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Rediscovering The Australia's Effort to Erase The Institutional Opression and Discrimination Towards Aboriginals

30 Oktober 2019   06:37 Diperbarui: 30 Oktober 2019   07:36 28
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The NGOs role is to become a vital watchdog Since Australia has signed the International Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Racial Discrimination it has to report regularly on the progress made (HRLC, 2010). Many theatrical actions just like boycotting the vast bulldozing projects and whistleblowing the upcoming sacred land need to be continued increase the leverage of indigenous. Carl Hopner is the least example of police brutality towards the activist who against the national Australia Day (Wakatama, 2019).

NGOs in this case are required to provide legal aid to protect the possible police brutality and jailing towards activists considering that the current incarceration rate towards indigenous is highly alarming. If the oppression escalates, the aboriginals along with the NGOs need to incorporate amnesty international or the international bodies to protect their voice. International bodies are proven effective in giving diplomatic bilateral pressure suppose the extrajudicial punishment reoccurs.

Fig 2. The River That Now Becomes an Arid Desert due to the Water Shortage

Seeing the issue of land that the indigenous considers as a manifestation of holy land given by their God(s), Australia need to supervise each agricultural, mining and industrial activities that do not comply to the environmental protection standard. Waiting for Green Peace to come and boycott the facilities are just ineffective to stop the vast-growing massive deforestation or polluted rivers that not only endanger the indigenous, but also the biodiversity.

The NGO need to use the pragmatic content to easily send the message to the Australian parliament, i.e. "the overall economy will collapse if the nature collapse". The great barrier reef as the main attraction of tourism that is dying due to the intensive oil mining is the example of how the economical issue can become a common interest to encourage more governmental intervention.

Considering the disadvantages the aboriginals face intergenerationally, what are the best way to end it all?. Does the reparation just like the current heated debate in USA work to compensate the years of grief? The answer can be yes or no. It is yes if the reparation policy does not trigger the social unrest among white people or the minor discrimination turns into a rigorous violence.

The tax that the white privileged community pay is not a small amount, and the inability to enjoy what they paid will justify the more discriminations to reoccur. The ideal reparation should be in a form inclusive policy and law, ensuring those who administer discriminative actions to be punishable to prevent it into a micro scale. Inclusive policy can be in a form of

REFERENCES

 Allam. (2019). For centuries the rivers sustained Aboriginal culture. Now they are dry, elders despair.  https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2019/jan/22/murray-darling-river-aboriginal-culture-dry-elders-despair-walgett

ABS. (2016). National Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Social Survey, 2014-15. https://www.abs.gov.au/ausstats/abs@.nsf/Lookup/by%20Subject/4714.0~2014-15~Main%20Features~Labour%20force%20characteristics~6

Close the Gap progress and priorities report. (2017), Close the Gap Campaign Steering Committee for Indigenous Health Equality, pg. 13

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