Stolen Generation")
The majority of children removed were entirely separated from their indigenous community, were taught that indigenous culture was without value, were not allowed to use their language, suffered physically harsh living conditions and experienced multiple institutional and/or foster placements. Many were told they were unwanted, rejected or that their parents were dead. <b>Almost one in ten boys and just over one in ten girls allege they were sexually abused in children's institutions-and more allege such abuse in foster placements.</b> Extensive physical punishments were common. Education in the institutions was directed at preparing the children only for menial work. The Inquiry's report documents the effects not only on the children at the time (more than half of whom were removed during infancy) but also on those children later in life, on their children, on the families from which they were taken and on the foster carers when reunion is sought.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
2. Who did it -
archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/11/22/australia.aborigine/index.html
via http://freetruth.50webs.org/D3.htm
<b>CNN news: Apologize to Aborigines, says new Labor head, November 22, 2001:</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><i>The pontiff's message was not well-received by all Australian Aborigines.</i>
<b>Churches key to policy</b>
Chairman of the Croker Island Stolen Generation Aboriginal Corporation, Maurie Ryan-Japarta said John Paul should back his apology with financial compensation. <b>Ryan-Japarta said Christian churches played a crucial role in implementing the assimilation policies of Australian state and federal governments.</b>
While members of the stolen generation had fought the federal government in the courts for compensation, they have not yet focused on churches. <b>"That's the next step I would like to do with the rest of the stolen generation -- say you (the church) had an enormous part to play in this whole policy</b> since you were paid by the government to look after us," he told AP.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->http://freetruth.50webs.org/D3.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->On spreading to Australia, the Salvation Army claimed the country's indigenous people as
"its spiritual property.
The Salvation Army ran missions to Christianise aborigines and helped steal indigenous children from their parents so they could be placed in the homes of god-fearing white Christians ...
-- The Starvation Army: 12 Reasons to Reject the Salvation Army"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
3. What is the result -
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://au.news.yahoo.com//070622/2/13t17.html
Saturday June 30, 03:46 PM
NSW 'improving plight of Aborigines' (2007)
NSW election promises to improve the plight of Aboriginal communities continue to roll out across regional and rural areas of NSW, Acting Premier John Watkins says.
The state and commonwealth governments have copped relentless bashing from opposition parties over reports of rampant child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities.
The recent findings of the report, Little Children are Sacred, have prompted the federal government to take over 60 Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.
But the NSW opposition on Saturday said the state government report - Breaking the Silence - documented one year ago that Aboriginal children are four times more likely to be victims of sex abuse.
Mr Watkins hit back and said the problems continue in Aboriginal communities in NSW but the state government is delivering on its election promises to curb the problems.
"It's a bit hard to cop from the NSW opposition which went to the last election with no Aboriginal policy and with a tradition of just slicing into community services over the last six to eight years," Mr Watkins told reporters in Sydney.
In contrast, he said the number of community case workers will rise from 237 to over 300 in western NSW by the end of the financial year.
"But as the premier (Morris Iemma) made very clear through this past week, none of us, state or federal, Liberal or Labor can be proud of the outcome across Australia for Aboriginal people and we need to do better," he said.
Mr Watkins said the state government welcomes any discussions with the federal government to bring about a faster response to the problems in NSW.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
4. Result is the cause of a cycle -
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1640396.htm
<b>Child abuse in Indigenous communities a pressing concern</b>
AM - Wednesday, 17 May , 2006 08:08:00
Reporter: Gillian Bradford
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->GILLIAN BRADFORD: Give me some of those reasons why child sexual abuse is just so much more prevalent in Aboriginal remote communities.
LYLA COOREY: They are numerous. Where do you start?
You look at perhaps the social environment that they're growing up in. They're surrounded by neglect, parents who are involved in heavy substance abuse. And I think that in itself is a major issue.
And I think if you attempt to examine why that is the case you will find that a number of adults, Indigenous adults, are still suffering and still reeling from their own experiences of child sexual abuse.
GILLIAN BRADFORD: Did you get any understanding of how many Indigenous children's lives were being in some way touched by sexual abuse?
LYLA COOREY: Nearly everybody I spoke to knew of several people who'd been sexually abused as children. I think the scope of this problem is so widespread it is almost beyond belief.
TONY EASTLEY: Domestic violence researcher Lyla Coorey, speaking there with Gillian Bradford.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
6. Specifically NOT indigenous tradition to blame -
IIRC, other news related to the above that I read at the time, was about perpetrators getting children addicted to some substance for the purposes of paedophilia. In fact even infants were attacked. I think I also recall there was a brief interview with an elderly indigenous Australian who said all this had nothing to do with traditional indigenous culture.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2006/...640083.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Indigenous groups warn violence worsening</b>
Posted Tue May 16, 2006 7:49pm AEST
Updated Tue May 16, 2006 8:15pm AEST
Indigenous groups say appalling details of the sexual abuse of women, children and babies in central Australian Aboriginal communities are not only accurate, but getting worse.
The Northern Territory Chief Minister says she did not know about cases where children and a seven-month-old baby had been sexually assaulted.
The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister has questioned whether the Northern Territory Government is taking the problem seriously.
Last night, the ABC's Lateline program revealed graphic descriptions of the sexual abuse from the files collected by Alice Springs Crown prosecutor Nannette Rogers over more than a decade.
"The volume is huge. I don't have any single file in my room that's not related to violence at the present time," she said.
The horrific revelations came as no surprise to many in the Territory, including traditional owner Betty Pearce.
"Anger is so great because this is not an Aboriginal culture," she said.
"Even 20 years ago, 22 years ago, had an Aboriginal person done that he'd have been killed, had he raped a child," she said.
Sharon Payne from the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency is alarmed at the revelations of an alcohol-soaked culture of violence where children and babies are raped and killed.
"I think it's desperate in terms that it has the capacity to wipe out whole societies, the whole of Aboriginal culture in this way," she said.
(Hmmm, I thought I read it was some two-bit drug abuse. Not real drugs but things like p or meth or something?)
Territory Chief Minister Clare Martin says other ministers in her government knew but she was unaware of the cases raised by Dr Rogers.
"Personally I didn't know," she said.
"Not specific cases. The information she was working from was provided by police to her.
"So in terms of police, operational police knew about these cases, in terms of the minister responsible for Child Protection Services, those ministers know."
She says she did not see the Lateline program but acknowledges there is a crisis.
"Can I just say that the Crown prosecutor was talking about cases over a 15-year period and she did very clearly say that she's seeing signs of improvement," she said.
But Territory Opposition Leader Jodeen Carney says Ms Martin is kidding herself.
"For the Chief Minister to say that things are getting better is delusional and stupid beyond belief and she should be ashamed of herself," she said.
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough says he does not want to steamroll the Territory government but that he will do whatever it takes to tackle the abuse of Aboriginal children.
"I have highlighted this issue because I think it's important and I am not sure that it's been taken seriously enough by the Territory government to date," he said.
"The cards are on the table. Everyone knows where we stand. Let's see how they react over the next few weeks."
Community organisations say a culture of silence is fostering the problem, with claims health workers are often discouraged from reporting cases of abuse.
Jane Lloyd, chair of a domestic violence body that advises the Government, says staff at Alice Springs hospital are directed not to report serious injuries to police unless the patient asks them to.
"It's really disturbing because it's that silence, it's that lack of action that is going to contribute to the silence in communities and it's going to contribute to further abuse of children," she said.
Not so, according to the Chief Minister.
"If issues need to be reported, they will be reported and that's certainly this direction from government," Ms Martin said.
She says she is not walking away from the problem and that the Government has boosted spending on police child protection services and domestic violence legal services.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It's a form of genocide. Akin christowest introducing casinos in native American territories and among other indigenous people with the expected result: disproportionate addiction to gambling. Similar to christowestern introduction of rampant alcoholism among such populations by deliberately opening huge numbers of liquor stores among Australian indigenous and native American communities. Similarly, creating a cycle of paedophilia is another christo bequest.
Result of unnatural levels of alcoholism and dependency, created by unnatural causes:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://au.news.yahoo.com//070131/2/129eu.html
Monday February 12, 07:09 AM (2007)
<b>Alcohol 'killing indigenous Australians'</b>
Alcohol kills one indigenous Australian every 38 hours, landmark research has found.
The average age of those dying from alcohol-attributable causes - mostly suicide for men, or alcoholic liver cirrhosis for women - is about 35 years.
National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) Indigenous Australian Research team leader Dennis Gray said these were conservative estimates from a first-of-its-kind study of the problem which showed alcohol killed 1,145 indigenous Australians between 2000 and 2004.
He said Australia had a long way to go in dealing with the inequality between the health of indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
"If we are serious about addressing this disparity and reducing death rates among indigenous Australians, we need to focus on the underlying social causes of that ill health," Professor Gray said.
"For instance, suicide is the most frequent alcohol-caused death among indigenous men, which reflects the despair that many indigenous people feel.
Senior Research Fellow Tanya Chikritzhs said she was shocked to discover indigenous women as young as 25 years were dying of haemorrhagic stroke due to heavy drinking.
"That is a disease of the elderly," Dr Chikritzhs said.
"Alcohol affects indigenous people in so many different ways. Governments need to take account of that, it needs to be dealt with at a local level.
"The bottom line is it is a massive problem for indigenous people and it is not getting any better."
Their research found that between 2000 and 2004, 19.4 per cent of all indigenous deaths, or 222, occurred in Western Australia.
Almost a quarter, 23.5 per cent, or 269, happened in the Northern Territory.
One in four of all these deaths occurred in Queensland, with 285 alcohol-attributable deaths among indigenous Australians in that state between 2000-2004.
South Australia recorded 78 alcohol-attributable deaths while 20 per cent, or 229 deaths occurred in NSW - which has the largest indigenous population of any state.
Alcoholic liver cirrhosis was the number one killer with suicide coming in second.
Haemorrhagic stroke, which is much more common among women than men, assault injury and road traffic injury each caused about one in 10 deaths.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The cycle of terror and violence created by christianism:
<b>ADDED:</b>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,...14,00.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Britain
Times Online August 19, 2005
<b>Paedophile sues Catholic Church over alleged abuse</b>
By Sam Knight, Times Online
A convicted paedophile is suing the Roman Catholic Church of England and Wales, claiming that he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a priest more than thirty years ago.
The paedophile, who has not been named, claims that his life was ruined and his own crimes were shaped by the abuse that was inflicted on him by a Catholic priest, who he says is now a senior figure in the Catholic Church with responsibilities for child protection.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Good to post the news. Not everyone may have had the educational misfortune of having read it before. People deserve to know. Shows how the term 'medieval' is a distraction.
About this:
<!--QuoteBegin-Husky+Apr 17 2009, 04:56 PM-->QUOTE(Husky @ Apr 17 2009, 04:56 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->It is NOT secular, though it is meant to look that way. They are trying to create a generational cycle of paedophilia by creating the first generation of victims who are meant to become offenders (as per news from 2 or 3 years ago, this christianism-created cycle became a big problem among some Australian Aboriginal townships).[right][snapback]96485[/snapback][/right]<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
Clarifying.
1. Where it started -
http://www.aph.gov.au/library/Pubs/RP/19...99rp27.htm
Parliament of Australia
Parliamentary Library
<b>Research Paper 27 1998-99
From Dispossession to Reconciliation </b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Inquiry estimated that <b>between 1910 and 1970 the number of indigenous children forcibly separated ranged from about one in ten children to one in three, depending on time and place, and that most indigenous families have been affected, in one or more generations, by the forced removal of one or more children.</b>
(I think this is a reference to the "Stolen Generation")
The majority of children removed were entirely separated from their indigenous community, were taught that indigenous culture was without value, were not allowed to use their language, suffered physically harsh living conditions and experienced multiple institutional and/or foster placements. Many were told they were unwanted, rejected or that their parents were dead. <b>Almost one in ten boys and just over one in ten girls allege they were sexually abused in children's institutions-and more allege such abuse in foster placements.</b> Extensive physical punishments were common. Education in the institutions was directed at preparing the children only for menial work. The Inquiry's report documents the effects not only on the children at the time (more than half of whom were removed during infancy) but also on those children later in life, on their children, on the families from which they were taken and on the foster carers when reunion is sought.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
2. Who did it -
archives.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/auspac/11/22/australia.aborigine/index.html
via http://freetruth.50webs.org/D3.htm
<b>CNN news: Apologize to Aborigines, says new Labor head, November 22, 2001:</b>
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><i>The pontiff's message was not well-received by all Australian Aborigines.</i>
<b>Churches key to policy</b>
Chairman of the Croker Island Stolen Generation Aboriginal Corporation, Maurie Ryan-Japarta said John Paul should back his apology with financial compensation. <b>Ryan-Japarta said Christian churches played a crucial role in implementing the assimilation policies of Australian state and federal governments.</b>
While members of the stolen generation had fought the federal government in the courts for compensation, they have not yet focused on churches. <b>"That's the next step I would like to do with the rest of the stolen generation -- say you (the church) had an enormous part to play in this whole policy</b> since you were paid by the government to look after us," he told AP.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->http://freetruth.50webs.org/D3.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->On spreading to Australia, the Salvation Army claimed the country's indigenous people as
"its spiritual property.
The Salvation Army ran missions to Christianise aborigines and helped steal indigenous children from their parents so they could be placed in the homes of god-fearing white Christians ...
-- The Starvation Army: 12 Reasons to Reject the Salvation Army"<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
3. What is the result -
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://au.news.yahoo.com//070622/2/13t17.html
Saturday June 30, 03:46 PM
NSW 'improving plight of Aborigines' (2007)
NSW election promises to improve the plight of Aboriginal communities continue to roll out across regional and rural areas of NSW, Acting Premier John Watkins says.
The state and commonwealth governments have copped relentless bashing from opposition parties over reports of rampant child sex abuse in Aboriginal communities.
The recent findings of the report, Little Children are Sacred, have prompted the federal government to take over 60 Aboriginal communities in the Northern Territory.
But the NSW opposition on Saturday said the state government report - Breaking the Silence - documented one year ago that Aboriginal children are four times more likely to be victims of sex abuse.
Mr Watkins hit back and said the problems continue in Aboriginal communities in NSW but the state government is delivering on its election promises to curb the problems.
"It's a bit hard to cop from the NSW opposition which went to the last election with no Aboriginal policy and with a tradition of just slicing into community services over the last six to eight years," Mr Watkins told reporters in Sydney.
In contrast, he said the number of community case workers will rise from 237 to over 300 in western NSW by the end of the financial year.
"But as the premier (Morris Iemma) made very clear through this past week, none of us, state or federal, Liberal or Labor can be proud of the outcome across Australia for Aboriginal people and we need to do better," he said.
Mr Watkins said the state government welcomes any discussions with the federal government to bring about a faster response to the problems in NSW.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
4. Result is the cause of a cycle -
http://www.abc.net.au/am/content/2006/s1640396.htm
<b>Child abuse in Indigenous communities a pressing concern</b>
AM - Wednesday, 17 May , 2006 08:08:00
Reporter: Gillian Bradford
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->GILLIAN BRADFORD: Give me some of those reasons why child sexual abuse is just so much more prevalent in Aboriginal remote communities.
LYLA COOREY: They are numerous. Where do you start?
You look at perhaps the social environment that they're growing up in. They're surrounded by neglect, parents who are involved in heavy substance abuse. And I think that in itself is a major issue.
And I think if you attempt to examine why that is the case you will find that a number of adults, Indigenous adults, are still suffering and still reeling from their own experiences of child sexual abuse.
GILLIAN BRADFORD: Did you get any understanding of how many Indigenous children's lives were being in some way touched by sexual abuse?
LYLA COOREY: Nearly everybody I spoke to knew of several people who'd been sexually abused as children. I think the scope of this problem is so widespread it is almost beyond belief.
TONY EASTLEY: Domestic violence researcher Lyla Coorey, speaking there with Gillian Bradford.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
6. Specifically NOT indigenous tradition to blame -
IIRC, other news related to the above that I read at the time, was about perpetrators getting children addicted to some substance for the purposes of paedophilia. In fact even infants were attacked. I think I also recall there was a brief interview with an elderly indigenous Australian who said all this had nothing to do with traditional indigenous culture.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2006/...640083.htm
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>Indigenous groups warn violence worsening</b>
Posted Tue May 16, 2006 7:49pm AEST
Updated Tue May 16, 2006 8:15pm AEST
Indigenous groups say appalling details of the sexual abuse of women, children and babies in central Australian Aboriginal communities are not only accurate, but getting worse.
The Northern Territory Chief Minister says she did not know about cases where children and a seven-month-old baby had been sexually assaulted.
The Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister has questioned whether the Northern Territory Government is taking the problem seriously.
Last night, the ABC's Lateline program revealed graphic descriptions of the sexual abuse from the files collected by Alice Springs Crown prosecutor Nannette Rogers over more than a decade.
"The volume is huge. I don't have any single file in my room that's not related to violence at the present time," she said.
The horrific revelations came as no surprise to many in the Territory, including traditional owner Betty Pearce.
"Anger is so great because this is not an Aboriginal culture," she said.
"Even 20 years ago, 22 years ago, had an Aboriginal person done that he'd have been killed, had he raped a child," she said.
Sharon Payne from the North Australian Aboriginal Justice Agency is alarmed at the revelations of an alcohol-soaked culture of violence where children and babies are raped and killed.
"I think it's desperate in terms that it has the capacity to wipe out whole societies, the whole of Aboriginal culture in this way," she said.
(Hmmm, I thought I read it was some two-bit drug abuse. Not real drugs but things like p or meth or something?)
Territory Chief Minister Clare Martin says other ministers in her government knew but she was unaware of the cases raised by Dr Rogers.
"Personally I didn't know," she said.
"Not specific cases. The information she was working from was provided by police to her.
"So in terms of police, operational police knew about these cases, in terms of the minister responsible for Child Protection Services, those ministers know."
She says she did not see the Lateline program but acknowledges there is a crisis.
"Can I just say that the Crown prosecutor was talking about cases over a 15-year period and she did very clearly say that she's seeing signs of improvement," she said.
But Territory Opposition Leader Jodeen Carney says Ms Martin is kidding herself.
"For the Chief Minister to say that things are getting better is delusional and stupid beyond belief and she should be ashamed of herself," she said.
Federal Indigenous Affairs Minister Mal Brough says he does not want to steamroll the Territory government but that he will do whatever it takes to tackle the abuse of Aboriginal children.
"I have highlighted this issue because I think it's important and I am not sure that it's been taken seriously enough by the Territory government to date," he said.
"The cards are on the table. Everyone knows where we stand. Let's see how they react over the next few weeks."
Community organisations say a culture of silence is fostering the problem, with claims health workers are often discouraged from reporting cases of abuse.
Jane Lloyd, chair of a domestic violence body that advises the Government, says staff at Alice Springs hospital are directed not to report serious injuries to police unless the patient asks them to.
"It's really disturbing because it's that silence, it's that lack of action that is going to contribute to the silence in communities and it's going to contribute to further abuse of children," she said.
Not so, according to the Chief Minister.
"If issues need to be reported, they will be reported and that's certainly this direction from government," Ms Martin said.
She says she is not walking away from the problem and that the Government has boosted spending on police child protection services and domestic violence legal services.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
It's a form of genocide. Akin christowest introducing casinos in native American territories and among other indigenous people with the expected result: disproportionate addiction to gambling. Similar to christowestern introduction of rampant alcoholism among such populations by deliberately opening huge numbers of liquor stores among Australian indigenous and native American communities. Similarly, creating a cycle of paedophilia is another christo bequest.
Result of unnatural levels of alcoholism and dependency, created by unnatural causes:
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->http://au.news.yahoo.com//070131/2/129eu.html
Monday February 12, 07:09 AM (2007)
<b>Alcohol 'killing indigenous Australians'</b>
Alcohol kills one indigenous Australian every 38 hours, landmark research has found.
The average age of those dying from alcohol-attributable causes - mostly suicide for men, or alcoholic liver cirrhosis for women - is about 35 years.
National Drug Research Institute (NDRI) Indigenous Australian Research team leader Dennis Gray said these were conservative estimates from a first-of-its-kind study of the problem which showed alcohol killed 1,145 indigenous Australians between 2000 and 2004.
He said Australia had a long way to go in dealing with the inequality between the health of indigenous and non-indigenous Australians.
"If we are serious about addressing this disparity and reducing death rates among indigenous Australians, we need to focus on the underlying social causes of that ill health," Professor Gray said.
"For instance, suicide is the most frequent alcohol-caused death among indigenous men, which reflects the despair that many indigenous people feel.
Senior Research Fellow Tanya Chikritzhs said she was shocked to discover indigenous women as young as 25 years were dying of haemorrhagic stroke due to heavy drinking.
"That is a disease of the elderly," Dr Chikritzhs said.
"Alcohol affects indigenous people in so many different ways. Governments need to take account of that, it needs to be dealt with at a local level.
"The bottom line is it is a massive problem for indigenous people and it is not getting any better."
Their research found that between 2000 and 2004, 19.4 per cent of all indigenous deaths, or 222, occurred in Western Australia.
Almost a quarter, 23.5 per cent, or 269, happened in the Northern Territory.
One in four of all these deaths occurred in Queensland, with 285 alcohol-attributable deaths among indigenous Australians in that state between 2000-2004.
South Australia recorded 78 alcohol-attributable deaths while 20 per cent, or 229 deaths occurred in NSW - which has the largest indigenous population of any state.
Alcoholic liver cirrhosis was the number one killer with suicide coming in second.
Haemorrhagic stroke, which is much more common among women than men, assault injury and road traffic injury each caused about one in 10 deaths.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
The cycle of terror and violence created by christianism:
<b>ADDED:</b>
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,...14,00.html
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Britain
Times Online August 19, 2005
<b>Paedophile sues Catholic Church over alleged abuse</b>
By Sam Knight, Times Online
A convicted paedophile is suing the Roman Catholic Church of England and Wales, claiming that he suffered sexual abuse at the hands of a priest more than thirty years ago.
The paedophile, who has not been named, claims that his life was ruined and his own crimes were shaped by the abuse that was inflicted on him by a Catholic priest, who he says is now a senior figure in the Catholic Church with responsibilities for child protection.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->